Best Yes setlist in years?

[iguana]

Did they even play 'Nine Voices' when The Ladder was new?? I know they did play a lot of it at the time.

yes.

[Obscured]

"Nine Voices" from Cruise To The Edge:

[r2daft2]

Best Yes setlist in years? - Not without an epic it isn't.

[ScottAM]

LOVED seeing Nine Voices on CTTE. Along with America (my favorite Howe jam ever! Even without the fieriness of the original '70's version, it still kicks) and some of the other choices, this was a wonderful set list. Steve Howe was great.

[BravadoNJ]

the best setlist in years?...... not without Jon Anderson.

[Scott Bails]

[bondegezou]

the best setlist in years?...... not without Jon Anderson.

Anderson hasn't sung with the band in over 11 years. Can we not take the phrase "the best setlist in years" to be referring to just the last decade? If so, given Anderson hasn't been at any of those shows, the best has to be without him.

Henry

[Progatron]

Anderson hasn't sung with the band in over 11 years.

Wow... has it really been 11 years? Some perspective: that's roughly the same amount of time from the debut Yes album in '69 to the Drama album in '80!

[bondegezou]

Wow... has it really been 11 years? Some perspective: that's roughly the same amount of time from the debut Yes album in '69 to the Drama album in '80!

Anderson's last time singing with the band was 22 Sep 2004 in Mexico. He was invited to the November 2004 Produced by Trevor Horn show, but opted out.

Of course, Anderson was planning to return to Yes for summer 2008, before ill health forced him to pull out. As far as I can tell, he didn't get as far as rehearsing with the band, so he hasn't sung with Yes for a bit over 11 years.

If you line up 22 Sep 2004 with Yes's first show on 3 Aug 1968, then right now would be the equivalent of the abortive Paris sessions (so after Anderson's final live appearance with the band before leaving). If you line up 22 Sep 2004 with the release of Yes, then right now is partway through the UK leg of the Drama tour, and not too long before the band splits up. Tempus fugit.

Henry

PS: It's also about 5 years and 10 months since we first heard about the Anderson Wakeman Rabin project. In 5 years and 10 months from their formation, Yes had got up to Tales from Topographic Oceans and supporting tour, and Wakeman had just quit the band after releasing Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

[Man In The Mountain]

Also, if you figure from the time of Jon's birth, until he was 11 years old, Jon would have been in the Primary 6th grade. It would not be for another 7 full years (the cycle of the 7 year Magicicada Cicada) until he joined The Warriors where he and his brother Tony shared the role of lead vocalist.

[yamishogun]

PS: It's also about 5 years and 10 months since we first heard about the Anderson Wakeman Rabin project.

It was also 8 years and 4 months from the time Trevor Rabin announced that he was working on an instrumental album later to be called Jacaranda By coincidence, this happens to be the same amount of time before he will release the vocal album that he announced in 2012, right on time for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

[Sunlight Caller]

So in the same length of time between Yes and Drama they have given us Fly From Here and Heaven And Earth. Not that great a comparison.

I was shocked at the 11 years without Jon though, it doesn't seem that long in my head!


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[bondegezou]

Also, if you figure from the time of Jon's birth, until he was 11 years old, Jon would have been in the Primary 6th grade.

Well, no, because no-one in Accrington would have had the foggiest what you were going on about if you'd called it "6th grade".

Henry