The final night of the G3 tour. Fripp notes that it was “a wonderful gig on the hillside of this village, in a grass amphitheatre built around its war memorial. The war memorial is a feature of every English town & village, testifying to the irreplaceable loss of young men to their communities in both world wars. The Great War was an appalling shock. After 1945, there was a precedent.
In Patrimonio, I was told, the village held a heated debate as to the propriety of holding a guitar festival at the memorial to its young men. Apparently, the clinching argument came from an elderly gentleman who got up and declared: I fought with these young men; they were my friends; they loved music.
Steve Vai commented “I snuck out onto the stage during Robert's set and loaned some audio manipulations with Flo to Robert's soundscapes. I have been doing this for a dozen or so shows. Billy joins in too. It's a moment of total freedom and expression. Robert is tremendously artistic and allows the moment to be real. Nothing worked out. It's quite a change from what normally goes on in my set.”
If Robert, Steve and Billy were enjoying themselves, not everyone in the audience felt the same. One fan bearing the name of Blue Light observed “We all know that Robert Fripp is a great guitar player but it was not what we expected... I'm not criticizing his performance, but I just didn't understand what this "intro" was about... It was a bit disapointing for the King Crimson fans, and I think we didn't apreciated it as we should have” Close but no cigar, as the saying goes.
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