Is playing this kind of jazz rock challenging or, at least, more challenging than Jon Hisemans type?
NATIONAL HEALTH and, a few years earlier, GILGAMESH, was very complicated music and difficult for me, as there were strong jazz and modern classical influences rather than rock or blues. So although at the time I was heavily into jazz-rock bands such as RETURN TO FOREVER and WEATHER REPORT, I didn’t really have the knowledge to play that music as well as it could have been played. In COLOSSEUM II, although the songs had long solos and were often quite complicated, the style was much closer to progressive rock with some jazz influences, and was played in a much more aggressive way. Bill Bruford and Jon Hiseman are both exceptionally fine players, but neither of them would be the ideal person to bring out my best playing. – Why you think BADLANDS didn’t make it to the top?[BADLANDS were formed in the U.K. in 1982 and comprised John Sloman, John Sykes, Neil Murray, John Munro and Graham Pleeth.] That’s hard to answer. There was interest from EMI, but it took forever for them to sign John
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