Following up from the the recently announced San Diego show, King Crimson supergroup Beat have announced an range of dates across the US. In case you missed it, Beat feature Tool drummer Danny Carey, as well as Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Steve Vai: Former King Crimson members ADRIAN BELEW and TONY LEVIN band together with guitar virtuoso STEVE VAI and explosive Tool drummer DANNY CAREY for the first time… Read More »Beat announced full US tour
Komara are a new band featuring Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson. Many of you will remember that a couple of weeks ago Adam Jones posted some artwork that was revealed to cover to Komara’s debut album. Today Komara have dropped the first track off the album, and in my opinion it’s quite good, and I imagine will appeal to most Tool fans. Check it out (and pre-order if you’re inspired… Read More »Komara release first track
It was at short notice, but Danny was the guest on today’s Children of Saturn radio show, which I was lucky enough to hear most of today. The show has been on a break for a couple of months, but started up again this morning and should be back to normal, hopefully with some interesting guests in the coming weeks. Danny played a range of cool tunes, and spoke about… Read More »Danny’s guest spot on Children of Saturn
On Blair’s advice, with the worlds worst internet connection, I waited for 5 minutes for a bunch of shitty flash to load on Danny’s website for the following excellent news: Danny will be performing three shows with the Adrian Belew Power Trio featuring Tony Levin & Pat Mastellotto. The shows are: October 22 – Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana, California October 23 – The Foundry, Phoenix, Arizona October 24 – The… Read More »Danny to play with Adrian Belew, Tony Levin & Pat Mastellotto
AcousticPhenomena emailed me today to let me know that DGM Live are releasing a King Crimson live show, recorded on the Tool/King Crimson tour way back in 2001. While there are no plans to release the Tool set, the King Crimson set does feature Danny Carey on the second half of Red. According to the blurb: San Diego was the last of nine dates Crimson played opening for Tool and… Read More »King Crimson Live Show Featuring Danny Released
A while ago I reported about Maynard featuring in a cover of King Crimson‘s 21st Century Schizoid Man. Well, finally some audio has been released and can be heard here. Personally, it doesn’t sound all that much like Maynard to me, but aside from that sound ok, while at the same time it doesn’t sound amazing. What do you readers think? Update: Further information on this recording can be found… Read More »Maynard on King Crimson cover
According to an article on Joystiq, Judith is likely to be the A Perfect Circle track appearing on the upcoming Guitar Hero 5. Other tracks of note (in my opinion) include: Beastie Boys – “Gratitude” King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man” Muse – “Plug in Baby” Rammstein – “Du Hast” Screaming Trees – “Nearly Lost You” One day I should really get around to buying Guitar Hero 4, which… Read More »APCs Judith likely to appear on Guitar Hero 5