U.K. - Complete Videos 1978-1979

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Short-lived English supergroup founded in 1977 by John Wetton, Bill Bruford (ex-King Crimson), Eddie Jobson and Allan Holdsworth. For the second and last studio album, Holdsworth left and Bruford was replaced by Terry Bozzio. They were active between 1977-1979, and reformed in 2012 with Eddie Jobson and John Wetton, with guest musicians. Wetton died in 2017.

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@BneiAnusim Күн бұрын

Eddie Jobson is an INCREDIBLE MUSICIAN! He is one of the more important musicians of the whole Prog Rock era!

@WannaB321 13 күн бұрын

Eddie was the ultimate multi-keyboard player. Amazing.

@musemuser777 10 ай бұрын

RIP John Wetton 🙏✝️🙏

@lucasjankowski7117 8 ай бұрын

RIP Allan Holdsworth

@musemuser777 8 ай бұрын

@@lucasjankowski7117 definitely...🙏

@po03psk41 8 ай бұрын

Their debut album U.K. is my all time favorite prog rock album. Top notch song writing and musicianship throughout. I can always listen to the whole album without skipping. I still listen to it from time to time thsese days.

@textnotepro 8 ай бұрын

absolutely

@canalaverdade. 8 ай бұрын

Agree

@gertstronkhorst2343 8 ай бұрын

Hear hear. It is fantastic.

@markthulean8313 8 ай бұрын

100% for sure!

@TheSteveSteele 8 ай бұрын

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.

@loucontino4804 5 сағат бұрын

When people talk about Super Groups over the last 60 years, this was IT! The caliber of talent is staggering here.

@RomanZmudzinski-sb6zo Күн бұрын

Seen these guys when they came to the Cleveland Agora in 78 ? Not knowing what to expect. Whoa !!!! Profoundly impacted me since. Outstanding musicianship. Some of the best Prog Music ever. Can't stop watching ..

@briane5706 8 ай бұрын

Alan Holdsworth R.I.P. John Wetton R.I.P. Bill Bruford and Eddie Jobson. Superb musicianship.

@tommykoch1 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for these videos. I am 64 years old and still a fan of this band, their music and their musicians. This music still hits me in the heart today. From a time when real music was still made.

@billbart6201 8 ай бұрын

Plenty of 'real' music being produced 2023/4

@user-ws2fu7du7o 8 ай бұрын

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

@ferenckovacs2267 8 ай бұрын

I am 66, and me too :)

@EgoShredder 4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@wayneatplay 4 ай бұрын

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

@dkelley9661 8 ай бұрын

RIP Allan Holdsworth. Holdsworth in a rare moment playing a Firebird! Never even heard about this, yet he just sounds like Allan. Never heard a more original, unique guitarist, ever. I love Terry Bozzio, but hearing Bruford then Bozzio, UK just isn’t the same animal. Bruford and Holdsworth raised UK to ridiculously high levels of Progressive music credibility. When they left, it was no longer as amazingly impressive. I saw them live in 1979 after the personnel changes, it was life changing, but nothing like that first album.

@santibanks 8 ай бұрын

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.

@pobinr 8 ай бұрын

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

@joelestes2257 7 ай бұрын

Truth

@turnerthemanc 7 ай бұрын

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.

@Stratmanable 2 күн бұрын

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

@redbaron8154 5 ай бұрын

64 here and saw them back in 1978, amazing!!!

@klocke-hx3xl 8 ай бұрын

Jobson was one of the most underrated musicians around. How many people are both a brilliant keyboardist and violinist? Yet, he's rarely mentioned.

@user-cj4df7vs7w 6 ай бұрын

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

@jacquesfinster5034 2 күн бұрын

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

@batphink2655 Күн бұрын

@@user-cj4df7vs7w I will go and listen to that right away Thank you! 👍

@dilltdog1158 Күн бұрын

Also in Roxy Music.

