Is Yes really Yes anymore?

Awesoreno wrote: zwordser wrote: I checked 'I Don't Know'.   I saw Yes in Las Vegas around 2017 (a week after attending the 'Psycho Las Vegas' festival, and seeing the most incredible Magma performance on the same stage at the Hard Rock Cafe). It was a decent concert; they went thru tunes from all the past albums.  I thought Howe took the reins nicely, and I don't mind the singer.   Still, it wasn't nearly the same as past Yes concerts.  Would be nice if Wakeman and Anderson could have just been there.  Plus, poor White looked terrible, could barely play and had to leave the stage a couple times to be replaced.   The "openers" at this concert were at least just as good (though they got less time on stage).  Carl Palmer was amazing, and Todd Rundgren was cool to watch on stage with his dancing ladies, even though he didn't play anything really 'proggy'. I've posted about this before, but I also saw them in 2017. In Reno, NV actually, on a whim while I was visiting my grandma, so we probably saw them within a few days of each other! I wasn't too impressed. Howe could barely play Yours is No Disgrace even while they dragged. I saw ARW the next year at The Greek Theatre in LA, and it was MUCH more fun.

So do those on here who think the current Yes is not really Yes think that ARW is the real Yes or more Yes? 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - July 11 2021 at 14:43

chopper wrote: cstack3 wrote: Just another rock tribute band, limping along with a single founding member.  The Foghat of prog.  There are no founding members in Yes now.

SteveG wrote: Where is the poll choice for "maybe"?

Or should it be "meh"-be?

chopper wrote: The question is when is a band no longer a band? I'm sure there are some others bands knocking around with no original members, does that mean they're not the band? Is a band name just a franchise?

An excellent question. For me, generally, a band is still a band when one or two key members are original, especially with one creative member like Ian Anderson. But that falls apart for me, regarding Tull, with the exclusion of Martin Barre recently. So, I don't know.

Edited by SteveG - July 12 2021 at 07:36

Should Yes change the band name to No?

Cristi wrote: Frenetic Zetetic wrote: Should Yes change the band name to No? they should change their name to "Maybe We're Yes, Maybe We're not" and do a post rock album.

A band is always the sum of its parts.  The only 'classic band' that has not cashed in on it's name, nor recycled it for commercial reasons is Henry Cow.  Apart from the 'reunion' to celebrate the music of Lindsay Cooper in 2014 for three concerts, they last performed and recorded in 1978.  A harsh truth is this:  Yes stopped being Yes after 'Tormato', Genesis stopped being Genesis after '..and then there were three', Floyd stopped being Floyd after 'The Wall', ELP after 'Love Beach' etc. etc.  I have seen all these bands subsequently a few times over but what am I going for?  To see them perform their old material - from their creative heydays...

I said no because I don't like to see bands out there that are made up mostly or even entirely of replacements for the originals. Just doesn't feel the same. I get why they do it and I'm not saying they still couldn't make some good music or give a good concert but I'd want to see the originals. 

Rick1 wrote: A band is always the sum of its parts.  The only 'classic band' that has not cashed in on it's name, nor recycled it for commercial reasons is Henry Cow.  Apart from the 'reunion' to celebrate the music of Lindsay Cooper in 2014 for three concerts, they last performed and recorded in 1978.  A harsh truth is this:  Yes stopped being Yes after 'Tormato', Genesis stopped being Genesis after '..and then there were three', Floyd stopped being Floyd after 'The Wall', ELP after 'Love Beach' etc. etc.  I have seen all these bands subsequently a few times over but what am I going for?  To see them perform their old material - from their creative heydays...