When In Doubt, Roll!

Back by public demand! Bill Bruford’s first book, When in Doubt, Roll!, was first published in 1988. It has been out of print for several years and during that time has climbed to dizzying heights of value on the second hand market, currently selling for a couple of hundred dollars. Bill is regularly asked if a new affordable version will ever be published – and now it is to be! The book will be published by Foruli Classics www.foruliclassics.com . This is a sister imprint to Foruli, well-known to Bruford fans as the publisher of the lavish limited editions of Bill Bruford: The Autobiography www.foruli.co.uk. The new version of When in Doubt, Roll! has a brand new cover, designed by Andy Vella, and contains several photographs which have previously only ever been published in the limited edition autobiography.

When in Doubt, Roll! is a description of how one drummer, Bill Bruford, survived the lunacy that accompanies a professional musician's existence and still retained the desire to sit at the drumset and play. It is a compendium of 18 of Bill’s recorded works in notated form, together with scene-setting and some explanation of how and why he arrived at the end product. For the compulsive practisers amongst his readership he has included a few exercises that may or may not be related to the music which precedes them in the chapter. If the narrative casts a somewhat jaundiced eye on the reasons drummers play the things they play the author makes no apologies for that.

A limited edition, signed copy is available as well.