Holdsworth makes it look effortless. I think these boys underestimated themselves and what this band meant in the Big Picture (now playing at a theater near you)
Their all F#%KIN gods.....so many bands, so much art in its highest form,saw them in philly around 79 was pretty high the whole day but remember vividly the lasers as they streamed through Jobson's violin, whole show was a mind blower,sadly only time i ever got to see them live. Thanks so much for posting this vid.
This UK is the original!!. Great members were in this band. In the Prest Vivace, Allan Holdsworth was unison playing. Great!! Guitar solo is great too.
IF UK had two concerts at Penns Landing in Philadelphia then this could be one of them but it's certainly NOT the concert I heard. I taped it live off the radio and this isn't it.
@shmtnmusic Maybe you taped the show at the Spectrum on Oct 16 1979 when they opened up Jethro Tull.I believe MMR YSP or maybe even WIOQ broadcast some of that show live.Then again,I'm so old I don't even remember what happened this morning let alone 33 years ago.
@SouthJerseyGuy1 Nope, absolutly not. This is NOT the Philadelphia show! I've listened to my cassette recording a thousand times that I taped live from WIOQ and this isn't Penn's Landing. John Wetton even says at the end of this Thanks CHICAGO!!!!
Nobody had more opportunities for success than Bill Bruford and nobody squandered them as much. He walked out of Yes, quarrelled with Robert Fripp, pissed off the members of Genesis, fought with John Wetton, played 'Mr. Grumpy' with ABWH......Rather than be a small fish in a big pond, Bruford preferred to be a big fish in a very little pond - Earthworks - an exercise in futility which took his career absolutely nowhere.
@mawel1955 Bruford may have bounced around a lot, but just look at his body of work. Awesome. He wouldn't have grown into the player he did at each stage by staying in the same band. Not everyone wants to be in the big pond. It's not always better in there.
@drulius My point is just that - his body of work. Awesome though it might seem, Bill was capable of much better and I sincerely believe he was his own worst enemy in that respect. With his distinct lack of humour, tendency to be overly judgemental, his pretentious intellectualism, bad temper and general irritablility, Bruford found it very hard to work with those who could have brought out his maximum potential. Earthworks is a perfect example of wasted talent.
@mawel1955 Read his autobiography and you'll get a clear understanding of why he left bands. Working with the same group for a long time can bring out maximum potential in some players; for others it inhibits growth. I wouldn't consider Earthworks 'wasted talent'!. A very interesting, forwarding thinking, progressive group. And fyi, I met him at a clinic in '93 and he was very kind and very funny. Just in a dry, British way. He doesn't come across as irritable at all to me. To each his own...
@drulius Just mention the word "Yes" and you'll see just how irritable Bill can get. And this is the funny part. To the average music/percussion lover, he will always be remembered as the guy who left Yes - not so much as the drummer for Earthworks, UK or Crimson but as the guy who walked out of Yes at the height of its popularity. He's stuck with that label and he resents it. Why? Because whatever he did subsequently was never able to erase that idea in people's minds.
@mawel1955 Sounds like you're more upset that he left Yes than he was. You talk as if you've had deep, personal conversations with the man, but apparently have not even read his autobiography. I imagine I would get irritated if interviewers constantly asked me why I left a group years and years ago, too. Some Yes fanatics can't let it go. And you will note that Bruford was in 3 versions of King Crimson, so he obviously did not squander that opportunity.
@mawel1955 Bill Bruford = inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. Other Yes drummers = nope. Real musicians appreciate and respect his immense talent.
Fantastic song! I wonder why Bruford doesn't play those quick Octaban (Dragondrum?) notes live, in the beginning of the piece? They really give character to it. Bozzio also ignores them in concert. Bruford probably overdubbed them in the original studio version, but I know they can be played live.
I was at this concert what a great show and if you were there you should remember the crowd of people watching a chess game going on in front of the stage that was me.... What a great show
@thompsontg , me too, great show, was this broadcast on WYSP or something? One thing I remember before they came out was the crowd singing along with Suffragette City
@Newteredone , I think it was on IOQ. The whole concert was broadcast. I still have it on cassette and pull it out every couple of years and dream of such a great band. It looks like they had a mini reunion concert in Warsaw not too long ago.
