U.K. - Complete Videos 1978-1979 

Everyone in this band are/were fantastic musicians! Too bad they didn't stick together longer.

I agree. I'm a huge fan of ELP but UK were at least as great as Emerson & co. It's a pity it's only two albums. But it was already the 80s and the era of punk idiots had arrived. They met too late, but their music is eternal.

Absolutely 100% pure intelligent extreme talent!

Eddie's musicianship is phenomenal. Funny, John screwed up miming to the playback at 14:08 as if forgetting he's supposed to sing. I recently saw some worst miming f**k-ups and this one wasn't there.

RIP Allan Holdsworth

@@lucasjankowski7117 definitely...🙏

@@lucasjankowski7117 RIP both of them! 🙏🙏

absolutely

Agree

Hear hear. It is fantastic.

100% for sure!

The production value on the first UK album is outstanding especially for 1978. The mix is perfect. Everyone has got a great tone dialed up. It’s fantastic. I like Danger Money too, but Wetton and Bruford together is magic.

È vero Eddie JOBSON è anche un grande violinista!!!!!!! E qui fra i violinisti più straordinari potrei citare anche, DARRYL WAY, FRED FRITH, JEAN LUC PONTY, GRAHAM SMITH, MAURO PAGANI,LUCIO FABBRI, DAVID LA FLAMME, ANGELO BRANDUARDI, ROBBIE STEINHARDT, RAY SHULMAN , GREG BLOCH , DAVID CROSS , STUART GORDON etc etc!!!!!!!!!

Plenty of 'real' music being produced 2023/4

To zespół z najwyższej pólki.Mam Mogul Trash i co tam wyprawia na basie 20 letni Wetton przechodzi ludzkie pojęcie.A w Krakowie miałem przyjemność poznać Johna i Eddiego.Mili ludzie

I am 66, and me too :)

@@billbart6201 The geniuinely new and non-derivative music ended around the 1990s. Occasional gems after that but far fewer than was happening before. Maybe people relying too much on technology and familiar chords and scales, too much reliance on a repetitive beat to play against. Could also be connected to how materialistic and zombie-like society has become, and how IQ and innovation in all fields has steadily been declining since the 1960s. In short music like everything else is in decline and awaiting the crash of this civilisation, so we can build a better one from the ashes again; happened many times before and arguably we had superior ones previously.

64 Years young here as well mate....Keep the Groove going!!!!

Surprised to see him with the Firebird. I'd agree that Allan always sounds like Allan regardless of the axe around his neck, but it should be noted that they are miming to the studio version so you are not hearing how he sounds (it's not said that he played the firebird on the record, or on the tour). All pics I've seen of Holdsworth playing with U.K. is him playing a strat through a marshall.

"yet he just sounds like Allan" Yes because he's miming to the studio recording lol

Truth

He's amazing. His solo could be Patrick Moraz on a Moog. So smooth. He said UK burned him out and he had to leave, in an interview.

They're miming. On the recording he's playing his modded Strat. That's the guitar you're actually hearing.

You are lucky to have seen them!

Yeah, listen track Metamorphosis from Curved Air album Air Cut . Jobson was only 17 but what a talent already.

And composer too, he co-wrote all hese songs.

@@МаксРогозин-е1ю I will go and listen to that right away Thank you! 👍

Also in Roxy Music.

@@МаксРогозин-е1ю First thing that came to mind re keyboard player and violin player was Curved Air but didn't realize Jobson was that person (too). Thx...

Couldn't agree with you more I've forgotten about it lately and this reminded me how much I used to listen to this many years ago

Just bought both right now

​@@krisscanlon4051may I ask you how much you paid these vinyls?

Seek out the 2009 30th anniversary first UK album reissue CD from Global Arts Media, remixed/remastered by Jobson himself. It has excellent sound dynamics - at least as good as the original vinyl. Also, there's a completist UK box set w/some 'new' live material. And there's a very good bootleg soundboard live CD of UK's July '78 show @ Boston's Paradise rock theater called "Concert Classics Vol. 4". Jobson got it legally yanked from regular stores, but it might still be available from the Japanese market, though pricey. I saw their Oct. '78 show @ Boston's 2500 seat Orpheum Theater which was only around half full. Unfortunately for UK, that same night Jethro Tull was playing their annual sellout show a few streets away @ the 15,000 seat old Boston Garden arena. Ironically, years later Jobson would end up playing keyboards with - you guessed it - that very same Tull.

