Adrian Belew - Life In A Nutshell

[electribe333]

yes! is that positive enough? well... then... yes! yes!

[davidkennedy85]

Adrian, I think you should hook up with John Zorn next.

[divehater]

I as well can't wait to see what happens next,....if you now where to look you will find the world is still full of creative musicians,....they just don't make any money because the giant record companies have lost the will to market in favor of "sure things". While I can't say that I've heard much of Adrian's work outside of the Talking Heads,...I do count him as one of my favorite guitarists and an inspiration to my own work.

[tonysuss]

I saw Adrian back in the day with King Krimson in Detroit.About half way through the show,he got on the drums and absolutely amazed me even more than the great guitar playing I'd become accustomed to from him.An amazingly versatile musician.An artist in the truest sense.Music today is missing this type of genius.For those of you who've never seen him play live,you're missing out hard core!

[monamoog]

Thanks, Adrian!!!!

[KolonelPanic]

I can't wait to see what happens next too.... always.

[lebiew]

I saw him live with Bowie in 1990. Black tie white noise tour in Cali. They rocked. Played all the old stuff with no theater. Golden Years, Station to Station, Panic in Detroit. Stuff like that

[SuperSolaris]

Fantastic musician (guitar player, drummer, singer, composer, and all that wrapped with a great stage presence) and an enormous inspiration for me. His works with Frank Zappa and King Crimson are legendary.

This dude is a genius. Truly awesome.

[Thunderbollocks]

great vid...and Adrian is THE most innovative guitarist since Hendrix...no one else comes close.

[SmokingWickerman]

I dont knowhow the japanese mainstream/underground media show her but she has done amasing wor and the funnything is her music origenates from King Crimson's Robert Fripp with his dark ambient work+neoclassical music.

What im saying is that music ALWAYS has its connections from others and will always be creative/ experimental. you just have to do resertch music and find what youre looking for, I found king crimson from an LP that came with my vynal player. i could have said WTF is this crap.

[rjbullock]

We can't wait to see what happens next too Adrian! Love you dude, thanks for all of the musical adventures...

[LordOfKarma]

He's definitely right about the cycles. We cry about how everything is pre-packaged but think about living in the US in the 1950's-1965 .. Rock n roll or nothing. and before that ? 1940-50 full fledged bebop jazz .. so yea, we're likely due but its getting harder and harder inspiring and teaching music to kids in school.

[CMVRiper]

so creative and talented!

[chinasherry1961]

what does King Crimson mean?

[ALoveEternal]

How was 'I See You' not a hit song?

[devolve42]

4:28 - 5:00

just, damn.

[mumbojumboman246]

whats the song @ the beginning?

[PrimericanIdol]

King Crimson's "Walking on Air".

[06manot]

shut the fuck up motherfucker

[PrimericanIdol]

WHat's that song at 1:05 ?

[CarlDavis97701]

"Pretty Pink Rose"

[PrimericanIdol]

PS: if only Zappa were still around to discover me. lol

if i dont get discovered by either an existing artist who is already big, or a major label, i'll be stuck playing @ clubs :'(

[PrimericanIdol]

If Alex Lifeson dies, They should hire Adrian Belew, so they can continue with Rush. He'll make it a LOT more interesting.

[mloaks]

good take

[artgonewrong]

I don't think Alex is replaceable. Two different realms of music. I think Adrian is....well, not better than Alex. However, if Adrian would do a guest spot on the next Rush recording...that would be really interesting!

[TonyEsposito77]

How is called the piece that starts at 2:05?

thanks

[hemphim]

Writing On The Wall - Adrian Belew Power Trio

[TonyEsposito77]

Thanks!

[deadfuktorya1991]

too bad the video for Pretty Pink Rose cant be found anywhere

or is it?

[MinigunFiend]

I want a new KC album :(

[Kegrath]

"Maybe creativity will become fashionable again."

This man inspires me SO much. Thank you Belew. Thank you a thousand times over.

[SmokingWickerman]

@Kegrath Perosnely I feel that it is atm, take lady gaga for e.g im not a fan of her work but i feel she is a proper artist,she gose for the sex sells approtch but not really a bad thing, Manowar went for sex sells and you can see how diffrent the 2 artists are. People seem to think that lady gaga has mainstream elements her music is shit. Bjork was also looking for mainstream elements along with alot of other things, a less notible minstream artist is Kanon Wakeshima.

[Lyktwz]

Great, Great Belew!

