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Eddie Jobson is an English keyboardist and violinist. He appears with Allan on the album [[U.K.]] by the band of the same name. He also appears (uncredited) on violin on one track of "One Of A Kind". He also released a special edition of "16 Men Of Tain". | Eddie Jobson is an English keyboardist and violinist. He appears with Allan on the album [[U.K.]] by the band of the same name. He also appears (uncredited) on violin on one track of "One Of A Kind". He also released a special edition of "16 Men Of Tain". | ||
=EDDIE ON ALLAN= | |||
And the reason I ended up really being main writer for U.K. was that I was | |||
the guy sort of in the center. John was definitely on the right wing, and Allan was | |||
totally on the left wing. And John always wanted it to be more commercial, more | |||
accessible, more rock and more arena like. Allan, on the other hand, wanted it to be | |||
more jazz, more obscure. And Bill...he'd gone exactly opposite direction of most | |||
people. He started off the biggest band in the world, and getting more and more | |||
obscure, more into jazz, less commercial thing, you know. Yes to King Crimson to | |||
U.K. to Bruford. He was the one who brought Allan into the band, and wanted to do | |||
more jazz thing with Allan. I was sort of in the middle trying to keep all of these | |||
elements together, but nobody was totally happy. I was probably happiest than | |||
anybody in the band because I was sort of in the middle. I liked John did, which was | |||
more accessible, and I also liked the improvisation that Allan was brining. Bill always | |||
wanted to be progressive and move into other areas. I was quite happy with that, but | |||
John was unhappy with that, Bill and Allan were unhappy. So I had to kind of make a | |||
choice which side I was going to go with. We just decided... Bill and Allan go and do | |||
fusion thing, John and I will take the band in a direction that is sort of lot more | |||
mainstream because we were suffering little bit from the fact that we were being | |||
conceived as a fusion group. | |||
Art Rock: Here's an instrumental called "Forever Until Sunday"on this (showing him a | |||
bootleg CD that I brought, which was called Road Test). Why was not this on any of | |||
U.K. albums? | |||
Jobson: "Forever Until Sunday"is on Bill Bruford's album (I realized I didn't reme mber | |||
Bill'sOne Of A Kind album.) | |||
Art Rock: But...didn't you write this? | |||
Jobson: (Looking over the CD) Umm...It says here I did. I think there were two | |||
versions of it. Well, well...that's a good question. Forever Until Sunday...I don't | |||
remember if I wrote that or Bill wrote that or if we co-wrote that because I know | |||
"Sahara Of Snow"was written by Bill and myself. Bill wrote one section, and I wrote | |||
another section. That ended up on his record, too. So I don't remember if I wrote this. | |||
There are two songs we worked on together. Once U.K. split up Bill asked me if I | |||
could do songs on his album. So I said "yes,"and in fact I played on his record, but | |||
I didn't get any credit because I asked not to put my credit. | |||
Art Rock: Why? | |||
Jobson: Because I didn't want to make confusing. When U.K. split up, Bruford (Bill's | |||
own project) was Bill and Allan, and U.K. was John and me and Terry. And for me to | |||
play on Bruford's album seemed little bit confusing. So I did play on it, but I got no | |||
credit. (laughs) I think "Forever Until Sunday"is violin instrumental, right? | |||
Art Rock: Yes. | |||
Jobson: That's the track that I played on the album, and I think I might have played | |||
on "Sahara Of Snow." | |||
http://archive.is/UD1H#selection-4547.11-4751.29 | |||
=ALLAN ON EDDIE== | |||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (Guitar Player 1980)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth (Guitar Player 1980)]]== | ||
