He's Back !!! 😝

[Gilly Goodness]

From the John Wetton Memorial Concert





Playin' Let's Stick Together.

Maybe some UK with Chris Braide on vox???



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TIKKUN OLAM. SPIRITUS MUNDI

[Gilly Goodness]

Just a woozy bluesy jam out Let's Stick Together with Chris Difford from Squeeze on vox and the kids from
Paul Green Academy. Loads of fun.

Rick Wakeman played Life on Mars to open proceedin's.

Steve Howe did a video tribute.

More to come.

Bruford hasn't played live since 2009?



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GLOBAL SYMPHONY. KARMACHROMATIC

[PhaseDance]

Is there a link to this bit on Youtube?

[Gilly Goodness]

Only watched a 1. 38 sec video on a FB YES page.



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AFTERALL. WE ARE STARFALL

[Gilly Goodness]

More pix from the night :





The New Asia with Geoff, Billy and Jay with John Mitchell and Harry Whitely.


Geoff in rehearsal 😍





Bill and chums. Guy Pratt. Phil Manzanera. Chris Difford...



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GLOBAL SYMPHONY. KARMACHROMATIC

[JMKUSA]

I find it so hilarious that Bill “came out of retirement” just to play such a simple song. Some of the people watching the live stream were commenting that they hoped he’d play on a KC track.

[JMKUSA]

Is there a link to this bit on Youtube?

No, you had to pay 30 pounds to view the livestream. I think you can still pay and get access to the recording for the next couple of days. https://www.tradingboundaries.com/co...p=ch6lfunpslws

[Gilly Goodness]

Bruford Hackett and Chapman







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YOU ARE MY MIRROR TO THE SKY

[luvyesmusic]

Bill is and always has been a great guy, and YES ambassador. Yes , he made some comments about old YES-fans when he was doing Earthworks.

I love all music including jazz, and I played trumpet in Jazz Lab along with every other musical band in school, but Earthworjs didn’t seem to be my thing. He played quite a bit in d.c. . Perhaps the electronic drums from ABW&H soured me a bit after several shows. I even have an autograph that was written to a great drummer and percussionist up in Edmonton, Canada also named Rob, who was gracious enough to send me on an Earthworks dvd.
Great for Bill to come out, but I am sure it was the camaraderie and increasing age, that was a great excuse to fo so in celebrating John.

I remember when someone posted pictures of Bill as the official ambassador to a group of YES-fans who visited a restaurant where they all use to practice fifty-years ago at that time, and the place has a special blue plaque.

Love Bill!

[True]

I'm so surprised , I never had any expectation that Bill would play publicly for any reason. I'd wondered many times - when so much of your life is your instrument, and you walk away from it...do you miss it? I remember Bill speaking of Artie Shaw and it seemed that Bill admired that Shaw just put his instrument away forever one day. But I remember one interview from a few years ago, wherein Bill said that he would walk past the kit in his home and not want to play it. And I thought "why does Bill Bruford have a kit set up in his home, if he is finished playing?"

So I have wondered if he ever plays that kit at all. I have not seen this clip of him playing this week, even if it's the most simple playing you've ever seen, I find it exciting that he did it. Something tells me that, even on the simplest of tunes, he could not help but hit the snare on the two - and , when you thought he was going to hit the two. And in the next bar he didn't hit the snare at all. Just to surprise.
I don't have any need for Bill Bruford to resume his playing career, I know you can't re-create the historic versions of Earthworks or UK or Yes or Crimson, but I'd be thrilled to see him play again, because he has a gift. And if he plays at all, even if it is by himself and he enjoys it, then I think that is great.

[Mr. Holland]

I find it so hilarious that Bill “came out of retirement” just to play such a simple song. Some of the people watching the live stream were commenting that they hoped he’d play on a KC track.

Well, Bill has repeatedly said in interviews that in the last decade or so he has has hardly touched a drumset. And I saw Dave Kilminster say on twitter that there were actually no rehearsals for the tribute concert, outside of some rehearsal for oneself. So taking these things into account I think people were lucky to hear Bill play anything at all.

[JMKUSA]

Well, Bill has repeatedly said in interviews that in the last decade or so he has has hardly touched a drumset. And I saw Dave Kilminster say on twitter that there were actually no rehearsals for the tribute concert, outside of some rehearsal for oneself. So taking these things into account I think people were lucky to hear Bill play anything at all.

I agree. Leave it to Bill to defy everyone’s expectations.

[Gilly Goodness]

BRUFORD TAKES OVER THE MIC





The time Bill sang Heart of the Sunrise when Anderson had a sore throat. Went over well apart from the No Jon/No Yes crowd 😘



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STILL I DREAM OF A SKY WITHOUT FIRE