Beat, the supergroup that bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, have added a show in Zamek W Ćmielowie in Poland. Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Steve Vai (guitar), Tony Levin (bass) and Danny Carey (drums) will be performing @ Stratocastle on July 17.
Beat bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, with a lengthy tour in June and July. Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Steve Vai (guitar), Tony Levin (bass) and Danny Carey (drums) know their shit, so this will be good.
Adrian Belew & Jerry Harrison bring their Remain in Light to Europe next year, playing the clubs circuit in May and June. They will play all of that fabled Talking Heads album, plus a few other gems from their back catalog, including Thela Hun Ginjeet from Belew's stint with King Crimson. They are joined on stage by funk band Cool Cool Cool, the band that came out of Turkuaz.
Prog Magazine has published a fun interview with guitarist Adrian Belew. On the lessons he learned from playing with Frank Zappa:
He taught me how to play in odd time signatures. He said, “I don’t hardly play in 4/4, so you’re going to have to learn how to play in odd time signatures.” The way he explained odd time signatures to me – coming from a background as a drummer – made total sense to me; it was all about accents. That was a really important thing when I got into King Crimson. I don’t think I would ever been able to write the stuff necessary had I not learned it at that point.
Watch Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew perform the Talkng Heads album Remain in Light in full @ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA on October 1st. Thye opened with the Heads's debut single Psycho Killer and inserted a cover of King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet.
The core band - Harrison, Belew, bass player Julie Slick and percussionist Yahuba Garcia-Torres, was joined on stage by former Turkuaz members. That NYC funk rock band ceased to exist in November 2021, citing musical differences. A 2021 tour with Belew and Harrison was cancelled after a couple of shows, because of the pandemic.
Innerviews has an in-depth interview with guitarist Adrian Belew, who played with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, King Crimson and Talking Heads, developed apps to create generative music, and created an impressive discography as a solo artist. Anil Prasad spoke with him quite a couple times between 2019 and 2022. This piece uses parts from all of those.
On recording his new album Elevator:
It’s my 25th solo album and I really wanted to celebrate that milestone. Elevator was mostly written during the COVID-19 period and also while other factors were affecting in the world. During the last few years, there have been riots and a lot of anger and hate. People were turning against each other. And I really felt it was important to make a record that would be uplifting and give them a break from that. That’s why I called it Elevator. I was thinking about how music elevates people. So, I set about trying to make a record that would do that. I thought, "These are the best things I can offer to the world at this point, coming out of such big, giant disasters as we've all been through.
Drummer Bill Bruford has launched his own YouTube channel. Happily retired as a performing artist he plans to share clips from his days being on the road with Genesis, Yes, AWBH, Earthworks and of course King Crimson. He posted an appearance of the band playing Elephant on the cheesy US TV late night show Fridays in 1982 as well as a couple of tracks performed live in Munich, Germany. The Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Levin line-up almost msde it to the mainstream after they had released the Discipline album in 1981, but the general public shied away pretty quickly.
Brooklyn based funksters Turkuaz have teamed up with Talking Heads founder member Jerry Harrison and guitarist Adrian Belew for a short tour to perform Remain in Light plus a couple of other Heads' songs. The debut performance was at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA, on July 3. The show was taped by Jeff Travitz and can be downloaded from the Live Music Archive.
Brooklyn based funksters Turkuaz teamed up with Talking Heads founder member Jerry Harrison and guitarist Adrian Belew (who performed on the Remain in Light tour) for an episode of Bonnaroo Virtual Roo-ality. They kick off with Psycho Killer, followed by Houses In Motion and their own song Ophidiophobia, and signing off with Crosseyed And Painless.
Watch Adrian Belew explain his use of guitar effects in a 1984 instructional video. Geek alert: he uses a A/DA Flanger, an Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer, an Electro-Harmonix 16 Second Digital Delay, an Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer, 2 Foxx Tone Machine Fuzzes, a Boss DM-2 Delay, an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer, an MXR Dyna Comp, a Pitch-Voltage Synthesizer, 3 Boss Volume Pedals, 2 MXR 10 band graphic equalizers, a Roland GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer, a Boss pedal switcher, an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, an Electro-Harmonix Foot Controller, a tape loop machine and an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Polychorus.
