Dr Bill Bruford at Edinburgh Napier University

This video was nicely shot by students at the University. I include it because the arguments are reasonably coherent and quite provocative. I hope the lecture provoked later discussion about what we’re all trying to do with our musical instruments. We can be doing many things; not all of them the same, and some that not everyone wants to do. Not everyone wants be – or should feel obliged to be - spectacularly creative, for example.