On 09-27-96 MARTIN RIDGLEY wrote to STUART DUBOIS... 
 
 MR> Hmmm... that was Boz's first album with them.  I wonder if 
     the music didn't require great bass playing or was it just 
     that the parts were written to accommodate a guy who was 
     still fairly new to the instrument? 
 
        Beethoven wrote his famous Triple Concerto so as to 
        showcase the piano playing of his patron's son. The fact 
        that his patron's son couldn't play diddly merely 
        presented him with the challenge of how to write a piece 
        that is complex and exciting and showcases a piano yet has 
        a piano part which is fantastically simple to play. In 
        that or any other context it's a work of genius, perhaps 
        because of its constraints. _Islands_ is also great in 
        part because of its constraints and limitations. 
 
 MR> At the time the album didn't do 
 MR> much for me.  It might now, but I lost my vinyl copy in the late 70s 
 MR> sometime and never replaced it. 
 
        Fripp did a real nice job with the definitive edition CD. 
        Worth owning, IMO. 
 
                                        Cheers, 
                                        Kenneth 
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