Billy Sherwood
Billy Sherwood
William Wyman "Billy" Sherwoodis a musician, record producer, and engineer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth14 March 1965
CountryUnited States of America
dad play vegas
I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.
dad guy way
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
gentle giant heard influences stayed
And when I heard Yes, U.K. and Gentle Giant it was something that really got me interested. And those influences has stayed with me.
influenced sound yes
I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.
building process studio taking wing
So I'm actually in the process of building another studio of my own in my house, taking over a wing of the house.
When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.
along love others playing
Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.
american-musician bit label likely major picked smash
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.
both
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.
american-musician yes
I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
songs wrote
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
mind
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
climate functional
I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.
american-musician areas
And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.