(2020) Bruford - Rock Goes To College


Review:
Bill Bruford was the original drummer in YES and was a long-term member of King Crimson. Recorded in March 1979, this is thought to be the Bruford band’s debut gig, immediately following Bill Bruford and Allan Holdsworth’s time with Eddie Jobson and John Wetton in UK. The concert was filmed as part of the BBC TV series Rock Goes To College at Oxford Polytechnic and featured the classic line-up of Bruford, Holdsworth, Jeff Berlin and Dave Stewart (with guest Annette Peacock) playing material from the albums Feels Good To Me and One Of A Kind. Rock Goes To College, by drummer Bill Bruford’s late-1970s band Bruford, was greeted with considerable excitement. Featuring Hatfield and the North/National Health keyboardist Dave Stewart and über-bassist Jeff Berlin, the group only played a couple of live dates with original guitarist Allan Holdsworth, who left shortly afterwards and was replaced by “The Unknown John Clarke. One of those performances was recorded by the BBC for television broadcast and, while it’s a scant 42-minutes long, it represents a high water mark for the British progressive/fusion scene of that time-or, for that matter, any other. This definitive re-release is on Bruford’s own Winterfold Records and was overseen personally by Bill Bruford.





Tracklist:
1. Sample And Hold (4:46)
2. Beelzebub (3:37)
3. The Sahara Of Snow, Pt. 1 (3:27)
4. The Sahara Of Snow, Pt. 2 (3:43)
5. Forever Until Sunday (6:50)
6. Back To The Beginning (6:20)
7. Adios A La Pasada (Goodbye To The Past) (7:32)
8. 5G (5:17)


Media Report:
Genre: prog-rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits