YES | Jon's view onward and forward
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Topic: YES | Jon's view onward and forward
Posted By: Pussy Galore
Subject: YES | Jon's view onward and forward
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 03:50
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22.11.08  "I truly feel reborn, feeling better and stronger each day, and it’s gonna take some months (probably six months), but I plan to do some shows with new music. Because, apart from my recent health problems, the reason I hadn't agreed to tour with yes in many years was the lack of new music. With no new music - a lack of passion for music, really, as well as each other - and no real sense of what Yes truly is, etc., things just looked bleak to me. In the past, there had been too many tours, too much pressure from outside of the band to keep those tours going, and we were not communicating as a band. This had made it impossible for Yes to progress as it should. That’s why I suggested a break: to explore new ideas and attempt a different approach to writing and playing; maybe do a semi-acoustic CD, and then tour in a completely different manner; do less shows per year, but make the shows more innovative and truly special …totally reinvent ourselves. Both Rick and myself could see it happening, but sadly the others just wanted to keep going down that same old touring spiral, and I think that the fans (and the band!) deserve much better." -JA ------------- Pussy Galore |
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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 06:55
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:20
| This is why I will always consider him Yes. He is truly a leader in every sense of the word. |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:23
I'm not a big Yes fan but you just gotta like that attitude. 
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RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:37
| Even if I don't consider him YES, here's a demonstration that he's a big part of it, that without him, the soul is gone, while the mind is still on Chris and Steve. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:39
He's been remarkably unsuccessful in getting the others to follow him. If he'd posted something like this in 2003 or 2004 I'd have been far more accepting of it. But it has been a LONG layoff, and this sounds a lot more like excuses than reasons.
I'd be nearly as happy if Anderson Wakeman would release a studio album and do a limited tour though. The Anderson Wakeman tour was the most interesting Yes side project in many a year.
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ProgBagel wrote:Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 15:42
Do anyone know if some shows from that tour was filmed/recorded. Is there a chance that we will ever see a live DVD from that tour?
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Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 17:45
| Jon is the true soul and spirit of Yes. Those other guys may have musical chops, but they're dead inside. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 21:49
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 22:00
Hahaha, wow. You don't think that's a little extreme?
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 22:01
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Don't you know to read between the lines?
Sounds like there's an internal problem between Jon, Rick and the rest of the guys,
I believe the name Yes is property of Chris Squire...Or am I wrong?
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 22:45
| Last I heard it was collectively owned by several members, but I could be wrong. Squire having control alone has been superseded though, I'm pretty sure. It may explain why they are not touring OFFICIALLY under the Yes name, albeit doing their best to capitalize on it unofficially (in the ABWH spirit.) |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 23:38
Probably, even when the first contract said that the last original member to leave the band would own the name, and that was Squire during the Rabin years I believe.
But anyway, maybe they changed contract after Onion.
But it smells as an internal problem, the words of Jon are extremely hard for him.
Iván -------------
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