Geoff Downes

By the way, so Dax came up with a mind-blowing connection.

And I told him, you got to ask Jeff Downs if he did this intentionally.

Are you

giving me an opening to make the joke again? Don't give me an opening that I will not be able to resist

Following the disbandment of the group, Eddie Jobson became a member of Jethro Tull Terry Bozzio formed Missing Persons, and I've got a couple Missing Persons albums.

And John Wenton formed Asia with fellow progressive rock stars Steve Howell, Karl Palmer, and Jeffrey Downs.

Now the question I have is, do you guys know who this super group is?

I do.

And, um, they wanted somebody to just play a little bit more modern rhythm guitar under what Steve Howe would do.

So they, they just got a hold of the guy who was handling my business affairs at the time, said, you know, "Can you come to Advision Studios?" Like, "Uh, yeah." "Can you work with Geoff Downes, Carl Palmer, and Steve Howe?" And, uh, who was, do you happen to know who plays, uh, John Payne, fantastic singer-bass player who was gonna do the Graham Parker.

Oh, yeah.

And they just said, "He's coming, just come and play rhythm guitar." "Okay." You know, so I went in there.

My name's Jason Barnard.

I've got Geoff Downes and Chris Braide from the Downs Braid Association today.

Welcome Geoff and welcome Chris.

Hello.

This week, it's all about the arc of sound.

I am talking to Geoff Downes, keyboard player extraordinaire, a legend from The Buggles, Yes, and Asia.

And we talk about bridging the gap between decades of music.

Not only is Mr. Downes a master craftsman, but he's also Mr. Downes to earth.

See what I did there? He's such a cool guy.

We discuss the new Asia album, Indigo, that hits in November, losing his musical partner in John Wetton, how Geoff saw the progressive rock movement in the days of MTV, and more.

We chatted live from London about the past and the present, as The Car Stereo Podcast welcomes Geoff Downes.

I am so honored to have the one and only, the crafter, the architect of sound, Geoff Downes, with me.

We've...

Man, we have featured so many synthesizer revolutionary players this year, Steve Porcaro, Gary Numan, Jeff Downs, Richard Barbieri, tons of them.

And, uh, we're gonna continue that streak today with David Gamson.

So David is probably best known for his time with Scritti Politti.

I will be releasing a short video clip shortly on my video channel.

That's also called Laz Land of John talking about Jeff Downs in particular, but the Asia project in general.

It is fantastic.

going to be a fantastic lp and i frankly don't understand um the negativity around asia if it's good music then we all love it all right you heard mr jerry ewing and as usual we are going to be playing a track from the partnership between progzilla radio and prog magazine now The September issue featured a band that I've actually promoted quite heavily on the website over the last couple of years.

Two CDs, and it's a look-back over their entire history.

discography it's well worth checking out if you've never listened to act before or not got any of their albums this is a very good place to start decades report brand new two cd best of from swedish band act wonderful stuff right well you may be familiar with a combo called asia yes been around Since the 80s, and obviously back in the day, it was Jeff Downs, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer, and obviously John Whetton.

Now, over the years, the line-up's changed.

It's gone through different iterations.

Obviously, there's Asia featuring John Payne.

Well, the original Asia, in inverted commas, is still going.

even though the only original member is Jeff Downs, I have to say.

But the good news is, on the 6th of November, they have a brand new album coming out called Indigo.