Earthworks I
A February German club tour with the Torn group, now with Mick Karn on bass, introduces Bill to a level of work-comfortable, low stress, satisfactorily paid that he was previously unaware existed. Seems you don’t have to have a manager after all. Reduction of costs will clearly be the key to this jazz thing, but it is to be a while yet before he can reprogramme himself away from the overheads that came too easily with his past background.
The year is divided between the well-received Earthworks in the UK and US, Kazumi Watanabe in Japan, Torn’s group in the US, and completed with a 22 date German tour for Earthworks.
At 101 dates, it is Bill’s busiest year since 1973.