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<<(hendrix rated dusty hill very highly, but you've got to listen to an uncomfortable amount of zz top to figure it out, and it's barely worth the trouble.) >> That's Billy Gibbons you're thinking of. Dusty Hill is their bassist. Hendrix was also once asked "What's it like being the world's greatest guitarist" and he replied "Ask Phil Keaggy" (I think it was Phil that he responded on that occasion). And then there's the story that one of the Chicago guys like to repeat, that Hendrix told him personally that Terry Kath was a much better guitarist than he was at a gig somewhere. <<recommended: the original version of "league of gentlemen" (only on vinyl, so far as I know) and- where it works best, in a rock context- "exposure" (a terrific, under-rated album) and the companion daryl hall "sacred songs". pretty much anything where he appears as a guest.>> One caveat on the guest thing: I have two of the Peter Gabriel records Fripp played on (the third of which he also produced, and is reported to have been part of some kind of trilogy along with Exposure and Sacred Songs), and except for two songs on the second album (the one with the big white scratches going down the length of the record from Peter's fingers), you can't even tell he's there. I don't know if he was mixed out, or if the liner notes are wrong, but the only songs you can tell that Fripp is really there are Exposure (which, obviously, is built around a Frippertronics loop) and White Shadow (which features one of those laser beam infinite sustain solos). <<avoid the later crimson incarnations, esp. the construKction set. the projeKct stuff is way better, while "red" (the last "proper" KC album) was mr cobain's favourite album ever. apparently.>> You mean Kurt "I Never Wanted To Be Famous Even Though I Did Everything In My Power To Become Famous" Cobain? Well, I've heard stranger things. There was a punk band in LA called The Germs, who apparently were very influential. Their guitarist (who later went on to play with The Foo Fighters) was asked who his favorite guitarist was in Rolling Stone a few years back, and he named Steve Howe! I disagree with your assessment of latter day Crimson. I think every version of Crimson has given us lots to listen to. But I suppose it's easy to understand why fans of the 70's albums might not like them. Adrian Belew has that Beatles influenced singer/songwriter thing going, and that's ended up being a big part of the band's sound since he joined. But I think you should at least give side two of Three Of A Perfect Pair a listen. Most of it's instrumental, and it gets plenty out there. Funny note about the ProjeKcts albums: I saw ProjeKct Two in concert when they toured. In fact, if you listen real closely to that audience noise thing at the end of the ProjeKct Two disc in the boxset, you can hear me yell "GET A ROPE"...that sequence was recorded in Cleveland, where someone took a photograph and Fripp got up and walked off the stage...hence there's lots of "GET THE F***ER WITH THE CAMERA!!!!" and "PLEASE COME BACK!!!" etc from the audience members. Anyway, the thing I thought was interesting was a lot of times, when I heard that "laser beam" tone appear, it was actually Trey Gunn, on his touch guitar, playing it. At times, it almost sounded like dueling Fripp's, with him and Fripp trading off lines with that type of tone. And as for the sense of humor aspect, Fripp did have a great sense of humor, though you really only hear it on the live stuff. There's a couple examples of him on The Great Deciever boxset of him talking to the audience that are hilarious (he introduces himself to the Providence crowd as "Bob, or Chuckles Fripp, as I am known in the trade"). I have a couple bootlegs where he says similiarly hilarious things. On the bootleg from the Boston show from March of 72, he says that they're doing a experiment to see how many gigs a band can play in a row before someone drops, and also to see who will be the first to drop, then adds that at the moment "The odds on favorite is myself". ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com