UK- In The Dead Of Night (Full Suite)

UK on their Final Tour!

[@joserdiazalmodovar1898]

Back in 1979 UK played in Puerto Rico my first concert. I still have the ticket. 13 Bucks about 6 Rows in front of us in Arena. It is the most amazing experience in my life. it made me a musician It was one of the best shows ever in Puerto Rico but for me the best I've seen Rush ,ACDC, Van Halen , Judas, Maiden, Scorpions ,Toto Kansas and some more But Terry Bozzio played like a crazy man in complete control and gestures , Jobson was magical in fact we were seated in the center on that row like 6 Row I saw the show Bozzio was insane

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

I have to say out of all of the live performances i have seen of UK playing the entire 'In The Dead Of Night suite', i have to say that this one really stands up as one of the best ever. It sounds absolutely incredible, everyone is on top form. John Wetton is on top form, both musically and vocally as this sadly would turn out to be his final ever live performance before his passing, Eddie Jobson is a monster on both keyboards and violin, Alex Machacek is more than a worthy successor for the legendary Allan Holdswoth delivering great playing that would make the man himself very proud and Mike Mangini who came on aboard for the final shows delivers one of his best drum performances ever, he not only stays faithful to the style of the legendary Bill Bruford but remains true to his own drumming. He did an excellent job. All four musicians as a band sound great. RIP John Wetton and thank you for all of the legendary music. One of the true iconic voices

[@stumbling_buddhist2255]

Not only do I appreciate your posting this, but I'm in it! ♡ If John fell off the stage he would have fallen on me.

[@grossi6330]

🙏🕯

[@stringstroker2227]

I saw the 1978 tour and at the beginning of the set, I felt rather than heard the opening note of Alaska. The CS-80 made sounds that even Rick Wakeman & Patric Moraz hadn’t played when I’d seen them during Relayer and Going For The One. Eddie is a consummate multi-instrumentalist and composer. And the violin solo on Time To Kill, had Eddie beaming a laser through the his acrylic violin. I was mesmerized. I had seen John with Uriah Heep after Gary Thain died before and was quite familiar with John and Bill Bruford, with their playing for Yes and King Crimson. Subsequent to that tour, I had the opportunity to meet both Allan and Steve Morse, when they toured together in the early 80’s. I am a guitar player that grew up on Jazz, Blues, Classical and Latin music. I still love progressive fusion in its’ many forms. There were absolute GIANTS in this genre. I am blessed to have seen many of the prog tours that came through DFW, at that time.

[@grossi6330]

Ok

[@osakajane]

Thank you very much for sharing, fantastic !!

[@seanm3636]

I was there! Hell yeah! Cray stuff going on there after the show!

[@grossi6330]

Ok thank you

[@christoperswinehart7504]

i like the one part where the keyboard player is doing a song from one of my favorite disney world attractions timekeeper aka le visionarium

[@christoperswinehart7504]

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[@swinehartachris13]

it was cool they added the timekeeper theme from le visionarium

[@gregberry2339]

rest in peace John

[@morbidmanmusic]

mangini and his muddy drum set. These songs really need the drum clarity. His toms sound like a sloggy rock player.

[@bfdmudk]

Eh. This looks like it was recorded with a mobile phone. Pretty smart people, make eye-watering salaries, work tirelessly on optimising mobile phone microphones to only pick up voices close by, while ignoring anything further away, or outside the human vocal range. Great for telephony, bad for music. Mike Mangini sounds just fine when professionally recorded.

[@peacue7431]

Drums choking 😮

[@douglasrepko4764]

Terry Bozzio at his best ,Doogles White City Oregon

[@mattkurke5665]

That's Bozzio? wow!

[@robertnobody]

It's Mike Mangini from Dream Theater on Drums

[@90four6]

:-)

[@howardjohnston6112]

Wetton, Jobson and .... ???

[@NIGHTFRIGHT2011]

+Howard Johnston The guitarist is Alex Machacek(one of the better Holdsworth clones) and I'm almost certain that Mike Mangini is the drummer. It's interesting that Mangini,Donati and Minnemann have all played live with UK in recent years and also auditioned for Dream Theater.

[@MarkGonz123]

Yes Mangini and Machacek

[@mattkurke5665]

Yea, someone up top said it's Bozzio on drums, but not that hair.

[@alepavlovic]

Nice cover band, I Miss Allan Holdsworth.

[@MarkGonz123]

Calling John Wetton, Eddie Jobson, Manginin and Alex a cover band is just the dumbest thing I've read today..RIP Allan Holdsworth & John Wetton

[@alepavlovic]

It may be a silly opinion, but I would have liked to hear Alex play his own solo. He is a great musician. To play note by note the improvised solo of Allan gives me the sensation of not being listening to a real band, but a recreation

[@MarkGonz123]

If anything I'm sure going for the original solo was probably Wetton/Jobson's idea, if not maybe just kept that way to respect the original..Calling it a cover band is just disrespectful

[@alepavlovic]

Sigue estando seguro entonces. Saludos

[@alepavlovic]

It is true what you have written. I was really very sad about the death of one of my musical references, Allan Holdsworth. I wrote a lot of nonsense that day.