Mellotronists

> Beyond his music, I find Fripp to be intolerable. It actually seems
> that he doesn't like his fans (though I am not one of them).

He seems to like them buying his stuff, especially when he remasters his
catalogue for the fifteenth time. In a sense I can understand him; he
just wants to play music and not be bothered by an audience, although he
needs the audience there for whatever 'magical energies' he witters on
about.

There are plenty of stories, though, of people simply coming up to him
after a show and saying how much they liked it, only to be met with
Fripp either blanking them totally or by adopting body language that
would make the average chronic autistic seem like the life and soul of
the barn dance. There was a time when the pages of Elephant Talk
(www.elephant-talk.com) were littered with such stories, all of which
were point-by-point countered by Fripp which sort of made it all even
more disturbing.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/