Adrian Belew! He has to be one the most unappreciated talents in music. I was lucky enough to see him with his own band at the 9:30 Club in DC and later with King Crimson at GWU. He's an amazing musician.
Great musicianship! Adrian sings while playing so naturally and I’m not just talking cowboy chords, he plays rhythm & lead guitar accompaniment to his vocals. And he’s dancing on his pedal board the whole time. Beautiful duets with a orchestra at his disposal. He’s such a great artist.
The Keyboardist's name is Rick Fox. He was my guitar teacher in the 80's in Cincinnati and was a friend of Adrian's. I remember catching him on tour with Adrian in the late 80's.
You send the best messages. To our crazy world hope you live 4ever keep playing God bless you and your whole family thank you so much Brian peacock From here all the way back to the campsite
This clip is from a TV show that saxophonist David Sanborn hosted, called "Night Music". Do a RU-vid search and you will find some great clips from it, with musicians jamming together from wildly divergent backgrounds. Because of the coolness level of the show, of course, it didn't last very long.
I saw this tour in Baltimore at Max's On Broadway, a rather small club. It was sodamn amazing that I bought tickets for the next gig in DC at The 930 Club. Adrian Belew is the man.
1989. "Night Music." It ran on NBC from '88 to '90. It was produced by Lorne Michaels which probably explains the SNL stage. Michaels pulled the plug on the show because he claimed that the non-mainstream acts tranlated to low ratings.
Around this time I caught an acoustic Belew show in NJ. He explained how there was a seven year period he had to wait before re-recording his composition. He felt the song never got a fair shake as a single and wanted to do it again. My personal opinion is that his Crimson mates brought all the flavor of the original. I find the budget arrangements make the piece suffer (Tony Levin replaced by the keyboard player's left hand?).
At the start he's using a reverse delay, in the middle it's all technique with the vibrato bar, at the end he's using the synth pickup to play a brass patch from whatever guitar synth he was using at the time, probably a Roland
not sure who the drummer is - who strangely resembles Levin with hair! - but it totally loses the feel without Bruford. :( no disrespect to this guy, but he plays mostly a straightforward beat on this, where personally i preferred Bruford's syncopated feel. just my opinion. i love the way Belew gets the 'backwards guitar' sound on this, along with the Holdsworthesque vibrato.
strange thing, a kind of musical UFO;... is that a joke ? why these blue pull over, and these lyrics that zappa couldn't have ever invented as stupid it is...woaw !