@telemacherT2 McLaughlin has played with Santana (Love Devotion Surrender), and it was an atrocious album. Holdsworth couldn't hold a candle to McLaughlin, and Santana couldn't hold a candle to either of the other two!!
Bill Bruford is definitley THE MAN. I read that when he left YES that Alan White had a living hell of a time trying to copy Bills drumming. My next favorite drummer is Carl Palmer. Palmer has demonic speed but Bruford has technique and I just love to hear his tasty off-time like drumming and fills.
U.K. and their first album was an amazing event captured forever. As good as they are here the original recording is perfect in every way. Too bad they couldn't keep the same line-up and drive for the second album. They were leading the jazz/rock world at that time with their tech sounds and skill.
@kingcrimson234 i dont hear how he's playing laid back and boring with uk. they kicked him out for changing the beat every time they played just like holdsworth
@damphear2 Bill was not "kicked out" of U.K., he had made plans with Robert Fripp to do a project. Bill was a sideman and a leader - in this case, a sideman. It's fun sometimes to let someone else run it so you can just play but after a while you want to play your own stuff too or.... move on.
@damphear2 What's the audio source for this? Do you have the complete show? This is so much better than the later shows I've heard. The second version of U.K. was okay I guess, but this stuff seriously kicks ass, and has a much better "raw" feel compared to the first studio album! Thanks for posting!!! :)
@kingcrimson234 although saw this comment after a year still wish to agree what you said and Iike to recommend to view Forever untill Sunday, Feel goods to me.....etc.
i saw this show at penns landing, wioq 102 fm promoted this thing to the hilt, free concert. 75,000 people showed up. last free concert at penns landing for a long time. my friends band opened up for them tritent. it was awesome, the crowed would not let them leave the stage until wetton said they have no more songs. one thing i remember " get off the portapots or the show will not start" lot's of coke at this show. i was 18.
Legend has it that this concert shut down I-95 in Philly as people stopped their vehicles on the highway to listen to the concert, as I-95 overlooked Penn's Landing.
God, I love Alan's solo on this live version. Such a pure blend of dissonance with ordered chaos all the while maintaining a fluid motion of guitar bliss.
Lightmane321, what you said actually hurt my brain but I think you're absolutely correct and I heartily concur without any further adieu. A linear fluidity with a macabre hint at melody noir. Ow! it hurts again.
I was at this show, this is the first and last free rock event at Penns landing. The place was over run and completly trashed. They were the good old days.
Speaking of effortless; When there is a close-up face shot of Bruford, you can barely tell that he's hitting the drums. He has this "minimalist" thing going on with his posture and facial expression. The opposite of most drummers. Very little extraneous movement. I've always loved that about Bill Bruford.
Bruford on Holdsworth's "In The Dead of Night" solo: "(it) remains one of the most perfectly formed, intelligently paced, and brilliantly executed two minutes of liquid guitar bliss you are ever likely to hear."
thank you, thank you for this immeasurably valuable quote from Bruford, one of my Rock gods, about the always imposing, adventurous and ground-breaking Holdsworth, another of my Rock gods, but I'm wondering if Bruford's quote pertains to this live performance solo or the original studio album recording ... any insight there?
of course, many thanks to the poster of this amazing clip!
@damphear2 This is your comment, " you can slightly hear eddy slow down his key playing once holdsworth can play at speed with him" SO... are you saying Allan was having a hard time keeping up with Eddies speed? Even Yng says he had a hard time with PRESTO! Peace!
R U drunk?, it is not rock or jazz, but a little of both, i understand what Holdsworth is doing, for one thing he is mimicing a saxaphone player in his approach to playing the guitar. If your a snobby jazz fan, stay off this page, your treading in an area known as prog rock, the fans of which you obviously don't know any thing about.
