Adrian Belew Net Worth

Adrian Belew Net Worth

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Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $109,8 Million.

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Robert Stephen Belew information Birth date: December 23, 1949 Birth place: Covington, Kentucky, United States Profession:Soundtrack, Composer Music groups:King Crimson (1981 – 2013) Movies:Baby Snakes

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:How tall is Adrian Belew – 1,72m.
How much weight is Adrian Belew – 67kg

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Adrian Belew (born Robert Steven Belew, December 23, 1949) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist, Belew is perhaps best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock group King Crimson (which he fronted from 1981 to 2009) and for his unusual, impressionistic approach to guitar playing which frequently involves sounds more akin to animals and machines than to standard instrumental tones.Widely recognized as an incredibly versatile player, Belew has released nearly twenty solo albums for Island Records and Atlantic Records which blend Beatles-inspired pop-rock with more experimental fare. His 2005 single Beat Box Guitar was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category. In addition to being a member of King Crimson, he is also in the more straightforward pop band The Bears and fronted his own band, Gaga, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has worked extensively as a session and touring musician, most famously with Talking Heads, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Nine Inch Nails.Belew has recently moved into instrument design, collaborating with Parker Guitars to help design his own Parker Fly signature guitar. This guitar is noticeably different from the standard design, containing advanced electronics such as a sustainer pickup and a Line 6 Variax guitar modelling system. It is also MIDI-capable, allowing it to be used with any synthesizer with MIDI connectivity.
Biography,Early life and musical developmentBelew was born in Covington, Kentucky, to a middle-class family. Initially known to friends and classmates as Steve Belew, Adrian Belew played drums in his teen years (playing with the Ludlow High School marching band) and later with the high-school covers band The Denems. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, he took up guitar when he was bedridden for several months with mononucleosis. Not inclined to formal music study, Belew was nonetheless a quick developer and rapidly became a high-school guitar hero. Mostly teaching himself by listening to records, he was ignorant of the studio trickery and sound manipulation used to create particular guitar lines, and so found ways of replicating them himself manually using unusual playing techniques and a growing interest in effects and treatments. While maturing as a player and mastering various playing styles. Belew became increasingly preoccupied with ways to avoid sounding like everybody else. He eventually found his own sound and style by learning how to make his guitar mimic sound effects (such as car horns, animal noises, or industrial sound) and then applying those sounds to relatively standard songs.In the mid-1970s (and having now formally changed his first name to Adrian, a name he had always liked and wanted to use), Belew moved to Nashville to pursue a full-time career as a professional musician. By 1977, he was playing with the regionally popular cover band Sweetheart, but wondering whether (at age 27) he had missed his chance to make a living with original music.Work with Frank Zappa (1977–1978)In 1977, while playing at a Sweetheart gig at a bar in Nashville called Fannys, Belew was discovered by Frank Zappa, who had been tipped off regarding the bands talents by his chauffeur. Zappa approached Belew and discussed auditioning him for an upcoming tour, although Belew did not receive an official invitation to audition for the better part of a year. During this time Sweetheart split up. Once the formal invitation came, Belew flew out to Los Angeles and found himself auditioning alongside more formally trained musicians. Believing that hed messed up his first audition, Belew persuaded Zappa to give him a second one. Belews second audition was a more intimate one-on-one experience which took place in Zappas living room. Zappa was impressed enough to hire Belew on a handshake deal for a year.Belew toured with the Zappa band and appeared on Zappas 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti – most notably performing a Bob Dylan impersonation on the song Flakes. He also appeared in Zappas 1979 concert film Baby Snakes. While with Zappa, Belew was mostly credited as rhythm guitarist although he also played lead, melody or noise lines as well as singing lead on a couple of songs (Jones Crusher and City of Tiny Lites). Belew has described his year in Zappas band as a crash course in music theory due to Zappas rigorous rehearsals and often technically demanding music, and has commented, I went to the Frank Zappa School of Rock.Work with David Bowie (1978-1979)On the recommendation of musician/producer Brian Eno, after seeing a Zappa concert in Cologne, Germany, art-rock star David Bowie offered to hire Belew once the Zappa tour was finished. Belew accepted the offer as Zappa intended to spend four months editing the film, Baby Snakes. Belew then played on Bowies Isolar II world tour in 1978, he played on the double live