I also found an archived Bass Player interview with Tony Levin made around the time ‘Thrak’ was released. This extensive Q&A covers quite a bit of ground on Tony’s career and can be read here.

Over at DGMLive.com we find several photos from the recent rehearsals that took place in Nashville in preparation for touring this August.

Check out DGM’s website for all of the photos!

(Thanks to commenter Ela, who gives us the news regarding an audio sample from the rehearsals!)

http://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm?artist=16&show=1314

As has become almost a sort of tradition, Nashville will be the public warmup location of choice for this August’s Crim tour.  You’ll find a pair of dates, August 2nd, and 3rd at the Belcourt where the mighty Crim will once again awaken from its slumber.

Belcourt is not a terribly huge venue, (about 334 seats or so), so expect these to go fast!

Click HERE to get your tickets!

Anyways, Jeremy Frindel directed this music video of the song, “Speedbump”, from the Stickman CD which came out late last year.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fuQBmi6Ca4[/youtube]
Speedbump by Tony Levin

 

The second show at New York City is due to the first show already being sold out.

Bringing together what is essentially a mash up of Dream Theater meets King Crimson’s bassist, their pair of releases over the last several years have met with very good reception and reviews, and you’ll kick yourself missing one of these shows if you have the opportunity to make it to one.

Be sure to check out Tony Levin’s official site for all the details and Metal Underground’s news bit for the details regarding the second show in New York.

Currently there is no word that we’ve seen regarding possible studio work.

Reported over at the DGMLive.com website Crim’s first date will be opening a three day stint at Park West, Chicago, August 6th, 2008 before storming out to Keswick Theater in Philadelphia for August 11th and 12th, and then wrapping up the current list of dates we have sees them at the Nokia Theater in New York, NY from August 14th-16th.

Keen eye’d people will note that this tour will inaugurate the latest formation of King Crimson which includes a slight shift in personnel as follows:

• Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Gavin Harrison.

We’ll keep an eye out for further dates as they arrive, but as always, check with the venue in order to confirm dates and times before making travel plans!

To whet your appetites, he also has a couple of free excerpt tracks available for preview there, with an opportunity to do purchase of said sample’s full tracks.  These tracks are entitled, “Welcome”, ”Speedbump”, and “Slow Glide” the latter being my current fav, and recent purchase.  At a buck it was impossible to pass up trying out at least one track.

I’m sure you’ll agree, it’s nice to hear Tony getting on the “Stick” making his new album so check it out!

Before making any travel arrangements or other plans be sure to check directly with the venue nearest to you.  We’ll be adding links to those respective venues as we are able to.

Also be sure to check out Adrian’s Official site for the latest tourdates and amendments to their schedule: http://www.adrianbelew.net/

In addition, here is some further news for those of you unfamiliar with the Elephant Blog:

King Crimson confirmed by Robert Fripp to be back and touring presumably by the end of 2009.

http://elephant-blog.blogspot.com/2007/06/news-from-future.html

Just after wrapping up a tour with Todd Rundgren, a date with Artie Traum, Papabear is gearing up now for a relaxing two day tour in Hawaii with Joe Caro, Randy Brecker and Steve Ferrone, following that up with 3 days in Rochester with Chuck Mangione & Orchestra, Papabear has filled out much of his summer plans as he will be headed out on the road with Peter Gabriel covering most of June and July, as well as a date in August, which is preceded by an August 3rd date with his brother Pete Levin at the Quarry Jazz Festival in Woodstock, NY.

Was that a runon sentence?

For more information, please check out Tony’s website: http://www.tonylevin.com/

“I’m also finishing up a solo album – was aiming at June release, but just pushed it back to September. It’s fun music, and I’m featuring the Stick more on this one than I have in the past.”

Be sure to check out Tony’s website for all the latest as it comes!

Chronologically the second of the “ProjeKcts”, P1’s stint at the club was nearly 10 years ago, (Kind of hard to believe eh?), running from December 1st through the 4th of 1997 and included the talents of Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Trey Gunn, and Bill Bruford.

Mar 7 Knitting Factory Los Angeles, California
Mar 9 Canadian Music Week Toronto, Ontario
Mar 12 Knitting Factory New York, New York
Mar TBA SXSW Austin, Texas
Mar 20 Drum Pad Presents @ Durty Nellie’s Chicago (Palatine), Illinois
Mar 22 Festival de México en el Centro Histórico Mexico City
Mar 23 Teatro de la Ciudad Mexico City

But first- about to start recording for a band called Mecca that will also have Joe Vana, Tommy Denander, Shannon Forrest, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcoro, Bobby Kimball, David Hungate and Tony Levin on tracks (was T Lev in Toto too?).

Currently Tony is scheduled to accompany the Trio through February 18th where they wrap up their tour of Italy at Teatro Aurora in Margera, Venezia, Italy.

