Thursday, 30 May 2013

‘You will probably never do the same thing twice’: Adrian Belew on recreating King Crimson


Since King Crimson went on an extended hiatus in 2009, Adrian Belew — both with his power trio and with the Crimson ProjeKCt — has worked to keep the group’s legacy before concert goers. That doesn’t mean he’s always faithful to the originals.
In fact, Belew says that was the point.
A member of the group since 1981, the guitarist saw Robert Fripp’s shape-shifting prog amalgam work in a variety of ways, some of which quite frankly were never meant to be done note-for-note again on stage.
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