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had just come from a club tour where the sound is
warm and everyone can hear you … here for us it
sounded metallic, the guitar sound was thin. I wish I
could have done a much better job.’
Despite the technical frustrations, David and
Adrian were in good spirits throughout most of the
tour; for the backstage boys, despite getting to use
Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca’s private jet for several
dates, and the plush hotels, it was boring. During the
performance, keyboardist Rick Fox was often
restricted to simply pressing a button to play a
sample or sequence; hence he’d munch on a
sandwich or a burger if he was feeling peckish, midset.
Then one night, Erdal saw David make a
gesture in the middle of ‘The Jean Genie’, and
thought he was being signalled to emerge from
behind the curtain, which he did. Then: ‘David
shouted at me, “Get off!” It was weird.’
As the band sat on the plane at the end of the
show, David ‘yelled and yelled’ at Erdal, says Belew,
‘and a quiet came over everyone. We just sat there
on the plane. It was horrible.’
It was a one-off incident, but it showed how, for all
the musicians, ‘You start with a lot of excitement and
enthusiasm, then gradually you wear down,’ says
Belew. ‘But that time with Erdal was the only scene –
which is pretty good for a group of forty-five people
travelling around the world.’
David himself made a good fist of enjoying the
tour – he was more fun to be around than in 1978,
and took Belew out for a memorable night in Paris,
where he and Mick Jagger attempted to out-camp