@mylayla 8 ай бұрын

Thanks very much.. John, missed, always. 00:00 In the Dead of Night 03:17 Night after Night 07:00 Caesar's Palace Blues 10:34 Rendezvous 6:02 15:26 Nothing to Lose

@massimomarchesin8708 4 ай бұрын

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!!!!!!!!!

@batphink2655 Күн бұрын

Thank YOU for posting these video clips, some of them I've not seen before, I just loved this brilliant band in both versions Cheers! RIP Alan Holdsworth and John Wetton!

@dilltdog1158 Күн бұрын

I loved UK, still own all three albums and play them regularly.

@jackriddle1135 Ай бұрын

After hearing this album for the first time on Klipsch La Scala speakers, I went on to see Allan Holdsworth perform live 14 times. So humble and cool. We didn't get to see the 1978 UK tour.....our VW bug BROKE DOWN on route 80, and we rode home squished in the cab of a tow truck ( 3 adult prog fans ). That disappointed me to this day decades later...

@Dan-hc1ow 8 ай бұрын

Man, what a group. Both versions. Bruford and Bozzio were a study in contrasts but each guy earned the gig.

@davidmaxwelloswald2220 8 ай бұрын

No doubt Terry had balls

@donovanjones4175 8 ай бұрын

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

@216trixie 8 ай бұрын

@@davidmaxwelloswald2220Talent

@jefflevinson669 8 ай бұрын

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

@donovanjones4175 7 ай бұрын

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

@fryderyk2462 6 ай бұрын

Eddie Jobson is monster on keyboards... ranks alongside Emerson and Wakeman. And excels at violin...perhaps most accomplished musician in prog.

@damianjames4681 8 ай бұрын

Their supreme highnesses, John Wetton, Eddie Jobson, Alan Holdsworth, Bill Bruford and Terry Bozzio. Miss you, John and Alan.

@davidlaman3935 21 сағат бұрын

I had forgotten how good this was

@mariousui5432 Күн бұрын

It's great sound of Eddy's CS80 for In the dead of night! Even without Alan and Bill, it's a great violin performance!

@eleonoradini2371 8 ай бұрын

Their first album is truly a masterpiece. It is still available on vinyl but unfortunately it is very expensive. In any case, every prog fan should have such an amazing discography

@davidmaxwelloswald2220 8 ай бұрын

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

@krisscanlon4051 5 ай бұрын

Just bought both right now

@eleonoradini2371 5 ай бұрын

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

@markphilpot8734 8 ай бұрын

The quality of musicianship is way up there which has me wondering why I haven’t heard of them before now. This group is legit!

@AlfOfAllTrades Күн бұрын

In the dead of the night is the song that kickstarted my interest in prog rock. I was nine at the time, but it never left me.

@quintbromley2112 8 ай бұрын

Absolute legends and one of the great prog-rock bands of all time. Thanks for the compilation!

@omberose 8 ай бұрын

This band is pure brilliance. Beyond most artists ability to produce. UK was and still is music for a different time and ageless.

@mazmoslash4049 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for uploading man! I was at the Danger Money Tour in 1979 and since then one of my top 5 bands ever and one of the few bands that still can trigger a euphoric feel in my brain without any drugs.

@lesimprosdulezardvert1342 8 ай бұрын

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

@mazmoslash4049 8 ай бұрын

@@lesimprosdulezardvert1342 really

@TheSteveSteele 8 ай бұрын

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.

@mazmoslash4049 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@ivanbarsouk7339 8 ай бұрын

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

@caramanico1 Күн бұрын

Loved UK - got all their releases and got the chance to see them when they opened for Tull back in the day. LOVED IT!

@mellotronin54 8 ай бұрын

One of my favourite groups of musicians. These albums were a constant for years. I finally got to see U.K Jobson/Wetton on the final tour in London even bumped into Wetton at the tube station the morning after. Such a shame there was not more music from them.

@user-jx7ln7ll5c 8 ай бұрын

Never seen them alive. Great band. RIP John Wetton Many thanks for this video

@Stratmanable 2 күн бұрын

@@user-jx7ln7ll5c 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...

