Two Versions of YES touring in 2017?

[Yodelgoat]

I'll go see both, even if they're just a day apart. I do not see a problem, other than what they wind up calling each other. Should be interesting. I think Wakeman will be doing it just for the laugh.

[Sean]

"I had no idea he had written all these great songs, like ‘Bang On The Drum’."

Yeaaahhhh, Alan. If you think that's great you should hear his amazing ones. There's a multitude.

You guys play Close to the Edge and Todd will play The Ikon. Let's see who finishes first.

[Man In The Mountain]

"I had no idea he had written all these great songs, like ‘Bang On The Drum’."

Yeaaahhhh, Alan. If you think that's great you should hear his amazing ones. There's a multitude.

You guys play Close to the Edge and Todd will play The Ikon. Let's see who finishes first.

Sorry I had deleted the link to Alan's interview before you replied...

http://yesworld.com/2017/03/askyes-q...te-march-2017/

"The next tour won’t be so much of an album-orientated tour, we’ll be playing a lot of YES songs the public enjoy seeing the band play on stage. We’re doing a YESFest this summer with Todd Rundgren and Carl Palmer – 3 bands touring together, it’s a great combination. Todd is a great musician. I just saw him recently with Ringo. I had no idea he had written all these great songs, like ‘Bang On The Drum’. "

[rich]

I hope they both tour the Relayer album.

Well the one without A R and W couldn't play it!There is no way Alan or Downes could play that material

[mx20]

Schellen +White could approximate it, imo. What's the status of Howe's relationship with Moraz? I, too, have trouble imagining Downes enjoying or mastering that Relayer material. On the intro to Soundchaser, for example, maybe one of the two drummers could trigger the Fender Rhodes samples from their sampler pads? There ARE workarounds when there are extra hands on deck.

Still, that's a Bass Guitar Album in my book; someone would have to bribe the soundman to boost Billy's bass waaaaay up in the mix to pull this material off with any gusto.

But, with Schellen in the band (alone or with Alan), it's possibly possible (if Downes has a plan).

[Rand Kelly]

Rick hates Relayer. He said: " had they asked me to play on that I couldn't find a place to make a contribution. I just didn't understand it at all." Patrick Moraz OTOH did.

[Scrotum Scissor]

I wonder how many versions of Yes will be touring in, say, 2037.

I just betcha it ain't few.

[JKL2000]

^^ Yes featuring Yodelgoat

[Scott Bails]

I wonder how many versions of Yes will be touring in, say, 2037.

I just betcha it ain't few.

Yes is propagating.

[moecurlythanu]

Tinky Winky on lead vocals.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Tinky Winky on lead vocals.

But surely Willie Robinhood is still going strong in 20 years, and it isn't as if he wasn't a true member of the true version of what's true? Skeleton-Jon is jerking that micro-phone-home from beyond an astral dome like spectral-gnome underneath a tombstone.

Ooh.

[Obscured]

Saw this notice today of Yes playing at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA, but with Rabin, Anderson, and Wakeman. Who has the rights to tour with the band name? Will there be competing versions of Yes touring this year?

http://www.axs.com/events/334158/yes...mountainwinery

The other YES will be in L.A. the following night.

[Yodelgoat]

^^ Yes featuring Yodelgoat

Hey leave me out of this! Besides, I expect I'll be pushin' up wheat for the hungry long before 2037!

[The Crimson King]

I hate Sound Chaser. It's just unmelodic crazy noise to me. I like good dissonant stuff, like a lot of King Crimson, but this style doesn't fit Yes, in my opinion. I don't get the love for Relayer. Gates of Delerium has some good parts, though.

[Dan Roth]

From a new interview with Anderson and Rabin (https://www.yahoo.com/music/rock-rol...221600286.html)

Q: You, Trevor, and Rick are currently playing in Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman (ARW), while Yes continues with drummer Alan White, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Geoff Downes and singer Jon Davison. Chris Squire was with them until he passed away in 2015. Why are they continuing as Yes when Steve is the only longtime member?

ANDERSON: That’s a tough one to answer, but we think we’re Yes, anyway. ARW equals Yes. It’s mind-boggling in a way to think I started the band and there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to utilize the name, because it’s part of my life And me, Rick, and Trevor are performing an evening of Yes music because that’s who we are. We can’t deny who we are.

