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66 The GAZETTE, Montreal, Saturday, March 7, 1981 uitarist out to the wort Performers cheated by fake tapes: Prosecutor fill! He started a monthly column on the politics and economics of the music Industry for Musician, Player and Listener magazine, contributed his unique guitar phrasings to artists like Peter Gabriel and David Bowie, and collaborated with white soul singer Daryl Hall for an LP called Sacred Songs. More importantly, Fripp hit the concert trail In 1979 with a series of experimental one-man concerts that unveiled a concept called Fripper-tronics. Re-established contact In a tour designed to re-establish contact with his audience, Fripp travelled around United States, Canada and Europe armed with his guitar and a couple of Revox tape recorders programmed to loop and layer his sound hence the term Frippertronics. He played to crowds that he kept between 100 and 250 people, and judged the experience "the hardest, most intentional and rewarding of my career." By JOHN GRIFFIN of The Gazette Robert Fripp Is not your average cpaced-out rock 'n' roller. In fact, he bears more resemblance to a university professor tutoring in nuclear physics or logic, than to his real occupation.

He is, in fact, one of rock's most influential and innovative guitarists. In the course of a recent interview conducted in the faded Old World elegance of a downtown hotel, the elusive and eloquent Fripp touched down on a myriad of topics that ranged from the Laws of Thermodynamics to the magic of the late Jimi Hendrix. No, Fripp is not your average rocker. Articulate, methodical, avant-garde, an intellectual guerrilla of sorts, Fripp is engaged in a paign aimed at nothing less than the re-structuring of the record industry, and the society from which it has sprung. Lofty ideals Fairly lofty undeniably, but not out of keeping with the 34-year-old Fripp's career to date.

As the mastermind behind King Crimson, the ultimate British art-rock ensemble of the earlv 1970s. '7, number of people, and work towards the point at which the magic that exists In music might result. "It's a magic that everyone recognizes, a magic that, like Jimi Hen-drix's finest moments, hits you right at the bottom of the spine. "That magic is the part of music that is the healing force, the art for wtych you'll stand outside the con-' cert hall for hours, and know that when you hear the first note all the waiting will have been worthwhile. It's that same intangible healing element that I would like to see pervade the music industry." The League is currently in limbo, although a self-titled LP is in the works and due for release late this month.

Fripp, who has since moved from New York back to Wimborne, Dorset, was getting too famous in that is now involved with the establishment of a farm community in Cornwall, concentrating on the release of a new Frippertronics LP called Let The Music Fall, and gearing up for the second phase of his rejuvenated career. "The first three-year campaign is happily on course. I feel comfortably in place within the music system and the next three-year stretch The Incline To 1984 commences this Sept. 11." Fripp is somewhat mysterious about The Incline's goals, other than to say that "the campaign will concentrate heavily on discipline with a capital 'Discipline is one concept that Fripp already seems to understand well. There can be few artists operating within the rock 'n roll system today who have his vision, determination and sense of purpose.

If Fripp's visions come to pass, the image and sound of the rock industry will change forever. NEW YORK (AP) A New York-based record store chain stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Bee Gees, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and other recording artists by selling counterfeit tapes to unsuspecting customers, a federal prosecutor has alleged. At the trial of Sam Goody Inc. and its top executives in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, Assistant' U.S.

Attorney John Jacobs said that the company's motto was, "We'll buy as much counterfeit as we can get." A 16-count indictment charges company president George Levy, vice-president Sam Stolon and the corporation with racketeering, copyright infringement and interstate transportation of stolen goods. The indictment said victims of the counterfeiting included Paul McCartney and Wings, Olivia Newton-John, Kiss, James Taylor and Eric Clapton. In an opening statement to the jury Thursday, Jacobs said that during a five-month period in mid-1978 the company bought 105,000 phoney eight-track cassette tapes, most of them sound tracks from the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease. The defence claimed in opening statements that Levy and Stolon did not know the tapes were phoney. Robert Fripp is anxious to make his music ideas popular An obtuse album of Frippertronics called Cod Save The Queen Under Heavy Manners resulted, but Fripp, never one to dawdle, had already moved to his next project, a group and a tour launched last year called The League Of Gentleman.

"The band Fripp on guitar, keyboardist Barry Andrews, drummer Johnny Too Bad and Sara Lee on bass enabled me to do some things in the marketplace that Frippertronics hadn't," he said. "Firstly, it developed a concept I had of active listening and active dancing. That is, listening to the music while your feet are moving, while being aware that your feet are moving. Intelligent dance music, if you will. "The tour also enabled me to extend human contact to a greater in a rural retreat in his native England.

It was a revitalized Fripp who returned, as he puts it, "to the marketplace" of rock music on Sept. 11, 1978, with a move to New York, and a three-year statement of intent called The Drive To 1981. Careful campaign "The Drive as originally defined," recalled Fripp with careful deliberation, "was a campaign conducted on three levels. "Firstly, to make music conducted in the marketplace but not governed by the conditions of the "Secondly, as a means of presenting a number of my ideas to the public and examining them to see if they work, and thirdly, as a purely personal discipline." At this stage, with the Drive coming to an end this September, Fripp may consider his campaign something of a success. He is an established artist on the giant Polygram label, and claims that "in a spirit of good will" he has effected change in that company "from the inside" that has resulted in a smaller, more mobile organization.

He produced the first album for a female trio called The Roches, with a stark, "audio-verite" ambience that fit their style like a glove. Fripp helped re-align the average rock audience's perception of the functions of rock music with a sound that married his jagged, frenetic guitar sound to the baroque sweetness of woodwinds and mellotrori. But Fripp dissolved King Crimson in 1974 at the height of its popularity claiming "a decreased possibility of contact between the audience and performers." He then entered' into the next phase of his highly-organized existence, with several years of intense personal study based on the teachings of the Eastern mystic Gurdjieff mm trwm 1 isssmw pratwitt eftmn PRESENTS jilBCH 4 IViWM ALMADA Recording artist and Juneau Award Nominee PAUL HANN with special guest Cobblers' Awl (from Chicago) In Concert Tues. March 10th, 8:00 p.m. McGill Union Ballroom 3480 McTavish Street (Peal Metro Station) Ganaral Admiation: $3.00 Advance tickets available (392- 8926) or at door Door and Bar open: 7:30 p.m.

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