Geoff Downes Quotes

• With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail.

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• Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.

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• We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.

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• The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

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• Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.

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• Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

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• Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

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Geoff Downes (7)

Birth:	25th August, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Producer

About

Geoffrey Downes is an English rock keyboard player and songwriter for the bands Yes and Asia, and formerly of The Buggles, during which he played multiple keyboards to achieve a new wave technopop sound. He was once entered for the Guinness Book of Records for performing with the most keyboards on stage in one performance.

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