Robert Fripp's Diary

Monday 02 September 2013

Bredonborough Continuing damaged from yesterdays

09.56

Bredonborough.

Continuing damaged, from yesterday’s attack. My inside is brutalized.

Painting underway at the front door. Into the Cellar for morning reading I…

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A little practicing. To The Writing Project and e-flurrying. From an e-correspondent…

Though u certainly 'wrote the book', i can't recall if you are literally writing a book about Endless Grief. On the chance you are and can make use of additional anecdotes, here's an item that's on point to two ideas you have been exploring in the diary:

Specifically: "He was 18, a Mississippi native who had grown up in Detroit dreaming of a music career and had just been signed to a contract with Mr. Gordy, who was both his label president and his personal manager — an arrangement unthinkable today because of its inherent conflict of interest, but not unheard-of at the time."

and

“I wasn’t getting any statements, so I started asking not too long after the record came out,” he recalled. “You couldn’t ask too many questions back then, because they’d say: ‘You’re being a bad boy. You’re getting smart.’ But I kept inquiring, and Mr. Gordy told me, ‘Don’t worry about statements and things, you’ll make your money on the road.’ On the road to what?”

With EG Management, I bought property. Although I didn’t receive royalty payments and statements as such until 1980, EG couldn’t deny me money when directly approached. To do so would be a clear demonstration of dishonesty (that came later, in 1990/91). So, I bought a series of properties: in 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979 and 1980.

Regular visitors to this Diary may perhaps recall some references, to the EG of Mr. Samuel George Alder, in respect of the promptness and accuracy of Mr. SG Alder’s accounting.

19.01 On the street, shopping for tasty cakes c. 12.05 I…