Yes new album "Fly from here"-latest news

I also agree that this lineup is as further from Yes than ever ... and I reckon I would enjoy it more if they weren't masquerading as them either.....

lazland wrote: Phideaux wrote: I like Howe, Squire and White and what they came up with for Drama.  I can look upon this new album as "Yes" but mostly as a project from these three great musicians who have been capable of great things in the past.  It won't need to obliterate my love for the classic yes, but might be a good album no matter who is singing it. In which case, I would be far happier if they called it something else besides Yes. I know they have the legal right, but, even so, I really do still think the whole sage has become farcical and worse than a typical soap opera.

I like Howe, Squire and White and what they came up with for Drama.  I can look upon this new album as "Yes" but mostly as a project from these three great musicians who have been capable of great things in the past.  It won't need to obliterate my love for the classic yes, but might be a good album no matter who is singing it.

Epignosis wrote: Drama didn't have Anderson.  I love Drama.

I think a lot of people, who perhaps think the idea of Yes releasing a 20-minute song in 2011 is rather cliché, are failing to understand that Yes have always been better at writing long songs than short songs. For every good song you cna think of under 5 minutes, there's usually a better one over 10! Only with Trevor Rabin were the band able to make good singles.

And so, although since CDs have come around, 20 minute epics haven't been that necessary any more, I don't think anyone should not buy the new Yes album based on that. They gave us so much in the 70's they don't need to be progressive any more, they just need to make good music. And I know that Howe and Squire are great at writing extended length pieces, whether they are for the sake of being "prog" or the for the sake of being nostalgic!

It shouldn't be thought of as a bad attempt to be progressive... is what I'm saying..... but rather, an attempt to write good, if formulaic, music (as opposed to mediocre 90's pop!).

Not crazy about the line-up---but will buy the album---saw this line-up live and was not impressed--the 35th anniversary tour was amazing--I understand they had to move on---Jon was all over the place, health wise and what he could or could not do---when he could do it---same for Rick. The three want to work and work, regularly not every 5 or 6 years and I can respect that. I wish they could have recorded with Jon---and made music with him ---and toured with whoever---Yes has done stranger things in the past. I also think it's acceptable in prog rock in particular to have 4 or 5 great composers in a band recording great songs--than constantly bringing in new guys who don't really get it.

We can fly from here was released on the "The Word is Live" 3-disc compilation, and is recorded on various bootlegs of the Drama tour. It and "Go Through This" were both tracks that didn't make it onto the disc due to the deadline, but they made it onto the tour. An instrumental version of Go Through This called "Have we really got to go through this?" was one of the bonus tracks on the Rhino remaster of Drama. Both are good tracks. I believe "Go Through This" is also on The Word Is Live.

Edited by TheGazzardian - March 09 2011 at 15:28

FLY FROM HERE!!!! INDEED!!!!

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