Bill Bruford’s instantly identifiable sound and brilliant sense of composition made him the defining drummer of the progressive rock movement; but at age 60, after four decades in the music business, Bill unceremoniously walked away.
Bill tells Joe about: being a young jazz elitist; "leveraging himself sideways" from an upper-middle class family to the seedy life of a musician; doing a lot with “a modest amount of talent”; the creative dynamics of Yes and King Crimson; how he achieved his signature snare sound; retirement; and earning a doctorate from The University of Surrey. During the course of the conversation, Joe and Bill also christen a new band, Wongford. This is a can’t-miss episode with one of the all-time greats.
261: Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, XTC, Paul McCartney, etc.)
260: Billy Conway (Morphine, Jeffrey Foucault, etc.)
259: Kid Congo (The Pink Monkey Birds, The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
258: Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt, Black Pus)
257: John Congleton (the pAper ChAse, Music Producer)
256: Meg Remy (U.S. Girls)
255: Britt Walford (Slint, The Breeders, Languid and Flaccid)
254: Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso)
253: Rick Smith (Torche)
252: Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
251: Andrya Ambro (Gold Dime, Talk Normal)
250: Billy Martin (illy B; Medeski, Martin & Wood; John Zorn; Bob Moses, etc.)
249: Matt Sharp (The Rentals, Weezer)
248: Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top, The Moving Sidewalks)
247: Mike Bordin (Faith No More, Ozzy Osborne)
246: Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy)
245: Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rocket Juice & the Moon, Atoms for Peace)
244: Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In, De Facto, etc.)
243: Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman)
242: Sean Tillmann (Har Mar Superstar, Heart Bones)
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