You know you have to be a pretty good musician/artist if you've inspired David Bowie. And what a good artist/musician Brian Eno is. Over his career, he's played with Roxy Music, Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame, the aforementioned David Bowie, and David Byrne of Talking Heads, among many others. The funny thing is, according to Brian himself, none of this would have happened had he not randomly met Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay on a subway platform one day in the early 70's. Brian reckons that he would have become an art teacher had that not happened(although he probably would have been a very good one). As it happens, he did meet Andy Mackay and the rest is history. Here he is off of his second solo LP, Taking Tiger Mountain. The first twenty seconds or so of today's track seem to have been inspired by Pink Floyd, no? You decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yai4bier1oM
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