Eddie Jobson
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Topic: Eddie Jobson
Posted By: tube-type
Subject: Eddie Jobson
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 12:25
One thing I've noticed...Old Jobbo doesn't have his own listing in the archives...I know his commercial solo efforts have been limited, but what do you think? Anybody out there ever listen to the "Green Album" or better yet, "Theme of Secrets"?
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 12:37
Yes I do. I love them both!
I think it's too bad he didn't do more albums. Didn't he produce the Bulgarian Choir?
Early burnout? I have no idea.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 12:40
tube, you start posting here and the first thing you talk about is eddie jobson's solo career! man! you are a very promising member!
regarding jobson, i think he must be here in the database, because his 2 solo albums are prog rock and prog new age.
excellent thread!
by the way, eddie is my favorite keyboardist, and he demonstrates his talent on green and theme of secrets. jobson's keyboards and gary green's electric guitar are a WINNING combination!
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Posted By: tube-type
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 12:46
He is one of the premier keyboardists, but it was the electric violin as a lead instument that got me hooked when he opted in for Darrell Way in Curved Air. He didn't use it on "Theme", but it wouldn't have fit anyway. I don't know about the Bulgarian Choir, but he does TV and film music these days...
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 12:55
Secrets was very ambitious album. Great stuff. So he's into TV and film music? I should have guessed...
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 13:20
yeah, and he even tried some rap elaborations
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 13:49
What's he doin' nowday's? Anybody knows? And why has he done so little?
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 15:50
tube-type wrote:
One thing I've noticed...Old Jobbo doesn't have his own listing in the archives...I know his commercial solo efforts have been limited, but what do you think? Anybody out there ever listen to the "Green Album" or better yet, "Theme of Secrets"? |
Theme Of Secrets .Don't have the ''Green Album''....is is better than TOS?
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 16:13
richardh wrote:
tube-type wrote:
One thing I've noticed...Old Jobbo doesn't have his own listing in the archives...I know his commercial solo efforts have been limited, but what do you think? Anybody out there ever listen to the "Green Album" or better yet, "Theme of Secrets"? |
Theme Of Secrets .Don't have the ''Green Album''....is is better than TOS?
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For me they are even. The Green album is a bit more songs, a bit more in the direction of UK. Theme Of Secrets is much more experimental.
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Posted By: tube-type
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 17:18
Funny thing is, some of the chord progressions and musical phrases on the Green Album are somewhat reprised on TOS. Even funnier, some of the phrasings on both are reminicent of his work with Zappa.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 19:07
yes, just a very few bits, and i even notice the similitude on green with his UK's Alaska intro!
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Posted By: Giant Hogweed
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 19:14
Great guy, both with his UK and Tull work.
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Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 19:51
Giant Hogweed wrote:
Great guy, both with his UK and Tull work. | And with Zappa.
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Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 19:52
Good ole 'Jobbo' indeed.Used to have Green,but it didn't do to much for me when it came out.
He is a great talent but seemed to vanish after UK.I was lucky to see him with Roxy and Tull.
First time with Roxy ,I think he was 19 or something like that.Quality.
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Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 21:10
richardh wrote:
Theme Of Secrets .Don't have the ''Green Album''....is is better than TOS? |
You've never heard The Green Album?! It's a rock album...sorta proggy but with short songs. Great keyboard work (of course) & melodies by EJ. ToS is a new age album, so you can't really compare the two. 'Cept I can't listen to ToS...it hasn't aged well...I'd sooner throw on Kitaro!
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 12:32
mirco wrote:
Giant Hogweed wrote:
Great guy, both with his UK and Tull work. | And with Zappa. |
I should still listen to his Tull and Zappa work. Does he really make his marks on the Tull stuff he plays on? On what Zappa album(s) did he play again? Didn't he play with Roxy Music as well, or do I mix things up?
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 12:52
richardh wrote:
Theme Of Secrets .Don't have the ''Green Album''....is is better than TOS?
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Actually these album are very different musically, Green is hard prog rock, Theme is one of Private Music's early releases, when the label specialised in ambient, but is certainly one of the more ambitious and enjoyable albums they issued. Jobson uses the synclavier - and it is worth comparing this synclavier work with Jobson's former boss, Zappa's Jazz From Hell. Jobson also contributed to Private Music's Piano - and I think too Piano 2 - with 4 longish acoustic piano pieces played by 4 separate musicans.
When not writing TV theme and continuity music (unrecognisable in that Don Johnson's cop show - and remember Jan Hammer made a mint and broadened his fame with the earlier Miami Vice), Jobson, has had a large number of projects - e.g. remastering Allan Holdsworth's Road Games album. There is always talk about the original line-up of UK getting together, and even recording but nothing to show in over a decade of rumours.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 14:11
Moogtron III wrote:
mirco wrote:
Giant Hogweed wrote:
Great guy, both with his UK and Tull work. | And with Zappa. |
I should still listen to his Tull and Zappa work. Does he really make his marks on the Tull stuff he plays on? On what Zappa album(s) did he play again? Didn't he play with Roxy Music as well, or do I mix things up?
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jobson worked on 2 zappa's albums: zappa in new york & studio tan; zappa in new york is one of the rare albums of zappa i don't own; however, jobson's keyboards on studio tan, combined with george duke's, are absolutely fantastic: he amazingly does not sound serious, like he used to do on his studio albums, on UK's albums and on Tull's A album. his work on "A" his honest, he sounds futuristic with a clinic & nervous sound, giving the exact pace for Peter John Vetteese's orientation on the broadsword & under wraps albums, but one feels he does not take too much room due to the presence of other excellent musicians!