@user-jx7ln7ll5c 2 күн бұрын

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

@ikkenhisatsu7170 6 ай бұрын

What a great ensemble, in both iterations. I love the Bruford/Holdsworth band, and the other, with Jobson and Bossio, is also incredible. Just perfect. RIP, Mr. Wetton.

@tekis0 12 сағат бұрын

This is back when musicians and music were the focus.

@exegesis67 8 ай бұрын

That performance of Caesar’s Palace Blues is astonishing!

@Zappafantrust Жыл бұрын

That's the best video quality I've seen of the first promo clip

@keithfinsley330 8 ай бұрын

I saw the original lineup in Reno. They were amazing. Sadly, they opened for Van Halen and found themselves beeing booed off the stage. I love both bands, but that was hard to take! RIP John Wetton and Alan Holdsworth. Seeing the two of you live was quite remarkable!

@user-hf9vf9kf8t 4 ай бұрын

Rush fan here. I love U.K. 's music.

@cleciusviana7623 8 ай бұрын

John Wetton era um ótimo vocalista, líder da banda Asia, Descanse em paz😢😢

@richshields6692 Күн бұрын

When I first heard it , I was totally hooked ! Alan's guitar sound blew me away. I didn't know if it was a keyboard or not. The whole band was amazing actually.

@Carehuea 2 ай бұрын

Such a shame that there isn't actual 'live playing' footage of ther original line-up with Bruford and Holdsworth... Their album is an absolute masterpiece

@mikedown1250 4 ай бұрын

It's sad that Allan didn't enjoy his time with UK. But he blew my mind with his solo and guitar work on this album which still stands the test of time

@mattdelany6799 4 ай бұрын

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

@elitefighter15035 8 ай бұрын

Awesome music. I had they’re first album and saw them in concert. Was blown away. My drumming skills were seriously challenged after this. A very original and unique album for all times.

@textnotepro 8 ай бұрын

thank you for posting this. I hadn't seen all of these. UK are truly a supergroup and its a shame they didnt continue and make more albums...but we have got the music they did make. I would have preferred the Wetton/Jobson/Bozzio UK to go on to make more albums rather than have Asia. Oh well. thank you Sound Voyager

@pasoneao 8 ай бұрын

Asia's first album is a masterpiece...

@skinner5334 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic band and massively overlooked.⚡️

@randlerobbertson8792 8 ай бұрын

A veritable galaxy of stars all in one band. Incredible.

@flaviopitanga65 8 ай бұрын

What a gem. Master piece. Thanks for sharing ❤

@awaken77 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Rare live records of great prog supergroup in decent video quality

@freddiesoverbite6162 8 ай бұрын

John Wetton and Ray Shulman are my 2 favorite bassists. Both had such a powerful distinct tone.

@lusich94 11 ай бұрын

Con qué serenidad toca BILL BRUFORD !!! Claramente se puede apreciar su MAESTRÍA!! No necesita demostrar nada. Verlo y escucharlo son la evidencia!!! Y sus compañeros…al igual que él, son otros dotados de la música!!! 🙏🏻🎵🙏🏻

@erictripton Күн бұрын

Hard to get beyond their first album. When Holdsworth split, a LOT was gone from the chemistry. Although it gave us, Allan Holdsworth, the artist. The I O U album is light years beyond this.

@lusich94 Жыл бұрын

Qué alegría encontrar este video de UK !!! Excelente trabajo!!! Banda insuperable en música de fusión. Así como MILES DAVIS fue pionero en el jazz-rock, UK en el…"rock-jazz"!! (así, "entre comillas") No sé si logro transmitir mi sensación!!! De nuevo…EXCELENTES MÚSICOS EXCELENTES COMPOSITORES!!! Lástima que duraron poco!!! (solo dos álbumes) Viva la música!! 🙏🏻🎵🙏🏻

@user-mm5oi8np8u 8 ай бұрын

Три.

