Out Of The Box
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Dec 28, 2011
Robert's recent diary entry about being in a band prompted these thoughts on the matter by WVPB's Jim Lange.

Another One Bites The Dust
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Dec 28, 2011
My thanks to Granpool for this clipping about the closure of yet another music store. 

Mister Stormy's Monday Selection
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Dec 26, 2011
Mister Stormy has blown away the cobwebs off this funny moment captured during the recording sessions for Thrak. Seasonal greetings!

Mele Kalikimaka!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Dec 25, 2011
As Bing Crosby would have undoubtedly said had he been here. Very best seasonal greetings and good wishes from the entire team at DGMHQ and DGMLive to all our visitors and supporters. 

Robert Fripp Sets The Record Straight
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Dec 24, 2011
My thanks to Dan Kirkdorffer for alerting me to this headline - Robert Fripp: setting the record straight on Richard III, in Shakespeare's English. Obviously, it's not our RF but it makes you wonder how many of them are out there!

Getting The Xmas They Deserve?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Dec 24, 2011
Greg Lake is one of the artists interviewed about what it's like to have had a perennial Xmas hit.

RF & The OCG Surround Sound You
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Dec 23, 2011
There's a new release by Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Craft Guitarists available at Los Gauchos Alemanes website.

It's available in a dual surround sound and stereo DVD format it documents a performance given by the OCG in March 2010.

Fred Fripp
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Dec 23, 2011
My thanks to randomelement2 who writes "This is very funny, but I’m posting it for the Crimson reference, towards the bottom."

No Accounting For Pete's Sake!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Dec 22, 2011
My thanks to Natron for bringing to our attention this snippet from Pete Atkin's newsletter. "MEANWHILE –
The struggle goes on with SonyBMG and the very grand Michael Smith to get them to account to me for sales over the last twenty years involving the last three RCA albums. There’s been a bit of progress, but not really very much. It’s a pathetically small amount of money involved, but I’ll be blowed if I’ll let it go. Jarndyce and Jarndyce spring to mind,"

Natron comments "When challenged over their business practices a justification that is often trotted out by company directors & executives is that they have a legal obligation to "maximise share holder value". They are rarely challenged on whether their actions actually achieve this aim. "

12399 Is A Magic Number
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Dec 22, 2011
Here's some interesting figures on how many plays a band or musician would have to get in order to pull in the minimum wage in the USA. Of course, as many wags and blow-hard desk jockeys will be quick to point out, these musicians should just be doing it for the love of music! Somebody is getting rich from all these streaming services but it isn't the musicians.