Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Wednesday 02 February 2000

Developments aplenty The New World

01.23
Developments aplenty. The New World is in the air, n'est-ce pas? And now my psyche is dribbling. Hopefully sleep will visit earlier than yesterday.

12.36
A Haydn string quartet always works to begin my day. Any of Joe's will do: they are all little stunners. At home, in this wonderful, cosy late C17th. dining room, it is conceivable that four string players might set up and delight the ears. So, a recorded string quartet is in scale with the surroundings. An orchestra might well sound fab & brillo to the max, and I have sat here in awe as a whole range of delights prompted by the Muse have unfolded on a relatively feeble JVC blaster; but the scale isn't believable: no orchestra could fit in here. So, back to credibility, believability, a snug dining room & Joe the Prolific.

Steve Ball called at 08.00 this morning to deliver the latest news & developments for BTV in Seattle. Steve was on his way home & to bed. Jet lag lagging away, I am presently on 24 hour availability call. David is vibrating at home & we meet at World Central this afternoon.

21.42
Home after a burst of various frenzies at World HQ. Fine tuning of the Crimson album continues. Today this included editing a Soundscape at the end of "Frying Pan" and minutely adjusting the stereo balance. I know no-one else who experiences such visceral dis-ease with standard stereo mixing as the Raging Heartless Machiavellian & Hemispherically Engaged Venal Leader. More accurately, RHM&HEV Partner. Even within DGM, I don't / can't / don't want to / tell The Team what to do. We work by consensus & agreement.

Also, major BTV telephone calls to London & California. A key date: yesterday was the official birthday of BootlegTV, in my view: the lease began on our 11,000 square feet in downtown Seattle (with options on 2 more floors); the core team of 12 BTV employees officially began; and, surely not least, the finance became available.

Today the BTV beast is more sprightly.

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