Belew Extras:

The Early Years

When disco hit in the mid-70s, many LIVE venues dried up for musicians and Adrian blogs about two years he spent playing Holiday Inn lounges

Sweetheart

Adrian was paying in a covers band, Sweetheart, when Frank Zappa first saw him play.

"...We wore authentic 1940s vintage clothing, and the rule of the band, called Sweetheart, was that you had to dress that style of clothing all the time. So if you went to Kroger, you'd look like James Cagney walking around the supermarket. The idea worked beautifully because anywhere that you would go it was like an advertisement for the band…It really did get us a lot of attention. Even Frank (Zappa) was impressed with that. How weird was it to see five musicians and they look like a bunch of gangsters?..." metrotimes interview

There's also another Sweetheart story from Adrian's Blog

Zappa 1

Detailed interview about Adrian going for the interview to be in Zappa's band & Zappa's modus operandi guitarhoo interview

Funny story from Adrian's blog about meeting Ringo Starr for the first time

Nice story from Adrian's blog about Zappa's eccentric security guard, John Smothers

Closure. Adrian talks about his last meeting with Frank Zappa before the maestro's death

David Bowie

Great story from Adrian's blog about David Bowie wooing him from Zappa's band in 1978

Stage two posts from the blog about being on the Stage tour, 1978

David Bowie & Mick Jagger, tomcattin' after hours on the Sound & Vision tour, 1990 

King Crimson & Talking Heads

Meeting Robert (flasher) Fripp

Playing on Talking Heads Remain In Light 

The Talking Heads tour, 1980 and being asked to join King Crimson

Work From Home

Again from Adrian's Elephant blog, here's his description of Studio Belew & Home

N.B.: There are a number of other links to Belew anecdotes from his Elephant blog spread throughout the both the Adrian Belew and the King Crimson album reviews.