RE: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES

[Miko Biffle <biffoz@pacbell.net>]

Ok... I was at the Mab gig as well... took a girlfriend who was pretty
confused by it all, but it was really cool to see him do his thing. He did
manage to slip in a tiresome lecture about photography and why he doesn't
allow it after someone tried to take some pictures.

-Miko

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Walker (loop.pool) [mailto:GLOBAL@cruzio.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:54 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES
>
>
>Mark Landman wrote:
>
><But seeing Fripp do his Frippertronics thing live at the Mabuhay Gardens
>(an old punk rock icon) in July of 1979 was a powerful experience.>
>
>
>Wow, Mark, reading yours and Max's posts really made me feel nostalgic
>and......................
>
>..........I was at the same Frippertronics gig at the Fab Mab in '79!!!!
>
> Amazing!!!
>
>I screwed up my courage and went up to talk to Fripp (who was like a major
>god to me then----he's still kind of a minor deity to this day) and waited
>until everyone talked to him and approached him.   I had studied with
>Gregory Bateson in college and his name came up and we ended up having 
>this
>pretty long conversation about Summerhill and alternative
>education.  He was
>really nice and genuinely seemed to care about what I had to say.  I was
>impressed by his
>'realness' (he, after all, was a god :-).
>
>
>ah............as Bill McNeil would say in News Radio,  "Good times....good
>times?
>
>Rick Walker (loop.pool)
>