Originally Posted by
bondegezou
I think Squire's reputation in this case is slightly undeserved. Squire only seriously began talking about a follow-up to Fish Out of Water at the end of the 1980s. The album that he was talking about in those terms in interviews through the 1990s was pretty much finished by 1996/7 but only eventually released in 2000, so ~10 years later. 10 years to release an album is pretty ridiculous, but at least the album came out, as Conspiracy (plus 2 songs went to Yes's Open Your Eyes); it's just that by the time the album was released, it wasn't as a solo album and Squire had stopped talking about in terms of being a FOoW follow-up.
Squire then stopped talking about a second solo album until after the collapse of The Syn, at which point he very quickly released his second solo album, Chris Squire's Swiss Choir, and he talked a bit about another solo album... but then that body of material got re-directed to other projects (mainly Squackett, plus a song on each of the last two Yes albums). As Squire has said, whenever he tries to make a solo album, the material ends up getting re-directed. Of late, he's learnt his lesson and he's said that there can never be a follow-up to FOoW in the sense of an album in the same style, particularly with Andrew Jackman's passing, but that he will continue with solo/non-Yes work of other natures.
Syndestructible, of course, wasn't actually 40 years in the making. Nardelli may have been sitting on some ideas for a fair while, but the album came together pretty quickly, with the main delay being a financial dispute between Nardelli and the album's producers.
Zamran is approaching 16 years, while AFJP's Americana is on about 9 years, I think. My other comparison points here include Producers' Made in Basing Street at just under 6 years. The Anderson/Wakeman/Rabin project has now been going for 5 years, with no end in sight. Steve Howe's new solo anthology boxset, out next month, is 14 years late, while he was working on Time for 5 years. Trevor Rabin's Jacaranda took over a decade.
Henry
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