Re: Frippertronics and Soundscapes

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Blankenship" <electricgypsys@yahoo.com>

> Are we talking about the same Fripp?
> 
> When I played with him he didn't have a drop of
> compassion in him. There wasn't a show that we ever
> did that he didn't send some fan away almost in tears.
> If before of after the show a fan managed to approach
> him he would be very short and rude or just totally
> ignore their existence. He was beyond rude to all of
> them. 
> 
> I confronted him about it at the end of the first tour
> and told him it was totally uncalled for and that his
> fans were the resaon he had managed to make his living
> from his music for all of those years. 

His response? Have you talked to him since?


> I believe the LOGC was just a social experiment to him
> to test his Gurdjieff teachings out. Without the
> participants knowing it.

Plus, a way to get them to play his music without 
the students attempting to insert their artistic vision
and dilute his?



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