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Subject: Re: [motm] Robert Rich: the Anti-Fripp!

From: Mike Estee <squeeker@...>
Date: 2006-05-02

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Greg Amann wrote:

> Saw RR in Toronto on Saturday. Great show in the church that the
> Cowboy Junkies recorded their landmark album "The Trinity Sessions".
>
> Two things:
>
> 1.- RR is the Anti-Fripp. He talks to the crowd and helps sell CDs
> right up until game time and then steps on stage and plays. No
> artistic "baggage" whatsoever. Refreshing indeed. (BTW Fripp is my
> fave guitar-meister so this is obviously offered in jest you cranky
> MOTM would-be flamesters.)

damn, i was just about to get out the asbestos keyboard ;)

> 2.- RR uses a clippy light with a bulb that slowly changes colour
> pointed at his MOTM. What is that bulb and where can I get one?

think geek, colorkinetics, or the like. our lighting crew uses CK fixtures
for shows, they can frequently be found on ebay for a couple hundred.

--mikes