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Billy Sherwood [1965-0] American

Rank: 103
Musician

William Wyman "Billy" Sherwood is a musician, record producer, and engineer.
He is mostly known for his time as a member of progressive rock band Yes, from 1997 to 2000, including for their albums Open Your Eyes and The Ladder.

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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.		101
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.	Amazing	102
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.		103
I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.		104
I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.		105
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.		106
So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.		107
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.		108
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.		109
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.		110
And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.		111
So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.		112
I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.		113
So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!		114
And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.		115
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.		116
I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.		117
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.		118
It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.		119
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.		120
So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.		121
I write on all instruments.		122
So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.		123
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.		124
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.		125
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.		126
I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.		201
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.		202
I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.		203
Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.		204

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