ABWH - And You And I (Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA 1989)

Visit Bill’s online store for exclusive and signed items: https://www.shorturl.at/adnpq This whole song has really grown on me over the years, and I’m hooked on it now. Hard to imagine it with any of the components removed or altered, they all seem foundational. Like the best of Yes, there doesn’t seem to be a note wasted, a note just sitting there not earning its keep. The drumming is simple and such fun to play. That’s what, in part, makes it for me. The triangle on the ‘and’ of the third beat of the bar of the groove that starts at 0’43” is cute though. At 0’45” you can see a camera taped to the right stick. It malfunctioned after a few seconds’ use at 1’09” and gave up the ghost. Nice try of the director trying to get a drum stick’s eye view of the proceedings, which, from a drum stick’s point of view, were relatively calm at that point in the song, but, alas, doomed to failure. I was given a writing credit for a handful of chords and a sliver of melody at 3.45 repeated at 5.06 and again at 8.11 which helped things along. Love the general feel of the 3/4 passage starting at 6.47. I don’t know why a medium slow 3/4 is not used more in popular music: you don’t hear it around much these days. No small attraction of playing this tour in the first place was because I got to play a lot of music from Fragile and Close to the Edge for the first time since I recorded them about 17 years previously, so that was a buzz. Plus I was able to get behind the newer material from the ABWH album, such as Birthright and In the Big Dream. I’m sure we’ll be adding more videos from this concert to my Channel, so stay tuned for that. #billbruford #drummer ##tamadrums #yes #paistecymbals #jazzdrummer #earthworks #electronicdrumkit #kingcrimson #billbrufordsearthworks