Mellotronists

well, not ENTIRELY off-topic.

www.robertfrippunplugged.com

$115.00 plus shipping for a 6-cd set.
robert talks to you for 6+ hours of his favourite soundscapes.

is this like the monty python "verbal abuse" sketch?

"this is smug impatience?, oh, well i was looking for demeaning
condescension..."

he is, after all, a notoriously abrasive personality.
i never understood his stand-offishness towards fans.

if you don't want the spotlight and fans, then become
a plumber or an auto mechanic [not intended to diminish
those professions, just pointing out that they are not
of "celebrity" status, unless you have a tv show...]

just bringing up this project/product as i don't recall
mention of it here previously... anyone own it?

...jeff

Actually Fripp can be quite personable. I remember when the League of
Gentlemen played in East Lansing. While we were waiting outside for the
doors to open, Fripp was walking along the queque, looking for people
trying to smuggle in recording equipment. He spotted one fan who was
holding a philosophy text and immediately struck up a conversation about
the book with the fan, who was sweating bullets because he had hollowed
out the book to hide his tape recorder and was afraid Fripp was going to
grab the book and look up a favorite passage.

John McIntyre
mcintyre@...

> 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/