Today is a sad day in the world of William Covert. My favorite drummer, and quite honestly my favorite musician has retired from performing live music. Bill Bruford whose professional music career started in 1968 is hanging up playing live. Growing up and listening to all the bands Bill played with whether it be Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, UK, Earthworks, Chris Botti, I always thought one day I would get the chance to see him perform live and that dream will now never be fulfilled. Bill Bruford is the most important influence on me as a musician and an artist. I did my senior thesis in college on the drumming style of Bill Bruford and how he's changed drumming not only in rock and pop music, but also in jazz and electronic music, but I could go on all day about that.
My tribute to Bill is just some of my favorite live photos of him playing and a video of one of my favorite live drum solos of his, which is unique in that fact that it's entirely on electronic drums and Bill was one of the first musicians ever to use sampling and sequencing technology and though the video is from the 80's I find it's still ahead of its time in terms of the use of electronic drums as a melodic instrument.
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