RF questions

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:07:25 -0500 (EST)
From: TwEbB2436 at aol dot com
Subject: RF questions

TwEb:	I have seen bits of the Fripp-as-creep strain coursing throughout over
these past months ...

RF:	Firstly, Fripp IS a creep.

	Secondly, these past several years.

TwEb:	For those who have had questionable run-ins with Fripp I say this:
consider singular impressions.  If you had just performed after months on
the road, ups and downs of performances, sketchy available diet,
etc.... Would you be able to always paint on a smiley and shake all the
hands in want?

RF:	Sure. No problem: Chuckles Fripp, your Man From Dorset.

TwEb:	As a student of music I have found Robert Fripp a
particularly accessible person.

RF:	Very good. My wife and I bought a house for students to come and live
together in England, and practice, and perform, and find how to live and work
together under the imperative of serving music. This project, at the Red Lion
House, ran for three years.

	There was no difficulty in access. The problems were aim, commitment and
effort.

TwEb:	... I wouldn't mind a published treatise illustrating how to put the
pieces together into music ... please Robert, more writing more writing more
writing!

RF:	This is a good suggestion.

	I'm currently working on two instruction manauals: "Lighten Up! - Have
Fun With Serial Analysis And Chromatic Substitution" and "Play In A
Lifetime - A 
Guide To The New Standard Tuning".

TwEb:	Biographies- People are fixated on finding the person behind the
works... Perhaps Fripp might authorize a real one, or better yet write one
himself!

RF:	This is an even better suggestion.

	Much of the material is already available, but I haven't been able to
decide on a name for the book - one which reaches out to my public and invites
them in, as it were. Several under consideration are:

	"I Only Wanted To Say Goodbye - At Length".
	"I Had No Rights - Only Your Money".
	"I Did It Someone Else's Way".
	"I Only Wanted To Say `No Thank You' Very Briefly".

	These are definitely more fan-oriented. A more serious possible work is
the influence of topography on a musician's work, maybe:

	"From Wimborne To Cranborne - My Life In Music".

	Assuming, expecting, anticipating the success of that volume, I might
squeeze out a sequel:

	"From Cranborne To Wimborne, via Witchampton - More Life, More Music".

	Maybe readers have their own suggestions?

	"Fripp - The Movie" is clearly very close, but no presently available
stars have either the right, or enough money, to get the part.

	Sincerely,

	Robert Fripp.
Mike Stok