JAKE DREYER

As a fan of Asia, the Witherfall guitarist had an unexpected introduction to prog supergroup UK that had a profound impact on him.

JM

“I’m a guitar player and UK had Allan Holdsworth in the band. The producer we worked with on the first Witherfall album was a huge Holdsworth nut and was like, ‘Have you ever heard UK before?’ And I was like, ‘Nah.’ He played the intro to Nevermore – the acoustic passage – and I was just fucking blown away. I just had to go and listen to the entire eponymous debut. And while I was playing it, I thought, these drums are sick, too! And that was Bill Bruford. The second album, Danger Money, was more pop-prog, to my ears at least. Except perhaps the last two tracks but they always had the epic songs at the end of both of the albums. And I love them – they’re accessible…

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