What part of this post has anything
remotely relevant to looping? Can we get back on topic?
Respect
Will Brake
Soul Fruit Electronics
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sottilaro
[mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:26
PM
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: New Adrian Belew
Interview
Here's the comments I submitted to the online mag:
The Power to
Repeat
As someone who's been in love with
King Crimson since I discovered Adrian's work on Laurie Anderson's Mr.
Heartbreak album, I'll take the risk of disagreeing with him about TPTB. I
don't think it's nearly as interesting as TCOL, which, IMHO, is one of their
strongest albums. Part of my issues with it are the little voice synth stuff
happening. It totally grates on my nerves for some reason. Not sure why he's
dragging out lyrics from an older solo Belew tune and running them through a
Digitech Vocalist. Surely you could think of something new, no? And eyes wide
open is so sweet, I need to pass on it almost every time. Maybe one of the
reasons I'm bitter is that I bought this album twice for some reason. First
time as a "teaser" album, then almost the identical album in a
slightly different "finished" form. That was kind of lame. I'd loved
to have heard really rough stuff on the teaser, or totally different mixes. Oh
yeah, I also bought a lot of these tunes on the Level 5 album as well. With all
that said, I think TPTB is still a great album and many of the songs have made
it into my iPod where they pop up from time to time and amaze and inspire. If
you're looking for an entry to KC, get one of the 3 80's albums or TCOL. I
think they're better representations of great song writing and interesting
playing.
Mark Sottilaro
