England is celebrating an event

Posted by Robert Fripp
5 Nov 1999
Friday, November 5, 1999

A good day. Rehearsals mainly concentrated on the songs (i.e. vocal pieces) being developed. My morning's Pencil Frenzy was directed towards Parts IV & V of "Larks' Tongues" and "The ConstruKction Of Light". The guitar parts are frighteningly difficult and several steps beyond anything I've attempted in public for 25 years.

16.37 England is celebrating an event from 1605 where the English Establishment fixed up some Catholic sympathisers and, after some unpleasantnesses were directed towards their bodies prior to convictions, some unpleasantnesses were directed towards them afterwards. Prior to their eventual release from their lives, different parts of their anatomies were publicly parted from their bodies. Yes, it's Bonfire Night to celebrate "The Gunpowder Plot" & Guido is being roasted all over again.

20.38 While eating my soup & salad, VH1 had a "History Of Rock" featuring synthesisers and studios in the 1970s. An advert then had "Heroes" (not the Bowie version) for its music before returning to the programme, featuring Bowie & Eno talking about studio work. And a photograph appeared of Bowie, Fripp & Eno from the Berlin "Heroes" sessions of July 1977.

This was a magical time, of changes and changing and possibilities and wonderment and a beginning again. This was during the early part of my time in New York. Everything changed during those three years.



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