In 1981 Fripp spoke to Melody Maker’s Lynden Barber who was somewhat skeptical about Fripp’s continued use of Frippertronics, asking Fripp why he persisted with it. "Because one is working in a generic are, it doesn't mean you can't have newness on the inside, if you like. . .Another answer would be that it gives me a way of working with intimate contact with members of an audience. You can't play Frippertronics and coast. It's never that safe. It's almost an excuse to put me in a situation where one has the audience, performer and music, and in a certain kind of way something remarkable can happen. And that has happened to me, and it's not possible in a group.. . .Frippertronics is the most enjoyable means of playing I've ever found. Of all the tours I've done over 12 years, the only one I can look back on without being revolted or feeling grubby is the Frippertronics tour of 1979, the most crushingly hard work I've ever done.”
12/08/2024
12/08/2024
