So maybe an EP this year and the full album next summer?
A little like Rush releasing ten minutes of music two years before Clockwork Mother Fuc**n' Angels was released two years later.
A "better ending" to Starship Trooper... hmmmmm....
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That just means a 45 second Wakeman solo at the end.Originally Posted by Progatron
Eight things I learned from this interview:
1. Many things are "great" and "amazing."
2. Jon's "1000 Hands" will be released this summer.
3. Jon'll be touring solo and doing the "Olias of Sunhillow" album live.
4. There's an hour's worth of new ARW material, out perhaps by next summer.
5. Rabin wants to include orchestra and choir in the new ARW/Yes material.
6. Some of this new ARW music will be heard in their upcoming shows. (Intro music, I gather).
7. He/They (ARW) are old, so they don't want to tour that much.
8. Vangelis is not well these days (first I'd heard of it.)
As much as I love Jon he really isn't all there.
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He isn't young (and is likely a bit too overweight for his age), but he doesn't seem to be on his deathbed: http://elsew.com/data/latest.htm
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Yes, I was aware of all of this. Vangelis has always been a large man. However, my sense was that this statement was Anderson's odd way of
deflecting an uncomfortable topic; namely, how he scuttled their creative partnership by mucking about with and re-releasing an alternate
version of Jon & Vangelis' Page of Life without the latter's participation or consent.
I understand what you're saying, makes sense (and I agree)
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From the interview...
You originally billed the band as Anderson Rabin Wakeman or ARW for short but then you added the YES name. Is this your way of staking your claim to the name?
I owned the name and Chris Squire and Alan White owned the name. His wife said that when Chris leaves us maybe we could use the name. We said that the year we got into the Hall of Fame we`d be out there as Yes in front on one million people around the world so why didn`t we use the name. We used the addition of featuring Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman to differentiate us from the other Yes.
Did you have any problems with the version of Yes featuring Steve Howe and Alan White?
They`ve been really cool about it. It`s never been a problem. I had a conversation with the other guys and just said to them to let people know who`s in the band as I keep getting phone calls about me playing somewhere but I`m not in your band, so please tell people who`s in the band so they don`t expect to see me.
...They have been "cool" about it...
I'm sure the team of lawyers on both sides would disagree.
I'm feeling uneasy that JA would speak and act so cavalier regarding using the YES name as, I was led to believe, that SH & AW owned it AND the original Rodger Dean Yes logo.....Just keep calling it ARW and leave it at that.
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I didn't see anything about a solo tour doing Olias Live???
"We will however be putting out a live show that we did in Manchester last year which Trevor Rabin is producing and it sounds great and that will be our homage to Yes. We do songs from way, way back right through to the modern era of the band."
Right through Big Generator - the "modern era of the band."
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For 2018 is your main focus on the YES tour and album or do you have time to fit in any other projects?
I`ve been working on recordings of the great Yes music using midi files to produce Yes with some teenagers singing all of the songs. It sounds unbelievable. The purists won`t like it which is OK but this is to introduce Yes to young people of the 21st century with very cosmic sounds. I hear Chris`s bass every day as I`m doing some mixing at the moment. I think we`re going to call it 21st Century Yes and we`ll be doing visuals for it as well. We`ll probably release it on the internet on You Tube or something so people can just find it and watch it. Next year I`ll tour do a solo tour with a full orchestra and choir doing 1000 Hands and my `70`s solo album Olias Sunhillow. I`m working on half a dozen projects, so I`m keeping very busy.
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"Why, someday I might even finish one!"I`m working on half a dozen projects, so I`m keeping very busy.
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Thank You, Scott!!!
I had this attitude for a long time, too, but he's been rather productive, lately. The Ponty project, Anderson/Stolt, ARW, etc.
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Haha, don't hold your breath
When I read that I thought some of this will be new material for Henry's Anderson green highlighted section...Haha, don't hold your breath
As always with Jon, most of this can't be taken seriously. Nonetheless, I think Rabin is an obsessive type-A kind of guy and will make sure the ARW music sees the light of day. If Rabin's contributions are more Jacaranda and less Owner, this could turn out to be some very good stuff... So I'm hopeful.
And he used to be such a sensible lad.
Amazing the disdain for Jon Anderson. I thought it was a great interview with a lot of promise. If Howe or Downes or Sherwood or any of those guys do an interview, it's regarded as golden words of noble warriors.
Don't have too. The owner of the Arcada Theater in St Charles (Chicago) already announced Jon Anderson is coming to the venue.Haha, don't hold your breath
Also, Vangelis has been living in Paris for quite some time now.
One or two dates may happen but a full US tour with orchestra & choir? He's fantasising again.Amazing the disdain for Jon Anderson. I thought it was a great interview with a lot of promise. If Howe or Downes or Sherwood or any of those guys do an interview, it's regarded as golden words of noble warriors.
Don't have too. The owner of the Arcada Theater in St Charles (Chicago) already announced Jon Anderson is coming to the venue.
I guess Olias Part 2 won't happen!!!!
Howe, Downes and Sherwood don't have a reputation of over-promising and under-delivering.Amazing the disdain for Jon Anderson. I thought it was a great interview with a lot of promise. If Howe or Downes or Sherwood or any of those guys do an interview, it's regarded as golden words of noble warriors.
Anderson's ambition often exceeds his grasp.
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