Heh! Funny indeed.
A couple more humorous details on my Fripp / Peaches / Dallas experience:
Fripp gave some brief talk about the evils of live-concerts-recordings-piracy before performing, and then moments after he finished playing,
from out in the crowd which was quite large for the store, the sound of a squawky little recording (as done on a small portable cassette)
was suddenly heard of some of what he he had just played, and he stopped was else he was saying at the moment and said something along the lines of:
"Young man, I will take that recording you just made!" , or something to that effect, and some guy sheepishly came out of the crowd and "surrendered" the "pirate" cassette.
It all seemed REAL STAGED and phony as hell, and some of us just looked around at each other and rolled our eyes, since it seemed like a phony "incident",
but one that seemed as if it was completely serious. (or "serious"). But who knows? Maybe it was some joke on all of us? Regardless, it added to the over all "experience" haha.
The other funny thing I recall was that, earlier in the day, I came into Peaches to make sure that it was not some rumor that he was going to play there,
and a girl behind the counter, who could not pronounce her "Rs" very well, told me to be sure to come back later, because (verbatim)
"Lobert Trip (yes TRIP!) was playing later in the store." HAR!
But, I still would have loved even more to have experienced this in a pizza parlor! Pizza + beer + FRIPPERTRONICS, LIVE! Ahhhh!
-Rev. Fever
On May 1, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Paul Richards wrote:
I saw him at a Peach's Records in Ft. Lauderdale sometime around 1979. The place was so crowded, folks were standing on the record bins and filching records. Peach's was unable to maintain order. Great fun!
Rev Fever <revfever@ubergadget.com> wrote: Fripp did a Frippertronics "tour" in the VERY early 80's where he
played places like record stores ( I saw it at the long gone now
Peaches Records in Dallas,TX)
and I think(?) even places like a pizza parlor, but that could have
also been a rumor way back then. (OR...?)
Rev. Fever
On May 1, 2007, at 5:50 PM, L.A. Angulo wrote:
> didnt Robert Fripp busk at a shopping center with his
> revox loops at one point?
>
> --- Paul Richards wrote:
>
>> (About a block later a woman passed by me and said,
>> 'that was really lovely
>> what you played...')
>>
>> Can you met chicks that way? If so, I may start
>> busking myself!
>>
>> Paul Richards
>>
>> ---- David Gans wrote:
>>> At 11:14 AM -0400 4/9/07, Jim Goodin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most times the experience is more about doing it
>> than income
>>>
>>> I agree. That's why I play the Farmers' Market
>> near my home, which
>>> is a scheduled gig but pretty much the same as
>> busking because almost
>>> no one is there to hear me play. (I do have a few
>> fans who show up
>>> when they know I'm going to be there, but still.)
>>>
>>>
>>>> however I have had a few nice things over the
>> years. A few years
>>>> ago a guy was watching me and appeared to be
>> sketching. He put a
>>>> caricture and a note down in my case to call him
>> if I played
>>>> weddings so that led to a booking. Have sold a
>> few CD's and got a
>>>> few bucks. One neat personal experienced
>> happened one evening. I
>>>> had quit and was walking out of the subway in
>> Brooklyn. About a
>>>> block later a woman passed by me and said, 'that
>> was really lovely
>>>> what you played...' Though those don't pay the
>> rent in a sense
>>>> that's why we do it...
>>>
>>> Nice stories.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
>>> Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102,
>> Oakland CA 94610-2730
>>> Blog: http://logblog.gdhour.com
>>> Web site: http://www.dgans.com
>>>
>>
>>
>
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