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"Music is a powerful and direct teacher which speaks to us all, to the degree that we are able to hear."
A new Soundscapes tour bundle is now available on the site. These are taken from the G3 tour (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Robert Fripp) This is an 11...
On December 1st, 2024, at Mendoza's Teatro Independencia, The Wine Of Silence will bring together The League of Crafty Guitarists and The Mendoza Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance featuring...
Robert Fripp and I have now completed the first four speaking engagements of our "Englishmen Abroad" California tour. A travel day/day off in Agourra Hills yesterday, and now...
My father died yesterday. Certainly not a tragedy, as he was ninety-one. And he had been in great pain with cancer for the last few weeks, so probably a blessed release. But still a sad, and major event in my life. I am now an orphan! Last year, at the time of his ninetieth birthday, I wrote a diary where I described my entire life as a voyage around my father. And it remains true that he was my...
Inevitable Music Forgive me for stating the obvious - and repeating what has, no doubt, been written many times before in these pages. Probably even by me. But I was struck this morning by the absolute absurdity of the music industry. Not the machinations, dodgy contracts, and double dealing. But by the underlying principle - namely ownership of music. The absurdity struck me, with an astonishing clarity, almost like the proverbial lightning bolt, while playing Bach’s Prelude No1 in C major....
10.18 Bredonborough. On the afternoon of this day in 1984 my Father, Arthur Henry, flew from this world while being held by my Mother. Fortunately, I had returned to Wimborne the day before (from the first two Guitar Craft courses). Several weeks later, while staying with my Sister in San Francisco, I had a vivid dream from which I woke. Feeling that this dream was...
20.33 A cold day here in Nashville & its environs. The first day of winding up the Crimson Beast of Terror in preparation for unleashing it on the world. Apparently, the English magazine Classic Rock, in their review of TPTB, suggests we should call it a day. This is the simple arrogance of a reviewer not yet quite grown out of believing their own reviews. Yet not quite...
Robert Fripp and I have now completed the first four speaking engagements of our "Englishmen Abroad" California tour. A travel day/day off in Agourra Hills yesterday, and...
12.59 Rising against gravity and with batteredness 08.00. 13.38 A morning of e-fury. Of the three evenings of Englishman Abroad so far, all have been very different and I...