Saw Adrian again. I was really less impressed this time. He and Julie (bassist) and Eric (drummer) are still very talented, but... I don't know. Adrian seemed a little more self-indulgent this time. His Side albums were declared to be experimental in nature, so he's gotten away from his songwriting, and leaning more towards just making wild shit. That's fun but a whole show of that is a little much.

Since he hooked up with the Slick siblings, it seems like he's found this outlet for further indulgence. It's like he's used them to tap into his own youth. His upcoming album is recorded with the Slicks, and seems like more of the same as what he's been doing, but less collaborative. He played three pieces from it, which may be a good portion of it, since they were kinda long.

Anyway, of the show, I recognized three Side tunes ("Ampersand" is the one I can name off the top of my head), and "Thela Hun Gingeet". What he played was good, but it was too much of "the same" for my taste. I need a little variety to keep the rock rocky. My favorite part was watching them play and interact. Like when Adrian tells Eric to play an intro, and then ignores him. So after a while Eric threatens to stop, and Adrian is, like, oh, were you waiting for me? Adrian really seems to dig drumming. Eric starts off all the songs, Adrian will let Eric play solo a lot, and he most often faces the drum set. Julie spent the entire first song trying to get her monitor turned down. I had to laugh when Eric had trouble with that too.

The Power Trio was only doing a five-show run, this time. Robin, are there plans to go back on the road later this summer?

A Madison musician, who has worked with Adrian (and Fripp) sat next to me for a bit. I was hoping to talk with him a little, but he wasn't nearby when the show ended. I e-communicated with him today, though. I was talking with his buddy Tom before the show. We had been to a few of the same shows, or at least the same bands - Crimson in Chicago and Madison (I didn't realize that was their only Madison show ever), Crafty Guitarists in Madison and CGT.

Petr Mac opened up. He sounds a lot like those tech-y fingerstyle guitar players, but he uses a pick. He was... not anyone I'd seek out again. He was really fast, but needs to work on some songcrafting and tunefulness, IMO.
Adrian is a guitar guy. Innovative and fun loving. He's a member of King Crimson, and plays with a lot of people. This time out, he's doing the Adrian Belew Power Trio. It's him with bassist Julie Slick and drummer Eric Slick. They're brother and sister, she's 22 and he's 20. They've been playing with Belew for a couple of years. Here's a bit of history: Julie Slick began taking bass lessons at age twelve at the Paul Green School of Rock as one of seventeen students Paul Green taught in his apartment in 1998 in order to help pay his tuition at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a philosophy major. Green had the students jam at venues around the city to give them real experience as musicians. For their first show, Green and his students performed Pink Floyd's The Wall at the Griffin Cafe in Philadelphia, PA. He didn't have a drummer so the owner of the restaurant sat in. Julie’s mother, Robin, suggested that Green consider her 11-year-old son, Eric Slick, who eventually became the house drummer. The Paul Green School of Rock was later born. Eric began studying drum lessons at the school and now teaches there.

Eric is pretty damn good. Adrian seemed to enjoy working with him, since he usually faced Eric, and interacted with him a lot. He only occasionally interacted with Julie. Julie and Eric, however, interacted with each other a lot. It was fun to watch the signals back and forth behind Adrian's back. Like the time Eric tricked Julie with a fake cue. She was like, thanks a lot! He was laughing his ass off. Julie was pretty damn good too. She doesn't look like a rock star, with her skirt and sweater (and bare feet), but man can she play. It was kinda wild watching these kids playing Bruford and Levin.

Adrian was having a good time. He could hardly contain himself during the first few songs. He's a madman. He actually kinda devolved into wankery a few times, but he was having fun. Most of the songs they played were either Crimson or from his latest Side albums. My favorite song of the night was "Three of a perfect Pair". Smokin!

The downside: really loud. Not good.
Shank Hall. He had Mike... uh, what's his name. The bassist who does the Rodney Dangerfield impersonation. Mike Gallaher. And drummer, Mike Hodges.

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