I found one in a book store for $8

No doubt Terry had balls

he played with Zappa, he is very creative and played beautifully, no doubt about it

@@davidmaxwelloswald2220Talent

Bar the drumming controversy. The original line up with Holdsworth was the best

@@jefflevinson669 i gotta agree, it’s so , so,, I can’t even explain

@@ВадимВитвинов-м9в You're seeing all of them alive in the video. Bill Bruford is still alive, and I think Eddie Jobson is, too. Seeing them LIVE is another matter...

@@Stratmanable english is not my native, sorry, but hope i was understood

@@Stratmanable DUDE English isn't his native language, get over yourself!

gott, since 1979, still one of your Top 5 bands ? Really ? euh, I mean, really ?

@@lesimprosdulezardvert1342 really

I can see UK as a top 5 band. They were basically an early supergroup. I totally agree with the euphoric feeling. I get it too. Especially on the first album, but I love Danger Money too.

@@TheSteveSteele Agree. I grew up in the seventies and was first (and I still am) a fan of Hendrix, Stones, The Who, Cream, Neil Young, Santana, Bowie, Free, P. Green-Fleetwood Mac, Spooky Tooth etc. My love for symphonic rock-.progrock (or whatever it is called) started with the album Days of Future Past by The Moody Blues. From that day I am addicted to Yes, the old Genesis, UK, King Crimson, Druid, Greenslade, Pink Floyd, Solution, Grobschnitt, Van der Graaf Generator, Saga, IQ, Steve Wilson-Porcupine Tree and so on. Jazz rock- fusion, Japan and Depeche Mode and a few synth bands like Tangerine Dream are my other addictions since the eighties. Injected through my ears on a daily basis. The best addiction there is.

How do you compare U.K. w/o Bruford and Holdworth vs the re-formation of Kind Crimson with Bruford, Belew, and Levin?

They have a ‘YES’ sound to them :)

Welcome to the club, albeit a little late but no worries lol, enjoy! 👍

Ray awesome musician. Like all the Gentle Giant members, Ray was a multi instrumentalist.

Check out the first album... Best prog album ever 🖖🎶🖖

The other day I heard a fusion band I knew all the individual players in it but never heard of the band...lol

Never heard of this band either. I'm embarrassed! It's great! Thank you for uploading!

Wow I can't believe you're a progressive rock freaking never heard of UK! Glad you found them, everybody should listen to UK!

After you buy the UK albums, get Bruford’s One of a Kind. Both have Bill Bruford and Allen Holdsworth. UK had John Wetton and the Bruford band had Jeff Berlin. Two of the greatest rock fusion and jazz fusion bassist ever. Then Eddie Johnson playing keys and violin in UK, with Dave Stewart on keys. Holdsworth played violin on the Bruford albums. One of a Kind is an logical extension of the first UK album, and you can really hear it.

Три.

it was wild...

I thought Allan was underutilized in UK, but I still enjoy that lp. I wouldn’t mind having a go at a Firebird as long as the original price was magically restored.

it wasn't live. and with that much gain, it could be any guitar...

Booed by VH fans??! Wow, VH fans…what a bunch of losers

Doubly stupid because Holdsworth was almost revered by fellow guitarist Eddie V., who may actually have been trying to help the band get more exposure & American gigs.

Asia's first album is a masterpiece...

Didn't Zappa occasionally made him sing?

Check out Tory Slusher. She is better than Holdsworth. More musical, anyway.

Night After Night here is live- not mimed. Maybe you knew that, not sure.... Who else did you catch at The Spectrum ? Loved that place.... seen the good/great shows & many a Flyers games too. I watched Denis Savard & Guy LaFleur skate there- greatest pure skaters I'd EVER witnessed at that venue. Plus Doc, Darryl, Moses & Toney. I wanted to puke when they tore it down. Also saw a shit-ton of Phantoms games !! Memories; thank ya !!! 🚬😎👍

And what about Bruford in the last King Crimson line-up?

Check out Terry bozzio the one drummer you've missed😅

it is different records, so pick one.