Bathurst Street Theatre
In 1981 Fripp spoke to Melody Maker’s Lynden Barber who was somewhat skeptical about Fripp’s continued use of Frippertronics, asking Fripp why he persisted with it. "Because one is working in a generic are, it doesn't mean you can't have newness on the inside, if you like. . .Another answer would be that it gives me a way of working with intimate contact with members of an audience. You can't play Frippertronics and coast. It's never that safe. It's almost an excuse to put me in a situation where one has the audience, performer and music, and in a certain kind of way something remarkable can happen. And that has happened to me, and it's not possible in a group.. . .Frippertronics is the most enjoyable means of playing I've ever found. Of all the tours I've done over 12 years, the only one I can look back on without being revolted or feeling grubby is the Frippertronics tour of 1979, the most crushingly hard work I've ever done.”
