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

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

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From: "Dennis Montgomery" <morpheus@speakeasy.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 19:28 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Busking--it's hard for everyone (Fripp)


>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!

I'll bet he was fairly graceous about it, huh?
 
> Dennis
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>> On 1-May-07, at 8:55 PM, Rev Fever wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
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