Proggies rejoice! UK 2011 Reunion (+ a black Victory on a badly lit stage)

[uwe]

The Victory Artist is really made for this kind of stuff.

[gearHed289]

Hmm.... I used to love UK. Nice to see Wetton and Jobson on stage together.

[nofi]

what species is that tone plastic? uk is one of those bands that i should have liked long ago but i no dice.

[uwe]

Dave is walking the dog  , it's ok to out yourself now, lovers of odd meters ...

[mc2NY]

LOVE UK and Wetton. One of my favorite bassists, certainly in the Top 3 of my fave singing bassists as well. Saw them live back in their heydey on the first tour.

I played prog rock with an electric violinist in my early bass playing years, so I especially like this sort of band format.

[Stjofön Big]

Heard and saw the Roxy Music tour for Country life, must have been -74, with Jobson and Wetton. Wetton did a good job at following the great John Gustafson's bass patterns.

[Denis]

Sweet, prog rock!

It's probably the same Victory Wetton used when I saw Asia back in August.

[uwe]

Heard and saw the Roxy Music tour for Country life, must have been -74, with Jobson and Wetton. Wetton did a good job at following the great John Gustafson's bass patterns.

That is because Gustafson - silly boy - did not want to tour with Roxy because he'd rather waste time on his futile power trio project Hard Stuff which went nowhere. Later on he even had an offer to join them (something they have not done with any bassist before or after) and still declined. Wetton otoh was known to Bryan Ferry from his solo albums and via the Robert Fripp connection so he got the job, but did not stay with Roxy too long either, eventually moving on to Uriah Heep who he had met on a US tour with Roxy (though they allegedly paid him less than Roxy, but he wanted to play harder music, says he; nevertheless I remember an interview with Ken Hensley after Wetton's departure where he fumed: "With John we thought we had this great creative catalyst for the group, but people warned us that he is a journeyman, would only join us for the money etc and sure enough he did leave us after only a year - after he had paid off the debt for his new house THAT IS!"). Of course Wetton continued to make music with Manzanera and even joined up with Hensley for a few gigs in the nineties.

Jobson's memories of Roxy Music are largely unhappy, he has said that he never fitted in though he certainly looked the androgynous part



and was prominently featured with them on all three post-Eno albums. He was 18 when je joined them. Even Eno said only nice things about him as his successor, naming Jobson's first Roxy album his favorite, even counting in those he (Eno) played on, but Jobson felt disconnected with the hedonistic image of Roxy Music, the affected manner of the main members and the "in crowd" people who trouped around them and treated him as a sideman only.

[Barklessdog]

Odd meters did someone say?

Hope they come here. I saw them with Holdsworth, great show.


With Wetton & Roxy,on the live disc - Out Of The Blue - he did some killer bass work. Did not seem boring to me. I remember reading a Holdsworth interview and how he said he was so bored with UK, that while performing he would be thinking about his next pint. Funny but I really dislike Holdsworth's solo stuff, I find that really boring, other than his first solo disc, which he said were left over recordings he did not approve of.

I think I remember seeing Jobson play with Zappa once?  Was it the Zoot Allures tour??

They would have never tolerated Group 87.

[Dave W]

Dave is walking the dog  , it's ok to out yourself now, lovers of odd meters ...

It's true.

After listening to about 10 seconds of the above, I'm ready to take her out again. But I'll listen to some prog-free music instead. 

[exiledarchangel]

Yea Wetton is great! Can I add him on my top 10? Or is it top 12? Damn...

[rockinrayduke]

Good stuff!

[TBird1958]

When I finally did get to see Uriah Heep it was with Wetton, he played fine, but in my mind no one was going to replace Gary Thain. As I recall Journey opened for them right before they got big.

[Highlander]

I think I remember seeing Jobson play with Zappa once?  Was it the Zoot Allures tour?

Yep... Zappa, O'Hearn, Bozzio, Jobson... now that was a juicy lineup... had the pleasure of seeing them at the Hammersmith Odeon... unlike the tour they recorded Sheik on (where FZ conducted and only put the SG on for soloing) Frank did a lot of work...

iirc, Jobson went on to UK after this stint, and Bozzio followed on later...?

[nofi]

as i recall zappa played bass all/most of the time on the record. i guess o'hearn was busy gearing up for his stellar 'new age' career. imo that was the weakest band zappa ever put together.