Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!whuxle!pyuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!mhuxm!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxa!brandx From: brandx@ihuxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Flame on Bruford Flame Message-ID: <354@ihuxa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 04:07:42 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxa.354 Posted: Sat Jan 28 04:07:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 03:03:42 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 27 Speaking of misquoting DownBeat.... db: Did the band (Yes) do a lot of jamming? Or was it a song band? bb: It was a song band. No, I don't think we ever played an informal note together, which is of course shameful, but the musicians in those days weren't very good, and unless you're going to play on one chord endlessly or play some tedious kind of 12-bar, I n't think it would have done us much good...."If you do this on the bass and I do this on the kick drum and maybe it'll sound funny, and we could put this funny organ part on top and one way or another we'll sound different. And if we sound different, then we'll be famous". Bruford does say that the attitude is better than the rock musicians of today, but this was still not a very complimentary statement. Also, by saying that if Yes would have improvised, it wouldn't have done them very much good, isn't necessarily a negative stmt., but it does indeed imply that Yes themselves were not very good musicians at that time. And yes, Bruford does indeed STATE that Yes never improvised a single note. I suppose that's not bad because, for instance, I'd hate to hear what Jon Anderson singing scat would sound like. Bruford also says "things were done for show" (versus King Crimson "wasn't like that at all, but clearly dong what it wanted to do.") Flame on...