Re: OT: Stranglers --> 6 Degrees... (was: Prog Rock in 5 minutes ;-)

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

Shorter path via the Talking Heads. Fripp played on Fear of Music 
(produced by Brian Eno who also produced More Songs About Buildings And 
Food and Remain in Light).

Mark

On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Brian Kupferschmid wrote:

> 6 degrees of Fripp...hmm...how about this?  Metallica...Kirk Hammet grew 
>up in the same area as Primus' Les Claypool, who headed up a band called 
>the Flying Frog Brigade, to which one Adrian Belew has perfomed live 
>onstage with Les, Adrian has worked with Fripp in King Crimson...that's 
>only 3 degrees.  But I was trying to go the route where I connect Adrian 
>to the Talking Heads, which for some reason, I thought Brian Eno produced 
>one of their albums, but I could be mistaken, Now Brian Eno as we know, 
>produced a solo Fripp album that saw use of Frippertronics.  Isn't that 
>an early form of looping?  So would it stand to reason that Looping is 
>actually a one man Prog band?  Wait, what did I just type?
> 
> Bri
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> --- On Wed, 12/2/09, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
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>> From: Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>
>> Subject: Re: OT: Stranglers --> 6 Degrees... (was: Prog Rock in 5 
>minutes ;-)
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 1:15 AM
>> Fripp actually guested in the
>> Stranglers while Hugh Cornwell was in jail. So, how many
>> degrees does that count for?
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>> The band I was in in high school played the school talent
>> show with a Stranglers song (Toiler on the Sea) and a Mike
>> Oldfield song (Moonlight Shadow). Is that worth anything as
>> a linkage?
>> 
>> Mark
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