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Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 14:29
tube-type wrote:
One thing I've noticed...Old Jobbo doesn't have his own listing in the archives...I know his commercial solo efforts have been limited, but what do you think? Anybody out there ever listen to the "Green Album" or better yet, "Theme of Secrets"? |
I think the Green Album is vastly superior - the album Yes should have released in the 80s. Yes, Jobson should be listed.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 14:36
greenback wrote:
Moogtron III wrote:
mirco wrote:
Giant Hogweed wrote:
Great guy, both with his UK and Tull work. | And with Zappa. |
I should still listen to his Tull and Zappa work. Does he really make his marks on the Tull stuff he plays on? On what Zappa album(s) did he play again? Didn't he play with Roxy Music as well, or do I mix things up?
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jobson worked on 2 zappa's albums: zappa in new york & studio tan; zappa in new york is one of the rare albums of zappa i don't own; however, jobson's keyboards on studio tan, combined with george duke's, are absolutely fantastic: he amazingly does not sound serious, like he used to do on his studio albums, on UK's albums and on Tull's A album. his work on "A" his honest, he sounds futuristic with a clinic & nervous sound, giving the exact pace for Peter John Vetteese's orientation on the broadsword & under wraps albums, but one feels he does not take too much room due to the presence of other excellent musicians!
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Thanks! I'd almost made a new Jobson thread and I would have dedicated it to you! I didn't do it because I remembered that someone else made a Jobson thread.
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Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 14:36
Moogtron III wrote:
Yes I do. I love them both!
I think it's too bad he didn't do more albums. Didn't he produce the Bulgarian Choir?
Early burnout? I have no idea.
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A few years back he was working on a UK reunion album, including the original four members.
Things started to unravel, and somehow Wetton dropped out, and then the project was going under the name Legacy. I know Bruford worked on it for quite a while. My increasingly fuzzy memory says Tony Levin was involved too.
Unfortunately, last I heard the project was abandoned. Drag, cause Jobson spent years on it.
his web site: http://www.eddiejobson.com - www.eddiejobson.com
his company's web site: http://www.globemusicmediaarts.com - www.globemusicmediaarts.com
And here's a link to an article on Jobson and Legacy, etc.
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_edge_eddie_jobson/ - http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_edge_eddie_jobson/
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Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 19:16
Eddie Jobson is just great!!
Essential discography:
CURVED AIR - Air Cut (1973)
ROXY MUSIC - Stranded (1973); Country Life (1974); Siren (1975)
FRANK ZAPPA - Studio Tan; In New York
UK - UK (1978); Danger Money (1979)
JETHRO TULL - A (1980)
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 29 2005 at 20:05
elpprogster wrote:
FRANK ZAPPA - Studio Tan; In New York |
And Mr Jobson was one of the photographic "pretty boy" models for the cover of Zappa's Zoot Allures although my liner notes don't indicate him playing ( nor Patrick O'Hearn photographed too - is the third Bozzio???)
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: July 30 2005 at 02:13
Dick Heath wrote:
elpprogster wrote:
FRANK ZAPPA - Studio Tan; In New York
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And Mr Jobson was one of the photographic "pretty boy" models for the cover of Zappa's Zoot Allures although my liner notes don't indicate him playing ( nor Patrick O'Hearn photographed too - is the third Bozzio???)
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yes the 3 rd is bozzio
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Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: July 30 2005 at 07:25
Eddie Jobson is great on Zappa's 'In New York'. His moog solo on 'I promise not to come In your mouth' (awful song title I know) is just fantastic. As is the rest of his playing.
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Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: July 30 2005 at 08:55
greenback wrote:
tube, you start posting here and the first thing you talk about is eddie jobson's solo career! man! you are a very promising member!
regarding jobson, i think he must be here in the database, because his 2 solo albums are prog rock and prog new age.
excellent thread!
by the way, eddie is my favorite keyboardist, and he demonstrates his talent on green and theme of secrets. jobson's keyboards and gary green's electric guitar are a WINNING combination!
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Hey, Greenback, where I can find "The Green Album" on CD? I love Jobson's work with Roxy Music, Jethro Tull and UK, but I never found any of his solo albums. "The Green Album" was released in Brazil shortly after it's original release (glorious, old days of vinyl releases), but I never found a copy.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 30 2005 at 10:43
M. B. Zapelini wrote:
greenback wrote:
tube, you start posting here and the first thing you talk about is eddie jobson's solo career! man! you are a very promising member!
regarding jobson, i think he must be here in the database, because his 2 solo albums are prog rock and prog new age.
excellent thread!
by the way, eddie is my favorite keyboardist, and he demonstrates his talent on green and theme of secrets. jobson's keyboards and gary green's electric guitar are a WINNING combination!
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Hey, Greenback, where I can find "The Green Album" on CD? I love Jobson's work with Roxy Music, Jethro Tull and UK, but I never found any of his solo albums. "The Green Album" was released in Brazil shortly after it's original release (glorious, old days of vinyl releases), but I never found a copy.
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I get the impression that is is currently out of print (or whatever you call it with cd's ).
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: July 30 2005 at 10:48
here:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Zink%20%28Green%20Album%29:1921063533;_ylt=Avf1r39Vyl8a1CEyce4QU6BUvQcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBzZTVhM3RqBF9zAzk1OTUxMTEzBGx0AzQEc2VjA2FydHByb2Q - http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Zink%20%28Green%20Album%29:19210 63533;_ylt=Avf1r39Vyl8a1CEyce4QU6BUvQcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBzZTVhM3R qBF9zAzk1OTUxMTEzBGx0AzQEc2VjA2FydHByb2Q -
brand new, it is 223$ , and used, it is 99$
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