album Stage, and also contributed to Bowies next album, Lodger. Twelve years later, he would return to working with Bowie, acting as musical director on the 1990 Sound+Vision Tour, while also playing guitar and singing.Talking Heads, GaGa and The Tom Tom Club (1979–1982)In 1980, Belew formed a new band, GaGa (based in his then-current hometown of Urbana, Illinois, for which he served as the singer, guitarist and primary songwriter, as well as, via backing tapes, the drummer). By now a frequent visitor to New York City, Belew had also become friends with the up-and-coming new wave/art-rock band Talking Heads. Invited to join the band onstage for performances of their signature song Psycho Killer, Belew impressed them with his wild and unorthodox guitar soloing and became an occasional guest performer at live concerts. Around this time, Belew also met King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp at a Steve Reich concert. In July of that year, GaGa was invited to open several New York-area concerts for Fripps band The League of Gentlemen.At the same time, Belew had been tapped by Talking Heads and their producer Brian Eno (with whom hed worked on Lodger) to add guitar solos to several tracks on the Remain in Light album, and was subsequently added to the expanded nine-piece Talking Heads live band for tours in late 1980 and early 1981. These concerts were documented in the DVD Live in Roma and in the second half of the bands 1982 live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads. Belews involvement with Talking Heads extended to playing on the bands spin-off projects. He played on keyboard player /guitarist Jerry Harrisons debut album The Red and the Black and on several tracks on David Byrnes soundtrack to the Twyla Tharp dance piece The Catherine Wheel (with his guitar noises credited, amongst other things, as beasts).At the time, the internal relationships in Talking Heads were particularly strained. The bands rhythm section, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, covertly approached Belew with the suggestion that he should replace Byrne as the bands frontman – an offer which Belew politely turned down. He did however go on to work with Weymouth and Frantz on their own spin-off project, Tom Tom Club. Joining them for recordings in Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Belew played rhythm guitar on the sessions for the bands debut album as well as adding his trademark processed solos (and even performing the entire instrumentation for the track LElephant).Unfortunately, Belews experience with Tom Tom Club was less harmonious than his previous work with Talking Heads. Tom Tom Clubs recording engineer, Steven Stanley, was vocal about his dislike of distorted guitar and erased the majority of Belews solos during the mixing sessions. Worse was to follow when Belew queried Weymouth about songwriting credits, having co-written several of the albums songs in addition to his playing. He was apparently blanked, with Weymouth no longer returning his phone calls. Belew did not play live with Tom Tom Club or contribute to any further sessions. Recalling the situation when interviewed twenty years later, he claimed that he had opted to pursue other work rather than involve himself in legal or personal struggles with Weymouth and Frantz, and that he had chosen not to let it bother him, as several other more promising projects were happening for him at the same time.Beginning of solo career (1981)By now Belews rising profile had gained him a solo record contract with Island Records. During the recording of the debut Tom Tom Club album, members of GaGa had joined Belew in Compass Point and backed him on a set of parallel sessions which would result in Belews first solo album Lone Rhino (released in 1982). The album provided a home for various GaGa songs and blended various elements of Belews work over the past decade, including snappy and noisy Zappa/Byrne-influenced songs, dabblings in world music, opportunities for animal/mechanical sounds on guitar, and sonic experiments reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix or The Beatles. It also included an instrumental duet between Belew and his four-year-old daughter Audie (the latter improvising on acoustic piano, with Belew adding a processed guitar counterpoint).King Crimson (1981–2013)Adrian Belew was the singer, guitarist and frontman (as well as occasional drummer) for King Crimson from 1981 to 2009, one of the longest tenures in King Crimson by anyone other than founder Robert Fripp. He maintained this position despite several splits or hiatuses in group activity, and notwithstanding a brief period in the early 1990s when Fripp unsuccessfully invited singer David Sylvian to front a possible new version of the band.Belews involvement with the band began while he was still involved with Talking Heads. Having been impressed by Belews work with GaGa and David Bowie, Fripp asked Belew to join his new four-piece band (at that time called Discipline) as singer and second guitarist. At the time Belew was busy not just with Talking Heads but also with the imminent Tom Tom Club sessions and the recording of his debut solo album. However, he was realising that Talking Heads internal politics would eventually either sideline or obstruct him (coupled with the fact that the band looked as if it would be on hiatus for a while). Belew opted to uncouple himself from Talking Heads and join Fripp, with whom he would have more opportunities to develop and express himself. One of his