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Subject: Re: More great unknown bands
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Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 09:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 09:49:00 1984
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> /**** uicsl:net.music / nxs@tpvax /  1:36 pm  Sep 19, 1984 ****/
> U.K. featured:
> 
> Bill Bufford; on drums and percussion.
> Allen Holdsworth; guitars.
> John Wetton; bass and vocals (vocals?).
> Dave Stewart (Oringinally polanned to be Rick Wakemans replacement in YES);
> on keyboards.
> 
> Bill Buffords band featured:
> 
> Jeff Berlin; on bass (the man is awesome).
> Eddie Jobson(sp?); on keybords and violin.
> 
> Bruce Golub
> John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.

First of all, the man's name is *Bruford*, not Bufford.
Second of all, you have the personnel mixed up:

U.K.:
	Eddie Jobson: Keyboards, Violin
	Bill Bruford: Drums (later replaced by Terry Bozzio)
	Allan Holdsworth: Guitar (left to join Bruford; not replaced)
	John Wetton: Bass, Vocals.

Bruford:
	Bill Bruford: Drums
	Allan Holdsworth: Guitar (later replaced by "the Unknown"
				  John Clarke)
	Dave Stewart: Keyboards
	Jeff Berlin: Bass, Vocals

Annette Peacock did the vocals on the first Bruford album,
"Feels Good to Me". Their second album, "One of a Kind",
was totally instrumental and also their best.
Jeff Berlin started singing on their third album,
"Gradually Going Tornado" (the first album to feature Clarke);
he shouldn't have. The band has one other album, "The Bruford
Tapes", which comprises new versions of old material.

I agree with your assessment of Jeff Berlin as one of the finest
rock bassists around. I didn't know that Stewart was ever in the
running for YES, but U.K. evolved out of a proposed "super group"
to be called Wakeman, Bruford, and Wetton. The proposal was
killed when the three different record companies involved got
wind of it. I had heard that Vangelis was YES' first choice
for the job that eventually went to Patrick Moraz.

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