New YES CD "Heaven & Earth" due July 8 / U.S. Summer tour

[Progatron]

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/1211...mmer-Tour-2014



Prog-rock legends Yes have just announced a 35-date U.S. summer tour. For their 2014 dates, Yes will perform 1971's Fragile in its entirety as well as every track from 1972's Close To The Edge, followed by an encore of the band's greatest hits and material off their new studio album, Heaven and Earth, which is due on July 8.

Bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes and singer Jon Davison will kick off the tour in Boston on July 8. The 35-show run is currently scheduled to come to a close on August 24 at the Greek in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale beginning Friday, March 28.

YES Tour Dates - Summer 2014:

7/8 Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
7/9 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
7/11 Wallingford, CT Toyota Oakdale Theatre
7/12 Westbury, NY NYCB Theatre at Westbury
7/13 Newport, RI Newport Yachting Center
7/15 Washington, DC Warner Theatre
7/16 Hampton, NH Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
7/18 Salamanca, NY Seneca Allegany Casino
7/19 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater
7/20 Munhall, PA Carnegie Music Hall
7/22 Rochester Hills, MI Meadow Brook
7/23 Northfield, OH Hard Rock Live Northfield Park
7/25 Madison, WI Overture Hall
7/26 Chicago, IL Copernicus Center
7/28 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
7/29 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace
7/30 Atlanta, GA Symphony Hall
8/1 Hollywood, FL Seminole Hard Rock Live
8/2 St. Petersburg, FL Mahaffey Theater
8/3 Orlando, FL Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre
8/5 Houston, TX Bayou Music Center
8/6 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
8/7 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
8/9 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre
8/10 TBA TBA
8/12 Mesa, AZ Ikeda Theatre at Mesa Arts Center
8/13 Albuquerque, NM Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino
8/15 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
8/16 Anaheim, CA City National Grove of Anaheim
8/18 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s Concerts By the Bay
8/19 San Jose, CA City National Civic
8/21 Tulalip, WA Tulalip Amphitheatre
8/22 Grand Ronde, OR Spirit Mountain Casino
8/23 Lincoln, CA Thunder Valley Casino Resort
8/24 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre

[dnieper]

My lifelong dream to see Geoff Downes play along to "Five Percent for Nothing" may finally come true.

[battema]

....Fragile?

[helix]

huge misstep

Fragile seems a bit too easy as well as a bit too misleading; the freaking album is built upon self-made solo spots from members no longer present!! I'm dubious here. anyone else performing We Have Heaven, 5% and Cans and Brahams seems foolish at best and sacrilege at worst

just give us diehards freaking Drama already!!! good grief!!!



wtf

[Scott Bails]

Fragile makes no sense whatsoever. I don't get it.

Downes is going to play "Cans and Brahms?"

White is going to play "Five Percent for Nothing?"

Davison is somehow going to do "We Have Heaven?"

O_o

[Obscured]

Fragile makes no sense whatsoever. I don't get it.

CTTE again? I don't get it. But, will see them at Radio City and Yestbury too.

[battema]

Perhaps they took "We Have Heaven" as a starting point and turned it into an album-long suite called "Heaven and Earth"

[Stevie B]

Fragile makes no sense whatsoever. I don't get it.

Downes is going to play "Cans and Brahms?"

White is going to play "Five Percent for Nothing?"

Davison is somehow going to do "We Have Heaven?"

O_o

Downes playing Cans and Brahms - don't see why not? Does Wakeman have exclusive rights to Brahms' Symphony No. 4?

White playing 5% - presumably the whole group will be playing it, as on the original record

Davison playing We Have Heaven - don't see why not. It's just an acoustic guitar, some singing and some echo thing presumably...

[Stevie B]

huge misstep

Fragile seems a bit too easy as well as a bit too misleading; the freaking album is built upon self-made solo spots from members no longer present!! I'm dubious here. anyone else performing We Have Heaven, 5% and Cans and Brahams seems foolish at best and sacrilege at worst

LOL! I know - whoever heard of songs being played by anyone other than the people who recorded them! SACRILEGE IS PUTTING IT MILDLY!!!!

