He primarily performs in guitar, producing an innovative series of experimental Guitar Solos albums during a 1970s. He likewise plays bass guitar, violin and xylophone. He was the founder member of British avant-garde progressive rock bands Henry Cow and Art Bears. When sleep in New York City he formed two improvising groups in the early 1980s, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated using Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, The Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Derek Bailey, Rova and others. Frith has too manufactured deuce records by having experimental class action French Frith Kaiser Thompson (consisting of John French, Frith, Henry Kaiser, and Richard Thompson).