Do You Think Yes Should Retire?

What do you think?

No one should ever retire for any reason except death (and death is pushing it).

Well, yeah if they're not going to do anything anymore.  Just because you're old doesn't mean you can slack off.

I have a feeling they have another in them. The day YES retires is the day I shed a tear.

Yes should definitely not retire...."retire" is not really something musicians think about, many blues and jazz musicians played well into their 80's. I remember people laughing imagining the Beatles and Stones still playing in their thirties (?????????!!!!!!!!). Old prog bands never die....they just fade away!

Intruder wrote: Me thinks Squire and Anderson should call Peter Banks, Tony Kaye and Bruford and do an album of late 60s covers.

Intruder's idea sounds wonderful.

Anderson-Howe-Wakeman-Squire-Bruford would also be a great combination.

If only Yes could return to the experimental mindset that characterised their work in the early seventies!
But I'm afraid it's far too late. They were hungry then, and they definitely aren't any longer.

Look at Steve Howe. On YES ALBUM and RELAYER he showed himself to be one of the greatest rock guitarists ever, but none of his recent solo-albums even come close!

And whenever I hear something new from Yes, I'm completely turned off by Jon Anderson's parish-priest-preaching.

An instrumental Yes album (by one of the above-mentioned line-ups) might be the answer. With lots of AMERICA-style jamming. And lots of (non - New Age!) input from Wakeman.

By the way, have you heard Tomas Bodin's PINUP GURU? Great attempt to create a 'SIX WIVES' for the new century.

I would like them to release perhaps one album more, but I wouldn't like to see them on stage with 70 years old.

Yes, please shape up!

I don't know...

Having seen them live 4 times in recent years, the answer has to be a resounding no!