The intro must be from Jobson's days with FZ. Wetton still sounds like Crimson. Bruford is the best live drummer I have EVER seen, and in the top 10 of all time. Holdsworth is about as technical as any guitarist can be. Good post!
great version cheers
LittleDrummerBoy234 3 weeks ago
happy feb 1, 2012
aka 2.1.12
TTNTION ALL PLANETS
LOOKING LIKE THAT GUY ON MIRROR'S SUPPOSED TO
SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
Holdsworth makes it look effortless. I think these boys underestimated themselves and what this band meant in the Big Picture (now playing at a theater near you)
videostan 5 months ago
Bruford!!!
jamesedwardtheobald 6 months ago
great rare footage thanks! look at that guitar! !
jamesedwardtheobald 6 months ago
love how allan struggles with the ensemble in presto! ha!
jamesedwardtheobald 6 months ago
Their all F#%KIN gods.....so many bands, so much art in its highest form,saw them in philly around 79 was pretty high the whole day but remember vividly the lasers as they streamed through Jobson's violin, whole show was a mind blower,sadly only time i ever got to see them live. Thanks so much for posting this vid.
6669fred 8 months ago
Aha, I saw this tour. There was nothing like it.
swaggs 9 months ago
This UK is the original!!. Great members were in this band. In the Prest Vivace, Allan Holdsworth was unison playing. Great!! Guitar solo is great too.
DrHSumi 10 months ago
IF UK had two concerts at Penns Landing in Philadelphia then this could be one of them but it's certainly NOT the concert I heard. I taped it live off the radio and this isn't it.
shmtnmusic 10 months ago
@shmtnmusic Maybe you taped the show at the Spectrum on Oct 16 1979 when they opened up Jethro Tull.I believe MMR YSP or maybe even WIOQ broadcast some of that show live.Then again,I'm so old I don't even remember what happened this morning let alone 33 years ago.
SouthJerseyGuy1 1 month ago
@SouthJerseyGuy1 Nope, absolutly not. This is NOT the Philadelphia show! I've listened to my cassette recording a thousand times that I taped live from WIOQ and this isn't Penn's Landing. John Wetton even says at the end of this Thanks CHICAGO!!!!
shmtnmusic 1 month ago
@shmtnmusic Yup,your probably right... 33 years is a looooong time to remember details,especially when I was in a haze back then.
SouthJerseyGuy1 1 month ago
last show of that years tour, totally missed Bruford on the next album
Newteredone 10 months ago
Nobody had more opportunities for success than Bill Bruford and nobody squandered them as much. He walked out of Yes, quarrelled with Robert Fripp, pissed off the members of Genesis, fought with John Wetton, played 'Mr. Grumpy' with ABWH......Rather than be a small fish in a big pond, Bruford preferred to be a big fish in a very little pond - Earthworks - an exercise in futility which took his career absolutely nowhere.
mawel1955 10 months ago
@mawel1955 Bruford may have bounced around a lot, but just look at his body of work. Awesome. He wouldn't have grown into the player he did at each stage by staying in the same band. Not everyone wants to be in the big pond. It's not always better in there.
drulius 10 months ago
@drulius My point is just that - his body of work. Awesome though it might seem, Bill was capable of much better and I sincerely believe he was his own worst enemy in that respect. With his distinct lack of humour, tendency to be overly judgemental, his pretentious intellectualism, bad temper and general irritablility, Bruford found it very hard to work with those who could have brought out his maximum potential. Earthworks is a perfect example of wasted talent.
mawel1955 10 months ago
@mawel1955 Read his autobiography and you'll get a clear understanding of why he left bands. Working with the same group for a long time can bring out maximum potential in some players; for others it inhibits growth. I wouldn't consider Earthworks 'wasted talent'!. A very interesting, forwarding thinking, progressive group. And fyi, I met him at a clinic in '93 and he was very kind and very funny. Just in a dry, British way. He doesn't come across as irritable at all to me. To each his own...
drulius 10 months ago
@drulius Just mention the word "Yes" and you'll see just how irritable Bill can get. And this is the funny part. To the average music/percussion lover, he will always be remembered as the guy who left Yes - not so much as the drummer for Earthworks, UK or Crimson but as the guy who walked out of Yes at the height of its popularity. He's stuck with that label and he resents it. Why? Because whatever he did subsequently was never able to erase that idea in people's minds.
