Re: RE: Frippery vs. Bitchery

[Kim Flint <kflint@chromatic.com>]

>In a message dated 2/4/98 12:39:41 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>>Personally, I imagine that if I had bothered to stand in the hour-long 
>>queue at the recent Night Watch launch, and had a chat with him, I 
>probably 
>>wouldn't like him as a person. And why would I want his written 
>autograph, 
>>when I have his musical autograph on the CD in my hand?
>

it's funny...I spent part of an afternoon with Robert Fripp when I did a
product demo for him before a King Crimson show. I'd never really listened
to him before that, and never found his music interesting enough to listen
afterwards either. But I found Robert to be a very nice, open fellow, and
enjoyed our conversations about gear and loops and such. Maybe he just
treats his fans badly?

another funny thing. People talk about Fripp on this list every now and
then, but they almost never talk about what he actually does with looping. 
I
think I know more about his looping from talking to him directly about it
than I ever learned from anybody here. Maybe some of us non-fripp
enthusiasts might like to hear something a little more loop specific? It
would certainly be more interesting to me than comparisons between Robert
Fripp and Joe Satriani, or opinions about his lectures, or indignant
defenses of some Frippian character trait, or whatever else you've been
talking about. 

kim
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