Re: Frippertronics and Soundscapes

[Squid Loop <tentacle_joe@yahoo.com>]

I guess he is just nice to old ladies then.

--- Terry Blankenship <electricgypsys@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> I believe the LOGC was just a social experiment to
> him
> to test his Gurdjieff teachings out. Without the
> participants knowing it.
> 
> "You can not achieve the aim without suffering".
> 
> Intelligent, yes. He's a genius. Compassionate and
> caring, no way. 
> 
> All the very best!
> Terry
> 
> --- S V G <vsyevolod@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
> > It is an amazing thing to feel this
> > communication of such a difficult subject, coming
> > through music from a person whom I know to be
> > compassionate, intellegent, and one of the most
> > caring people I have ever met.
> > 
> >      And while I enjoyed the latest King Crimson
> > tour, it would hardly cause me to bat an eye if
> > they all said they were packing it all up
> tommorrow.
> > 
> >      Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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