"She told him about the hours she had devoted; the strange mind games she played to maintain a sense of objective distance; the ultimate, inevitable loss of all perspective. Things were looking good as she neared completion, and her words hinted at an incoming wave of hard-earned fulfillment. But one line rings a little louder than the rest: "I wish you were here to see it.""
"Wiry and smirking and virtuosic, he made his name keeping up with the hairpin idiosyncrasy of Frank Zappa during his most commercially successful era, the alien glow of David Bowie on his fantastic late-'70s voyages, and the Talking Heads as they became a nervy, flickering signpost for the sound of the young decade. Always serving the music and never repeating himself, Belew was enjoying an improbable ascent"
Margaret Belew described total immersion, creative agony, hours of devotion, strange mind games to preserve distance, and an inevitable loss of perspective, ending with "I wish you were here to see it." Adrian Belew found steady demand as a touring guitarist in the early 1980s, building a reputation with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, and the Talking Heads while balancing employment with personal ambition. Belew repeatedly sought inspiration in King Crimson's music. King Crimson ranged from Mellotron orchestras on their 1969 debut to later hard-edged nightmares, representing a formative, mind-expanding influence for Belew and others.
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