The history is immense, with this bassist/vocalist of a rock titan, the Jack Bruce of prog, as it were. URIAH HEEP, ROXY MUSIC, KING CRIMSON, UK, ASIA and yet the solo records have been few and far between. Raised In Captivity is the latest and by many accounts, the definitive work, underscored and emphasized perhaps by the presence of so many guest stars from Wetton’s illustrious past.“Well, it’s been a while since the last one,” begins Wetton, always the gent with smart and honest things to say. “And it’s something I had planned to do, but Asia’s touring schedule didn’t really allow it until now. And even then, it was very, very tight, because I had taken on a commitment to do some shows with UK as well, and so that expanded my road work for this year. But the month of January was completely open, and my manager said, ‘Come on, it’s now or never.’ Now, I had been working with BILLY SHERWOOD on and off over the last five years, and he sent me over some tribute tracks and I’d send him back, and they’re good fun. ![]() They’re really good fun to do. Billy makes lots of records for Cleopatra, so the main client is Cleopatra Records, who actually have WILLIAM SHATNER’s new album, which I’m on, which will be released sometime this year. Which I think is great. I got an e-mail from William Shatner, Captain Kirk, saying, ‘Thank you for your contribution. Absolutely wonderful.’ And that for me is marvelous. Even better for my son, because he’s 13, and thinks it’s so cool (laughs).” Billy Sherwood is in fact a big part of Raised In Captivity, and it’s no surprise, given the great things he did for YES’ Open Your Eyes, not to mention holding together THE TUBES on their last tour, given the serious illness of that band’s regular keyboardist. “Yes, working with Billy, I got to know roughly what he does, which is that he’s an extremely good engineer, he’s a nice guy, and I kind of knew that we could get the project done.” But the impassioned metaphysics of the album, that’s all Wetton. “What was I trying to do?” queries John, asked after the mission of the thing. “Actually getting all the stuff out that I can’t get out with Asia. Spacemen 3 the perfect prescription rar download. The whole ethos of the album is in the title, Raised In Captivity. ![]() It’s the product of me being born in the English Midlands, just after the Second World War, when rationing was in place. It was fairly austere, growing up; we still had a huge Victorian value hangover in the home and in the school, and suddenly, after all this kind of draconian thing, my schooling draconian the only way to describe it, really. You could be physically beaten for having your hair one millimeter over your collar and things like that. Suddenly, I’m thrown out into the ‘60s (laughs) and anything goes. And it’s swinging London, free love; you know, it’s the whole nine yards. And it’s kind of a confusing way to grow up. So I was suddenly catapulted into London, age 19, very confused, really. I knew what I wanted to do, which was to play music. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Raised in Captivity - John Wetton on AllMusic - 2011 - For anyone trying, no doubt with difficulty, to&hellip. Here you can download john wetton akustika shared. (2000).tar.gz from mega.co.nz 37.49 MB, John wetton raised in captivity 2011 gravewish rar from uploaded. My brother was a church organist, so I’d grown up with music in the house. It was a different kind of music. So my groundings were very much in English church music, but there were certain things that I took from that, which I still use today, which is parallel harmonies, and choruses like that. If you take the chorus of, say ‘Heat Of The Moment’, it’s kind of like a country chorus, but the three-part harmony – it’s the direct result of being schooled in church music.” ‘But anyway, back to the story, I was presented with the opportunity to get this stuff out, and I had originally titled Battle Lines, which is from 20 years ago, that was originally called Raised In Captivity, and it got changed, because somebody blew the whistle on it. They found out what the title was going to be, and they used it for a magazine article, and kind of took the wind out of my sails. Actually, in hindsight, I probably should’ve just gone ahead with it, but I didn’t. So I kept the title and I had the material there for the songs, and now it’s 20 years later, until I recorded it.
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