Occupation: Drummer Birth: May 17, 1949
One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way..
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful..
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol..
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who w….
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're a….
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do..
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really..
Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at..
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy..
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano..
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses..
The piano is kind of my second instrument..
Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook….
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the in….
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes..
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mar….
If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it..
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot..
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific..
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star..