Paul, Bert and Hideyo, (the CGT), then fly back to the US east coast for for further touring through early March.  See the tourdates section of their website for further details.

After Italy, Tony does a pair of shows in late February with Murali Coryell, and then in March, the Tony Levin Band starts back up, with a pair of shows currently scheduled.

Adrian recently posted up on his new blog that it would be a project involving ProjeKct 6 opening for the Tony Levin Band followed by the Adrian Belew Power Trio, followed by an encore of Robert, Adrian, Tony, and Eric Slick playing some King Crimson classics.  In my eyes this seems sort of like H.O.R.D.E. reinvented  for KC fans, and certainly not to be missed!

Apparantly K3 was originally intended to roll out this March, however, it looks like it will be sometime after June but no dates have been released yet.  I don’t care what it takes, I’m going to one of those shows!

But there is a more immediate Adrian Belew Power Trio show mentioned, and a very fun one at that!  There are two dates currently on the schedule for the Adrian Belew Power Trio: February, the 15th and the 17th.  The 15th will be in Cleveland, Ohio at the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame.  The 17th looks like the winner to me though as that show will be used to make a live record, (Side 4).  That show is set to be at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky.  I already have some shoes ready for the foot stomping time that will be!

If that wasn’t enough Rhino King news for you, don’t forget that today at some point they are scheduled to release the redesign of the Official Adrian Belew website, so be sure to ping them every once in a while to see if they’ve updated!

Liquid Tension Experiment consists of Tony Levin, and Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy, and John Petrucci, and Jordan Rudess. Liquid Tension Experiment is well described by the Wikipedia as an instrumental rock project playing fast and furious fusion based songs, like a jazzy Dream Theater, but without vocals.

Their last album, (Liquid Tension Experiment 2), was released back in 1999, and subsequently members, most notably, Mike Portnoy, have stated that there would not be a third LTE album released, since 3/4 of the band is the current Dream Theater lineup.

Ultimate-Guitar.com recently posted a news story about a third album, indicating that this may have all changed recently when Mike Portnoy posted on his own message boards a short message indicating a desire to proceed with a third Liquid Tension Experiment album:

Post @ Mike Portnoy’s Site Forum

In the post he indicates that they’d like to get back together as Liquid Tension Experiment and do some more music some day, but that there is an obstacle currently precluding this, presumeably related to difficulties Portnoy experienced with LTE’s record label, Magna Carta.

Where there is a will, usually these things can work themselves out, and I for one will wait patiently for the third album! Thanks to ProgArchives.com’s forum for the tip!

Over at the Tony Levin Road Diary website comes a link straight from the man himself.  It features a YouTube clip from back in the heyday of the Peter Gabriel band, and in the clip Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta switch instruments, the kicker being that eventually Peter Gabriel himself takes over the drums and Tony moves to piano!

Also listed is some recent photos from a run in with his Liquid Tension Experiment bandmates, Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci, and some photos and diaries from the October tour he did with the Tony Levin Band.

Head on over to the Tony Levin’s Road Diary website, and don’t forget to check out the cool YouTube clip, linked below:

The Tony Levin Band consists of exceptional talents of Larry Fast on synth/keyboard, Jessie Gress on guitar and Jerry Marotta on percussion.

Currently there are 5 dates shown with indications on the page that more are forthcoming. You can find the latest dates and tour information at the Tony Levin website linked below:

Krimson News Podcast – Episode 5, Part 1:
Shownotes

Recorded on: June 24th, 2006

Participants:
Jeff Duke – Webmaster, Krimson News
Peter Dervin – Host of the KSER radio program, “Exposure” ( http://www.kser.org http://www.peterdervin.com )
Barry Stock – Guestbook moderator @ Krimson News
Steve Turnidge – Mastering engineer, founder of Weedshare.com (http://www.arsdivina.com, http://www.weedshare.com)
Ronan Chris Murphy – Veneto West Records – Producer/Mixer/Artist

Music:
Artist – Lives of the Saints (Ronan Chris Murphy & Bill Forth)
Album – Destroying Silence
Song Title – Paralee Sleeps
Purchase the album at – DGM

Interview:
Ronan Chris Murphy discusses his history mixing, among other things, several King Crimson releases, work as an artist, and his new record label, Veneto West Records.

Show Links:
Bubble Math
Bands for Fans
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Canora
Ronan Chris Murphy’s Discography
Tony Levin
Mike Keneally
Pat Mastelotto
Terry Bozzio

Closing Music:
Artist – Barry Stock
Song Title – ‘A Simple Plan’

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Tony Levin will be joining the California Guitar Trio on July 15th in the [tag]Quebec City Summer Festival[/tag]. See the schedule here: http://www.infofestival.com/en/index.asp

Tony also makes mention of further Tony Levin Band performances of recent past and near future, so go ahead and click the link below to learn more!