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Melos 
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Posted: May 14 2006 at 13:34 |
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Eddie is an excellent keyboardist and violinist, but I think his work is a bit underrated... specially in the seventies. What do you think?
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Posted: May 14 2006 at 13:54 |
I don't think he's that underrated. He often gets mentioned in polls and such around here. Perhaps as a keyboardist he's overlooked in favour of the usual Emersons and Wakemans, but that happens to almost everybody else.
Being a lady, I would also add that in the '70s (I don't know about now) Eddie was a very good-looking young man as well...  |
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Melos
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Posted: May 14 2006 at 14:24 |
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Right, I rarely visit the forum, maybe that's why I don't see his work discussed here.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: May 14 2006 at 14:42 |
Well, a few months ago there was a 'best violin player' topic on the Forum and one visitor admitted that he didn't know that Eddie Jobson also played violin along keyboards ... in my opinion he is more unknown to many new progheads because it is such a long time ago he did something on an album or with a band.
But in the Seventies and Eighties Eddie Jobson was absolutely not underrated, I remember vividly how many progheads (like me) went to concerts by UK and Jethro Tull, especially to witness Jobson his magic on the Yamaha CS80 synthesizer and transparent violin!
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Posted: May 14 2006 at 17:36 |
Ditto; I don't see how Jobson would be "underrated" considering how visible he was, for a while: Curved Air, Roxy Music, Zappa, U.K. (!!), Jethro Tull, (very briefly in) Yes, and then solo, and finally into the world of commercial scoring.
All I know is I can't get enough of Danger Money and I love A more than when I first heard it over 20 years ago.
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greenback
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Posted: May 15 2006 at 00:40 |
 Ghost Rider wrote:
I don't think he's that underrated. He often gets mentioned in polls and such around here. Perhaps as a keyboardist he's overlooked in favour of the usual Emersons and Wakemans, but that happens to almost everybody else.
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I think he is underrated: he should be on the podium beside Emerson & Wakeman:
the are the trinity of the keyboards! look at my signature!
Edited by greenback - May 15 2006 at 00:42
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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mrgd
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Posted: May 16 2006 at 20:06 |
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He was certainly rated by every band he ever played with and by those fans who have been lucky enough to see him live [of which I'm pleased to be one] . His rise into the upper echelon of prog rock in the 70s was nothing short of meteoric. That he has slipped through the cracks of prog since into a more sheltered musical existence may well have been a matter of choice . That doesn't necessarily make him underrated, just lesser known in the last couple of decades, more's the pity.
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Looking still the same after all these years...
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thai_prog_fan
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Posted: May 17 2006 at 02:11 |
Ghost Rider wrote:
I don't think he's that underrated. He often gets mentioned in polls and such around here. Perhaps as a keyboardist he's overlooked in favour of the usual Emersons and Wakemans, but that happens to almost everybody else.
Being a lady, I would also add that in the '70s (I don't know about now) Eddie was a very good-looking young man as well... |
IMO, Eddie Jobson is an excellent keyboardist and violinist, but I've never thought he is overlooked. He is a talented musician indeed. I admire his electric violin playing when he was with UK. His musicianship is outstanding and is not far from Wakeman's or Emerson's. Judging from some of his photos taken in the late 70's, I agree that Jobson was really a good-looking guy.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: May 17 2006 at 09:28 |
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Perhaps dropping out of sight wrt album releases since the 80's hasn't helped, and some of the non-descript theme and incidental music to which Josbon's name gets attached on late night TV cop shows hasn't helped either. There are those stories in the last 15 years of the original UK line-up getting back together, with even some of the backing tracks ready for solo and vocals to be dropped in.
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verslibre
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Posted: May 17 2006 at 22:42 |
Dick Heath wrote:
Perhaps dropping out of sight wrt album releases since the 80's hasn't helped, and some of the non-descript theme and incidental music to which Josbon's name gets attached on late night TV cop shows hasn't helped either. |
*cough* Nash Bridges *cough*
Dick Heath wrote:
There are those stories in the last 15 years of the original UK line-up getting back together, with even some of the backing tracks ready for solo and vocals to be dropped in. |
It was only Wetton and Jobson, and the Legacy album (which eventually became the name of the project, as well) was first commenced because John asked Ed to play on his solo album (which may have been Battle Lines back then), and Ed said he wouldn't but would play with John if they resurrected U.K. Sounds like Eddie doesn't want to play second fiddle. A couple of songs have been recorded ("Legacy" and "Trail Of Tears") but John extricated himself from the project soon enough.
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prog4evr
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Posted: May 18 2006 at 01:33 |
Dick Heath wrote:
Perhaps dropping out of sight wrt album
releases since the 80's hasn't helped, and some of the
non-descript theme and incidental music to which Josbon's name gets
attached on late night TV cop shows hasn't helped either. There are
those stories in the last 15 years of the original UK line-up getting
back together, with even some of the backing tracks ready for solo and
vocals to be dropped in. |
Would Holdsworth really come back to U.K? Would Bruford? That would be great, but I think it would take a miracle...
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Raff
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Posted: May 18 2006 at 03:25 |
prog4evr wrote:
Would Holdsworth really come back to U.K? Would Bruford? That would be great, but I think it would take a miracle...
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It would be a dream come true, as UK's debut album was nothing short of a masterpiece. However, I agree with you that it would very likely take a miracle to bring those four back together after almost 30 years. Still, one can dream...
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