[QuazerLazer]

&^%$#^%$that fucking gay

[finylvinyl66]

I saw the Belew Power Trio last night in Tampa and he was just great (as were his very young sideman and sidewoman.) The sounds that guy gets from a guitar are amazing. Lots of artful but powerful songs.

[RonRaddio]

"...Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry. It's mostly about the way you look and how you dance. I grew up in a golden age of ideas but things go in cycles. Maybe creativity will become fashionable again..."

If Mr Zappa were still around...he'd probably be saying the same thing...Frank probably rubbed off on Adrian...

[wildshovel]

"...Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry. It's mostly about the way you look and how you dance. I grew up in a golden age of ideas but things go in cycles. Maybe creativity will become fashionable again..."

??

While I respect Belew's playing, his attitude about modern music is such typical boomer snobbery, born of ignorance and fear of new things.

I too was there in the 70s/80s: the crap to creativity ratio was quite high, arguably far worse than today.

[PenningtonNY10]

"the crap to creativity ratio was quite high, arguably far worse than today."

Now I know the 80's were bad but as a youth today I find that really hard to believe.

[julianbastidas]

I haven´t found today such great bands that can replace the wonderful bands that surged beetwen 1965-1975... even if some of the new bands are pretty good

[bonzoycv]

Master! I can't wait to see what happens next!!!

[vickvaporu]

GOD!

[mrbean022387]

nooooo 2:04 Writing on the wall. I SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL!

[turntapzap]

great.

[khajinl]

I like his work with David Bowie

[KcSR74]

I don't know much about Adrian's work with other than KC, TH TTC and Bowie. So could anyone give me the names of the songs at

00:38

02:04

05:31 (Life in A Nutshell i suppose)

[KcSR74]

00:38 City of Tiny Lites

[vampiricfang2009]

00:38 City of Tiny Lights

02:04 The Lone Rhino I assume.

05:31 ...you mean 06:31? :P Ya, I think that is life in a nut shell.

Tiny is as tiny do. =)

[bendrix7]

02:04 Isnt the lone rhino it's "writing on the wall" off the album side one featuring les claypool on bass and tool's danny carey on drums.

[KcSR74]

oh! thanks alot! And why did my 2nd comment get a bad rating? Oh never mind and yes, i meant 06:31:)

[bendrix7]

there is no song at 06:31....?

[KcSR74]

there's a song at 05:31 which fades out at 06:31 (was trying to put an end on Vampiricfang2009's "you mean 06:31?"), so there actually is a song there, but never mind it, i got the final results:

00:38 City of Tiny Lights (Baby Snakes)

02:04 Writing on the Wall (Side one)

05:31 (06:31) Life in a Nutshell

[05ric]

Yeah!!

Enjoyed this very much, can't wait to see what next :)

[nr900]

Such a wonderful musician.

[davoidin2004]

i've Mr. Belew and for some real reasons ,I consider him a good friend.

[carofkl]

Nothing more to tell... just amazing

[Farx]

Adrian Belew is one of the nicest musicians I have ever met, perhaps one of the nicest people as well. ;)

[kenrubes]

Rob, thanks for the great upload!

[3d0d0]

Ad you're my hero!

[micasilla]

Adrian is THE MAN.

[telekinesisforcats]

great video! adrian rules!!!

[MyRealityBytes]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE ADRIAN BELEW!!!! Thanks for this video!

[artgonewrong]

Excellent! I wonder if Adrian still has my Sharpie I gave him in Santa Barbara several years ago? I was a little drunk that night and really wanted him to sign my Roland Ready Stratocaster, but I left it in the studio.

Damn. Tell him I said hello.

[djhowes]

Yes, champion the musicians and turn away from the pretenders... Keep the age of ideas alive! Thanks for uploading, (more exposure needed for the man.)

[kuly83]

thanks Frank Zappa, to help and discover to Adrian!!, Amazing music talent, Zappa don´t mistake with him!!

[cucamogazoot]

adrian rulea

es el mejor

es el justo medio entre frank zappa y robert fripp

[xs10shel]

Thanks for the video bRo! I'm still reelin' from the Bears show in Pittsburgh. This just fanned the flames. :)

[julianveronica]

hey, rob...is that you? this is one of the twins from NC in disguise! remember...?

[robmurple]

I only know one set of twins from NC! Glad to see you here!

[francogenio]

awesome video!! Adrian Belew is a master. Funny guy too... :-D