on wrote:
phm wrote:I've never seen any indication of him or those of his musical genre and ability follow the masses, much less support them. And if ever there was a mass on this planet, it's Microsoft users. It's downright scary. Fripp and his contemporaries' music has always been the creative result of showing no interest whatsoever in what everybody else is doing. And now Microsoft? Robert, what were you thinking? Life is filled with bitter ironies. What I've heard sounds nice, but what place does it have on a MS operating system?


Excuse me but your statements are totally insane.
It has nothing to do with the "masses".
Brian Eno wrote those startup sound for Windows 95. Now Fripp made it for Vista. It's good. Steve Ball asked Fripp - i think it was his idea.
You shouldn't mix up Microsoft, the company with the creative souls working there.

This is an all-time mistake - everybody underestimates the programmers working at Microsoft. They are not worse than the ones working at Apple.


I've seen people who haven't heard of King Crimson or Fripp, as well as people who never listened to albums beyond '79 or so. There's nothing wrong with it - just a bit of irony for what is missed. I've been into KC music for quite awhile now, in and out.
    I'd say it's a sign of the time that Balmer hired Fripp to record this. Fripp means timeless music - you were right he never pursued commercial success. But in the meantime he managed to achieve something out of the "mainstream range" of goals - a sound and music BOLD and BIG (quoting Steve Balmer's other words) capable of being soft, subtle, opaque, sublime and futuristic at once.

You never listened to King Crimson beyond 70-es or 80-s?
Absolutely get a chance to listen to "Power to Believe" album, Just buyt it - you will wish to keep it in your collection regardless of what your musical preferences are.
check out the www.disciplineglobalmobile.com and download the available live recordings of Fripp.

It's just the music of the times that are at hand.