C/D: Adrian Belew

When Bowie died, I remember being amazed that a clear copy of the Pretty Pink Rose video just didn’t seem to be out there anymore. How does something with him on lead vocal fall into obscurity like that?!

This is the one that never seems to leave me - something about his “weird” vocal just works. (phone call from the moon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K5ixzIr9n0

> I have owned the first Bears album for well over a decade and never listened to it.

great album! i tried to convince my friends to listen to it when it first came out but they physically doubled over laughing at the cover and wouldn’t bother.

Just saw that Chris Arduser, drummer for the Bears/Raisings/etc., passed about a month ago ...

Yeah I think I saw that on Belew’s FB maybe. Sad.

I pulled The Bears’ S/T record out a few months ago on a longish drive and it still sounds terrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H678YcwCl4

he's finally explained in more detail what happened with nine inch nails in 2013 - reznor had told him that he wanted to reinvent nine inch nails and that there wasn't any need to learn the songs verbatim, just get to know them, so belew went into the twelve weeks of rehearsals planning to experiment and figure out what his parts should be as the rehearsals went. this approach really didn't fit with the some of the other band members (who were mostly nin veterans) who felt that he wasn't playing the parts right and didn't know the songs properly, and so after seventeen days of rehearsals reznor apologised and cut him from the lineup to placate the other members. a real shame

Eric Avery from Jane’s was also meant to be part of that line-up I think - could’ve been a killer band

yeah, avery withdrew before belew, stating that he just wasn't up for it after having just finished a year-long tour with garbage