[chescorph]

From a new interview with Anderson and Rabin (https://www.yahoo.com/music/rock-rol...221600286.html)

Q: You, Trevor, and Rick are currently playing in Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman (ARW), while Yes continues with drummer Alan White, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Geoff Downes and singer Jon Davison. Chris Squire was with them until he passed away in 2015. Why are they continuing as Yes when Steve is the only longtime member?

ANDERSON: That’s a tough one to answer, but we think we’re Yes, anyway. ARW equals Yes. It’s mind-boggling in a way to think I started the band and there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to utilize the name, because it’s part of my life And me, Rick, and Trevor are performing an evening of Yes music because that’s who we are. We can’t deny who we are.

Did the questioner think Rabin and Wakeman were in Yes longer than White, who, by the way, has been in Yes longer than Howe??

[Sean]

Magic meeting!
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[Scrotum Scissor]

I hate Sound Chaser. It's just unmelodiic crazy noise to me. I like good dissonant stuff, like a lot of King Crimson, but this style doesn't fit Yes, in my opinion. I don't get the love for Relayer.

What Yes are doing on "Sound Chaser" and Relayer in general isn't about style - it's about attempting to create something new and different. Now granted they didn't always succeed - they weren't exactly seasoned 'avant-gardists' - but they were merely complying with their own artistc and aesthetic creed. There were (and are) numerous other (and commercially less successful, of course) artists making far more jarring, edgy, dissonant and formally advanced rock music, but this is not the point; Yes were pushing their capacities and horizons, and this was essentially what they logically and admirably set out to do. For this I can still praise them - as they were.

[Rand Kelly]

http://www.mountainwinery.com/assets...1d44703e3a.pdf

[kid_runningfox]

I hate Sound Chaser. It's just unmelodiic crazy noise to me. I like good dissonant stuff, like a lot of King Crimson, but this style doesn't fit Yes, in my opinion. I don't get the love for Relayer. Gates of Delerium has some good parts, though.

I think the first part of 'Sound Chaser,' up to Howe's unaccompanied, all-treble Telecaster abomination and the ridiculous 'cha cha chas', is magnificent - possibly some of the most thrilling and intense music Yes ever produced, and really quite jarringly different from anything they'd done before. What comes after that...not so much. The fact that the whole thing ultimately degenerates into a pretty fair impression of 70s porn film music (erm, so I've been led to believe) is deeply unfortunate. The rest of Relayer is ace, though - 'Gates' is both stunningly intense and intensely moving (if probably a good 6-10 minutes too long), and 'To be Over' simply one of the most sublimely beautiful pieces of music Yes ever made. The production is truly rotten, though, and I'm not sure that really helps the music shine as much as it might otherwise do.

[calyx]

Rick hates Relayer. He said: "Had they asked me to play on that I couldn't find a place to make a contribution. I just didn't understand it at all."

To be fair, he was asked to contribute to "Union" and "Keys To Ascension" and couldn't think of much to contribute either.

[flowerking]

Themselves? Next year, Yes appears to be planning Tales + Relayer.

Henry

Drool starts forming out the corner of my mouth as I mutter "mmmm, relayer..." Seriously, Steve Howe is enacting decades of revenge on Jon Anderson by putting together setlists of what he wants to play and f*ck the audience. The good news is this is pretty much what many of us want to see him play.

[helix]

Drool starts forming out the corner of my mouth as I mutter "mmmm, relayer..." Seriously, Steve Howe is enacting decades of revenge on Jon Anderson by putting together setlists of what he wants to play and f*ck the audience. The good news is this is pretty much what many of us want to see him play.

yep



the canon and catalog are being represented live. that's been an awesome thing to see


in fairness to JonA and Wakeman even, the Yes setlists from 1997 to 2004 always had one or two cool chestnuts thrown in there.

still, seeing outliers like Drama and Relayer are the real trophies for Yes train-spotting, 2 LPs they've both gone out of their way to demean

[moecurlythanu]

http://www.mountainwinery.com/assets...1d44703e3a.pdf

This is an advert/schedule for the Mountain Winery and will download to your phone. Be forewarned.

[Frumious B]

yep



the canon and catalog are being represented live. that's been an awesome thing to see


in fairness to JonA and Wakeman even, the Yes setlists from 1997 to 2004 always had one or two cool chestnuts thrown in there.

still, seeing outliers like Drama and Relayer are the real trophies for Yes train-spotting, 2 LPs they've both gone out of their way to demean

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2skjn8
I'd think "Gates Of Delirum" with a freaking orchestra qualifies as something more than a "thrown in" chestnut.