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...