Work progressing on Trevor/Jon/Rick(ex-Yes)Project

Just two days ago I received some music from Jon for the Trevor, Jon and Rick project, and it’s tremendous. I’ve also sent some stuff to both the guys as well, so unless there really is something I don’t know, then all is progressing really well.

http://www.rwcc.com/gorr.asp

Trevor Rabin gets a lot of crap around here but he's definitely a solid musician and songwriter. Talk was alright.

Harry Hood wrote: Trevor Rabin gets a lot of crap around here but he's definitely a solid musician and songwriter. Talk was alright. It's kind of cool that were basically seeing two versions of Yes like the Yes/ABWH split in the 80's. I'm excited for both albums.

I agree 100% (on both counts)

So, Chris, Steve and Alan took Trevor Rabin and Geoff Downes, while Jon and Rick took Trevor Rabin :D

Chris and Steve waited many years for Jon to get ready to do Yes again before he got sick---then they waited for a few more years after he got very sick and nearly died---before they decided to carry on. The fact that it's been 10 years since the last Yes album shows how long they've been dormant---so the guys didn't make the decision to move on without Jon overnight.  If Jon is Yes then you may think they should have all retired Yes and let tribute bands play the music. But Chris, Steve and Alan wanted to carry on. Considering all the reincarnations of the group that shouldn't surprise anyone. I think Yes should have recorded with Jon and toured with whoever was strong enough to tour (realistically not Jon) and perform the music. Because the group lacks the magic without Jon--having said that, sometime Jon had too much say in what the music should sound like and some of it wasn't very good. 

I'm pretty excited about this project, far more than I am about the "official" Yes project. And the OP is right. Squire is not fooling anyone.

I am also looking forward more to the Rabin project than the Squire project. I sympathize a lot with Rabin's work in and out of Yes. He has several good projects: 90125 (largely his album), Big Generator, and his solo album Can't Look Away, which is very good.

The high-pitched Yes cover man disappoints me. Squire should be singing on any Yes Album that lacks Anderson. Plus, I doubt the inspiration of the Squire-Horn-White-Howe writing team. Rabin is quite imaginative, while Rick and Jon might still have some stuff to contribute.

If you and your workmates were in the same company for a couple of decades, then one of them got sick, another wanted to retire, and for various reasons the "original gang" kinda went their seperate ways, would you feel the need to quit your job, regardless of whether you needed, or more importantly, wanted, to continue working? Well, that is what some of you are asking these guys to do. It's kinda silly if you stop to think about it. This is a job/ career for these guys and they have the right to choose their own path in this regards. If the "fanboys" are unhappy about it, then stay in your parents basment and don't listen to the offending material

Clepsydra wrote: I actually am looking forward to the Trevor/Jon/Rick more than the new Yes.

ditto

AztecViking wrote: I always liked Trevor but was rather shocked to hear a load of his own work prior to joining Yes. While he was not exactly bad prior to joining ( definitely always a musician brimming over with talent ) you still might never guess how much better being in Yes made him. I'm of the school of thought that Trevor was exactly the shot in the arm Yes needed when he first joined the band. But I also think Yes is what he also needed to become what he is now. And I never stopped digging Howe. I did see portions of a very grainy bootleg video from an old Union tour where they are both on stage in the round. It was pretty amazing to hear how they arranged the material with all of those musicians on stage at once and also good to see them capable of working together in that way.