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Bill Bruford, once called the godfather of progressive-rock
drumming, has been at the top of his profession for four decades.
This is his memoir of life at the heart of prog rock, art rock, and
modern jazz, playing with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Earthworks
and many more. It is an honest and entertaining account of life on
the road and in the studio, rubbing shoulders with the famous, the
less famous, and the infamous, and creating an impressive tally of
great music. A rock musician with the temperament of a classical
musician who became a jazz musician, Bruford defies all the cliches
about drummers. He says: "You write what you have to write, you
play what you have to play, because you cannot sleep at night. If
you can sleep at night, you shouldn't be doing this anyway." From
time to time, at polite dinner parties, someone will ask Bill what
he does. He replies that he is a musician. "Yes, but what do you
really do?" retorts the enquirer. This unusual, funny and
insightful music memoir answers that question.
This book is a description of how one drummer, Bill Bruford of Yes,
King Crimson, Genesis and U.K. fame, survived the lunacy that
accompanies a professional musician's existence and still retained
the desire to sit at the drumset and play. It is a compendium of 18
of Bruford's recorded works in notated form, together with
scene-setting and some explanation of how and why he arrived at the
end product. For the compulsive practisers amongst his readership
he has included a few exercises that may or may not be related to
the music which precedes them in the chapter. If the narrative
casts a somewhat jaundiced eye on the reasons drummers play the
things they play the author makes no apologies for that. Published
by Foruli Classics - dedicated to bringing the best out-of-print
music and popular culture books back into print.
It all started in London. More than fifty years ago, a generation
of teens created something that would change the face of music
forever. London, Reign Over Me immerses us in the backroom clubs,
basement record shops, and late-night faint radio signals of 1960s
Britain, where young hopefuls like Peter Frampton, Dave Davies, and
Mick Jagger built off American blues and jazz to form a whole new
sound. Author Stephen Tow weaves together original interviews with
over ninety musicians and movers-and-shakers of the time to uncover
the uniquely British story of classic rock's birth. Capturing the
stark contrast of bursting artistic energy with the blitzkrieg
landscape leftover from World War II, London, Reign Over Me reveals
why classic rock 'n' roll could only have been born in London. A
new sound from a new generation, this music helped spark the most
important cultural transformation of the twentieth century. Key
interviews include: * Jon Anderson (Yes) * Ian Anderson (Jethro
Tull) * Rod Argent (The Zombies) * Chris Barber (Chris Barber Jazz
Band) * Joe Boyd (Producer/manager) * Arthur Brown (Crazy World of
Arthur Brown) * David Cousins (The Strawbs) * Dave Davies (The
Kinks) * Spencer Davis (Spencer Davis Group) * Judy Dyble (Fairport
Convention) * Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Solo folk/blues artist) *
Peter Frampton (Humble Pie, solo artist) * Roger Glover (Deep
Purple) * Steve Howe (Yes) * Neil Innes (Bonzo Dog Band; Monty
Python) * Kenney Jones (The Small Faces; The Who) * Greg Lake (King
Crimson; Emerson, Lake & Palmer) * Manfred Mann (Manfred Mann)
* Terry Marshall (Marshall Amplification) * Dave Mason (Traffic) *
Phil May (The Pretty Things) * John Mayall (The Bluesbreakers) *
Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds) * Ian McLagan (The Small Faces) *
Jacqui McShee (The Pentangle) * Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits) *
Carl Palmer (Atomic Rooster; Emerson, Lake & Palmer) * Jan
Roberts (Eel Pie Island Documentary Project) * Paul Rodgers (Free)
* Peggy Seeger (Solo folk artist) * Hylda Sims (Club owner) * Keith
Skues (DJ: Radio Caroline, Radio London, Radio One) * Jeremy
Spencer (Fleetwood Mac) * John Steel (The Animals) * Al Stewart
(Solo folk artist) * Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things) * Ray Thomas
(The Moody Blues) * Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention) * Rick
Wakeman (The Strawbs, Yes) * Barrie Wentzell (Photographer: Melody
Maker)
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer is a study of
creativity in the context of expert popular music instrumental
performance. What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is
there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity
inform their practice and that of others in related artistic
spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from
research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset of
popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways
in which expert drummers experience creativity in music performance
and offers fresh insights into in- the- moment interactional
processes in music. An expert practitioner himself, Dr. Bruford
draws on the perceptions of a cohort of internationally renowned,
peak- career professionals and his own experience to introduce and
guide the reader through the many dimensions of creativity in
drummer performance.
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