(thanks: Matt Stevens)
Guitarist Adrian Belew posted a touching song for David Bowie: "You Never Know ". He was an key player of of Bowie's late Seventies and early Nineties output and tours. Belew on Facebook
january 11, 2016. at 8:05 in the morning I woke to the stunning news: david bowie was dead.
I laid in bed for a few minutes thinking about so many david-related things. all the hilarious moments, being onstage together in front of thousands of people, the frightening ride in a Lear jet which had both of us scared out of our minds with our eyes closed....
my mind always returned to the same sentiment: I thought I would see him again. I couldn't believe we would never talk again! a selfish thought but the finality unhinged me.
that whole day was spent juggling unexpected interviews with Time, People, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, BBC Radio, and more. two of the local tv news channels came out to my studio for live segments. friends called, and my facebook swelled. I didn't have time to think about the world's giant loss nor my own personal one.
the next morning, tuesday, I sat in my bedroom chair and began writing something on acoustic guitar. I worked on it bit by bit over the next week, then I began recording it. I finished it today.
it's called "you never know".
it's straight to the point, sweet, and short. it's all I have to say.
my engineer cameron and I quickly constructed a video. you can find it on YouTube
The Adrian Belew Power Trio will be on tour in Europe in early 2016. After a one-off show in Israel Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Julie Slick (bass) and Tobias Ralph (drums) are off to Copenhagen. Prog rock with a twist and funny banter included.
Live dates:Guitarist Adrian Belew has launched a Kickstarter project for an inventive music app: FLUX. It serves up music in a different way, shorter and never the same way twice:
FLUX is an ever-changing variety of music, songs, sounds, and visual art, that comes at you in quick, surprising pieces--the way life does. You get exposed to a lot of interesting content quickly. And every listen is a new, unique experience, that will never happen again for you or anyone else. While songs do repeat over time, the song forms themselves are short and varied. Songs even appear in multiple versions, with different lyrics and instrumentation. Sometimes a longer song will play in its entirety, but most often you'll only hear a portion of it, which may be interrupted by something else: a startling sound effect or a common everyday noise. There are hundreds of these songs, pieces of music, and sonic "snippets", along with engaging visuals randomly changing with the music. A content management system has been built that let's us assign probabilities to tracks, determining how and when they appear. This ensures that FLUX never plays the same way twice.
The Adrian Belew Power Trio will be on tour in North America. It's guitarist Adrian Belew's first tour since the Crimson ProjeKCt tour of 2011. Julie Slick is on bass and Tobias Ralph is on drums.
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After playing shows in New Zealand & Australia The Crimson ProjeKCt will return to Europe for another European tour. The band consists of Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, Tobias Ralph and Julie Slick.
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Want to learn from three great musicians this Summer? Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto are your head masters at the Full Moon Resort, one half hour west of Woodstock, NY:.
Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto return to Music Masters Camps at Full Moon Resort for their Three Of A Perfect Pair Music Camp. The weeklong getaway – starting Monday, August 11 to Friday, August 15 – will feature performances, workshops, social and recreational activities, all set against the idyllic backdrop of the Catskill Mountains.
The Crimson ProjeKCt will go down under for a Summer tour. The shows in January are cancelled. The band consists of Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, Tobias Ralph and Julie Slick.
Live dates:More dates for The Crimson ProjeKCt European tour in March 2014. Shows in Norway, France, Italy and Spain have been added to the itinerary. The Berlin show (March 21) has been moved to the Neuberin Halle in Reichenbach im Volgtland.
The band consists of Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, Tobias Ralph and Julie Slick.
Live dates:Kiev, Warsaw, Krakow, Berlin, Essen and Prague have been added to The Crimson ProjeKCt European tour in March 2014. The band consists of Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, Tobias Ralph and Julie Slick.
Live dates:Guitar player extraordinaire Adrian Belew will be on tour with The Crimson ProjeKCt in Europe in March 2014. He will be playing with Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, Tobias Ralph and Julie Slick.
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