@kevthebass 8 ай бұрын

First album is one of the greatest prog albums, with Holdsworth redefining rock guitar for the next generation. 2nd Cd, I can take ir leave, but great playing as you would expect.

@normandaubry 8 ай бұрын

I had the chance to see them live as the opening act for Jethro Tull. What an amazing night that was! I feel so lucky to have been there!

@davidmurphy5647 7 ай бұрын

it was wild...

@bixster2260 Күн бұрын

Saw them at the Santa Monica Civic on their first tour. Amazing.

@friendofbeaver6636 8 ай бұрын

First time seeing U.K. Live! Thanks! I only know Eddie Jobson from his work with FZ. He's wonderful on keyboards and his transparent violin in this collection! Holdsworth and Buford are legends! Liked and subscribed!

@Hazy777 8 ай бұрын

One of the most underrated prog rock bands. Thanks for posting. Great videos.

@ivanbarsouk7339 8 ай бұрын

Eddie Van Halen looked up to Allan Holdsworth as a guitarist.

@emiliacanet9960 8 ай бұрын

I love this then n now 2023 san Francisco listening forever 💙💙💙 thank you Sound Voyager 😻

@acimbobby Күн бұрын

So good, great performances here in this video. Progressive Rock at it's best. Trouble is they make it look so easy a lot of the time.

@WilliamHELLHASEYIS 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the memory lane of UK!! Asia and BEYOND

@hurricanejohnson 8 ай бұрын

I wore the grooves out off of the first U.K. album when I was in college. Bruford is my all-time favorite drummer. Thank you for posting those videos.

@visog 8 ай бұрын

What a band!

@luiscacace3971 7 ай бұрын

Feliz de escuchar y ver esta ɓanda que conoci decadas atras con la base ritmica de King Crimson. A mi humilde entender B. Bruford el mejor baterista de rock progresivoque escuche

@Kang2112 4 ай бұрын

Yeah love this band. Music like this just doesn't happen today.

@Guggel1966 8 ай бұрын

Wow.. I am a progressive Rock freak, but I never heard of this band! Thank you for uploading!!!

@LorenOneal 8 ай бұрын

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

@WELLBRAN 8 ай бұрын

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

@troychimino4738 8 ай бұрын

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

@markthulean8313 8 ай бұрын

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

@TheSteveSteele 8 ай бұрын

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.

@MrRugbyloosehead 3 ай бұрын

Thank-you for posting these videos, while their time was short, their influence is still being felt today! I wish they would have done that third album John wanted to do? Things could have been different especially with the next group he was in Asia , but it just wasn't to be. We still have two very fine albums as well as a great live album!❤🎸😎👍

@joachimohler9124 16 күн бұрын

Supergroup 🤩

@mattbrowne7862 4 ай бұрын

So thankful for this band and saw them in both 2011 and 2012 in two different Boston venues. Most excellent experience indeed!

@basserx78 4 ай бұрын

Unbelievable! These guys held themselves to a standard of musicianship seldom matched. You can feel the power and the beauty of their music coming through so brightly it gives you goosebumps. If music is a sonic palette, these gentlemen are all Rembrandts, every one!

@KoreaDailyNews-KDN Күн бұрын

UK video clip is very rare. Thanks for uploading.

@FusionHowie 8 ай бұрын

This is THE best sound/video I have every seen ! I saw this live in Detroit 78 or 79 with Tull! THANK YOU for posting this epitome of coolness magic ! I wish it had Holdsworth :) Peace from Detroit MI.

@stevennovakovich2525 4 ай бұрын

Bought 'U.K.' and 'Danger Money' upon their releases in 1978 and 1979. Have loved U.K. since the first album and still listen to them frequently. Pure genius. Loved Bill Bruford in early Yes and his own solo ventures. Brilliant!

@PeterSpaeter96 4 ай бұрын

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

@andyharman3022 3 ай бұрын

Wetton looked like a real rock star on Nothing To Lose. And his vocal performance was awesome. I think it was in UK where Wetton started to form the more pop-oriented songwriting style that made Asia's first album so huge.