conditions for joining the new band was that he would be allowed time to continue and develop his new solo career, to which Fripp agreed.The Discipline lineup was completed by the former King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford and the New York session ace Tony Levin on bass guitar and Chapman Stick. During initial touring, the members of the band discussed the possibility of renaming themselves King Crimson. This had not been the original intention for the band, but all members generally agreed that this would be both appropriate and useful. This made Belew the first guitarist to formally play alongside Fripp within King Crimson on an equal footing (although both Ian McDonald and John Wetton had very occasionally contributed extra guitar to previous King Crimson recordings)[citation needed]. He was also the first King Crimson singer to write all of his own lyrics.The renamed band released and toured the well-received Discipline album later in 1981, bringing Belew further notoriety and acclaim. The follow-up, 1982s Beat, proved harder to record. Finding himself responsible for the bulk of the bands songwriting and dealing with the extra pressures of being the frontman in a high-level group, Belew squabbled with Fripp over group approach and sound. Disagreements were mostly resolved and the band continued to find success as a live act. However, 1984s Three of a Perfect Pair proved tortuous to write, and although King Crimson eventually created another successful album (including some Belew experiments with fretless guitar), Fripp opted to split the band in 1984. The live album Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal (originally a radio broadcast, released as an album in 1998) captured the band in full force on their last gig.Despite the disagreements of the time, the members of the 1981–1984 King Crimson maintained enough camaraderie and mutual respect to reunite in 1994 (adding second drummer Pat Mastellotto and Warr Guitarist Trey Gunn) with Belew continuing as the bands singer, guitarist and frontman. The six-piece King Crimson toured successfully and lasted until 1997, releasing the THRAK album and several live recordings. From 1997 onwards, Belew participated in several of the ProjeKcts, a series of instrumental and experimental King Crimson side projects active during band hiatuses, in which he predominantly played electronic drums.Belew was a member of the slimmed-down quartet version of King Crimson (minus Bruford and Levin) which played and recorded between 2000 and 2004, releasing the construKction of light and The Power to Believe (in addition to several live albums and EPs), as well as touring as an opening act for Tool during 2001. After a further four-year hiatus, the band returned to active work in 2008 as a five-piece (with the addition of Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison, and Levin returning to replace Gunn). From 2000 through 2008, King Crimson used Belews studio at his home outside Mount Juliet, Tennessee, for rehearsals and recording.In September 2013, following yet another four-year band hiatus, Fripp announced the formation of a new seven-piece King Crimson which did not include Belew. Belew stated on his Facebook page that Fripp had told him that he would not be right for what Fripp had in mind for the new version of the band.Solo career, part two (1983–1986)Following the release of his first solo album Lone Rhino in 1982, Belew recorded a 1983 follow-up called Twang Bar King which once again featured GaGa as backing band (now augmented by former Elvis Presley drummer Larrie Londin).His next solo album was recorded in 1986, and was an experimental all-instrumental album of processed guitar, guitar synthesizer and percussion called Desire Caught By the Tail. Belew has subsequently claimed that the record cost him his contract with Island Records due to its highly uncommercial nature.From 1986 to 1989, Belews solo career would be on hold while he concentrated on The Bears.The Bears (1985–1989, 1997–present)Following King Crimsons breakup/entry into hiatus in 1984, Belew formed the pop band The Bears with fellow guitarist and singer Rob Fetters, drummer Chris Arduser and bass guitarist Bob Nyswonger. All three were close friends of Belews whom hed met during his Sweetheart days in the mid-1970s, and were also ex-members of The Raisins (a Cincinnati-based band that had some local success in the early 1980s and had had an album produced by Belew).As a band, The Bears was a conscious attempt to create a more unified and collective group, with Belew and Fetters sharing frontman and lead vocal duties. Although Belews guitar skills were still in evidence, they took second place to the bands commitment to songs. Signing to the I.R.S. Records subsidiary Primitive Man Recording Company, The Bears recorded and released two albums, The Bears (1987) and Rise and Shine (1988). After three years of constant recording, promotion and touring the band broke up in 1989 following the collapse of PMRC. The success of Belews solo hit single Oh Daddy led to him touring with David Bowie. The remaining three Bears regrouped as psychodots.All four musicians remained friends, stayed in contact with each other and continued to help each other out. Arduser drummed on Belews 1992 solo album Inner Revolution (with Fetters joining the 1992 touring band). On the tour supporting Belews Here album in 1994, psychodots played as both the opening act and as Belews backing band. Belew would also co-write two songs on Rob Fetters