While acknowledging the class of all these gentlemen, and with all admiration to Discipline, and Beat, do you agree with me that "Three of a Perfect Pair" is faaaaar less in quality? (I actually bought that album 3 times, and gave it away again. I kept thinking "It can't have been that bad", but it was.)

@@victotronics It's not the strogest of the three but it's good none the less. Buy it a _fourth_ time!

@@victotronics It's nowhere near Discipline or Beat, but few albums are. Still, there are some songs you can listen to, and it's better than Vroom.

@@victotronics - I’ll grant it’s not Beat or Discipline, but I personally love Three. Granted, it was the first KC album I ever heard, but I think when you think about what was going on musically in general, and the direction the the “new” KC was exploring, it sort of makes sense. That and I LOVE the bass part on the version of Sleepless that I first heard (the “Tony Levin Mix,” without the rest on the eight note). “Submarines are lurking in my foggy ceiling.” Any band warped enough to come up with that as a lyric was ok in my book! …and then I started discovering the rest of their collection, and it just kept getting better (for the most part - I’ll certainly concede there are times when Robert and company just lose me - but that’s ok, I’ll hang out and eventually they’ll come back around and pick me up again!

@@victotronics Sometimes ya gotta do something to pay the bills.

Precisely that was the very first song with a Chapman stick that I've ever heard

Pretty ironic that he couldn’t recall the name

Could have finished the sentence with the title and still not have known.

@@MonsieurMosca he really doesn't remember

Yeah that was the first Gabriel I heard and it blew my mind, what WAS that sound, it haunted me.

James Russo haha! Right! I actually only clicked on this to finally hear him talk!

Talk talk, it's all talk. Too much talk, small talk. Talk that trash.

I got to see The Tony Levin Band open for Porcupine Tree. They open with a hilarious Barbershop Quartet or Quintet number.

I thought he was British!! Mind Blown!!

@Jym E. Changa: or maybe he literally literally hasn't heard Tony talk before.

I assumed the same. British.

He was one of the studio legends of the '70s in NYC.

Wasn't Levin on You Can Call Me Al, that was Bakithi Kumalo, but still Tony has a legendary discography behind him with some really big names.

@@Snandra66 wow, read he played on that album, it's on his crazy, multi-page discography, and just jumped to that conclusion. I should look up what he did play on for that album, the discography was't specific about the tracks, just the artist and album, and those were some amazing artists and some of their best albums. Read about the tracks he played for Alice on a different source. Thanks for the heads up, your majesty;), rock on!

remember: he played the bass for pink floyd!

the list of people he has played with would blow your mind, so much studio work! rock solid musician and person.

Absolutely!! I was a freshman bassist at Berklee when that album came out. Still one of my favorites today!

Saw them in London on the Discipline tour. Couldn't believe the noises they were making with their Roland guitar synths and this Stick. Easily the best gig I've ever been to.

It remains consistent.

@@michaelgauthier9790 I do think it's good..

Saw kc twice w Toney levin,he is awesome

And the guy's almost 80 now, and he's still playing with Crim and there's talk of a new LTE record coming soon!

@@michaelgauthier9790 Never been so proud to understand a reference :D

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I had the same thing yesterday but on 0.75x, I thought the dude talking was high or sedated or something …then I was like aaaaahhhh🤦🏻‍♂️

Hahaha! If you okay the video ay That speed he sounds like Martín Scorsese, coke Is one hell of a drug

he's look so young

Having something you love helps I think.

Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison are proof that King Crimson slows aging

Top musicians often live a long time. Great conductors live into their late 80's routinely.

Oh, Susie.

Okay, that was funny!

Already trademarked

Badun Tsssskkkkkkkkkk

Other than all those meaningless artifically created phantasy product names today, the name "Chapman Stick" links the inventors name to the instrument he createad and brought into being. Thus, whenever a "Chappman Stick" appears in media or on stage, it is also a honorful mention of the inventors name, Emmett Chapman.

“..... banter, bicker bicker bicker Brouhaha, boulder dash, ballyhoo It's only talk!”

Babble..Banter...Brouhaha!

No, but I started air drumming Bruford's part!

The wacky guitar solo eventually played in my head. 😂

Heck yes I did!

Please don't use the Lord's name as cuss word.

@@blindsquirrel7802 The Lord can defend himself.

Steve Waters It’s not being used as a cuss. If god didn’t have a sense of humor he wouldn’t have impregnated a virgin

Steve Waters holy shit dude, goddamn

And Three of Perfect Pair as well. I love that album, and it has some killer bass work. There are monster rhythm sections out there and Levin/Bruford is definitely one of them. And of course Tony was in another one, with Manu Katche in Peter Gabriel's band. But the subtlety and finesse of the Levin/Bruford combo is pretty dang magical (gosh darn the blankity heck.)

