Outstanding interview with Bill Bruford from 12/4/1984. He touches on early Yes, UK, King Crimson, etc. Some 'interesting' comments concerning UK that might make you chuckle.
Outstanding interview with Bill Bruford from 12/4/1984. He touches on early Yes, UK, King Crimson, etc. Some 'interesting' comments concerning UK that might make you chuckle.
"Why is it when these great Prog guys get together, they always want to make a Journey album?"
- fiberman, 7/5/2015
"I'll be playing drums when I'm Sixty."
Missed it by 1 year.
Cool! Thanks for the link. Missed this one somehow.
Having watch this and the Steve howe interview from the same year, what a huge difference in perspective.
Bill talks again and again about being a student of music and doing things for of the artistic aspect, always learning and developing.
Steve talks about hit records, chart success, and playing in front of tens of thousands of people.
That was a great interview. It's always a pleasure to listen to Bruford talk about music.
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To be honest I feel what he says about UK is somewhat borne out on the album. I've always preferred both 'Danger Money' and Bruford's own work with Holdsworth in this period.
This is exactly why I chuckle when people trash Trevor Rabin as the awful AOR hit guy compared to Steve Howe being some shining caretaker of true Prog. People are quick to dismiss the fact that Howe was a key member at the start of Asia and founder member of GTR. Methinks Howe wouldn't have minded another helping of that Asia success.
"Why is it when these great Prog guys get together, they always want to make a Journey album?"
- fiberman, 7/5/2015
I liked the Steve Howe interview too, very honest about Asia peaking early and his fondest memories of Yes being from their earlier days. Also to hear him talking about The Big Three!
I love that he likes All Right Now by Free. Any time I get to "jam" with other people, that's one of the tunes I'll suggest that we might all be able to fake. Love it.
Its always interesting to read or hear interviews with Bill Bruford. Broadminded, intelligent, fun!
I have always thought it could be interesting what he thought of Keith Moons drumming. I can imagine he didnt like it, but still ...
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I didn't get that Steve was purely in it for the chart success and $$. He was really appreciative of success and was surprised that Yes had success right after he joined and totally taken aback by Asia's quick success. He always wanted to make interesting music and give people who came to a concert a great show. I mean, who makes Relayer and Topographic and thinks that is the golden ticket to pop chart success.
What I took from the Bruford interview was that he has been and always will be a student of music, but understood it is a "music business" and in order to get your music heard, you have to balance the musical integrity with commercial acceptance. That's why he did ABWH and Union - to fund his other musical projects. Now, while I understand his reasoning, Ithought that sort of lacked the musical integrity that he has always been known for.
In any case, I did like that Bruford and Howe both didn't dismiss the 70's progressive movement (like certain other bands did) and both respected the competition.
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