Bill Bruford SDX Drum Solo

Bill Bruford, playing with Yes sometime in the late 80's on his Simmons SDX.

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[akoff]

But you didn`t play in Yes, King Crimson and Genesis. So, don`t fool around. Bruford is the man !

[Malzarin]

You have to understand the time this was done. Nobody played like this, that is Bruford's style. When he first did this song it was a revolution in drumming, this is his attempt to include his experimentation 10+ years later.

[ascetic43]

Seems like an inefficient set up, lots of "wasted" energy. But, he's BB and I'm me, so wtf do I know. Cheers.

[johnbambammorgan]

I'D LIKE TO KNOW...HOW HE GOT HIS SIMMONS ...TOUCH SENSITIVE?

[spercoco]

@tapkae ....The rest decided to change drums before the tour. Alan White had been in the studio for a lot of the recording of Close To The Edge and had the songs pretty well in his head so they rehearsed for a couple of weeks with him and did the tour with him instead of Bruford. On the accoustic kit with Yes Bruford was inovative but when he came back and did the ABWH it was just awfull.

[spercoco]

@tapkae I'm not saying musicians shouldn't take solos. Of course all those guys take solos. I play and listen to a lot of jazz as well as rock and jazz is all about solos but there are tastefull solos and tasteless solos; do you follow me? BTW Fragile was not the last Yes album these guys played on together. Bruford gave his notice as they were finishing up Close To The Edge and he said he would do the tour with them but after that he was going to join Crimson but the rest decided to,,,

[tapkae]

@Kamakiriad66 Yeah. Progressing in rock, even as people wrote off Progressive Rock. Dont' forget Bruf & Rick Allen pushed electronic drum technology forward in that decade (Rick by accident, of course), and thanks to them, millions of people can use canned sounds to make "music" without even moving air anymore (samples and other digital processing). No one gets too shocked at digital percussion now, but someone had to be the 1st on the block with this stuff. Then the pendulum returned...

[tapkae]

@goldenpica I doubt Yes fans went to see these guys in order to go to the concessions stands. Anyone who really knew what they were paying for probably was content to see each player show off a bit, ala the old days. Do people accidentally buy Yes tickets?

[tapkae]

@spercoco This was an interlude section of the concert. The songs are played in full on the CD I have. And beside, the band was Anderson, Bruf, Wakeman, and Howe. You don't suppose that those guys all took some solo sections? Even the album Fragile (the last one they all played on as Yes) was comprised of a solo track each that showed off whatever each player had to bring to the table. Bruf has always changed his kit from one band or project to another with wild varieties. This is 1989's kit.

[arachnosoft]

With some nice Roland D-50 incursions in the background!

[KillingLies1]

what is ABWH

[thebehtbeht]

I loved the ABWH album, and I love Bill Bruford, but I hated those drums.