Rock Star Doctor Saves Robert Fripp’s Sister’s Finger

Since my 20s I have been a loyal member of Kaiser Permanente and always happy with the attention of the doctors. As I was admitted I told the young lady “No, this was not a work related accident, it is a being an idiot related accident.”

Lucky for me I was the third person waiting. Within ten minutes of walking in the front door a doctor who was handsome enough to be McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy and should be used in sales campaigns for Kaiser introduced himself and asked “I don’t suppose you are related to Robert Fripp?”

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Robert and Patricia Fripp’s Favorite Grace

Brother learned this when he was in retreat with JG Bennet: All life is one and everything that lives is holy. Plants, animals and people all must eat to live and nourish one another. We bless the life that has died to give us food. Let us eat consciously, resolving by our labors to pay […]

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Review by Lindsay Planner, Toronto All Music Guide Expert Review

“AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Innovation and Robert Fripp once again go hand in hand. Considered to be one of rock’s more enigmatic figures, Fripp has authorized this series of cassette tapes containing over eight hours of live and spontaneous questions and answers featuring Fripp interacting with 11 different audiences who initially had come only to hear […]

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Robert Fripp at NSA Professional to Mastery

When the National Speakers Association held a Performance Lab in Las Vegas Dan Thurman gathered an amazing group of individuals to speak. They came from NSA, Cirque, the Movie Industry, and Show Business. Rich Little gave a great speech on “Fame People I Have Known and Been.” My brother Robert Fripp spoke about “The Assumption of Innocence Within a Context of Experience.” Here is the 4th clip from that speech…

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Engage Brain Before Eating

(about Robert Fripp) From the San Francisco Chronicle—Friday, December 3, 1999 by Jon Carroll THERE WAS A time in my life, a very rich and lovely time, when I almost lived in New York City, staying down on Gansevoort Street long before it became chic and walking to work at the Village Voice every day. […]

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Robert Fripp’s moonlighting as a motivational speaker makes perfect sense

Mark Dery sent me the entire article from his interview in 1985.
However, I enjoyed his modern day comment…
“Incidentally, Mr. Fripp’s moonlighting as a motivational speaker makes perfect sense. In my years in the golden ghetto of rock journalism, I interviewed scores of musicians, most of whom impressed me as barely articulate creatures of very little brain, dull as a doorknob and culturally illiterate about anything but music. Mr. Fripp was a striking departure from that dreary norm, preternaturally articulate, with an omnivorous mind and a dry, nimble wit. Which was why I always lept at the opportunity to interview him.”
Best, M. Dery
Thanks Mark!

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Robert Fripp Blast From the Past

HE BEGAN, by his own admission, tone deaf and with “no sense of rhythm.” He is a spit-shined, manicured man whose “best subjects at school were always English literature and English language.” He is guitarist Robert Fripp, and would seem more at home beating the pants off an Oxford dean at Trivial Pursuit than laying down the febrile, ostinato runs that are his sonic signature.

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An Example of Robert Fripp’s “Attributed” Charisma

An example of Robert Fripp’s “Attributed” Charisma
(See the previous 2 THE Executive Speech Coach posts)
At the American Payroll Association’s Congress Pay Heroes we were lucky to have APA’s First Husband Patrick Obertin as our moderator and introducer. Over the years we have become friends. In 1969 Patrick bought In The Court of The Crimson King. He would be the first to admit he enjoys the “Attributed” Charisma of being involved in Robert Fripp’s session. We enjoyed the “Attributed” Charisma of his APA status helping us.
As part of our session “How to Be a Hero for More Than One Day” Patrick told the story of how he met and “rescued” his wife Linda Obertin APA’s 2009-10 APA President.

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