Story (Midas Shadow) (Live)

I grew up in a thatched cottage in a-

The new forest in England

Um, next to a pig farm, I think

And it was absolutely awful, I-I-I never-

I didn't get along with it at all

I wanted to play the guitar

And absolutely nobody in this rural environment

Um, y'know, had any interest in guitars what so ever

It took a while, but I finally tracked down someone who-

Heard a rumor that the son of the local real estate agent

Um, was in fact a guitar player

And his name was Robert Fripp, and, uh

For the uninitiated, he had a band called King Crimson

And, uh, ha, at the time the only thing I was interested in

Well, actually, the only thing I knew how to do was this

Uh, and after about half a year of playing that

My mother said, "You're gonna have to go to guitar lessons"

So I asked Fripp, I said, "Would you teach me guitar?"

And he said yes

And, um, he taught me all these jazz chords

And I had ten lessons of him, and they hurt my fingers so much

And I coul-, I couldn't even imagine what I'd use them for

I didn't want to play jazz, I basically wanted to play Wipeout

And, uh, yeah, Twist and Shout

So eventually I stop taking lessons for Fripp

So forty years go by and they interviewed him

And they said, "Did any of your students ever make it in the music business?"

And, ha, he thought about it for a while

And eventually he said yes, he said

"And he did it by ignoring everything I ever tried to teach him"

Which I took to be me, uh

And it's absolutely true

So, um, so thi-this, this is a-

A song in honor of Robert Fripp

Simply because it's the jazziest thing that I know

It's not very jazzy but, but it is a little bit jazzy