Lefty Loose – Righty Tight album in 1998.Since 1997, The Bears have regularly reunited in the studio for intermittent recording sessions. This has resulted in two further albums to date – 2001s Car Caught Fire and 2007s Eureka. The band perform short tours to promote the releases and continues to work together around the varied schedule of all four members.Solo career, part three (1989–present)Belew revived his solo career with 1989s Mr. Music Head on which he played virtually all the instruments (with the exception of double bass). The album was split between relatively straightforward pop and more experimental songs, with a strong emphasis on Belews signature electric tones plus plenty of percussion and an unusual approach to acoustic production. Mr. Music Head also generated a hit single (number 5 on the US Modern Rock chart) in the shape of Oh Daddy, on which Belew duetted with his 11-year-old daughter Audie.In 1990, Belew produced a similar follow-up with Young Lions. This featured a number of cover versions plus two guest appearances by his past and current employer David Bowie, whod hired Belew as musical director for his then-current Sound+Vision Tour. The album generated another US Modern rock chart hit (number 2) with the Belew-and-Bowie duet Pretty Pink Rose and a minor hit on the same chart with the subsequent single Men In Helicopters (number 17).The following year, Belew released Desire of the Rhino King, a compilation of digitally remastered material from his first three (now out-of-print) albums.The next phase in Belews career saw him pursuing a more traditional singing and songwriting style (albeit with his trademark unusual guitar tones) which owed a lot to his old heroes The Beatles. 1992s Inner Revolution and 1994s Here (as well as 1993s self-explanatory and back-catalogue-revisiting The Acoustic Adrian Belew) were all heavily song-oriented and accessible, but sold less than Belew expected. 1996s Op Zop Too Wah blended Belews solid songwriting approach with more avant-garde instrumental colouration.In parallel to Belews work with a revived King Crimson, he released the first in a proposed Experimental Guitar Series The Guitar as Orchestra: Experimental Guitar Series, Vol. 1 in 1997. A return to the all-instrumental avant-garde territories of Desire Caught By the Tail, this was an album of atonal contemporary classical music entirely realized on MIDI guitar using digital models of orchestral instruments. Belew has mentioned plans for releasing more records in the Experimental Guitar series, including one called The Animal Kingdom, but to date no more have been released (probably due to the modest sales of the first volume).Adrian Belew, Melbourne, 2006Belews subsequent releases were two more acoustic albums (1998s Belew Prints: The Acoustic Adrian Belew, Vol. 2 and the 1999 Salad Days compilation) and the Coming Attractions album of work-in-progress. In 2004, he collaborated on a spoken-word-and-instrumentation album with Kevin Max – Raven Songs 101. Between 2005 and 2007, Belew released the Side series of albums – Side One (2005), Side Two (2005), Side Three (2006) and Side Four (2007) – with a variety of guest performers including Tools Danny Carey and Primus Les Claypool.In April and May 2006, Adrian toured Australia with local musicians John Prior from Matt Finish playing drums and Al Slavik playing bass guitar and Stick (as well as singing backing vocals). In August 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, he performed on The Acoustic Planet Tour with Bela Fleck & The Flecktones and Umphreys McGee.Later in 2006, Belew formed a new long-term trio which his fans rapidly christened The Adrian Belew Power Trio, featuring former Paul Green School of Rock students Eric Slick on drums and Julie Slick on bass. This band featured on the 2007 live recording Side Four and the 2009 download-only (Live Overseas).In 2008, Belew played at the Adelaide Guitar Festival. In June 2009, the Adrian Belew Power Trio released an all-new studio record titled simply e., featuring a five-part long-form Belew instrumental composition. During the same month, Belew released A Cup Of Coffee And A Slice of Time, an album credited to Clay & Belew. This was an album of improvised classical-based interpretations of Belew songs (both solo and from King Crimson) mostly performed by pianist Michael Clay, with additional guitar, cello and music concrete contributions from Belew.On February 25, 2013, Trent Reznor of the band Nine Inch Nails, named Belew as the new touring guitarist of Nine Inch Nails. Belew was going to perform with the band on a new Nine Inch Nails tour from Summer 2013 into 2014. On June 7, 2013, Adrian posted an update on Facebook stating that it didnt work.[11] Despite this, Adrian was credited as a session musician on the 2013 NIN album entitled Hesitation Marks.FLUX appsMost recently, Belew has moved into working with mobile app platforms via his self-designed iOS apps FLUX:FX – the professional audio multi-effects app and FLUX by belew™, which contain over three hundred audio tracks and pieces of artwork that he describes as never playing the same twice.[12] FLUX:FX is a realtime audio manipulation app for the iPad that he has designed to, in his own words: let me make sounds that i cant get with any other gear..[13] Both apps have gathered significant industry recognition, including being honored twice in the Webby Awards of 2015 and receiving a best of the best 2015 Red Dot design award.

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