mawel1955 10 months ago
@mawel1955 Sounds like you're more upset that he left Yes than he was. You talk as if you've had deep, personal conversations with the man, but apparently have not even read his autobiography. I imagine I would get irritated if interviewers constantly asked me why I left a group years and years ago, too. Some Yes fanatics can't let it go. And you will note that Bruford was in 3 versions of King Crimson, so he obviously did not squander that opportunity.
drulius 10 months ago
@mawel1955 Bill Bruford = inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. Other Yes drummers = nope. Real musicians appreciate and respect his immense talent.
drulius 10 months ago
Fantastic song! I wonder why Bruford doesn't play those quick Octaban (Dragondrum?) notes live, in the beginning of the piece? They really give character to it. Bozzio also ignores them in concert. Bruford probably overdubbed them in the original studio version, but I know they can be played live.
17drums 11 months ago
I was at this concert what a great show and if you were there you should remember the crowd of people watching a chess game going on in front of the stage that was me.... What a great show
thompsontg 11 months ago
@thompsontg , me too, great show, was this broadcast on WYSP or something? One thing I remember before they came out was the crowd singing along with Suffragette City
Newteredone 10 months ago
@Newteredone , I think it was on IOQ. The whole concert was broadcast. I still have it on cassette and pull it out every couple of years and dream of such a great band. It looks like they had a mini reunion concert in Warsaw not too long ago.
shmtnmusic 10 months ago
I love these old sing-a-long tunes...
cosmicjazzer 1 year ago
Holdsworth, Santana, and McLaughlin would be a JAMB !!!
telemacherT2 1 year ago
@telemacherT2 McLaughlin has played with Santana (Love Devotion Surrender), and it was an atrocious album. Holdsworth couldn't hold a candle to McLaughlin, and Santana couldn't hold a candle to either of the other two!!
comedytoddler 1 year ago
@unlikeanyotherhuman Well, took a year to get you to accept it. But, I still think, after a whole year, that BB is the best. Peace
FoxtronInk 1 year ago
This is seriously rhythmically precise playing from Jobson...
cosmicjazzer 1 year ago
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Absolutely brilliant song! Wetton's vocals and bass, great drumming from Bruford, fantastic keyboard, and those time-signature shifts. Unique...
LeighBlackmore 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant song! Wetton's vocals and bas, great drumming from Bruord, fantastic keyboard, and those time-signature shifts. Unique...
LeighBlackmore 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant song! Wetton's vocals and bas, great drumming from Brford, fantastic keboard, and those time-signature shifts. Unique...
LeighBlackmore 1 year ago
Ｂｉｌｌ’ｓ ｄｒｕｍｓ ｓｏｕｎｄ ａｍａｚｉｎｇ！
yamada5648 1 year ago
I've never really listened to UK before, although I have been an Holdsworth fan for some time. Sounds great!
Although, there is one thing I find disconcerting...and that is how much Dream Theater has stolen.....I mean, BORROWED from UK, haha.
chasingpaganini 1 year ago
These guys were so good, so talented. Too bad they couldn't have held on for a few years and left us with more to enjoy.
jjp4mma 1 year ago
Bill Bruford is definitley THE MAN. I read that when he left YES that Alan White had a living hell of a time trying to copy Bills drumming. My next favorite drummer is Carl Palmer. Palmer has demonic speed but Bruford has technique and I just love to hear his tasty off-time like drumming and fills.
alcatras4 1 year ago
Simply awesome.
carnalrhythms 1 year ago
U.K. and their first album was an amazing event captured forever. As good as they are here the original recording is perfect in every way. Too bad they couldn't keep the same line-up and drive for the second album. They were leading the jazz/rock world at that time with their tech sounds and skill.
Chorddual1 1 year ago
bill bruford is the most inventive drummer in the history of rock music. he always seemed to be more laid back and boring with UK though.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago 2
@kingcrimson234 i dont hear how he's playing laid back and boring with uk. they kicked him out for changing the beat every time they played just like holdsworth
damphear2 1 year ago 5
@damphear2 I recall he left because Allan had to leave, and Bill was the one who brought him in...
eddievhfan1984 1 year ago
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chyrd 1 year ago
@damphear2 Bill was not "kicked out" of U.K., he had made plans with Robert Fripp to do a project. Bill was a sideman and a leader - in this case, a sideman. It's fun sometimes to let someone else run it so you can just play but after a while you want to play your own stuff too or.... move on.
