Monday, 13th December 2004

10.29

Hotel Acceptable, Santiago, Chile.

The breakfast buffet in the hotel's Executive Lounge was a modest experience. Tired food was accompanied by a remarkable variety of songs from many genres on the Noise Pollution Unit set to radio. Assertive advertising in Spanish by a strident male voice acquired a foreground role as I sipped my quite-warm café con leche. The lack of temperature in the drink provided the catalyst to send me back to Room Quite-Acceptable-And-It's-At-The-Back! for a high-speed e-eruption.

11.38 Fortunately, there is only one bad frizzing incident on last night's Soundscapes, swiftly dealt with by the player (at least, swiftly in Soundscape terms): overall, professional but-not-magical on the final show.

16.35 A most enjoyable lunch & catch-up with Billy, within an ongoing e-eruption.

Today's Better View I…

Today's Better View II…

The Brazilian e-correspondent (diary for Wednesday 8th. December) who asked Which was Fripp´s aim when he accepted to join the G3 project and tour?? has replied to my question in response: how is that your concern, please?…

Frustration, indignation and depression.

I was frustrated with the performance, indignated with the audience booing and shouting to RF expressions I don't even dare to translate and depressed the day after the concert, not being able to concentrate in anything and feeling tears in my eyes every time I remembered what happened in the concert.

Several questions were popping in my thoughts; maybe the main one was why is RF exposing himself to this cruelty (boos, offences, poor mixing of his solos plus the stress of being on the road)? It is not doing any good to old RF/KC fans neither attracting the attention or respect from Joe's and Steve's audience.

Maybe I was just not prepared to see RF being booed and that affected me too much.

Anyway, as I could not find answers or even clues to my questions concerning this G3 line up and performance I decided to ask to the only person that has the answer.

Perhaps, things were not as they seemed? But, neither were they otherwise.

18.41 Now, mostly packed. We have a baggage call for 20.30 and lobby call at 21.00. The Team heading to San Francisco, and I'm with them, fly via Dallas-Fort Worth for their onward connecting flight. Once in SF I re-check with United to Chicago en route to Heathrow. This gives me approximately 32 hours from stepping onto the first 'plane and off the last, much of it in Cattle Class. Yow!

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