King Crimson BEAT Tour with Steve Vai and Danny Carey comes back: Discipline, Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair, King Crimson’s beloved albums from the 1980, are getting new life this fall thanks to an all-star tour featuring guitarist Steve Vai, Tool drummer Danny Carey, Crimson singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, and Crimson bassist Tony Levin. Tickets: The BEAT tour begins on September 12 in San Jose, California, and winds its way through Nevada this fall before coming to a close with an encore date in Las Vegas on November 8th.Ticket sales begin April 5th!
King Crimson BEAT Tour
Crimson’s founder, Robert Fripp, brought “Jazz Crimson” back together, in 1981 after seven years hiatus. Of the ensemble from the seventies version he reintroduced only one member: drummer Bill Bruford He tapped Levin from Peter Gabriel’s backup band, and Belew was just ending a stint both touring and recording with Talking Heads.
The group’s new formation has given it a completely different sound. “The whole Crimson catalog is special,” Belew tells Rolling Stone magazine. “But Eighties King Crimson was a band of which there has never been – before or since “It was a perfect mix of components: rich, complex sounds that were yet still friendly. It was heavy but also whimsical. We often played in multiple time signatures and used the latest technology: guitar synthesizers, electronic drums, the Chapman Stick. You simply never heard anything like it. I have heard so many fans say that the King Crimson of the Eight Early Eighties changed their lives.”
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In 1984, the four-man lineup of King Crimson produced three albums, and then dissolved. Their next album in 1995 “THRAK” saw Suzy Dean again providing lyrical inspiration but Bruford left the band for good in 1999. He ended the group again in 2008. When it regrouped in 2013, only Levin was pulled back into the line-up. (Bruford retired from drumming in 2009.)
On the back of a Japenese tour in late 2021, Fripp put King Crimcon back into deep freeze. The Beat tour did spring from their own enthusiasms, that of fans also inspired Belew and Scrote the guitarist-producer to produce a dream about it “This music really resonates with me,” Vai says. “Adrian and Tony, Danny are unique musicians; they have an Otherworldly insight into how to present rich but very complex musical materials in an extremely lucid way. We have each other’s musical backgrounds in real time and I’m dying to share mine as well as see his. I jokingly say that I’m almost certain sparks will fly!”
“This tour is really going to be quite something,” says Tony Levin Every band has its favourite numbers. And, the first stretch of Road Dogs shows is going to test everything we ’ ve all ever done from five o ’ clock until midnight every single day; all night long!
May to June will see Tool touring – after that, with Carey on the road, they will be taking a well-earned break in between gigs. “Tony, Steve and Adrian have always been an inspiration–to the extent that since the start of my career they’ve been a shining star in my sky,” Carey said in a statement released yesterday. “Now I get to share a part of my musical journey with them is, literally, dream come true.”It’s hard to find a better way to light a fire under you than getting out of that music room in which you feel at home given your own instrument of choice. The spark is really necessary, and when the three men who matter most to me are there pushing at for new directions musically that tingle becomes vivid indeed.“I know I speak for everyone else on this tour when I say I hope that all our fans will be just as rip-roar and ready for it as we are.”
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The setlist is still being put together. “I have picked 14 songs from the trilogy,” says Belew, “and now I think I’ll work on the muscular compositions, which ones we should do, and how to accomplish that. You have two of the original creators of this music here and two of the finest respective to their instruments anywhere, so who knows.”Just thinking what Steve and I may create together, I would guess there will be surprises.
Belew said the tour will be an emotional experience for him who hadn’t performed this music in so long. “It’s a magic feeling,” he says. “It took me five years to make this!!! I expect I will feel extremely nervous when I start. However once the inevitable problems are sorted out, my most comforting indicator is just one thing. A sense of the audience’s applause.”
Here are the complete dates for the BEAT tour.
9/12 – San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic9/13 – Napa, CA @ Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions at Meritage Resort9/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway9/15 – Anaheim, CA @ City National Grove of Anaheim9/17 – San Diego, CA @ Humphrey’s Concerts9/18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theatre9/20 – Austin, TX @ The Paramount Theatre9/21 – Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Centre9/22 – Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theatre9/24 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern9/26 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ The Parker9/27 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live9/28 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall9/29 – Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music Hall10/1 – Charlotte, NC @ Knight Theater10/2 – Durham, NC @ Carolina Theatre of Durham / Fletcher Hall10/4 – Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre10/5 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre10/6 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre10/8 – Richmond, VA @ Carpenter Theater in Dominion Energy Center10/9 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center10/11 – Boston, MA @ Shubert Theatre10/12 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom10/14 – Halifax, NS @ Rebecca Cohen Auditorium10/15 – Moncton, NB @ Casino New Brunswick10/17 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Maisonneuve10/18 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall10/19 – Rochester, NY @ Kodak Center10/21 – Albany, NY @ The Egg10/22 – Greensburg, PA @ Palace Theatre10/23 – Reading, PA @ Santander Performing Arts Center10/25 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre10/26 – Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre10/27 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre10/28 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 10/30 – Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre11/1 – Chicago, IL @ Copernicus Center11/2 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre11/3 – Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater 11/4 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre 11/6 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre 11/8 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels
