Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that’s where I’m at.
BILL BRUFORDI didn’t write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn’t.
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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it’s five guys sitting around reading manuals!
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We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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I didn’t write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn’t.
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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
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And we’d drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink… And now people don’t drink nearly as much, for good reason. We’re all a little wiser.
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If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that.
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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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