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I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.

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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

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I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

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I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

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I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

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I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

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Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

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And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

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We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

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If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

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We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

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Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

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I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

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One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

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The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

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I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

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The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.

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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style you have to work around your weaknesses.

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People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

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My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

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We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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