Yes vs. Glass Hammer dust-up!

I aint going to spend my money to see Yes live playing the old songs, but i would prefer to support a band that have produce many albums recently despite having a slight piece of recognition of what Yes have around the world fan base.

Tom Ozric wrote: I can understand Yes' desire to have Davison in top singing form for their set. I don't understand why they think they 'own' Davison ?? If he's up for it, he should be able/allowed to sing for Glass Hammer as well. 'Perilous' is an *outstanding* album - better than any post-Drama Yes album IMO. And that includes 'Magnification'.

I'd wager at this point, while the pay must be solid, that Yes needs Davison more than Davison needs Yes. If he really argued to sing for both Yes and GH, I imagine he'd be able to. Is Yes really going to fire a replacement singer again?

Davison could be out of both bands as Carl Groves who sang on Culture Of Ascent and did an excellent job would be a more than adequate replacement.

Maybe Yes can tap Paul Rodgers!

Richard, apparently GH is well into recording a new album with Carl on vocals (no bad thing there, at least it's not the guy who sang on `Chronometree'!), Jon seems to have had some small involvement, but in a recent promo picture for them he was nowhere to be seen.

If he's no longer part of the band, they're being very careful and downplaying it. I wonder if they fear that if news is widepsread that Jon is no longer involved much with them, all those Yes fans that have just started checking out the band might take off again.

I'd like to think they've won many more people over through their talent, musicality and good production than simply a superficial connection to Yes.

btw I don't blame Davison one bit for taking the Yes gig. Would have been impossible to turn down and I'm disappointed I won't be able to see Yes do the trio of classic albums on tour next year. Please please let there be a DVD

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Do the crusty old farts of Yes even know who is singing for them?

ProgVanWinkle wrote: richardh posted - btw I don't blame Davison one bit for taking the Yes gig. Would have been impossible to turn down I agree, this is a no brainer for him.  Yes is iconic. Totally iconic.  I understand the anger of course.   But only the hardest core prog fan could compare Glass Hammer to them in terms of prestige - oh, and I certainly think the money from touring and playing with YES is waaaay more than GH can offer him. Davison is singing on the new GH album anyways, so it's all good.

Despite the fact that Lex Rex is overall my favorite album by GH, and I don't believe that Perilous (their most recent) was the best of the Davison era, I still believe and feel that Glass Hammer in general is on an upward trend.

Fancy way to say, definitely yes.