TONY LEVIN IS UNREAL!!!! Behind the scenes footage of Sleepless
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2015
- Filmed at Three of a Perfect Pair music camp with Adrian Belew, Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin. Behind the scenes rehearsal of "Sleepless"
threeofaperfectpair.com/ - Hudba
As the legendary story goes...Tony was scheduled to play Bass on John Lennon's album. John meets Tony for the 1st time and Lennon says to him .... "Everyone tells me that you're very, very good. So do me a great favor..Don't play too many notes." To which Levin replies "Yes sir."
What a bad ass… One of my favorite bass players EVER
anyone who needs safety glasses to jam is a bad ass
You've made my day 😂
Thou speaketh the truth
Hahaha
You are one hundred percent correct and funny as well
Hahaha!!
Thanks so much for sharing this! When "Three of a Perfect Pair was released, I listened to this song a cool million times, bought the extended single, and still love it to death. It's easily my favorite piece from that era. The energy on this track is unbeatable!The solo on this take is sick!
I miss Robert Fripp, but this line -up is very strong !!
Is it just me, or does Tony Levin look like every high school's Driver's Ed teacher?
Phenomenally talented dude, who clearly doesn't feel a need for "flash"... I would love to take classes from the man
No joke. My instructor actually looked exactly like this.
Man, Pat has got the tribal thing goin' on in his drumming nowadays- sounds fantastic. Tony always kills it.
+DarkeningSkies1 Both were superb at the King Crimson show here in Scotland a couple of months back. Sadly, they didn't play Sleepless :(
+Toolpusher I heard they didn't play much from Belew's time with the band.
+Zaphod Beatlebrox That sucks.
Zaphod Beatlebrox Nope, strictly old-school Crimson. Still a great evening though, well worth the ticket price. :)
I was just about to comment on how Pat's choice of "groove" was the wrong choice possibly. I know on the original version, Bruford plays on a roto-tom to get that tribal sound but he had the good sense to put a backbeat on 2 & 4 with the snare drum. I paused the video to make this comment. Maybe it gets better after I press play again. Don't get me wrong. I love Pat Mastelotto and his work with KC.
Tony Levin is badass complete. Played with so many greats cuz his bass skills are so damn good. Crazy arsed player. Then add crazy arsed guitar player in Adrian Belew and there you go. Freakin awesome players. Been into these guys since the 70s. So good. It seriously must be so good to have players of this calibre and creativity man, urgh.
I met Tony and Bill Bruford when toured with members of Yes 30 years ago. Anderson,Bruford,Wakeman & Howe. That was a night....
Tony said he had 6 weeks to learn and memorize the entire Yes catalog. He should have joined the Dead Boys.
I caught that show on Tony's last night in Houston, right before Jeff Berlin took the chair. Even sick and seated, he kicked more ass than any bassist alive. As great as Jeff is, he had some huge Docs to fill.
The audio is a little hot but the intimacy of it is just lovely. It feels like a birthday party thrown by the coolest parents ever.
Adrian Belew and i almost crashed into each other at the entrance to a public restroom in the eighties. I said, "oh, hey!" And he said, "oh, hey!". They only conversation i ever had with him 😄
I always hoped he'd do an album called Tone 11.
lol
Clever and corny that's how I roll also
Someone did a song on a Stick album by that name, inspired by Tony. I can't remember who did it, though...
@@nathanmeans1548 Steve Adelson
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@@nathanmeans1548 Bravo!
One of my most favorite songs. And bass lines ever!!
If God has a band, Tony will be the bassplayer
what do you mean "if"? He already has one, and Tony is in it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Werner, he did. Tony played with Buddy Rich's band.
He's also played in Saint Peter Gabriel's band for decades...
God has already a bass player: Christopher Squire.
+Francis Broka Long live King Crimson!
Thanks so much for sharing this! When "Three of a Perfect Pair was released, I listened to this song a cool million times, bought the extended single, and still love it to death. It's easily my favorite piece from that era. The energy on this track is unbeatable!
Percussion is BRILLIANT! which of course, includes The Bass!
Never get tired of this song!! Thanks for sharing!
" let's hear it for another great bald Italian American, Adrian Belew!"
