Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Thursday 28 October 2010

DGM HQ A damp grey

10.19

DGM HQ.

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A damp, grey day along the valley.

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What is our pal, dear old Mr. Stormy, working on today? A bootleg of Fripp & Eno live at the Olympia in Paris, May 1975. Mr. Stormy is incorporating a recent archive discovery, of the original guitar loops recorded live at the event by Eno, to significantly enhance the sonic quality.

11.34    Office fury.

In the awaiting post from Andrew Keeling I…

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Shortly off to Falmouth.

20.35    Hotel Acceptably Modest, Falmouth, Cornwall.

A new mobile ‘phone arrived at the DGM front door exactly on noon, in time for leaving at 12.15. The A30 is not a good road to support a journeying west, and the A303 only marginally better. The A30 was chosen, because it took me through Dorset. But with single lane roads, tractors & post-mature drivers, it was very slow going until the other side of Axminster. Arriving in Truro c. 15.30 I…

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IV...

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… a welcome break in journeys to Cornwall, with coffee & bibliophiliacal opportunities at Waterstones.

Onto Falmouth arriving c. 17.05 at this acceptably modest accomodation with sea view I…

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Supper with new reading…

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… and practicing.

22.50    Done.
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