Robin Slick: In Her Own Write: Adrian Belew at Sweetwater

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Adrian Belew at Sweetwater - The Interview

Part I of a very recent interview with Adrian Belew at Sweetwater, where he talks about how it all began, Frank Zappa, and King Crimson...

Part II, which totally gave me the chills, where he talks extensively about Julie and Eric Slick and his/their plans for the future...

Later,
xo

Labels: An interview with Adrian Belew

7 Comments:

yogini67 said...: This is great Robin, thanks so much for posting, what would we do without you !
BTW, I am so enjoying " Daddy " so funny ! I thought I had the mystery man figured out, until you threw a curve ball on page 172, very cool.
Peace; 8:26 AM
Joseph Pettini said...: Fantastic, Robin. Thanks for the links.
I see you have a rave review on Amazon...; 12:28 PM
Jeff Jankowski said...: I cannot WAIT for e!! Wondering if that will be the entire disc - just that one piece?? Interesting...

Any idea what the anticipated release date is?

Thanks for posting these interviews!; 2:40 PM
Tickledrop said...: HA! Love the story at 3:34 everytime I hear it! :P And I've got the merch to prove it! *smile*

LMAO @ Adrian's brain fart. He thinks they were 19 year-old twins now or what? hahaha

The REALLY EXCITING news is that Adrian wants to tour, tour, tour. YES YES YES! I'm with him. It's the smaller venues with HIS band that I WANT to see.; 3:44 PM
RobinSlick said...: Thanks, Yo! (I never knew this, but I always wanted to say that)

Joseph, that was so gracious and cool of you...thank you so, so much.

Jeff, that's the CD in its entirety so far but I imagine it may exceed 50 minutes once Ade plays with it...who knows. I hope the release date is this summer but I am only speculating at this point.

Rena, I can't stand that they aren't touring 24/7. I could see their shows and read their reviews every day for the rest of my life and die happy. But between the economy and the fact that they really toured a lot last year, they are concentrating on getting e released and doing just some limited runs so far...but who knows what the fall will bring. But again, I'm kind of out of the loop and watch Pollstar along with everyone else. It still hasn't hit me that Julie and Eric have their own places now and I don't hear all the news all the time. Ha ha, thank God for Google.; 6:12 PM
Hugues said...: Hi Robin, I love the way Ade stops himself while mentionning their abilities and corrects the thought. He's right, they are some of the best musicians I've seen in my life. Even if they just moved out!!!; 8:04 PM
RobinSlick said...: Ha, thanks! I hope they are playing Quebec again this summer but I haven't heard anything and I wonder if they'd have the same band three years straight, anyway. That makes me sad. I was really looking forward to a return visit.; 8:19 PM

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Writer, raging liberal, and mother of Eric Slick, drummer for Dr. Dog and Adrian Belew Power Trio, and Julie Slick, bassist for Adrian Belew Power Trio; both Julie and Eric also play in Paper Cat with Robbie Seahag Mangano on guitar as well as too many other projects/bands to mention. "I work on the principle that it's not possible to take anyone's views on music seriously if they don't like the Beatles. Everything else is a question of personal taste and therefore debatable. But if you don't recognise the Beatles as the twentieth century's most inventive, most influential and most talented composers, you're pretty much admitting that you've rather missed the point of the last hundred years of musical endeavour. Should you fall into that category, I do not condemn neither do I mock. I merely despair and, having despaired, I move on." ...Mark Bastable www.myspace.com/markbastable

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It All Changed In An Instant, featuring a six word memoir by Robin Slick, Frank McCourt, Wally Lamb, Gloria Steinem...even The Amazing Kreskin!

Rebellion - New Voices in Fiction, an anthology featuring a short story by Robin Slick which was the basis for her novel, Daddy Left Me Alone with God

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