Terry Bozzio

But when the group formed in 1977, it was the first time all of the musicians had played together.

Although the lineup was unstable, Holdsworth and Bruford left after one album, with former Frank Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio replacing Bruford, and the group was short-lived.

The band maintained a dedicated cult following years after their early 1980s breakup.

Prior to the formation of this band, Bruford and Wetten had recently played together in King Crimson, and Holdsworth had played guitar on Bruford's debut album, 1978's Feels Good to Me.

The new lineup of this band released their 1979 album, and I've got that, and followed the album with a tour.

Once the tour was completed, the group broke up and the posthumous, you know, after they're done, live album, Night After Night, was released shortly afterwards.

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.

They were like real hit makers in the 80s.

Terry and Dale Bozzio.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bozzio played drums in The Mothers of Invention.

Yep.

So I've got Chalk Marked and Rainstorm from 88.

That was sent to me.

Now, I'm sorry to say, not particularly a Rush fan, but Annika Niles has come in and she's worked because she has brought something new to it, but she's also very much respected and stuck to Neil Peart's parts and so on.

But there's a huge round now about Terry Bozzio coming into beat because he's not playing by the same agenda and a lot of people want to hear something that corresponds much more closely to what they remember years ago.

All I'm saying is I don't think there's a right or wrong in that.

I think it's a great thing to be done in terms of respecting the music we inherit from the past.

That's

actually more of a kind of classical music approach.

The improvisational approach, the Terry Bozzio approach to working in beat, for example, is to do some of that.

But then to go wildly off-piste in other kinds of areas, I love that too.

Yeah.

Well, she was with Terry.

Terry Bozio.

Already at that time? You know what? I don't know about at that time.

I don't think so.

I have a good memory, but it's short.

Yeah, I doubt it.

No, I really doubt she could have been with Terry at that time because I think we're talking about mid-'70s, 76.

So, [laughs] we don't, we don't mind, but you know, Vic's like, "Well, you're hitting everything, so let's just, you know, let's just leave it." So it's very fun on the kit.

You know, I could do a whole podcast about Terry Bozzio.

[laughs]

And I feel like he's one of those drummers that enough people don't, more people don't talk about.

They started their first show in Napa, California.

Because of Tool's touring schedule, Danny Carey couldn't do this tour, so they had to get another drummer, and they got Terry Bozzio.

Now, Terry Bozzio famously played with Frank Zappa, with Missing Persons, uh, and in the l- for the last 25 years has been kind of this solo percussive, percussion artist.

He, he has this insanely gigantic drum set that literally has 30 or 40 drums on it, 30 or 40 cymbals, and he does these solo drum pieces.

And they're very intricate, and they're, and they're designed for a single player to play.

Looks amazing.

He's in, you know, seems to be in great shape and stuff.

So when this came out, that this Beat Ensemble was not gonna have Danny Carey but was gonna have Terry Bozzio, people were like, "Oh my God, Terry Bozzio," you know, Frank Zappa and the whole thing.

Yeah.

It was the, uh... 'Cause I grew up in Florida, and so, um, it was the last drum expo in Tampa, so there was like many, um, high-profile drummers like Terry Bozzio, uh, who's played with Jeff Beck, and, um, m- many, m- uh, Rob Zombie, I believe, uh-

Wow

... or no, it was Frank Zappa.