Tony Levin

Tony Levin Instagram – We’ve just hit the road with Stick Men, and last night’s Rochester show was great. But the day before was a sad goodbye to an old friend – Robert Frazza’s silver van that we’ve travelled in for countless East Coast tours, and two or three trips around the whole country. Truthfully, it’s not the first time we said goodbye to it, thinking it had finally died… but now it’s clearly got too many issues to get us through this tour. The van was mentioned in the song “Prog Noir”… “we’ve sailed that silver road so long” and, on the Crimson Projekct tour around the U.S, I spent much of it in the back seat working on a quilt (yes!) that, had I finished it, would to show the silver van meandering along a winding road. (Yes, as you’d guess, quilting in a bouncy van presents some challenges.) Then, there were the years it had an unstoppable seatbelt warning, with beeping, that came on many times a day. It got so we could sing along, in harmony with, I think, the 42 beeps. It’s a bittersweet goodbye, and it’s a rental van for this tour. | Posted on 02/Apr/2022 00:43:42