Firing Up The Synapses

Posted by Sid Smith
16 Feb 2010

There’s a treasure trove of analogue gear porn to be found over in the online archive of Synapse magazine. WARNING: you will lose hours of your life trawling through this archive!!!!

In amongst the back numbers of course, Robert Fripp, is a cover star of the Summer 1979 issue.



Aside from the fab ads and full frontal pictures of facial hair and calibrated knobs (not to mention a Mellotron Scrapage Scheme!) on page 21 there’s a mention of Adrian Belew, then in Bowie’s band. But the main feature is a candid interview conducted by David Fricke, lately of Rolling Stone, with the Bobster himself.

Here’s your handy cut-out-and-keep edition...





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