Belew, Levin, Vai, & Danny Carey to form a supergroup, Beat, and play KC pieces with Fripp's Blessing.

[Johnno_Oz]

Adrian Belew forms supergroup with Steve Vai, Tony Levin, and Danny Carey to perform King Crimson music with Robert Fripp’s blessing

A new supergroup called Beat has been formed by King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, also consisting of Steve Vai on guitar, Tool’s Danny Carey on Drums, and Crimson’s own bassist Tony Levin.

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I'm looking forward to this and hope they make some recordings. The supergroup will be known as Beat. Coincidentally a recent Danny Carey/Rick Beato interview had Danny wearing a KC Beat T-Shirt.

They will be covering tracks from Discipline, Beat & Three of a Perfect Pair. My favourite period.

"Fripp writes: “At the recent Englishmen Abroad presentation, McCabes of Santa Monica (3 March2024), Steve Vai asked me what I thought when Adrian Belew told me Steve would be the guitarist. My reply: Steve Vai is the only guitarist who could play my parts.”

 

[hjames]

Hey - the Frippy one even posted this on Facebook a few days ago!
All the 80s Crimson Stuff Adrian (& Tony) was involved with!




Yeah, we had front row seats for the 10/29/17 KC revival tour (with 3 drummers!!) I was kinda upset they did the early albums
with basically nothing from the Discipline years with Adrian Belew ... but fortunately, I had seen King Crimson before, back in the day ...

I first saw King Crimson 11/4/81 at Painters Mill (Discipline Tour), 7/29/82 at Merriweather (Beat Tour); 08/25/96 at Merriweather (Double Trio config); plus
the final touring band's first tour 10/29/17 at Lisner in DC. (there was a final 50th anniversary tour just a year later, so I passed.)

And - I got tickets Tuesday for the Oct 4, 2024 show at The Warner Theatre!! 40+ years on since the early Discipline album.

Here are the playdates - https://beat-tour.com/

 

[hjames]

Rick Beato interview with the Beat Band - How it all got together -

 

[hjames]

Going back through some video releases of the Vintage Crimson group -
Neil and Jack and Me DVD dates back to 1984 era tours - the 4 person band with Bruford, Belew, Fripp, and Levin - 40 year old stuff!
Live in Argentina DVD is from 2 shows in 1994 - 30 years ago!
Radical Action BoxSet - live footage sept 2016 - the 7 person band.

(The Sylvian-Fripp DVD is from a 1993 tour in Japan.)

 

[Johnno_Oz]

Hey - the Frippy one even posted this on Facebook a few days ago!
All the 80s Crimson Stuff Adrian (& Tony) was involved with!


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Yeah, we had front row seats for the 10/29/17 KC revival tour (with 3 drummers!!) I was kinda upset they did the early albums
with basically nothing from the Discipline years with Adrian Belew ... but fortunately, I had seen King Crimson before, back in the day ...

I first saw King Crimson 11/4/81 at Painters Mill (Discipline Tour), 7/29/82 at Merriweather (Beat Tour); 08/25/96 at Merriweather (Double Trio config); plus
the final touring band's first tour 10/29/17 at Lisner in DC. (there was a final 50th anniversary tour just a year later, so I passed.)

And - I got tickets Tuesday for the Oct 4, 2024 show at The Warner Theatre!! 40+ years on since the early Discipline album.

Here are the playdates - https://beat-tour.com/

I've never seen them. Only really got into them in the past TWENTY years since the early 2000's! So I'm a bit of a latecomer.

Damn, North American dates only. I'd love to see them down here in Australia.

 

[Mr.White]

My friend's neighbor worked at the Palladium in NYC as a stage hand and would sometimes take us to shows around the city, usually spur of the moment. The Beat Tour at the Pier was one such show. I knew some older KC. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Went out and bought Discipline and Beat the next day.

 

[hjames]

Yep, on Facebook, Adrian was saying the Beat tour has just wound down ...
next up he'll be involved in a Remain In Light 2025 UK/EU Tour with Jerry Harrison.
Tickets for that are now on sale. https://www.remaininlight.net

 

[StimpyWan]

I missed the Beat tour, when they were in Richmond. But, at least I've seen the performances via YouTube. Very well done...! Great players and performers.