Bill Bruford - The Autobiography

A more interesting book for me would be Phil Collins - The Drummer Autobiography; only because there is so much on his vocals out there that I stopped following Phil over 30 years ago. Just too damned boring as a singer and never had the lyrical finesse of Peter Gabriel for me. 

 

A couple of months later, I'm STILL not feeling as bad about this book, as I originally thought. My concern was that I had conflicting views within myself to be able to write a decent review ... and these days, I'm looking at it, and find that somethings have not changed ... or improved.

 

Reminds me of a short video that he had about drumming, and he was demonstrating a few things on his drum stix and ... he said ... this is the same thing, just done slightly different ... and sometimes, I think that some of his work, was the same thing, but, that's like saying that no one else's is the same thing ... it usually is, specially a drummer! There are not, in my book, that many completely original drummers that do it completely different than anyone else, and no one has the courage to even try what they do. Pierre Moerlin was one, Keith Moon another, Mani Neumeier another ... people that are so different and independent  that it makes the music stand out ... but I am not sure that Bill Bruford was any more important than the rest of the YES membership at his time.