Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Monday 26 April 2010

Hotel Acceptable Madrid Rising at

09.42

Hotel Acceptable, Madrid.

Rising at 06.50. Reading breakfast at the trough…

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E-flurrying.

Don't Answer the Phone!!
:: Posted by desol81 on April 23, 2010
…    let’s suppose Ade or Tony or Pat called and said "I’ve got some music that only Crim can play." Do you answer that call?

1.    When my Crim pals Ade & Tony & Pat call, I pick up the ‘phone.
2.    If my pals have music for me to hear, my ears are open & available.

Lobby call for noon & onto the studio.

17.24    The studio is a short walk from the hotel I…

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… where RF & The LCG rehearsed for their 2007 Iberian tour.

Set up I…

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The friendly team of Gaucho Productions are present in force I…

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Someone has re-tuned the black Beaudoux. Who? Why? Where? This was last with me at The Roundhouse in London, guest guitarist for The Humans. Someone, at the studio in Salisbury, or the shipping firm in England / Spain, or in this studio, has taken the guitar out of its case & tuned it to EADGBE. Why?

Back to the hotel for computing, nap, computing.

Lobby call, for rehearsing with Theo, at 18.00.

22.46     Trev was just-in from England…

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Sylvain showed Theo how to speak French…

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The feet of the players snapped like whipcords, hurtling through combinations of programs and volume shifts I…

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And rehearsing is as much fun as this…

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Returning to the hotel at c. 21.55. A call to the Minx, who has moved from Chateau Minxie in Chiswick to Minx Towers in Chiswick, a move of some 400 yards down the road.

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