Wakeman has repeatedly said ARW should not be marketed as Yes although didn't mind ARW: "An Evening of Yes Music and More" as long as Yes wasn't the band name. Anderson has wanted ARW to be considered as Yes but not sure what he currently thinks. Apparently, you haven't been following this.
^Every ARW thread ends up like this for the same reason.
I could believe that they've done some rough demos and song fragments. But I don't think they have much if anything that is 'good to go' beyond what we've already heard.
And it's like Wakeman himself says, they aren't getting any younger.
How could anyone possibly know unless they were in the band or close to the band?
Pomeroy in September 2017 said: "there is a lot of music recorded now, and I've heard a lot of it. It's fantastic."
Anderson in July 2018: "...but I just know that the music that we're [ARW are] doing, to me, is pretty fantastic. When it will get recorded properly, who knows? Because we have great demos already, but the music, it's a question of timing."
2019?
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I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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It is amusing that in the race between ARW and Yes with Howe/White/Downes to release new material that the winner has been Oliver Wakeman working at home on some old recordings.
We will see what 2020 brings. I am very hopeful that we'll see a Howe-White-Downes-Sherwood-Davison Yes release. I am not at all hopeful that we'll get an ARW release. But I hope we get both... and that they're good!
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thank you! it's disappointing to visit first thing in the morning and find several pages filled with defensive back and forth arguments defending comments rather than discussing the actual topic.
This has gone on long enough and I appreciate your comment Poisoned Youth.
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It was me he called a 'moron' but I didn't complain, for the record. I'm just bemused by his belief that new material is around the corner.
IMHO this band is done and indeed, never even really got off the ground. But if nothing else it showed that Anderson and Wakeman at least can still handle the old stuff.
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
This kind of heated argument over speculations really belongs over at Yesfans.
I come here to escape this sort of thing
I wonder why Wakeman is now saying, if they did do some further concerts, they won't call it Yes. Suggesting that was a decision made by A.N. Other all along. Their marketing caused a lot of bad feeling.
To be clear, on paper I thought this had promise. I then saw the set-lists. All very safe.
It is being reported by multiple Yes fans in the UK that were listening, that, while on his Planet Rock radio show on 2/28, the DJ Darren Redick said that Rabin and Wakeman had decided to tour on their own as they couldn't get it together with Anderson. Not sure if this was just him speculating or if he had inside info that he decided to throw out there. Would certainly be a twist to the whole ARW saga.
Maybe they could get Morse and Portnoy?
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