Funny - this video has removed any desire I had to own one. Respect the man, but I really don't like the sound of this instrument. The attack/tone is too jarring.

@@Charles.Wright I totally get that. Lost interest in buying a Leslie after a touring band that had one passed through.

You don't see the two of them at parties together.

@@Lwize Ah so it was G Gordon Liddy the whole time!

G Gordon liddy! Hilarious comparison

Didn't play with the best, Zappa. Belew did.

The original ASMR

Best simile this month! 👍🏻

Double Talk! Double Talk!

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That's Adrian, Not Tony!

These are words with a "D" this time!

babble, burble, brouhaha

Backwards Cymbal?

voronOsphere it might have been on the recording but on the live versions I’ve seen Adrian Belew do it himself

Before he played with King Crimson, I knew him as the bass player in Paul Simon's band in the movie "One Trick Pony". So, seeing the bass player in Paul Simon's band playing this way out King Crimson music was jarring to say the least. I've of course become aware of the large amounts of music he's done the last 30 some odd years.

Its kinda like playing a freaked out piano if you close your eyes

Heath Watson it ain't like a piano to my fat s add sausage fingers. Considerable dexterity required.

jrpipik Ah mate, you don’t want a fugue state init 🤪

Yeah, same here. That has a bit of a learning curve, I would imagine.

i can, the problem is that it sounds like shit no matter who plays it. Overtones make it sound like garbage.

maybe it is the opposite

I agree..

Primus owes a lot to King Crimson, and Les Claypool and the guys have pretty much said so. So it's not a coincidence.

Les Claypool said in a Bass Player Magazine interview many many many moons ago that Tony Levin's Stick sound was an influence. Also Discipline came out in 1981 and Sailing The Seas of Cheese came in in 1991, math ;)

If you just erase "maybe" it will be a much better and more honest statement

Why bicker so?

"Talk, talk, it's only talk Debates, discussions These are words with a D this time." Lol.

Articulate announcements

Chit,chat,chit,chat

Expressions. Entails. Explanations. Exclamations. Exaggerations. Elephant talk!

Ten people so far have gotten that one.

Hahaha!

@@keauxgeigh It was a loooong shot lol...

I don't remember, I don't recall, I've got no memory of anything at all...

He's also a Gemini, which immediately gives you the espresso-drinking energy

​@@alvareo92He's a Gemini and a coffee nut? A man after my own heart, he is!

i saw a band with female vox, one guy on Les Paul one guy on stick. They were twins w/made it funny. The stick was used for bass, rhythm, keys. Guy was amazing. Pulled off TOOL perfect.

Me too... I saw a performance of Stick players in Italy. Tony was there too but didn't played. After the show they put the sticks in the handa of some lucky player... One was me! I felt like when you're completely drunk and try to play. No notes came up, no sound, no song... completely unable to do anything!!!

I’ve been told that by someone who trained under Robert Fripp which is pretty damn advanced there, it just makes it show how damn good Tony is because Chapman Stick is just so far out there.

X Y you gotta try not to do it all at once man. find something you like, and then find something else you like, and then decide if you need both at once

BiRDiE oh yeah....have listened to the live in LA concert on KZfaq hundreds of times. I have never been the same

Not the second one, they turned down Tony's bass in the mix.

LTE 3 in 2021!!!!

Les has covered songs by both artists so yep

They did and it was

HELL YEA!!!

And it would be even worse than you’d expect.

Here's an example of Terence. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd1xrZd7z7m0l40.html

Charlie Hunter is a jazz player with an eight string guitar, except not like Tosin Abasi or Messhuggah. On Charlie's, the high four strings are guitar and the low four are bass, and it has separate pickups for each register and separate outputs for each as well. And he plays the same way you say Terence does: bass line and guitar melody at the same time. So him with a drummer/percussionist sounds like a jazz trio, and you'd never know it just by listening. Charlie has been at it this way since the mid/late 90's as far as I know. I'll check your guy out as well

@@Pinko_Band I saw Charlie play duo (I absolutely cannot come up with the drummer's name, but it wasn't Leon Parker) at The Chukker in Tuscaloosa, AL when I was in college. I was so close I set my drink on the stage to clap. My brain just couldn't compute that just two hands were playing the guitar and bass parts, though I was seeing it with my own eyes. Charlie switched to a 7 string Novax several years ago, though it still has 2 output jacks for guitar and bass amplifiers.

Top 50 album ever