Jay435 1 year ago
@damphear2 What's the audio source for this? Do you have the complete show? This is so much better than the later shows I've heard. The second version of U.K. was okay I guess, but this stuff seriously kicks ass, and has a much better "raw" feel compared to the first studio album! Thanks for posting!!! :)
83169 8 months ago
@kingcrimson234 although saw this comment after a year still wish to agree what you said and Iike to recommend to view Forever untill Sunday, Feel goods to me.....etc.
alexauyeung 4 months ago
I've never seen this, before! Thanks for the fantastic upload!!!
312chicagoadam 1 year ago
I love UK. One of the hottest bands ever in the world. Too bad they came to an early end. They were so freaking fantastic.
pazzensutra 1 year ago 2
i saw this show at penns landing, wioq 102 fm promoted this thing to the hilt, free concert. 75,000 people showed up. last free concert at penns landing for a long time. my friends band opened up for them tritent. it was awesome, the crowed would not let them leave the stage until wetton said they have no more songs. one thing i remember " get off the portapots or the show will not start" lot's of coke at this show. i was 18.
bdprecis 1 year ago
This is Eddie Jobson's homage to Frank Zappa. What's amazing is Holdsworth is playing along with the melody, as best he can.
CribNotes 2 years ago
Ha! Classic! I was at this show! I had just finished 10th grade!!
CribNotes 2 years ago
Presto is... magical!!!
oilkills 2 years ago
Amazing...
petiethepitt 2 years ago
Thanks for posting....This album has been on my turntable for a week now :)
aa359 2 years ago
Oh yeah
Frank Zappa
all the albums from 1978 to 1986
MikeHirsh 2 years ago
The Last Great Progressive Band
Asia was...where I don't know where to fit Asia
Genesis= Duke Abacab
Asis & Alpha
Elpowell
Yes= 90125, Big Generator
MikeHirsh 2 years ago
You just might be right about that. Too bad that by the time U.K. came along
prog was very much out of fashion.
finylvinyl66 2 years ago
to me this was the perfect monster prog fusion band
Satiaraha 2 years ago 3
LOL ever notice how much John Wetton looks like Micheal Palin from Monty Python?
Jay435 2 years ago
Legend has it that this concert shut down I-95 in Philly as people stopped their vehicles on the highway to listen to the concert, as I-95 overlooked Penn's Landing.
mebalcony 2 years ago
Nasty good. that riff at the beginning on drums by Bruford is amazing.
Drumspiracy 2 years ago
God, I love Alan's solo on this live version. Such a pure blend of dissonance with ordered chaos all the while maintaining a fluid motion of guitar bliss.
I have absolutely no idea of what I just said...
but I like it
Lightmane321 2 years ago 4
Lightmane321, what you said actually hurt my brain but I think you're absolutely correct and I heartily concur without any further adieu. A linear fluidity with a macabre hint at melody noir. Ow! it hurts again.
Jay435 2 years ago
@Jay435 ROFL
glad you liked it. : )
Lightmane321 2 years ago
@Lightmane321 agreed! great solo!
jamesedwardtheobald 6 months ago
LOVELOVELOVE THIS JAM. but them keys are painfully overbareing at the first 1/2
MRCJCOLLINS 2 years ago
I was at this show, this is the first and last free rock event at Penns landing. The place was over run and completly trashed. They were the good old days.
wigwam622 2 years ago
Great to hear a live version cool done with the clip!
uzzz 2 years ago
Qrva nagy!!!!!!!!!!
tormaturmix 2 years ago
Even though Bill is better on a snare Bozzio Fahkin owns this song!
flammaster 2 years ago
uk fm love prog rock trios
zztiki 2 years ago
The original UK was a Quartet John Wetton,Bill Burford,Alan Holdsworth,& Eddie Jobson.
Burford,&Holdsworth split after touring.
