Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uicsl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!gmk From: gmk@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: More great unknown bands Message-ID: <25700003@uicsl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 09:49:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uicsl.25700003 Posted: Fri Sep 21 09:49:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:17:06 EDT References: <17400005@ecn-ee.UUCP> Lines: 54 Nf-ID: #R:ecn-ee:17400005:uicsl:25700003:000:1828 Nf-From: uicsl!gmk Sep 21 08:49:00 1984 > /**** 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. -------------------- "You'll see...Perpetual Change!" Gary Koob pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsg!gmk