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<<I came upon Adrian via Laurie Anderson's Mr. Heartbreak album.>> I REMEMBER THAT ALBUM!!! After reading that article in Guitar Player, I saw that it mentioned Mr Heartbreak in his "selected discography", so when I saw it at the library, I borrowed it. I remember listening to Sharkey's Day, and there's this guitar solo at the beginning of the song that sounds like a circular saw going nuts or something like that. I heard that, and immediately said "THAT's ADRIAN!!!". The other thing that stands out for me about that album is that William S Burroughs did the vocal on the closing song, Sharkey's Night. Well, this is how green I was, I didn't even know who William S Burroughs was!!! I mean, I was all of about 12 or so at the time, but I didn't know the name, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have known the names of any of his books (not even Naked Lunch or The Soft Machine). So, I'm listening to this track, and I'm picturing an old black guy doing the spoken word thing there! I think that's the only time I've ever heard anything and thought "That guy sounds black!". :-) << A year later, I was interning for Roma Baron on the preproduction of Home of the Brave. Spent most of my days in the studio with that Fender Mustang and the man himself.>> But he had it refinished by then, right? There were two different guitars, both of which, I think were originally painted by the guy who did the cover for Twang Bar King. Then later, he either had another one done, or had at least one of them refinished, because I remember seeing photos of him playing a blue one (the Twang Bar King/Three Of A Perfect Pair guitars were primarily white and black). > Believe it or not MTV actually aired a concert from the Three Of A Perfect Pair tour. Are you thinking of the bizzare "Joan Jet" and friends show? I was shocked when I caught that on MTV. King Crimson opening up for Joan Jett. Will wonders ever cease?>> I have absolutely no recollection of what you're talking about. No, the concert I'm talking about was a video release that Crimson put out called Live In Japan. MTV, basically took, and it edited it down to about an hour (it was originally more like 90 minutes long), cutting out a number of songs, including Red, Larks Tongues pts. 2 and 3 (no, they didn't do part 1), Industry, and Man With A Open Heart. I had no idea they had played these songs on this show until years later, when I bought a bootleg video of the show (before Discipline reissued it) and saw a long set list on the back cover than what was on the video. There's some great "candid" moments at the start of the video, of each band member, Bill Bruford exclaims "The very same jacket that brought you Larks Tongues In Aspic!", and there's also a couple great bits of Adrian getting some VERY sweet sounds from his gear at soundcheck. Anyway, as far as I can remember, MTV aired the Crimson thing as one of the regular Saturday Night Concerts. But come to think of it, I also remember seeing King Crimson on TV on a show on, I think, the Showtime channel. They showed them playing Sleepless and one other song that I didn't know. I remember that's where I first saw Bruford's Simmons electronic drumkit of doom. What he did was, he had a regular Simmons SDS-7 drumkit, and he took five of the pads, and had them set up to mirror his acoustic drum set, so he had two snares (one acoustic, one electronic), I think just three Simmons tom toms (can't remember if he had acoustic toms as well), and a double bass drum rig (one acoustic and one electronic). Then, he had the other seven pads mounted vertically behind him, and he had to stand up to play them (I later read he did that so that audience members could connect movements he made with his hands to the respective sounds that they heard). On this show, though, it seemed like he had way more than seven drum pads mounted behind him. I didn't realize it was only seven until I saw a brochure at a local music store for Simmons, where Bruford explained the setup (this was a four page thing that also had a piece on Cyndi Lauper's drummer, and I think an essay written by some nerd who worked for Simmons, and had a photo of a Simmons rig with like 12 or 13 pads mounted on what looked like synthesizer stands, and it folded out to a huge poster of a drawing of an anonymous drummer playing a similiar over the top Simmons rig). Anyway, as I recall, this show (which as I said, I THINK aired on Showtime, but it might have been HBO instead) would usually show like 2 or 3 bands on each show, so maybe that's where you saw Joan Jett and Crimson on the same show (I have no idea who else was on this show that I saw, I only remember Crimson). Getting back to Belew, any of you guys ever see the Electronic Guitar instructional video he put out around this same time period? We didn't have a VCR back then, and as far as I know, this thing is long out of print, but I so badly wanted to see it. I remember seeing the ads for it on MTV, I think they played a clip of Paint The Road, as Adrian basically plugs the video. I keep my eye out for it on E-bay, but the bids are always up to like 40 bucks!!! :-| ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com