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Bill Bruford is a British drummer. He appeared with Allan on three studio albums: "Feels Good To Me" and "One Of A Kind" by the band [[Bruford]], and the self-titled album by [[U.K.]]. | Bill Bruford is a British drummer. He appeared with Allan on three studio albums: "Feels Good To Me" and "One Of A Kind" by the band [[Bruford]], and the self-titled album by [[U.K.]]. | ||
==Excerpt from Bill's autobiography== | |||
"Guitarist Allan Holdsworth, like bassist Jeff Berlin, was clearly developing something on his instrument that involved huge leaps forward. There was the liquid hammering on technique in the left hand, by which perhaps only one in three or four notes are struck, with the rest hammered on, by just hitting the fingers on the frets. There were the spectacular leaps in intervals - Allan had me given Nicolas Sloninsky's Thesarus of Scales and Melodic Patterns as a Christmas gift, and he was by now a leading authority in the arcane world of palindromic canons, sesquitone progressions, and the like. Allan brought forward this heavy armament for improvisation in rock and jazz groups. There was the whammy bar, more commonly known as the tremolo arm, which invested his work with so much passion. Just as it seemed the notes could go no farther, the phrase would spin off into the ether with the crying vocal inflection caused by momentarily altering the pitch of all the guitar strings..." | |||
--Bill Bruford, "The Autobiography" pgs.100-101 | |||
==[[Any Key In The U.K. (Unknown publication 1978)]]== | ==[[Any Key In The U.K. (Unknown publication 1978)]]== | ||
