Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Friday 27 July 2007

DGM HQ Looking out Looking

12.36

DGM HQ.

Looking out…

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Looking in…

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E-frenzying.

In SoundWorld I Alex has set up the Solar Voyager for the Hell Boys’ sessions in early September. This is what is called looking ahead.

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Alex has also been trolling through the DGM archive of little boxes and, employing a Revox used for Frippertronics & tape editing (of the JGB tapes in the late 1970s, has come up with this…

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… and what is it? Alex indicates, for visitors with exceptional eyesight…

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On a small plastic spool, this is a 7.5 ips mix from the ITWOP sessions of early 1970: Greg Lake is singing Cadence & Cascade with Keith Tippet on piano, RF on acoustic, and the Giles Brothers. Mel’s flute has not yet been recorded, nor Gordon Haskell visited for a session he later regretted. There are very few rarities such as this, and this is one of them.

17.23 What’s this?…

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A gift from the author…

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An evening of computing is ahead.

22.55  The floor.

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