Robert Fripp's Diary

Understanding looks at how an

Understanding looks at how an event comes into being.
Knowing looks towards what already exists.

Music is the place where silence meets sound.

So, we have two immediate perspectives:

1. Hearing silence within the sound;
2. Hearing sound within the silence.

These are the perspectives of analytical mind. A third perspective:

3. Hearing music by holding together both sound & silence.

Silence is not silent.

09.45
The first customised program is now in the Roland VG88 - RF Chorus 1.
This is a hummer of a device.

17.01
Back from the rehearsal room & working through with my personal DAT from the album. Pat has a hybrid kit set up with basic acoustic elements - snare, bass drum, hi-hat & cymbal - plus his battery of meaty electric wonder werners. Those who doubt the beastliness of this may well catch it in both ears. Unless they have moved, on course.

From an e-letter today to the Sidney Smith, Crim biographer, whose sharp gaze has fallen upon several contradictory times given in this diary & Crim Scrapbooks:

The LofG began when I was 17 and came into action as I was turning 18. This puts it around March/April 1964 for a beginning (and the clearest predictive dream I've ever had) through to 1965.

When I was 17 I was playing at the Chewton Glen Hotel with The Douglas Ward Trio, plus a few other local hotel / dance band gigs. This would have been 1963 into 1964. There was some crossover between the Chewton Glen and the LofG.

Shortly after I left the LofG I was offered the Majestic gig - Andy Summers had gone to London. This would have been around September 1965.

I was at college (with John Wetton) Autumn Term 1965 (October?) through to January 1967 when I took my A levels early. The grades were enough to get me accepted for University for Autumn 1967 but in the interim I decided to turn pro (May 16th. 1967). I left the Majestic to go to London with the Giles Brothers but returned to do the Christmas season for 1967.

So, you're right to draw attention to the discrepancies. This should clear it up. I also have my diaries for the period, plus draft contracts for The LofG plus setlists! Perhaps in the fullness of time you'll have a Crimson Companion, or second edition, or Scrapbook, or encyclopedia, or...".