ZAPPA quote!
@@marceldehoogd7098
"Conlon Nancarrow everybody!"
"Lando Calrissian!"
"Ladies & gentlemen - Alvin Lee!"
Billie Jean is not Mr. Bob.
He used those fingers on Peter Gabriel's tour in 2001 on the opening song, Red Rain. Thanks to my brother him and I had front row right in front of Tony. There was a problem with Peter"s earbud monitors and he pulled his finger across his throat after about 20 seconds into it and the whole band stopped. Peter explained to the audience and they restarted the song from in beginning about a minute later.
Kevin+ Belew= musical goodness -- all damn day
He's a great musician
Unbelievable! I love it!
THIS MAN IS AN ANGEL!!!
Fantastic!
I recently learned that Tony Levin led the barbershop quartet on the intro to the old Peter Gabriel song Excuse Me. If barbershop ever comes back into fashion he might finally be able to put down those basses and that Chapman stick, take off the Bass Fingers, and just sing for his supper.
There's a "King Crimson Barbershop" track on one of the compilation albums that's hilarious. It's all Tony.
I love the notion of Pat Mastelotto playing a living room concert! I just attended a Thinking Plague living room gig in Boulder that was just about as weird...
Such a wonderful moment. I see lots of campers I miss...
Same. Me too, Jeremy.
what a monster he is, I love him
Sick!
woww.. tony is a real legend !!!
Fucking awesome musicians and album! One of my faves!
Billy Sheehan: sometimes I wish I was playing drums
TL: Hold my beer
His work on LTE and LTE II is the Best Bass work i ve ever heard in my Life
dudes make it look effortless!
His vocals are great as well. The man's a triple threat
Well, i think this is the real slapstick humor 👍
Toni levin es MARAVILLOSO!!
Best bassist ever!!!
brilliant as ever :)
The knees of a bee, the best and most creative bass player alive.
Tony is so skilled he knows how to do it now.
Adrian is unreal
These three are unreal...
Awesome
The first crazy bass line I learned as a kid. The percussive gaunk with the plucks.
I mean, this is just totally sick!
nice trip!
👏🏾👏🏾
Some people are just cool. TL is just cool!
unbelievable.
I first saw Tony Levin playing with ABW&H at Great woods in Massachusetts in 1989. I had no idea what those funk fingers were until years later, or even the Chapman stick he was playing. Then again with Peter Gabriel. and now with Stickmen. going to see him and his brother play classic jazz at TCAN on March 30.
Was that just before Berlin replaced him?( Levin had to leave the tour as he became sick )
This is Edward Scissorhand's favorite bass player
I wonder what the bass would sound if hacksaw blades were attached to Levin's fingers. OK, someone mention Edward Scissorhands playing in King Crimson.
WOWoWOWoWOW!!!
Fan de Tony, es muy especial musico
What about Adrian Belew and Pat Mastelotto??
A great use for tinned hotdogs. I couldn't get them to last that long though and I had to clean my bass after. Maybe his are frozen.
かっこいい。聴き惚れる
Listening to this music makes me expect Yoko Ono to come out screaming
Sleepless !!
Don't be surprised if he plays with Petet Gabriel. MONSTERS.
Красавцы!!!
GRANDE TONY
TONY GIGANTE
Cool.
SIGNORI DELLA MUSICA MODERNA
I had the great honor of interviewing Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter during their Stick Men tour for my show Pallas' Dutch Invasion last month in The Netherlands. Here's a short excerpt of my interview with Tony via skype the week before I interviewed them in person soundcloud.com/pallas-dutch-invasion/pallas-short-interview-with-tony-levin-stick-men-king-crimson Please check my page for broadcast updates facebook.com/PallasDutchInvasion
Wow lucky you, I'm check out the link. Thanks for posting..
Mastelott is unreal.
It's illegal!!! The old Seventies School is always ahead. Learn from this Myung!!!
The dude didn’t need the sticks to play that he slapped it nutty
cool........
I can imagine those Funky Fingers to be a bit difficult to use. But, a great sound they produce.
He actually prefers the fingers, at summer fest he used for 70% of the songs.
