Watch King Crimson 80s affiliate band Beat perform Elephant Talk live

Beat studio portrait — (Image credit: Alison Dyer)

80s King Crimson-related quartet Beat - Adrian Belew, Danny Carey, Tony Levin and Steve Vai - have shared a new live clip of Elephant Talk.

Originally the opening track from Crimson's 1981 album Discipline, which introduced a new-look band to audiences in a new decade, the new live clip is taken from the upcoming live release, Beat Live – subtitled 'Neon Heat Disease' – which has just been released on Blu-ray, vinyl and CD through InsideOutMusic/Sony. The band celebrated the album's release earlier this month with a one-off show at Tokyo's famed Budokan Hall.

“In the eighties, Robert Fripp made the observation the King Crimson quartet was perhaps the best live band in the world at the time," says Belew. "Tony, Steve, Danny and I are committed to honouring this legacy with each and every performance staged".

Beat have previously released live versions of Frame By Frame, Neal And Jack And Me and Thela Hun Ginjeet.

Beat Live is available in three configurations: A 3-LP set, a Blu-ray release accompanied by 2-CDs and a 12-page photo booklet, and a limited collector’s edition that will contain the Blu-ray, 2-CDs, a bonus CD, and a 36-page artbook.

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Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.

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