Funny Fripp taper moment
Jeff Lester
thought I'd pass on this great story, culled from a Tangerine Dream list
in a thread about meeting famous musicians:
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as usual ill bite...back in 81, robert fripp was doing his first frippertronic
tour and was playing at the u. of pennsylvania in philly...we knew we had to
tape it, but knowing how quirky fripp is on this issue and the small size of
the venue, we had to resort to unconventional means...so we went to a medical
supply house, rented a wheelchair, taped the mics to the arm rests, and had my
buddy sitting in the thing with a blanket covering the deck...fripp, who was
tuning up and checking his decks, graciously requested that our suddenly
wheelchair bound buddy be placed right in front of him...at the end of a nice
60 minute set, and after fripp takes his bows, my buddy, who was being fed
margaritas via a straw the whole time, starts screaming: "fripp healed me...i
feel my legs...hallelujah...fripp is god", jumps outta the chair and runs
outta the place...pandemonium ensues of course, and fripp is flabergasted...the
story does not end though...next day, fripp is doing promo signing at a record
store, and i walk in with a j-card and ask him to sign it for the guy he had
healed yesterday, becuz the tape of the gig would be incomplete without it...
needless to say, fripp went ballistic, spewing obscenities left and right...
i had a good laugh...
tom w
-Jeff Lester
Other1~~
thanks for posting that Jeff!!!! Nice story. I wonder If Fripp signed
the J card, or start cussing him out, and made him leave.
brew ziggins
My guess is, Fripp's love of signing autographs probably
outweighed his anger at the 'violation' of the previous
evening's musical communication.
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Man, that's almost too funny to be believable.
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>-Jeff Lester