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10.52  A cold, bright morning with the Christmas Farmers’ Market set up in the Market Square I…  II...  A gentle beginning to my day, as befitting someone as worn-out as this diarist.  11.57 To a Dear Crafty… you have my permission to post your letter in its entirety, in any forum you see to be appropriate. your letter to me was private: no reference to the poster's name was made, neither did i mention it to anyone in GC… where a Crafty's letter to me includes points of wider / general relevance to GC & Crafties (in my view) and perhaps have been brought up in other Crafty correspondence, privacy being honoured, on occasion relevant comments / replies appear in the DGM Diary & the GC site. i felt your comments… might resonate with others. if the letter can be linked directly to its author, as with yours, then i might omit / edit some of it. please, be as open & public as you feel to be right. 12.11 A review has this… Fripp found himself standing at an artistic and spiritual crossroads, and he unceremoniously announced to Wetton and Bruford that he would be withholding his opinion during the sessions for Red, a curious position for, perhaps, the band's guiding force to take. Actually, this was a strategy of radical neutrality. And perhaps a curious position worthy of adoption more frequently in creative activities than seems evident to these eyes (albeit spectacularly challenged); for example, in the field of reviewing. The comment above demonstrates, firstly, the difficulty in implementing the strategy; secondly, the difficulty in recognizing the strategy in action; thirdly, given the current conventional wisdom regarding Red as a defining & influential album, the power of that strategy. Moving associationally along, Red was more influential on players in the US than in England. Why? Perhaps the punk ethos in the UK might partly explain this. 16.58 An afternoon addressing Seasonal matters. To computing. 18.57 Done. Practicing ahead. Hooray!  Search Robert Fripp's diary archive. |
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