Re: re[2]: kingcrimson in sf-no loop content...

["Nic Roozeboom" <nicroozeboom@hotmail.com>]

>i think a joni mitchell approach would help here (not just for fripp, but 
>for any of us).  the tuning of the guitar posits a certain default sound 
>(overcomable by technique).. it's my understanding that joni has a 
>differant tuning for almost every song (i suppose to a guitar player, it 
>would make her "sound more technicly skilled" than she might be..but the 
>end result is, imho, great).  if one were to believe the roland pr dept, 
>it's for this reason she now uses roland guitar synths.
>

It would be interesting to note at this point that since late 70s, early 
80s, robert fripp has championed his new standard tuning, or NST, 
precisely 
for that reason - offsetting and intentionally disturbing learned 
mechanical 
patterns.

of course at this stage, one would expect he knows and navigates NST like 
his back yard

nic



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