Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew Remain In Light 2023

paisanojac wrote: I've discovered that Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew, who was on the Remain In Light album by the Talking Heads, are touring this album (and possibly performing some Belew numbers as well). I've noticed different phases of the tour, one of which is just the Harrison/Belew RIL tour, while other dates look like they're opening for Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, while the final dates are with "special guests" (an opening band?) named Cool Cool Cool.  Here's the tour website: https://www.remaininlight.net/ My question is if anyone knows if the RIL tour setlist or stage time is reduced when RIL is the opening act for Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, or will the time on stage be about the same regardless of which of the three phases of the tour is in play.  Anyone know?  ...

On the dates with Les Claypool's Frog Brigaede. The two bands I believe are co-headlining and alternating who opens. Les Claypool's Frog Brigade has Sean Lennon as part of the brigade and they are performing Pink Floyd's Animals in its entirety. Both bands are playing full sets.

mathman0806 wrote: On the dates with Les Claypool's Frog Brigaede. The two bands I believe are co-headlining and alternating who opens. Les Claypool's Frog Brigade has Sean Lennon as part of the brigade and they are performing Pink Floyd's Animals in its entirety. Both bands are playing full sets.

Weird coincidence:  Ijust met a dude last night who saw Adrian & Jerry and some "Brooklyn Band" perform the entirety of Remain in Light last year in Milwaukee (Jerry's hometown) at Summerfest! He said that without Byrne there they were able to restore the old spirit of the Heads. He LOVED it--couldn't stop talking about it!--that and being at Red Rocks in '83 (after ten hours of pre-concert partying--in the pouring rain) when they were recording U2's concert for Under a Blood Red Sky. 

Edited by BrufordFreak - May 26 2023 at 05:21

I am going to the Richmond show on June 6.

I saw the show last night. The show was outdoors on Brown's Island which is an artificial island on the James River next to downtown Richmond. This restricts when a band can play and for a week night, that's 10 pm.

This was the first show with both Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew (playing first) and Les Claypool's Fearless Frog Brigade. So, concert was scheduled to start at 6 pm with gates opening at 5:30. I was in line at 5:40. I was still in line when the show started promptly at 5:59.

Opening song was Psycho Killer and it sounded good (being outdoors, I could hear the show). I got in during the second song, Crosseyed and Painless. Really good show and the backing band Cool Cool Cool was excellent. In the shows earlier this year, they also opened. Adrian Belew did Adrian Belew things with his guitar. They played about two-thirds of Remain In Light. Belew sat out on a couple of numbers and then xame back and ripped through Thela Hun Ginjeet with Harrison sitting out on that.

They played a near full set at around 1 hour 15 minutes. Sound mix was excellent.

About half hour passed and then Les Claypool's Fearless Brigade came on. They played for over 2 hours straight through, including the entire Animals album. Les Claypool did Les Claypool things on the bass and was amazing. Show ended at 9:55 to end before the 10 pm cutoff. Altogether, nearly 3 and half hours of music in 4 hours.