Anderson, Wakeman,Bruford, Rabin to reunite??

At a Q'N'A session with Bill Bruford in January this year, he said he was officially retired from recording and perfoming.

He's perfectly at liberty to change his mind of course. Lets hope he does!

Keep us posted as to how this all turns out - what a reunion that would be!

Mouse444 wrote: I agree. Rabin saved yes from going under. There is nothing wrong with the albums from his period in the band and it was just yes evolving through that period. To be honest I can't think of anything new that has been produced by yes since Rabin left that has been mind blowing. Open Your Eyes was forgettable, The Ladder was living on past glories and Magnification I think I played twice and was left with no desire to give it another spin. (actually i just tried it again and stopped it half way through). It was pretty ordinary and lets face it, they should all be shot if they release another "Best Of". Lets not forget, Rabin is a briliant musician and some of his soundtrack work is unbelievable. Songs like "Walls, Endless Dream and I Am Waiting"  from Talk are some of the best "Songs" that Yes have written. The "90125" album brought Yes back from the grave and the "Big Generator" album is not bad at all, and I speak to you all as a "Tales" afficianado. We could always go back to "Drama"........sigh!!!

XunknownX wrote: No, I have hoped they would've get rid of Rabin for ever, the man who destroyed Yes.

I rather think Rabin is in some way the man that saved Yes, they may have completly died if they hadn't found him. And he injected new vitality and took them in a new direction and made them popular in the 80's so that they could survive. Ofcourse, he may not have made OUR favourite music, but at least he did something, and I do like some songs from this era. And by the way, Yes had already done their prog masterpieces from the 70's, so their might have been little they could have achived if they had tried to do that again. On the other hand, who knows what would have happened if instead of going with Rabin, Squire and White had gone with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page as they had originally intended...

PabstRibbon wrote: I'm septical about this,

 Me too!

^ As far as I understand, Bruford's site has denied his involvement on this project, but which recent comments are you talking about?

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: I hope this collaboration takes place as the Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe album was dynamite!

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: I hope this collaboration takes place as the Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe album was dynamite!

SouthSideoftheSky wrote: stewe wrote: I'm excited especially about collaboration of Wakeman and Rabin on the same album.  It is not the first time the two of them would collaborate, Rabin participated on a track on Rick's Return To The Centre Of The Earth album Here is a Spotify-link to the track which is called Never Is A Long, Long Time and features Rabin on lead vocals and guitar: London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) – Never is a long, long, time

I'm excited about that new Asia album more than a new Yes album, I've heard Keystudio, The Ladder and Magnification and I am less and less impressed with post-80s Yes with every album. More of the same overly-bright and optimistic complex but boring mindless groove and weird otherworldly vocals. I like the majority of Yes' work, but seriously... And really, while I like what I've heard of Rabin's work with Yes (haven't heard Union or Talk) and Rabin's solo stuff, I really am dubious about Rick Wakeman, whose playing just sounds silly and over the top all the time, (one reviewer says "he sat contented on the stage making blow-bottle noises" what a damning indictment). Wakeman had some novel albums in the 70s, I actually like Journey to The Center of the Earth, but his hundreds of albums since then... crap, a few easy, if quirky listening bits as highlights. Jon Anderson's voice annoys me. I haven't heard ABWH, but what difference does a shift from White to Bruford matter? They're just drummers.