Original upload date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 01:48:27 GMT
Interview Clip #6- Bill Bruford On His Role Writing The Yes Classic “And You and I”
August 31, 2019 – It was the last album that Bill Bruford did with Yes in the seventies and it was one of the band s
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trongest projects. We're talking three major pieces, the title tune, Siberian Khatru plus the tune “And You and I.” I asked him about his part in the writing project in that classic tune.
The first Earthworks album from Bill Bruford came out in 1987. I was programming a jazz/new age format at the time and I played it on the radio. Acoustic/electric Jazz fusion. There's a tune on the album called “Up North” if you don't know it look it up. On the track, Bruford creates the melody with Simmons drums something the band was famous for. I asked him if that's how the tune main track started.
Keep in mind last year we talked to Bruford's replacement in Yes Alan White. We will put links to that collection in the description of this video. - by John Beaudin
