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Two especially choice quotes from the new (August) issue of Uncut: “‘Laika,’ with Pixies-ish call and response, has Tom Verlaine guitar harmonics over ? & the Mysterians staccato rhythms.” “…‘Chelsea Burns’ is a frazzled, Mazzy Cohen hymn to beautiful losers.” Wonder if even Leonard Cohen gets the “Mazzy” part. July 15, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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Fripp, Robert. Tiny British guitar god of nutty-professor mien. Having emerged in the late 1960s as the maestro of the compulsively time-signature-shifting PROG pioneers King Crimson, Fripp allied himself in the 1970s with Roxy Music refugee BRIAN ENO, who enlisted his friend to contribute a couple days’ worth of “Frippertronics”—the swirling, densely harmonic guitar sound the pair had developed together—to David Bowie’s Heroes. Fripp’s crucial contribution to Bowie’s peak achievement has earned him bulletproof status in Snob circles, despite such post-Eno taste lapses as his sundry attempts to retool King Crimson for the high-tech, post-patchouli age, and his appearance, in a Hello!-magazine photo spread, clinking champagne glasses in the bathtub with his wife, former ’80s punk-pop oddity turned TV personality Toyah Wilcox.