From the Prog Nation cruise... just a brief clip but apparently the whole show was filmed with multiple cameras, so perhaps it will be a DVD before long. Hoping more footage emerges in the meantime!
From the Prog Nation cruise... just a brief clip but apparently the whole show was filmed with multiple cameras, so perhaps it will be a DVD before long. Hoping more footage emerges in the meantime!
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Sounded great, especially Jon's vox.
Nobody expected that one !!!
No, and in fact Portnoy mentioned a day or two before (without naming the song) that it was one of the most technically challenging pieces he's ever had to learn to play. I'm curious to hear how Neal handled the moog solo.Originally Posted by Rufus
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Here's another clip:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152257049730135
..and here's the setlist from that night:
Whirlwind Medley:
Overture (Abridged)
Rose Colored Glasses
Evermore
Is It Really Happening?
Dancing With Eternal Glory
Indiscipline
(King Crimson cover) (with Adrian Belew)
We All Need Some Light
All of the Above
(Full Moon Rising / October Wind)
Stranger in Your Soul
(Awakening The Stranger / … more)
Encore:
The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
(Yes cover) (with Jon Anderson)
Long Distance Runaround
(Yes cover) (with Jon Anderson)
And You And I
(Yes cover) (with Jon Anderson)
Starship Trooper
(Yes cover) (with Jon Anderson)
... they had played on the first night as well, doing the entire Kaleidoscope album.
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Ver cool - thanks.
I hate when people do that "hoo-hoo" sound you keep hearing. Shut up- we get that you're enthused!
Lone dissenter.
JA's doing that thing that Steve Walsh seems to be doing now; going all over the map with the vocal melodies. Sometimes I don't even think he's on key because he's not even close sometimes, and the song sounds weird to me. It's a shame because the TA guys have the song pretty much nailed (if anyone can sound like Howe, it's Roine Stolt) from what I can see. But JA's off-model vocalizing makes the samples hard to listen to. Kind of sad.
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It could be that he needed much more rehearsal time after not playing that piece in quite a while (I saw Yes do it in 2002 and it was spectacular). Perhaps at almost 70 years of age it's a bit much for him.... I did notice the somewhat random melodies, but I still enjoyed it.
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Bring on the DVD extras!
Thanks for posting that!
I'm with you. Jon sounded like a singer in a mediocre Yes cover band...too bad.
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Im really sorry...but they lost me at smoke on the water.
Guys, Jon is close to 70 years old. The fact that he is still out there doing this is a blessing. Cut him some slack that he can't pull off the vocals and such like he did back in the day. Probably the reason why YES is touring with a much younger singer at this point. The performance on the video sounds good and it seems that folks in attendance on the cruise enjoyed it. Later in Frank Sinatra's life, fans knew that he didn't sound quite like the Frank of earlier days, but they didn't care. They celebrated the opportunity to see and thank the guy who had provided them so many years of entertainment. I think Jon is owed the same respect.
Well sAid Sir, some people are unreal! Out of all the 'prog" greats he has aged the best IMO. Went to see Gabriel on his recent SO tour & his voice was flat & sounded like he sang everything in the same key,did it bother me?, not one bit!! Same with Ozzy, his voice was shot even with auto-tunr ,these guys arnt spring chickens but i feel blessed they are still performing!
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(WARNING: OLD MAN RANT INCOMING)
I will be posting my full review of PN14 later (overall I was very impressed)
... but my #1 biggest complaint were all these people who couldn't put their FUCKING CELL PHONES and CAMERAS down for THREE FUCKING SECONDS and just enjoy the show. I paid all that money to go on this cruise and see all these amazing prog acts, NOT to stare at the arms of all these fucktards with their stupid cameras held in their air for the whole show, recording shitty YouTube videos that nobody is going to watch anyway.
Here's an idea: have the slightest common courtesy to the people behind you, put your FUCKING camera down, and enjoy the show you're there to see, assholes.
(RANT OVER, COMMENCE THREAD)
Jon should've done a Jeff Tate & ripped some fuckers head off!!!
Sure would have beaten the week I had at work last week. ;-)
As far as the legion of idiots with the phones, you should have just grabbed a phone at a time, threw it overboard and the owner would follow. You would have gotten rid of half the participants and the rest of you would have had a much better time. :-)
Oh, I considered it.
The solution that worked for me was to watch the shows from the upper deck.
Yikes....somebody grab the autotune...quick!
What do you mean without naming the song. Don't we already know he was referring to the revealing science of god or have we got mixed up here somehow and you are referring to something else?
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I meant that Portnoy didn't name the song beforehand so as not to spoil for anyone. He just said he was learning a very challenging Yes piece for the cruise.What do you mean without naming the song. Don't we already know he was referring to the revealing science of god or have we got mixed up here somehow and you are referring to something else?
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I think he meant that Portnoy said he was playing one of the most challenging pieces ever, but didn't name the song at the time.What do you mean without naming the song. Don't we already know he was referring to the revealing science of god or have we got mixed up here somehow and you are referring to something else?
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One of the things that stands out in this brief clip is that the drummer is really overplaying. Sounds almost like he's doing a metal tune. I always feel that part of musicianship is underplaying classic material. He's overplaying right out of the gate.
The keyboards are a bit disappointing. Those are the best Wakeman-like "samples" he can come up with?
Jon kind of starts out in space but eventually touches down just fine. Frankly, whatever problems this "interpretation" faces in this brief clip I think he is last on the list. I think they were going for an intro that was a bit different, is all. His voice sounds clear and full of life to me.
Oh ok.
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