I really don't care what Anderson says anymore. Yes are the current line up, they have plans and contracts for next year, Jon A's not coming back period. That's it. Finished. Done. The End.
I really don't care what Anderson says anymore. Yes are the current line up, they have plans and contracts for next year, Jon A's not coming back period. That's it. Finished. Done. The End.
I switched the video off after hearing him say the things that got this conversation rolling. I love the guy, but he has nothing new to add to what he's already said again and again over the years, and really, I don't need to hear him talk ever again. On the other hand, I'll always love to hear him sing. Regarding who he plays with, he'll just have to make do with all the other extremely talented musicians out there who are also much younger (and certainly less constrained by internal band politics) than some of the current Yes members are.
No, I meant what I said. Tormato IMO is sub-standard, and the magical classic YES was dying. 90125 to me was lack-luster, as well as anything after. YES was still semi-prog, but Trevor Rabin brought a more pop element into the band. And IMO the real classic YES was the Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, Squire, Bruford line-up, although they still were great in concert. The energy and performances were outstanding. But after 1977 the energy and magic seemed to fade. I know I'll get heat for my opinions, but I'm confident in my convictions. But in hindsight Tormato is great compared to trash like Fly From Here. I prefer to remember YES in their heyday as one of the great pioneering prog bands. I do think that Drama was a great album, even though Jon was absent.
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I'll take another Anderson/Stolt album over another Yes album any day.
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I think the current Yes should do an album loosely modeled after late 70s-early 80s Talking Heads. Maybe get Tony Levin to play bass.
Some folks act like Yes is their plaything to assemble whatever way they please. Don't they?
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
IMO it's the same kind of entitlement that leads to fans "re-editing" other people's movies or changing the endings of TV series.
It's the prog-rock equivalent of fan fiction. As if, having heard the music, we now have a proprietary interest not only in it, but also in the people who made it.
They came out with five side-long pieces in a row right afterwards and didn't come up with something like CTTE. Now, I like the Topographic songs and Gates of Delirium but they are their own thing. If they wanted to or were capable of doing more lengthy pieces they would have. I mean, they did long tracks on the Keys to Ascension albums but frankly they were not very memorable or anything I'm ever clamoring to listen to.
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The current version of Yes isn’t even “that good” compared to the In The Present band. It has zero hope of holding a candle to any of the assorted versions of Yes that featured Anderson between 1968 and 2004.
"It was a cruel song, but fair."-Roger Waters
I've already had 35+ years to realize (particularly since 90125, etc.) that the old Yes ain't coming back, at least in terms of studio albums. Not that there weren't a few things here and there that I learned to accept/like on their own terms in the years since.
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