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    Posted: March 26 2006 at 08:09
Originally posted by dagrush dagrush wrote:

Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Hmmm... Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, ELP.

I'm starting to see a pattern here.

British prog is life-sustaining. 

I'll win a Nobel Prize!!!

 

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.



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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Hmmm... Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, ELP.

I'm starting to see a pattern here.

British prog is life-sustaining. 

I'll win a Nobel Prize!!!

 

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.



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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Fragile Fragile wrote:

 

What a curse;they cursed us by being sublimingly astonishingly brilliant 69 - 79 and they are writing a killer concept album right now.Yes rules.



hadn't heard that,  but did listen a interview on a local rock station last month in which Wakeman said that Yes MIGHT  be getting together later in the year to work on a new album..... he said he though all the solo projects and the Syn get together might bring some fresh ideas for a new album. 

There are also some plans for a reunion of the original members of Asia. Their official website says that (as Downes and Payne had split), but Palmer says that he is busy with his own band and that he doesn`t know when they are going to reunite (he said that in ELP`s official website).

So, if Howe is with Asia by the end of the year... maybe Trevor Rabin could rejoin YES, who knows?

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Originally posted by Fragile Fragile wrote:

 

What a curse;they cursed us by being sublimingly astonishingly brilliant 69 - 79 and they are writing a killer concept album right now.Yes rules.



hadn't heard that,  but did listen a interview on a local rock station last month in which Wakeman said that Yes MIGHT  be getting together later in the year to work on a new album..... he said he though all the solo projects and the Syn get together might bring some fresh ideas for a new album. 
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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Peter Banks, Bill Bruford, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Alan White, Patrick Moraz, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Trevor Rabin, Billy Sherwood, Igor Khoroshev.

All members of Yes at one time or another.

What else do they have in common?

They are all still alive!!!

It's spooky. Over 30 years, and none have died!

Yes has the curse of the living.  Anyone who plays for them is destined to live forever.

I wonder if Tony Levin is affected?

All the guys who did the ELP album covers died soon afterwards, so it was said they had the curse of death. Maybe that's why they went to covers with no design.

All the Yes members are Male, White, Christian, Europeans, no, and they all like pancakes with apple sauce.
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Maybe I should consider a career in Yes...
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Originally posted by Fragile Fragile wrote:

they are writing a killer concept album right now.


Really?!

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What a curse;they cursed us by being sublimingly astonishingly brilliant 69 - 79 and they are writing a killer concept album right now.Yes rules.
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They're only in their late fifties... is it that surprising?...
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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.

try playing any piece of music and they appear to dance to it.

I recommend Tales Of Topographic Oceans as a demonstration......



They seem to ahve trouble keeping in time to Tarkus.

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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.

try playing any piece of music and they appear to dance to it.

I recommend Tales Of Topographic Oceans as a demonstration......


The live version of "Killer" from the RFH gig of VdGG. Somehow fitting for a bunch of superheroes.

how long before you two are dancing again?
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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.

try playing any piece of music and they appear to dance to it.

I recommend Tales Of Topographic Oceans as a demonstration......


The live version of "Killer" from the RFH gig of VdGG. Somehow fitting for a bunch of superheroes.


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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.

try playing any piece of music and they appear to dance to it.

I recommend Tales Of Topographic Oceans as a demonstration......
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Hmmm... Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, ELP.

I'm starting to see a pattern here.

British prog is life-sustaining. 

I'll win a Nobel Prize!!!

 

BTW, Tony, theose dancers in your sig make me smile.
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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:52
Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Originally posted by Aaron Aaron wrote:

they are cursed because they have to live forever

Thousands of years from now, it'll just be Yes and the cockroaches.

Damn,so that's what the film Starship Troopers was about....
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Originally posted by Aaron Aaron wrote:

they are cursed because they have to live forever

Thousands of years from now, it'll just be Yes and the cockroaches.
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

All the original members of Black Sabbath are still alive too. At least Ozzy`s body is still alive.

 

That's just mind boggling.
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Points: 1383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:30
Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Peter Banks, Bill Bruford, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Alan White, Patrick Moraz, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Trevor Rabin, Billy Sherwood, Igor Khoroshev.

All members of Yes at one time or another.

What else do they have in common?

They are all still alive!!!

It's spooky. Over 30 years, and none have died!

Yes has the curse of the living.  Anyone who plays for them is destined to live forever.

I wonder if Tony Levin is affected?

Yes, but are they happy??? 

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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:23
As far as I know King Crimson's former members are also all still alive, unless I've missed an obituary somewhere. So perhaps Tony Levin is doubly protected, given that he played on the ABWH studio album.
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All the original members of Black Sabbath are still alive too. At least Ozzy`s body is still alive.
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