Re: OT: Busking--it's hard for everyone (Fripp)

[Dennis Montgomery <morpheus@speakeasy.net>]

I saw him at Tower Records in San Jose sometime in July '79.  Some 
things I recall, someone asked him to autograph their Chapman Stick and 
he refused.  Someone gave him some picks to try and then asked if he 
ever plays fingerstyle.  He said no and proceeded to flatpick the middle 
section from Fracture...you could tell the guitar players in the crowd 
by the way their jaws hit the floor.  I asked him if it was dangerous 
working with Jamie Muir so he told the stories about Jamie swinging 
chains and spitting blood etc...Later when I was getting my copy of 
'Exposure' signed, I told Fripp that I was a bass player & my friend 
(who was with me in line) was a drummer and that if he wasn't doing 
anything the next few hours that our practice place was just a couple 
miles away...He politely turned me down, but I just had to ask!

Dennis

>
> On 1-May-07, at 8:55 PM, Rev Fever wrote:
>
>> Fripp did a Frippertronics "tour" in the VERY early 80's where he  
>> played places like record stores ( I saw it at the long gone now  
>> Peaches Records in Dallas,TX)
>> and I think(?) even places like a pizza parlor, but that could have  
>> also been a rumor way back then.  (OR...?)
>>
>> Rev. Fever
>>