No more Rush

^Well, maybe one reason can be, that according to Jon, there has been quite bad atmosphere in Yes. Maybe Jon even don´t want to come back. Some years ago I found quite hilarious interview about his fireing where he said in the end they have two tour busses where the jolly guys (he and Wakemen) were in the other and rest (sulky guys) in other.

Catcher10 wrote: SMSM wrote: Like it or not, Rush was a sellout band in trying to keep up with musical times or being politically correct in order to win favors with the self described "progressives". Early 70's, trying to be some trendy Led Zep sound, Some of their stuff in the 80's was new wave sounding, even going into rap in the 2000's and songs like Nobody's Hero was nothing more that kissing the butt of the powerful and privileged LGBT movement. The Trees was a pro-union song - kissing their butts - just to name a few Admittedly, the public helped get them into the rock and roll hall of fame, but that place is a similar elitist progressive, politically correct club that Rush continued to try and gain approval of. Huh?  Your first sentence is totally opposite of what all Rush interviews on that topic state. What is it that you know that even the members of Rush do not? The rest......thank God we have free speech.....because it's ridiculous.

Edited by Jeffro - February 08 2018 at 05:22

Still I can't post replies... or long posts, I don't know what, because of that Captcha thing... I don't want to spend over half an hour again trying to postover and over again the same message. However, about Mortte's reply about Yes, I would need to hear the Hall of Fame performance again, but for what I remember, Jon Anderson still sings better than Davison at least. I had high hopes for Davison, but I just haven't been able to enjoy his singing from what I have heard... he just sounds too tame and life-less, unlike Anderson. Actually, I liked Benoit's singing better, specially on Fly from Here he really sang beautifully (much more so than Davison on Heaven and Earth... though I guess I might blame Sherwood for that too, since he produced vocals for that album, and somehow he has a special talent to suck out life from vocals on his projects)... though Benoit did sound like he struggle trying to sing Anderson's parts.

Come on Jose. Didn't you know that Rush, at first, was trying to be the new Archies!

Dellinger wrote: I guess Yes has been a mess since they left Jon Anderson out. They should have waited for him, or if they really wanted / needed to tour without him, they should have had him back when he was ready... I still don't understand why they needed to break up with him. And then kicking out Oliver Wakeman and getting at odds with Rick in the process wasn't very good at all... besides, even though Oliver wasn't Rick, he had chops of his own, and I believe he did better than Geoff Downes has been doing, and could play live better. However, even so, Fly from Here was very nice anyway, even if it was mostly because of the old unused songs... but Heaven and Earth just didn't work out, I guess they are really dry on ideas for new music. Right now, even without Chris, they could do a fine enough show if they did get Jon Anderson back at last (and Rick Wakeman). I guess the line-up that performed at the Hall of Fame would be the best way to go... if they could even keep Jeddy Lee it would be all the greater, and perhaps some back-up drummer, since Alan White seems to have problems performing up to his old standards any longer (I guess most of them do have such problems, but Alan would be the most obvious one).

I like Heaven & Earth, although it really isn´t their greatest and also prefer Fly From Here more. Also I think Davison has done a great job, sings well also those "classic album"-lives. You can hear in that Rock`n`Roll hall of fame performance that Anderson has partly lost his voice. Anyway nothing against if Anderson, Wakeman and Geddy (he´s not going to sing much then isn´t he) will go to Yes. I know it´s just a dream, but Bruford back to Yes...

The problem I have with VT is that I hear too much of Geddy's solo album in it. I think Geddy doing a solo album changed the way he writes songs. My Favorite Headache isn't a bad album but I certainly didn't want that sound in a Rush album.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: ^Hey, Yes did it why not Rush? :P

^Hey, Yes did it why not Rush? :P 

Atavachron wrote: Barbu wrote: Atavachron wrote: I guess we'll see, won't we. Listen, bands just like people have a right to retire. No.  They don't.