The 2nd album is when they became a trio. Wetton,Jobson,&Terri Bozzio from Frank Zappa & later Terri & wife Dale formed Missing Persons.
s0undch4ser 2 years ago 2
John Wetton never played bass for Frank Zappa, it was Patrick O'Hearn in the ensemble with Bozzio & Jobson
Jay435 2 years ago
Listen to how effortlessly Holdsworth matches Eddie Jobson's stellar keyboard runs in Presto Vivace note for note...
Jesus H. Christ!
poncelled 2 years ago 4
Speaking of effortless; When there is a close-up face shot of Bruford, you can barely tell that he's hitting the drums. He has this "minimalist" thing going on with his posture and facial expression. The opposite of most drummers. Very little extraneous movement. I've always loved that about Bill Bruford.
rdoogie 2 years ago 9
@rdoogie Perhaps a result of Fripp-inspired discipline? Or maybe that is what drew him into King Crimson as a kindred spirit.
transmog2020 5 months ago
This is just so f--ing fantastic. I loved this group and Holdsworth is....well, Holdsworth. Thanks for this.
jlgeorge 2 years ago
If only this band would have stayed together. They could have destroyed the universe!
Yarsh52 2 years ago 3
You freaking said it!!
pazzensutra 2 years ago 2
f................ brilliant presto
teddingtontcu 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this, it is awesome! (my preceding comment was in response to jazz snob barrabas600)
tobycat11 2 years ago
U freaking K!!!! The greatest rock band in the world. Even now, nobody can touch this band, and their debut.
pazzensutra 2 years ago 4
Dream Theater steal alot from these guys!
petar870602 2 years ago 2
Bruford on Holdsworth's "In The Dead of Night" solo: "(it) remains one of the most perfectly formed, intelligently paced, and brilliantly executed two minutes of liquid guitar bliss you are ever likely to hear."
CACBCCCU 3 years ago 8
thank you, thank you for this immeasurably valuable quote from Bruford, one of my Rock gods, about the always imposing, adventurous and ground-breaking Holdsworth, another of my Rock gods, but I'm wondering if Bruford's quote pertains to this live performance solo or the original studio album recording ... any insight there?
of course, many thanks to the poster of this amazing clip!
DoctorPatient 2 years ago
you can slightly hear eddy slow down his key playing once holdsworth can play at speed with him
damphear2 2 years ago
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@damphear2 This is your comment, " you can slightly hear eddy slow down his key playing once holdsworth can play at speed with him" SO... are you saying Allan was having a hard time keeping up with Eddies speed? Even Yng says he had a hard time with PRESTO! Peace!
oilkills 9 months ago
@CACBCCCU Agreed
FoxtronInk 1 year ago
Bill Bruford, The best Drummer in the world. I mean it.
Foxtronix Ink Washingtom
FoxtronInk 3 years ago 13
@FoxtronInk Amen brother, I agree.
swaggs 9 months ago
@swaggs Right On Brother.
FoxtronInk 9 months ago
Thanks for the post. What recording is this excerpt from?
mgnmxl 3 years ago
Can the uk fans understand what holsdworth is playing?. I don´t think so. They love rock not jazz.
barrabas600 3 years ago
R U drunk?, it is not rock or jazz, but a little of both, i understand what Holdsworth is doing, for one thing he is mimicing a saxaphone player in his approach to playing the guitar. If your a snobby jazz fan, stay off this page, your treading in an area known as prog rock, the fans of which you obviously don't know any thing about.
tobycat11 2 years ago 2
The intro must be from Jobson's days with FZ. Wetton still sounds like Crimson. Bruford is the best live drummer I have EVER seen, and in the top 10 of all time. Holdsworth is about as technical as any guitarist can be. Good post!
BMayhew60 3 years ago 2
Yeah, I loved Bruford with Yes, King Crimson, and UK... AND ALAN IS JUST AWESOME!!!
oilkills 3 years ago 2
Bill Bruford just retired!!! One of the best bands ever, so far ahead of their time!
lauriemonk 3 years ago
There is easily no band where a wonderful so much member becomes complete.
riversend21 3 years ago
amazing!
billpeart 3 years ago