Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Monday 30 June 2003

Hotel It Was Vibrant Some

10.18

Hotel It Was Vibrant Some Time Ago, Turin.

The slightly tired sense, that would have been quite appropriate in a Bournemouth hotel around 1965, was welcome over the breakfast trough. This is a working day, so I was not myself pumping down the tucker, merely snaffing coffee & hot milk. And, rather than inappropriate rock music of three or four decades ago, a solo pianist given a brief to not disturb guests was succeeding admirably. Recorded when, I could not tell, nor what repertoire he was playing. The pianist was in the background, wurbling away. Once, I would have considered this inoffensive & unnecessary presence offensive in itself; were I still a young rocker I would have been angered. Now, given the alternatives for intrusive sonic pollution that we regularly & frequently encounter, give me the inoffensive pianist any day.

It is hot, very hot.

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