Message I ran into Steve Winwood on the street outside the Fillmore before a show this year. He wasn't very friendly and as a matter of fact he almost didn't even acknowledge me (just kind of looked at me) however he did sign, or more like initial, an "autograph". It really is a drag when you meet someone that has had so much influence on you, their music being part of the soundtrack of your life and they somehow aren't how you'd like them to be towards you. Kind of heartbreaking. But your right RD, we cant expect them to be a certain way or "on" all the time as they are just people, they have bad days or whatever. After 30 years of it, your bound to "disappoint" someone. Jimmy Smith once asked me to sit and sign his autographs for him when I was the engineer at one of his stays at the Fairmont. (Jokingly of course) The guy just wanted to have a couple of drinks in peace before the show and everyone kept coming up... He signed a CD for me but did not want to sign my cheek block off of my Hammond. Most of those Jazz guys are pretty down to earth in general I've found. Larry Coryell even remembered my wife's and my friends names on a Friday after meeting them briefly at the Monday night show. I think a lot has to do with where they are at with their career and how crucial their fan base is.
Jim #917
> I had a much more pleasant experience about 15 years ago when I boarded a small commuter flight to Jamestown and had Chic Corea sit down right next to me. He had no problems answer questions and conducting a very interesting conversation for about an hour... What a nice, open person he is
Yeah, but so what? So the above fits right in to your expectations of how someone should be... the inference being that Fripp is not nice, closed and is somehow wrong for not taking a fan's expectations into account. Well, if that doesn't work for him then it doesn't work for him and at least he's had the grace to advise people well enough in advance.
Actually, in my experience, Robert is a warm, charming, polite and cuddlesome fellow with a large smidgeon of humour thrown in for good measure and plays a mean Mellotron which, after all, is what this site is about.
RD
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