Are we sure rock stars do this?
Adrian Belew — legendary studio and touring guitarist for David Bowie, Talking Heads and Frank Zappa, fondly loved (at my house) frontman of King Crimson (especially since Robert Fripp insists on sitting upstage in the dark) — is selling his old effects boxes on eBay.
One minute I’m listening to a podcast from almost- and shoulda-been- rock star Cush about drinking and bad behavior in Hollywood with Belew in full rock-star regalia and entourage, the next I’m looking at boxes that may have been used to record, say, “Once in a Lifetime” up for bid in the thirty-dollar range.
Either Belew has someone else putting these auctions up, or he’s seriously wasting his time. (He could eclipse his scant eBay earnings in about 1/1000th of a second via his guitar.) Or he’s newly pathetic.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I’m guessing that he just wants to keep the boxes in circulation, rather than have them wind up in a landfill. He could have donated them to a thrift shop but most people wouldn’t recognize them for what they are and they might languish there until they got trashed. Whatever, I’m sure it’s not about the $.