Weird Idiosyncracies of Musicians?

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Apparently Robert Fripp is the same way but not Steve Hackett(who's hand I shook). Speaking of Fripp though I made the mistake of trying to speak to him before a show(he was opening for Porcupine Tree as a solo act doing the soundscape thingy). Apparently what he does is he stands back and looks at the stage in order to prepare himself for his performance(a kind of a spiritual preparation I guess). When I spoke to him he gave me what I call "prayer hands" but didn't say anything.

I've got to say I understand Fripp very well here. I wouldn't exactly be in talkative mood either before important presentations (or the few gigs I did long ago).

I would've liked to contribute something about Fripp but I can't recall it properly. In the early eighties I read a feature, I think in Sounds, by a music journalist who wrote about his experiences. I thought it was Steve Lake but having done a bit of research about Steve Lake now I think that's wrong because I don't know whether he ever wrote for Sounds and by the end of the seventies he was already pretty much done as a music journalist whereas the person I'm talking about was new to the job 1975 at the earliest if I remember correctly. Anyway, this guy lived with Robert Fripp for a week or so (it was at some point between Red and Discipline with KC temporarily not existing) and wrote about a number of weird things like hygiene obsession and how Robert would go on about how the world wasn't ready for his genius. Pity that I have to recollect this from my not very reliable memory so don't take this as "information". Anyway, if anybody can remember this thing, please fill my holes. Probably unlikely but some people here are walking encyclopedias, aren't you?