I posted the correction before I'd read your question, but yes, Fripp admits the influence Bartok and Stravinsky and the modernists in general had on his work. I think he went a bit mad when he announced his 'New Standard Tuning' which if memory serves, was tuned in fourths from a C bass note (Maj 3rd below E which is the normal bass string). Mad or not, he still has a lot to say with the instrument. I still think 'Fracture' is his most accomplished work. Two of the five motifs being based on whole tone scales played at ridiculous speed - again, I'm dredging memory here, it's been a good number of years since I've kept in the sort of practice needed to play such. Most of my time, for the last ten or so years, I've been emulating/influenced by/stolen from/paid to sound like (the latter being most likely true) George Harrison, with the odd bit of Jimmy Page/Jimi Hendrix/Nile Rogers etc. There's not a lot of point in playing to the bandstand - other musicians don't pay your wages. And as I'm coming to admit, I no longer love it; so the hours spent on scales become hours I could put to better use. I've become cynical about 'pop' music.
Iran's government does suck, at least from an external Western position. I rather hope the upcoming generation can begin the process of transformation, and we can hold fire for time enough for the changes to begin to be effective. Like with China, I believe trade will eventually bring with it the social changes necessary to integrate with the World Capitalist Economy. But this scenario faces an inextricably linked race with global warming, because as we know, China becoming a serious consumer and producer nation will get close to tipping us over the climatic edge. Perhaps things are always in the balance in some way or other: which probably means we should be eternally vigilant, but right now...sorry, can't be bothered: which is not directed at you m'dear, but with the world in general. Go well, and make the idiots think.
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Date: 2006-12-04 10:04 pm (UTC)I think he went a bit mad when he announced his 'New Standard Tuning' which if memory serves, was tuned in fourths from a C bass note (Maj 3rd below E which is the normal bass string). Mad or not, he still has a lot to say with the instrument.
I still think 'Fracture' is his most accomplished work. Two of the five motifs being based on whole tone scales played at ridiculous speed - again, I'm dredging memory here, it's been a good number of years since I've kept in the sort of practice needed to play such. Most of my time, for the last ten or so years, I've been emulating/influenced by/stolen from/paid to sound like (the latter being most likely true) George Harrison, with the odd bit of Jimmy Page/Jimi Hendrix/Nile Rogers etc. There's not a lot of point in playing to the bandstand - other musicians don't pay your wages.
And as I'm coming to admit, I no longer love it; so the hours spent on scales become hours I could put to better use.
I've become cynical about 'pop' music.
Iran's government does suck, at least from an external Western position. I rather hope the upcoming generation can begin the process of transformation, and we can hold fire for time enough for the changes to begin to be effective. Like with China, I believe trade will eventually bring with it the social changes necessary to integrate with the World Capitalist Economy. But this scenario faces an inextricably linked race with global warming, because as we know, China becoming a serious consumer and producer nation will get close to tipping us over the climatic edge.
Perhaps things are always in the balance in some way or other: which probably means we should be eternally vigilant, but right now...sorry, can't be bothered: which is not directed at you m'dear, but with the world in general.
Go well, and make the idiots think.