Wakeman says "Yes" to Frost - TWICE

[Jem]

Sorry for the dreadful Subject title, but I couldn't resist it.

Just to say Wakeman played the title track from EIMA on his Planet Rock show last week and apparently was glowing about it afterward so that's jolly good and muchos thankos to him for that.

[Pedro]

Yay! Does that make him a Frost*eRick? :lol:

[namister]

Should do its a bloody good track lol  Glad frost getting bit more exporsure seen in couple of mags over recent months

[Mouse]

Marvelous! Prog Royalty, he is!  

[catherine]

Blimey! Nice one!

[RWA]

Fab!  

[Trapezium Artist]

My man Rick; shook him by the hand once, I did. Nothing memorable for him, but 'twas quite something for me.

Even though he has turned out some execrable rubbish in more recent years (err, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s), he remains rightly revered in my ears for the many wondrous (sic) things wot he done beforehand (Fragile, CTTE, TFTO with Yes, King Arthur & Henry's Many Missuses on his own, Space Oddity as a session man, and so on).

So I'm very pleased to hear that he liked EIMA. Great minds think alike 'n' all that jazz  

[gr8gonzo]

Silly me - I was looking for the 'like' button.  I've clearly been spending too much time on Facebook.

[Pedro]

...and now you can hear what he said!  

I've got my Sky+ box recording Rick's Place every Saturday in case something like this happens. It took some finding but there is a 2 minute mp3 of the link between Owner Of A Lonely Heart and EIMA available for download here.
(sorry it's a clunky rapidshare download again).

For those that can't be bothered, (paraphrased) he :-
- talks a little about how he didn't play on OOALH and would be rich if he had <studio buddy laughs rather a lot!>
- introduces Frost* with humourous "Frost*...not David-" and "...not David Jason" but "...Frost* the band".
- and says "I like this album because this particular track is so, almost prog rocky in the way that it lulls you into a false sense of security of how the track is going to be. I just love things like that....my friend Prokofiev was the past master of this....and - I just really like this track, it's called EIMA from the album of the same name"....<track starts>

So, all in all a very good mention!  

[rogerg]

going to put on Journey to the Center of the Earth and Criminal Record.  just because.

[Mouse]

Did I misread that, or did Rick Bloomin' Wakeman just compare Jem Godfrey's composition to Prokofiev?! Crikey!  

[EVP]

Better than being Rick Rolled.

http://www.yougotrickrolled.com/

[Brom]

Ohhh nice!

Shame I missed it live. The kitchen radio is constantly on Planet Rock over the weekend, and I usually catch a lot of Rick's Place, especially if I'm doing "chores"

Oh, I remember now. The rest of the family were out and I was mostly blasting Darwin's Radio from the HiFi  

[catherine]

My man Rick; shook him by the hand once, I did. Nothing memorable for him, but 'twas quite something for me.

Me too, TA, when he played in Cambridge with Jon Anderson a couple of years back. I even bumped into him outside the gig afterwards as I was on my way back to the car park and ended up giving him (and his Bentley) directions to the Cambridge Ring Road.

[Gandalf1986]

That's great, hey!