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In the mid 90's, King Crimson released our first new CD in some years - and the decision was made to
have the whole band autograph a good number of the 'flats' - the booklets whose front is the face of the CD package.
While based in Buenos Aires, we signed close to a thousand, each taking hundreds at a time to our small hotel room, signing them with
a sharpie that would sometimes blurt it's silver paint all over the flat, ruining it.
The flats then had to be laid out separately to dry, and not
stacked too soon or they would stick together when passed to the next musician - thus ruining some of the already signed flats (which happened a lot!)
We returned home assuming we would not have to do that again, but soon I received a thousand more flats and pens in the mail,
with request to please sign them and then ship them on to the next member of the band.
I did so, with little pleasure, and I inserted into the package a little letter expressing my feelings while signing the flats.
Then the others followed suit, adding their own letters.
I do not have all the correspondence that was eventually sent back to me, but recently my daughter Maggie came across three of the letters,
and they seem to be documents of some interest - so here they are, by myself, Trey Gunn, and Adrian Belew.
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