Here’s a brief extract to whet the dream buds.
Not surprisingly there have been a few responses on the
guestbook regarding Robert’s King Crimson anxiety dream.
Well I’m not sure this quite fits into that
particular bit of wish fulfilment but my mate, John Tobler, interviewed David
Bowie for the long-defunct music mag, Zigzag. Published in January 1978, the interview must
have been conducted late in the previous year.
JT:I gather you're embarking on a tour very soon.
DB:Next year I'm planning to do a world tour, yes.
JT:Who are you gonna use to back you?
DB:That's very difficult to say at the moment. One would like to work with Eno and Fripp on stage, but of course to get Brian out of his apartment takes about a week so to get him on the road is an impossibility. But I think he'll do selected cities with me. If he's never been there before, he'll probably come and play. He tends to work in that fashion.
Fripp is a bit more easy to accommodate. I mean, he can go on the road and it's no great pain, but I don't know whether he'd want to do a very long tour. He seems to be about a four-week man. (laughs) Neither of them are crazy about touring, so I'm gonna have to look for other guys as well.
JT:Mmmmmm. Were you a great fan of either King Crimson or Roxy Music?
I like Roxy's first album very much indeed. I thought that was very exciting. The whole concept was very new and had lovely juxtapositions that I hadn't heard before. With King Crimson I was always... funnily enough, Fripp was one of the only virtuosos that I liked. I'm not a big fan of virtuosity, but Fripp always appealed to me, his playing.
The conversation then goes into a discussion about experimentation on Low and Heroes and the notion of completing a trilogy of albums with Eno.
DB: We've always said, because we are both arty, we've both said we'd do a trilogy, so our triptych will be completed. We will do one more at least. We do have a very solid relationship with each other. I think it also is very strong outside of the musical area, because when we're together the last thing generally we talk about is music. As you probably well know, Eno's a wonderful conversationalist and one can sit there and laugh all night. And also I'm working on Fripp's next album. He's asked me to do some work with him in America when I go over there. I don't know what yet. I'm very excited about it. I don't know what he wants to do.
As we know the Fripp and Bowie sessions never happened but I’m sure I can’t be the only Crimhead around who thinks that this particular dream team would produce some fascinating work.
