Beat is a band put together by Adrian Belew to play songs from the three classic 80s King Crimson records: Three Of A Perfect Pair, Beat and Discipline. The band is Adrian Belew, fellow KC alum Tony Levin, along with Steve Vai and drummer Danny Carey (from Tool). Quite a bit of firepower there. It was conceived pre-COVID, but had to wait until this year to get going. And now it's touring.
Playing 'Waiting Man'. Carey is playing a set of melodically-tuned drums for this.
Carey handled original KC drummer Bill Bruford's parts nicely. Dude's got power and technique to spare. Was fun watching him using 80s electronic drum pad triggers to make all those wacky percussive sounds.
Belew and Vai.
Vai had the unenviable job of playing Robert Fripp's parts. And he managed to do it! Yes, he's the great Steve Vai, but Fripp has a unique and formidable technique. Few even try. Vai did adapt some things to fit his own style - ex. using tapping where Fripp would pick. But it sounded great regardless.
"Red". The only song not from the classic 80s lineup.
The great Tony Levin was, unfortunately, out of sight for us. I bought box seats because they're fun. They don't cost any more, but they do, usually, offer great views. So I grab them when they're available. Unfortunately Levin was standing right below us, and didn't move around, so I could only see him if I stood up and leaned over.
They played almost everything I would have picked as a perfect set list from that era, and included many things I wouldn't have picked but were nonetheless fun to see and hear.
Loud as hell.
Very cool, cleek.
I bought King Crimson’s album when I was a kid and wondered if my mother, used to Beatles and the British Invasion coming thru the floors from the basement, thought WTF.
Not that the F would have occurred to her.
I still don’t know what to think, but that Fripp was a bit Franz Liszt on the guitar.
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No-one, you’re back! Did you have a good time in Scotland? What is your current prediction re Liz Cheney, and the kissing the ring scenario? Etc etc.
Scotland was glorious! We had unusually fine weather (Sept 12-26), as nearly everyone told us.
Thanks for asking, GftNC.
We spent time in Edinburgh and then drove thru the Highlands to the Isle of Skye. Stayed in wonderful B&Bs, including a thatched roof cottage in the gorgeous seaside village of Plockton.
My girlfriend surprised me with a three-day mystery tour via train to the Yorkshire Dales, which I’ve longed to see since falling in love with the older version of James Herriot’s (Alf White) All Creatures Great and Small 45 years ago.
As an aside, actor Robert Hardy never ceases to amaze me with his flawless portrayal of Siegfried Farnon.
Turns out the cottage (actually the house next door) we rented in Plockton was the fictional home of Hamish Macbeth in the eponymous BBC show from the 1990s as well, which I’m now discovering.
As to Liz Cheney, I’ve no predictions one way or the other, but Harris/Walz must win the Electoral College by a decent percentage, else we will have the most serious Constitutional Crisis since the Civil War and America will cease to be a going concern. This country will not abide another election stolen by the fascist and violent conservative movement juggernaut.
The conservative movement, all of its republican, maga, libertarian, and fake Christian moving parts together, must be unequivocally and by every means destroyed, as bobbyp pointed out recently at OBWI.
I would like to see Biden/Harris outfit, courtesy of the federal government and my tax dollars, all of the Haitians in Springfield with military-grade weaponry, and their employer (he is arming his family and teaching them to shoot to kill these conservative grade murdererous operatives sent by Trump and his lying genocidal vp partner to harm them). Biden should also send federal troops to Ohio to protect them before the election AND after if Trump and the Supreme Court steal this election and then send their federal goons to deport these decent, taxpaying, hard-working, true Americans.
I would like to see this administration send troops into numerous red states in November to keep polling places open and non-violent, and to protect voters like me and the election workers republicans have sworn to harm.
Take me back to Scotland. Of course, they and the English lived thru relentless political violence for about a thousand years before finally becoming a peaceful place today.
Well, you asked.
GftNC:
This is more along the lines of my reaction to Liz Cheney of Arc and the Democrats:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/i-ve-had-enough-of-democrats-rehabbing-dick-and-liz-cheney/ar-AA1rJUEq?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=69572de1bfcf4f85a0621883a2ebb2de&ei=19
I fully understand “kitchen sink ” realpolitik and temporary practical liaisons with death merchants, particularly when it comes to throwing everything we have at the sadistic, malignant, fascist evil the conservative movement has become, and became under the Cheney family’s efforts for many decades before Trump came along and mussed their ideological hair.
I mean, if the shade of Rush Limbaugh could somehow be resurrected from his seething grave of legacy hate to denounce Trump in time for this election, I would lift a few tables and concoct a few sound effects to make it so.
And then the day after he was finally of some use to the human race, I would take an NRA-approved weapon of war and pump the Hell-bound Limbaugh full of Cheney-approved cop killer lead, pack his venomous, lying mouth with salt, and reinject him into a new grave beneath Mar-a-Lago, and then call in massive nuclear weapons strikes on that shithole.
https://x.com/smalls2672/status/1842599052225200233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1842599052225200233%7Ctwgr%5Ea50f2d29ef5e41f916c0a73a2d45e358d20c2aba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigbysblog.net%2F
she’s spicy.
No-one, I hear you. And since I always loathed and detested Dick Cheney, in fact always thought of him with a mental soundtrack of Dylan’s Masters of War (remember Dylan is to me as the Beatles are to you), which concludes with a rather noone-like description about how to deal with such a one after his death, I do understand. It is the damnedest example of “my enemy’s enemy is my (temporary) friend” that I have ever experienced. And I must say, your bringing in the detestable and foul Limbaugh is upping the ante to an extent I could never have imagined *shudder*. I don’t know how we will all survive the stress of the next few weeks, let alone what might come after.
Apart from that, you are probably aware of this already, but just in case not:
https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/special-edition-john-and-paul
Murdering pregnant women and stealing their babies in Texas, after Texan conservatives rape them.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/10/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-nullify-federal-law-deny-women-emergency-medical-treatment
Drowning pregnant women and their babies in Florida as conservatives hold them under and starve them.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/10/evil-garden-gnome-ron-desantis-wont-talk-to-harris-or-biden-about-that-little-ol-hurricane
The Biden Administration must arm these victims, and all immigrants, liberal Jews, liberal and white blacks, and the homeless to the teeth with military grade weaponry and ammo to defend themselves against the Fourth Reich of the Christian Nazi genocidal Republican Party coming to murder them.
The second American Civil War is underway.
I’m contributing money to the Texas Secession movement. The sooner those vermin are considered a foreign country, the sooner my country can wrap them up in razor wire, shoot them on site if they dare ccross our borders, and declare World War III on the animals.
Putin will help Texans murder us.
26,000 women were raped in Texas over the past year.
Most of them by Christian conservatives, the horniest vermin on Earth.
GftNC:
Thank you for the Beatle link.
I will study it.
This is what the end of it will look like, should be somehow be the slightest bit lucky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4WynAKkXL4
There will be nuclear weapons used against us by the Subhuman Republican Party
we, not be, but let it be.