Bredonborough Rising at to welcome
08.28.
Bredonborough.
Rising at 04.25 to welcome in the Minx, returning from playing to bikers in Skegness, and put her to bed. Minxie had a great time & enjoyed the show.
Rising again at 06.50 & first-thing on the street to get the Minx’s Sunday dirt I…
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09.32 Reading. Computing & e-flurrying.
The Reception & Transmission Of Ignorance I…
When punk came along in the second half of the ’70s, it puked on Peter Gabriel’s flower costume, booted over Rick Wakeman’s towering staircase of keyboards and set fire to Robert Fripp’s rustic waistcoat. “Piss off, prog!” spat this aggro crowd of upstarts. The Damned were part of the revolution, certainly. But it was the loopy firebrand with the beret and the sunglasses, CAPTAIN SENSIBLE (Raymond Burns, born 1954), who lifted them above the ruckus.
Sensible was also a superb guitarist, his skill & capacity mostly overlooked; great fun & company. Perhaps not known to this poster, Sensible was also a King Crimson fan & invited me to play with The Damned at Hammersmith Odeon (1982) & then to make a single with them. All of this, a wonderful experience and thoroughly enjoyable for me.
While not seeking to be too picky about accuracy, when encountering witlessness in public postings such as this: one example, please, of Fripp wearing a rustic waistcoat? Only one example, please! Post 1983, I have often worn waistcoats, but rustic? When? This one must have slipped my memory.
The Reception & Transmission Of Ignorance II…
THE LADDER Yes Symphonic Prog
… I can't review this album and simply ignore 'Lightening Strikes' no matter how hard I'm trying to. It is a VERY cheesey, cringe- worthyly instrumentated, latino-dance number with about as much charm as Robert Fripp on a date. The Hallway.
Perhaps Mr. The Hallway will remind me of our date together? I don’t recall ever dating someone with this name and, given the demographics of prog fans, have a hunch this date was anyway inherently unlikely. Now, as a happily married man about to celebrate his 24th. wedding anniversary, it is unlikely that Mr. Hallway will ever know how charming Fripp might be.
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Front door call for 09.45.
12.23 Heathrow Terminal Three.
Punctually into the KevinMobile…
… and a straightforward journeying to Heathrow, check-in & transit through security procedures. Now computing at a Caffe Italia table I…
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21.45 Hotel Acceptable, Madrid.
A straightforward flight…
… collecting by the XavierMobile I…
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… and delivery to the hotel, arriving c. 18.45 I…
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… opposite the venue for Wednesday’s Theo & Fripp Pulp Madrid To A Querulous Mass I…
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Straight back into the lobby & onto the street for early supper, catch-up & cava with Hernan, the driving force of Gaucho Productions, and Mariana, the vicious energy within the GC Office in Kiel I…
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Very good to catch up with this fascinating man, in great company & quite acceptable surroundings.
Returning to a brief e-flurrying & now to bed.
