Posted on 05/29/2020 6:12:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
#VEDay75 #VEDay2020 #VEDay #ToyahWillcox #RobertFripp Celebrating VE Day Heroes on Friday 8 May 2020 for VE Day 2020.
The two VE Day Heroes being celebrated within the Fripp and Willcox families:
Uncle Bill, aka RAF Flight Sergeant Alfie Fripp, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Fripp who helped in planning The Great Escape.
Beric Willcox of the Royal Navy, based in Alexandria, who guarded convoys in the Mediterranean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Mediterranean
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Backing track: King Crimson Live in Berlin on 12 September 2016
Personnel: Gavin Harrison, Jeremy Stacey, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Jakko Jakszyk & Robert Fripp
Fairy dustings provided by Bill Rieflin
Recorded and mixed by Chris Porter
Produced by Chris Porter with Robert Fripp & David Singleton
Used by permission
Vocal track & video: Toyah Willcox, at home in the kitchen, Middle England;
5 May 2020 on iPhone
Vocal & backing track mix: Jakko Jakszyk
The guitar used in the video is Robert Fripp’s Les Paul serial no. 9-1986; used on all KC albums 1969-74; and on the Heroes session in Berlin with David Bowie, Tony Visconti & Brian Eno at the Hansa Studios, July 1977.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
The imagery is powerful, and watching Fripp in the background is perfect. If you aren't careful, the screen may get blurry for a moment or two.
For those who care, in 2002 Toyah became a prominent opponent of planned accommodation centres for asylum seekers near the Worcestershire village, Throckmorton. Protesting together with more than one thousand villagers, Toyah said: "The villagers are not anti-asylum seekers and they are not racists", adding that "it was not a simple black and white issue". Commenting on the Government's plans to build asylum centres in other rural areas, Toyah said: "This is only the first of 15. The sheer scale is mind-boggling. This is a small country – it's all happening illegally." Explaining her position further, Toyah spoke of how the local area lacked the infrastructure to provide meaningful everyday lives for those who were to live at the proposed centre.
I love Robert Fripp and King Crimson.
Robert Fripp’s kitchen.....how cool is that?
Tony Levin is a always a god on bass. Period.
Bkmk
Love this, thanks !
The opening sounds a little like the opening for “Station to Station”. This song is significant for me because I used translated the lyrics into Latin for extra credit back in 11th grade. I chose it because the lyrics are extremely simple. “I will be king!” ... “Rex erit!”
I am annoyed that the singer (and Bowie himself in some live concerts) reverse the verses. I always thought that dolphin business was lame. Oh well, keep it under 6:00 minutes.
Heroes was not initially well-received when it was released, but grew in stature over time. I like Fripp’s work on the hit “Scary Monsters” as well. His Frippertronics stuff is either Fripp going on a pseudo-existentialist nihilist bender, or an in joke I never quite got, but “Under Heavy Manners” is always good for a chuckle.
Re: Dolphins. There is an excellent website that breaks down "Heroes" in fantastic detail. It turns out the dolphins line is actually brilliant.
Where the lyric of “Station to Station” had been a profusion of imagery hauled out of Bowie’s inventory of obsessions, “Heroes” is far more minimal, its words simple and precisely chosen. Bowie drew from two main sources, both European, both postwar(s). One was the short story “A Grave For A Dolphin” by the Italian aristocrat Alberto Denti Di Pirajno, which details a doomed affair between an Italian soldier and an Somalian girl during the Second World War (it inspired the “dolphins can swim” verse).
I know its Bowie, but if they are at the Berlin Wall, what good will being a dolphin do? It might make more sense to say “I ... I wish I could burrow, like the prairie dog like prairie dogs burrow...”
Amazing band. Missed seeing them when a huge thunderstorm knocked out the power at Poplar Creek way back in the day.
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Eno's first three albums STILL defy definition and time.
The dolphin line is a deep reference to a short story “A Grave For A Dolphin” by the Italian aristocrat Alberto Denti Di Pirajno, which details a doomed affair between an Italian soldier and an Somalian girl during the Second World War.
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