Reynolds on Fripp

[sawyl]

I've been a bit slow with this, but I notice that Al Reynolds has a post on his contradictory relationship with the music of Robert Fripp:

I've been listening to it in its various forms for more than twenty five years, yet I've never really had anything resembling a conventional emotional connection with it. It's more like mathematics, or physics. I suppose the analogy would be looking up at a cliff: it's huge and soaring, impressive in a bleakly magnificant way, but it's also kind of forbidding, with an attendant risk that chunks might break off at any moment. It's certainly in no way warm or consoling, in no way capable of cheering you up, but then I don't suppose that's remotely the point.

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[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

Early KC stuff is very emotional. I think "Lizard" is very romantic.