Thanks to Dan for this review of Ade and the gang in Pat Mastelotto's stomping ground.
I missed about the first fifteen minutes of Adrian Belew’s show in Austin TX as I was having problems negotiating the public transport system (I’m new here). When I arrived he was finishing up some track I didn’t recognize, before launching into an extended version of ‘Beat Box Guitar’.
Following that he continued to probe deeply into some of his avant- garde instrumental pieces, generating lots of delightfully bizarre guitar noises. At one point he banished the Slick Siblings to the side of the stage as he did his one man band thing, which included an excellent version of Lone Rhinoceros.
The Slicks rejoined him for a driving version of Big Electric Cat, and then, of course, it was time for the rapturously received King Crimson section of the show, inlcuding a violently atonal guitar solo.
Mastelotto was in the audience (which was relatively young: lots of folk in their late 20s and 30s- when I saw KC in Moscow in 2003 the crowd was decidedly aged). The Slicks still have baby fat on their faces but can fair pound it out with the best of them.
Belew is a guitar wizard; age does not dim his powers, and it is nice to see he is back to rocking the mad professor haircut. His guitar is very shiny and his plectrum sticks to it as if by magic.
I missed about the first fifteen minutes of Adrian Belew’s show in Austin TX as I was having problems negotiating the public transport system (I’m new here). When I arrived he was finishing up some track I didn’t recognize, before launching into an extended version of ‘Beat Box Guitar’.
Following that he continued to probe deeply into some of his avant- garde instrumental pieces, generating lots of delightfully bizarre guitar noises. At one point he banished the Slick Siblings to the side of the stage as he did his one man band thing, which included an excellent version of Lone Rhinoceros.
The Slicks rejoined him for a driving version of Big Electric Cat, and then, of course, it was time for the rapturously received King Crimson section of the show, inlcuding a violently atonal guitar solo.
Mastelotto was in the audience (which was relatively young: lots of folk in their late 20s and 30s- when I saw KC in Moscow in 2003 the crowd was decidedly aged). The Slicks still have baby fat on their faces but can fair pound it out with the best of them.
Belew is a guitar wizard; age does not dim his powers, and it is nice to see he is back to rocking the mad professor haircut. His guitar is very shiny and his plectrum sticks to it as if by magic.