@pequeuxdarleux1480 8 ай бұрын

Fantastique musique. Les 70s furent une période riche en créations de toutes sortes, en particulier pour le prog rock & jazz fusion

@sailorlovesmyship7607 8 ай бұрын

これはヤバい‼️ アップ大感謝です。泣ける〜 so good !

@historicradiotelevision-bi2861 8 ай бұрын

Saw them in 2013 on Cruise to the Edge. Fantastic.

@edgreen8140 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting. This really takes me back. John bill then they went on to asia!

@godbluffvdgg 8 ай бұрын

NICE! Thanks for the upload!

@MrNimmy77 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for uploading this!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@rashenrock Күн бұрын

Лучшая группа планеты Земля ❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺

@davidaraujo927 8 ай бұрын

Thanks, man! I never saw Allan with a firebird before! 🤩

@franckcasula9516 28 минут бұрын

Super groupe 😊

@qstaratma9096 4 ай бұрын

Wow! Thank you for posting these epic performances.

@christiancazabonne 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Finnally a good quality video of In The Dead Of Night!

@dgcmusi 8 ай бұрын

Great great great video….thank you for the upload…one of my favorite bands of all time…

@crowdpleaser1036 8 ай бұрын

I think I still have a live album by them, UK live 1979, it is an album I really like, it features them as a 3 piece with Wetton, Jobson & Bozzio.

@mindjob 8 ай бұрын

Outstanding!

@bmac1205 8 ай бұрын

Nice having these different performance (mimes) altogether in one place. Thanks for posting. Saw them in trio form in Philly at the Spectrum. They headlined and Horslips opened for them. Listened tot he infamous free concert at Penn's Landing broadcast live when they were a quartet. Should've went to that show too.

@craigfazekas3923 8 ай бұрын

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 !!! 🚬😎👍

@Nigel-ry1po Күн бұрын

Nigel in Canada🇨🇦 what a band 'musicians musicians'

@gregggoss2210 8 ай бұрын

Wow, dude. Thanks for uploading. This is fu**ing awesome.

@geneleonard4368 8 ай бұрын

I Saw the original U.K twice once in Jersey & once in NYC & then the Trio once in NYC both were Great but the original band was off the charts .. incredible ! I also saw Bruford / One of a kind tour in a small club in Asbury Park / NJ that was also mindblowing 🤯

@yannisstefanopoulos8730 4 ай бұрын

Beneficent upload, thanks

@NIKONGUY1960 8 ай бұрын

Probably came close to wearing out this band's record. Forgot Bruford started out as drum chair before Bozzio stepped in. Incredibly great band.

@oscarbalza 2 күн бұрын

Omg WHAT A BAND❤❤❤❤❤

@Leo53867 8 ай бұрын

EXCELENTE!!!! Gracias, buenísima recopilación de vídeos con calidad 👍🏻🤗🇸🇻🇪🇦🙏🏻

@stevecowder4774 8 ай бұрын

This band was really something. Love their first couple of albums. Too bad they couldn’t have stayed together long enough to put out more than just 2. But Wetton would find success on a much larger scale with Asia.

@gerh33 8 ай бұрын

Thanks v.much for these - what an amazing band they were 👍

@misterghee1 8 ай бұрын

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

@johncole015 8 ай бұрын

Way back in 1986 my drum teacher told me live night after night would show me every different type of drumming I would ever need to know.

@anthonywhite2960 Күн бұрын

I'm sure Allan would have just loved those bubbles. RIP

@peterresetz1960 8 ай бұрын

The first video of the original members of UK, Allan Holdsworth is playing a Gibson Firebird. Another interesting thing about that Firebird, is that no matter what type of guitar Holdsworth is playing, always has that really thick tube tone, considering that particular Gibson guitar I described as tone deaf.

@Claytone-Records 8 ай бұрын

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.

@morbidmanmusic 15 сағат бұрын

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