[Obscured]

Going to work, I expect this thread to be 40 pages by nightfall.

[Progatron]

Perhaps the solo spots will be open for interpretation? It doesn't matter much whether Alan White plays "5% For Nothing" identical to the album version, for example. It's certainly not why people will be attending the shows.

[timmy]

i'm not bothered by this at all. I'm very interested in hearing them play their new material live. I want to see them depart from the nostalgia jukebox mode a little and play some new stuff, too!

I can stay home and do the nostalgia time warp with all of my 192K/24-bit HDTracks files I've purchased (which sound freaking amazing btw - don't hesitate to purchase them!).

Sure, I too would enjoy them presenting Drama in its entirety but Fragile is a nice balance to the longer pieces found on CTTE. Its all good.

[Desdinova]

No Yestival?

[Paulrus]

Huzzah, real Yes news. Cue the 108 page thread!

I'm actually looking forward to this. As with "A Venture" on the last (sort of current) tour, now we'll get two more tracks Yes has NEVER played live (though Downes might just use "Cans and Brahms" as a starting point for his own solo spot). And if they can somehow capture the ethereal ambiance Eddie Offord gave that rekkid it could be very cool.

Or it could be a very strange and not entirely successful experiment. But just to see them attempt "Five Percent..." is worth it IMO. Alan and Chris are talented but somewhat lazy musicians these days and they'll both have to do some serious wood-shedding to be up to the task. I have to believe Bill Bruford will be smiling about that!

But IMO the main dilemma for them will be with "Roundabout in the main set what will they do for an encore?!?! Oh the hugemanatee!!!

[timmy]

Going to work, I expect this thread to be 40 pages by nightfall.

Yup

[Sean]

How many pages do you think this thread will go?

[helix]

LOL! I know - whoever heard of songs being played by anyone other than the people who recorded them! SACRILEGE IS PUTTING IT MILDLY!!!!

look, this isn't the end of the world nor a fucking a dead goat in a church rectory I know that but it is completely clueless at best lol



just play Drama already fuck fuck's sake. it isn't a huge concert draw via the marquee I know but it would show more integrity

[Obscured]

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[Progatron]

Drama would be great for the diehards but would it draw the casual summer concert crowd? These albums make sense to me from most standpoints. Hell, I might actually go to this one (would be my first Yes show since 2002), as I'm always a fan of seeing new material live.

[helix]

But IMO the main dilemma for them will be with "Roundabout in the main set what will they do for an encore?!?! Oh the hugemanatee!!!

most likely the same YEs Album tracks we know and love and know and love and know and love and again and again and again and




and yeah, I'll still go see this set at least once

[Progatron]

But IMO the main dilemma for them will be with "Roundabout in the main set what will they do for an encore?!?! Oh the hugemanatee!!!

Starship Trooper and Owner Of A Lonely Heart.

[Paulrus]

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Wait... I just caught this. The show will be Fragile plus CTTE, plus some other chestnuts and "A special track". Could it be, oh I don't know,... an EPIC?

Also, with an album titled Heaven and Earth I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest there might be some floating rocks from Roger Dean coming our way. Just a wild guess.

[helix]

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key line in that advert:

"a special track from their new album"



one track I suppose.

[Scott Bails]

But IMO the main dilemma for them will be with "Roundabout in the main set what will they do for an encore?!?! Oh the hugemanatee!!!

An excellent point.

I guess, since they're not doing The Yes Album, they can save "Starship Trooper" for that coveted spot in the setlist.

[Scott Bails]

Wait... I just caught this. The show will be Fragile plus CTTE, plus some other chestnuts and "A special track". Could it be, oh I don't know,... an EPIC?

Haven't they already said that they don't have an "epic-length" track on the new album?