Brian Eno

Robert Fripp’s Extracurricular Activities

13/08/2022 by Tiggerlion 101 Comments

Robert Fripp dresses like a building society manager and is as smutty as a navvy. He is King Crimson and he has kept himself busy in The League Of Gentlemen and a series of collaborative projects, most notably with Brian Eno. However, he also ‘guests’ his coruscating guitar on other people’s work, sometimes uncredited. The majority of this extracurricular activity was between 1974 and 1981 when he broke up his band but he has continued to indulge throughout his career. The most famous, of course, is his contribution to Bowie albums but there are loads.

Inspired by sarah’s inclusion of The Roches singing The Hammond Song, I’m putting together a playlist in an attempt to prove to a relative civilian that Fripp is one of the greatest dirty, filthy guitarists of all time.

Any notable examples? I’ve provided a gentle example in Blondie’s Fade Away And Radiate.

Brian Eno’s “ambient” speaker system

24/08/2020 by Arthur Cowslip 28 Comments

Has anyone hear ever used Brian Eno’s “ambient” speaker system?

For those who haven’t heard of this, Eno had a little blurb on the back of his 1982 LP Ambient 4: On Land. He explained that it was a cheap alternative for people who were unable to source or fund a proper “quad” system (the old version of surround sound basically – four speakers with music mixed specially to use all four). For the Eno method see attached link – you basically just attach a third speaker to the positive terminals of your amp, arrange the the “triangle” of speakers around the room, and the sound magically seems to fill the space.

Anyway, with the ubiquity of 5.1 surround mixes these days, I was recently shopping around to possibly dip my two into this, but I was quickly put off by the price and the complexity… (what’s the difference between Dolby NTS and Dolby Digital? Who knows or cares?)…. There was a thread on here recently about surround systems as well, that got me interested.

So, I had a perfectly good hi fi and a spare pair of Mission speakers lying about, so I thought before I delve further into » Continue Reading.

The Afterword Theme Tune?

13/02/2018 by Tiggerlion 120 Comments

Frank Skinner uses The Fall. Another Green World bookends Arena programmes. Just A Minute, naturally, has The Minute Waltz. Test Match Cricket is best of all with Soul Limbo.

If The Afterword was a radio show, what would be its theme tune?

Brian Eno BBC Lecture

04/10/2015 by Douglas 6 Comments

I haven’t seen a photo of Father Brian for some time, so I was most surprised to discover that facially he is now a cross between Bob Harris and Stuart from The Thick Of It.

I did like his description of creative art (or culture) as anything we do in our surplus time. Reminded me of Stephen Fry’s description of his love of Abba because “they’re better than they need to be”.

I’m not sure whether anything he said justifies obligatory Government funding of the arts, mind you. Pretty much no artist covered in this site, for instance, will have received a penny of Westminster subsidy.

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