My friend is in denial

[Guitalia]

Yes, I referenced that, but primarily I was pointing out the direct contact between Fripp/Crimson and the Talking Heads that Eno, as their producer, would have facilitated.
Then…even before Warm Jets, there was the tape loop/drone experiments of the No Pussyfooting album, eventually followed up by Evening Star.

Sorry -- I missed that you'd referenced the Warm Jets album. Might have posted the Baby's On Fire video anyway, for those who are Fripp fans but had never heard him at his wildest.

And here I'll mention my personal Brian Eno non-event. In 1980, I was going out with a girl whose best friend was going out with Eno. We were supposed to go on a double date to see Talking Heads play a concert in Central Park, but Eno canceled.

Too bad. I'd been fooling around with my Tandberg tape recorder for a couple of years by that point, and I was looking forward to meeting him and swapping recipes and tricks.

One simple trick:

To simulate a bass drum, hold a sheet of Kleenex about an inch from a microphone and tap it softly with the eraser end of a pencil.

A recipe for percussion:

Fully wind up a kitchen timer and record the ticking onto one channel of a tape recorder that features sound-with-sound recording and three speed settings, using the highest speed.

Repeat, using the sound-with-sound feature and setting the timer to around 5 or 10 minutes so the ticking is slightly slower.

Then play back both channels at the lowest speed.

The recording ends up sounding like African percussion playing complicated patterns that your brain struggles to make sense of. Eno would have found the results inspiring and, given his track record, would probably have gone on to invent yet another genre of music.

 

[Michedelic]

Sorry -- I missed that you'd referenced the Warm Jets album. Might have posted the Baby's On Fire video anyway, for those who are Fripp fans but had never heard him at his wildest.

And here I'll mention my personal Brian Eno non-event. In 1980, I was going out with a girl whose best friend was going out with Eno. We were supposed to go on a double date to see Talking Heads play a concert in Central Park, but Eno canceled.

Too bad. I'd been fooling around with my Tandberg tape recorder for a couple of years by that point, and I was looking forward to meeting him and swapping recipes and tricks.

One simple trick:

To simulate a bass drum, hold a sheet of Kleenex about an inch from a microphone and tap it softly with the eraser end of a pencil.

A recipe for percussion:

Fully wind up a kitchen timer and record the ticking onto one channel of a tape recorder that features sound-with-sound recording and three speed settings, using the highest speed.

Repeat, using the sound-with-sound feature and setting the timer to around 5 or 10 minutes so the ticking is slightly slower.

Then play back both channels at the lowest speed.

The recording ends up sounding like African percussion playing complicated patterns that your brain struggles to make sense of. Eno would have found the results inspiring and, given his track record, would probably have gone on to invent yet another genre of music.

What I had stated was that Fripp had already had a history with Eno in general, and as he was in New York at the time, him playing on FOM was a delightful surprise and the beginning of a connection. What was interesting about that track is that both he and the band came away with something new. And yes, that solo on "Baby's" gets noticed more than most of the ones on any Crimson album.

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

Here is two more songs that weirdly sound alike:
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