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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Bill Bruford

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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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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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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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Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

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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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Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We’re Gonna Make You a Star.
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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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So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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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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