John Payne was the lead singer and bassist of Asia from 1991 until the keyboard wizard who hired him, Geoff Downes, quit abruptly and without warning for a reunion of the original line-up. Among other projects, Payne went on to lead his own incarnation of Asia. Drummer Roger Earl is the last original member of the blues-based English rockers Foghat.
Payne and Earl both live in the US, but with both acts co-headlining a bill in London as part of their own respective tours, we put the pair together on a Zoom call.
