Adrian Belew, who’d just come off a tour with David Bowie, and who before that had been part of Frank Zappa’s band. The rangy Tennessean had a clear, Lennon-esque voice, and a technique that thrived on experimentation. “One of the best things I took away musically was to take a piece of music and treat it so many different ways, from arranging and rearranging,” Belew said. “In the three months time that we did very intense rehearsals—five days a week, eight hours a day—of Frank’s music, he would often take something that we’d already learned and say, okay, now, we’re going to do it this way.
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