tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post4324618856362440873..comments2024-01-01T16:06:17.899-06:00Comments on elephant blog: the day of a hundred dances...adrian belewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09704211229457488730noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-20320966011189354362007-06-01T08:49:00.000-05:002007-06-01T08:49:00.000-05:00i'm looking forward to seeing and hearing side 4i'm looking forward to seeing and hearing side 4Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-65449940037527334972007-06-01T05:33:00.000-05:002007-06-01T05:33:00.000-05:00Adrian - though the Bears' "Cafe" DVD concert was ...Adrian - though the Bears' "Cafe" DVD concert was awesome, my absolute favorite part was the tour of your basement studio. Gawd, I love watching that! You are so cool. My question is: how can I buy the Construkction of Light painting?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11337576895559646029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-50885063240108197492007-05-31T15:32:00.000-05:002007-05-31T15:32:00.000-05:00Yeah, I love the look of that yellow Parker too. I...Yeah, I love the look of that yellow Parker too. It glows. The Fly is probably the lightest guitar I have ever picked up! <BR/>I have been playing a Parker Nitefly for about 10 years. Back when I bought it, I had my eye on another guitar and went to the store with cash in hand. I saw a Parker and gave it a try. I knew I had to have it. I couldn't believe how good it felt. The neck is amazing. They only had a blue one in stock at the time. So I bought it. I would have preferred a red one, like Bowie had back then, but my blue one has served me very well over the years. I think Ken Parker did an amazing job of engineering. <BR/>I can't wait to see what the Belew signature model looks like.earDRUMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17103020564676742286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-33888166996629088862007-05-31T12:34:00.000-05:002007-05-31T12:34:00.000-05:00Sounds like a busy time of year for you also. It'...Sounds like a busy time of year for you also. It's been crazy that way lately.<BR/><BR/>I'm totally excited about your new siggy guitar but how can it possibly be prettier than that gold one? That baby is HOT.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and on your next trip out west, I will make the best guacamole - served with a bunch of other spicy stuff - you've ever had!Tickledrophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08338973959296355502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-90728569934843165122007-05-31T10:23:00.000-05:002007-05-31T10:23:00.000-05:00Kathleen, here's the story of how Adrian took up p...Kathleen, here's the story of how Adrian took up painting, in his own words, taken from a fan update he submitted to his website in January 2004:<BR/><BR/>"In June 2002 for no apparent reason I craved an old farm truck. Something in which to haul rocks and mulch for our flower gardens. Eventually I found a beautifully beat rusted-out green and white pickup truck. A 1965 Chevy pickup. Yeeha! A few years ago at the Ma Maison Hotel in L.A. a bartender who recognized me (with the urgings of the Swidler brothers) gave me a beer tap with a brass bottom. The beer tap (which was for a beer called "rhino") looked like a rhino horn. I bolted the rhino horn onto the front of my beat-up pickup.<BR/><BR/>Monday July 15, 2002 around 8 in the morning I was driving the rhino truck on N. Green Hill Road, a tight winding back road when suddenly a dog darted in front of me. I missed him, but then a second dog darted right between my two axles. There was no way to miss him. In the rear-view mirror I saw him spinning in the road. I turned around, pulled over, and found he was dead. After dragging him to the shoulder of the road and taking his collar there was no indication of an owner so I returned home. In tears, I told Martha the story and suddenly it was like a switch had turned on in my head. I knew I wanted to paint an abstract painting of what had happened. I have never painted in my life and have zero training but later that day I went to an art store, asked lots of questions and returned home with 2 canvases and some acrylic paints and tools. Then I painted my first two paintings. The first one is called DEAD DOG ON ASPHALT."<BR/><BR/>I believe that this painting is the one on the cover of Adian's album Side Two.scooobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593138719374054030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-20592439312802966022007-05-31T10:14:00.000-05:002007-05-31T10:14:00.000-05:00Glad to hear that your Parkers are moving along. ...Glad to hear that your Parkers are moving along. I just bought a PM-20 and I love it. I can't imagine what a Fly must be like...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143140860771996031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7033179740960720113.post-63339956287426515892007-05-31T08:35:00.000-05:002007-05-31T08:35:00.000-05:00That you're a painter too--it makes so much sense....That you're a painter too--it makes so much sense. Your music has always inspired the visual in me and it's terrific to relate to you and an artist in two distinct ways. Adrian, could you tell us about when you started painting? What did it take for you to take brush to canvas?Kathleen Cahalanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303407054249065648noreply@blogger.com