If you have seen The Blues Brothers (and if you haven’t, why not?), you know the line: “We’re putting the band back together!” The prospect is exciting, but, sorry Elwood and Jake, easier said than done. Such is the case with King Crimson. When the idea of reuniting the Crimson...
Guitarists Steve Vai and Adrian Belew will join forces to perform material from classic King Crimson albums on Saturday, September 21, at the Bayou Music Center.The prospect is exciting, but, sorry Elwood and Jake, easier said than done. Such is the case with King Crimson . When the idea of reuniting the Crimson lineup of 1981-1984 was floated, the fact the founder and guitarist Robert Fripp was going to opt out was pretty much a foregone conclusion.
Fripp’s guitar parts on the Crimson records in question are, well, kind of tricky. Difficult even for a virtuoso musician like Vai. “I thought, ‘Well, I’d better go listen to the music to see if it was something I could navigate,” he says, “because Robert is quite the specialist, you know. I had heard the music, I knew the music, but I hadn’t looked under the hood. So I took another listen, and I thought, ‘Yeah, at my age, I could still get this.
It is interesting to note that both Belew and Vai played with Frank Zappa, though not in the same band. I asked Belew if that experience helped prepare him for Crimson. “Frank prepared me, basically, for everything,” Belew says. “Working with him, for me, being self-taught, coming from playing Top 40 music most of my life, it was a giant education. Both Steve Vai and I joke about this. We graduated from the School of Zappa.
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