Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Thursday 11 November 1999

To clear my head after

21.15 To clear my head after a day of notes and power, I drove into Nashville and visited a bookshop. On the way home I gave my patronage to O'Charley's restaurant. This was a mistake. The plate of steamed vegetables presented an apologetic face to the world. The vegetables had seen livelier days, but then so have I.

The group day began with a stunning "Coda" to "Larks' IV". Pat & Adrian let rip and stomped the sucker flat. Then Pat, Trey & RF addressed the details of "Larks' V" until around 16.00 and Ade returned to blast through "Larks' IV" & "Light".

Dribbling feebly, I set off into the night scanning radio stations, without success, for some music to revitalise me. What an array of dross this evening: continuous commercials interrupted by music from which music had been filtered out by a series of gate-keepers: record producers, record companies, personal managers, radio stations and sponsors. Generally, the performers were doing a professional job of delivering breathtakingly trite sentiments to stultifyingly banal melodies with the semblance of sincerity.

So, enough whingeing for tonight. My e-mail awaits.

22.22 20 posts waiting & discharged.

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