Them*
I bought Funk Fingers from Tony's online shop back in the late 90's. I've played piano & bass most of my life so I got used to it (not saying I'm good at using funk fingers, just saying that I got used to it). The tough thing with funk fingers is keeping them on your hand. If they're tight enough to stay on, all blood stops flowing to your fingers. If not tight enough, they fly off and poke people in the eye. So Tony Levin's mastery of them is yet one more talent for which we can rightly call him a true God of the bass!
I have two pair of them... the Red ones and the natural wood ones (which are lighter in weight.) They're not that hard to use... you just need to practice with them and know what songs to use them on.
Indian Doctor : you're right of course. I've never really put in a lot of practice time with them. I have the wood ones. I have some time off coming to me the week after Christmas. Think I'll stay in and woodshed on my bass skills. Thanks for the reply.
I thought it said Behind the scenes footage of SLEEPNESS.........Yeah!!!!!!
Tony Levin
People, check out the O.R.k. album with Pat on it. Really worth it.
If the bass player can be a drummer then the drummer can be other instruments. (Bill Bruford believed this, as did most jazz drummers)
Damn
Jesus Christ bring back Belew in KC!
fastrelief I prefer him so much more to Jakko
no hate on Jakko, i just prefer the raw energy and enthusiasm Belew brought, even if he did struggle sometimes
EDIT: Every time Fripp dissolved KC, Belew always lobbied to bring it back in some shape or form because he loved it that much
@@EmptyDomoKanti99 No hate on Jakko at all, he does a fine job but Ade is Ade. I don't understand why you said he struggled, because of Fripp personality?
fastrelief i read somewhere, besides him and Fripp clashing occasionally, he just had a lot of stress being the lyricist, frontman and one of the guitarists all in one.
even then, he kept coming back
@@EmptyDomoKanti99 I talk to Ade after a show a couple of years ago and I had the feeling he was not happy to be excluded. He didn't said that openly but when someone asked him where Fripp was in that moment he answered :" I think he's in bed at the moment"
@@fastrelief He has posted about it, and no, he isn't happy about it. His basic idea is that for 30 years he and RF had a partnership, and while the rest of the band would change, they (pardon the phrase) remained consistent. As much as I prefer the Adrian Belew era, he does seem to have decided that the (much more commercially successful) `70's era doesn't really count. But RF wanted to play that era of material (and a lot of fans wanted to hear it), and Adrian was never really on board with playing most of it. I mean, with Adrian, they played KC's most famous song (21st Century Schizoid Man) on exactly one tour. Hopefully at some point they can have a mending of the ways, but I'm not sure how that is going to happen at this point.
I'm gettin a Freddy Kruger vibe.
What year was this filmed????
+responare August 2015
+Music Masters Camps thanks brother
Music Masters Camps
by 2015 KC has started the work to the current tournement in which Belew is not present. It has to be a meeting in the meedle of KC work. Nice!
Give Tony Levin a fidget spinner will ya?
Very very very anecdotal
It's Edward Scissorhands without the scissors part
I am high!!! So I read it as "TONY LEVIN IN URINAL"......Cheers!!!!
Nishant verma More like you in urinal after watching this.
ESP MH-53 Ahhh, thank you so much.
ESP MH-53 um, it’s not because of the WEED!!!!
Drugs are bad, ok?
lol
I guess thats great i cant tell i cant hear each note clear? You people can?
Is he real?
Had a chance to meet
Where are they? An Outback Steakhouse?!?
I want to see him with Steve Vai
I'm not a bass or guitar player, so i must ask, why would he wear those things on his fingers?
For a percussive sound. It's like drummers using different sticks, mallets, or brushes to get a certain effect.
⚡🌄⏩
I always thought Levin used the Stick on this tune, duh.
Would've been nice to see the drummer for a bit.
I'd like to see the picture he has been taking of ME....
That's how he's making that sound?!
Feel sorry for the speaker cones....
Wait, my invitation got lost in the mail or what?
I have no idea what is so fascinating about this...
Tony scissorhands?
where is @davie504?
Did anyone catch him using a cauliflower as a slides in the very start?, Vegetable Rock!!!