Is Yes really Yes anymore?

I do have high hopes that The Quest will be better than Heaven & Earth

So I have this car I bought in the 70's. It was a very reliable vehicle...until it wasn't. I started to replace the parts that weren't working anymore. After almost 50 years of replacing parts, sometimes with cheaper knockoffs, can I say it's the same car? Sure it has the same name, but not much else that truly ties it to that classic vehicle I once had.

(It's a metaphor by the way)

It's a band called Yes...but it is NOT Yes.

If they're so confident in their efforts they should rebrand and relaunch.

If Alan White were fully there and if Geoff Downes had stuck around for even 90125, that would feel more like Yes to me. As it stands, Sherwood and Davidson are standing in place of Squire and Anderson, Downes had more impact on Asia's career than Yes', and White is being supplemented by the extra drummer they take on tour with them, leaving only Howe both fully there and having Yes as his main gig. Someone above said they've seen both Yes and ARW recently and ARW felt more like Yes. I haven't seen either, but Anderson and Wakeman don't need defending, and Rabin was there for many years during the most commercially successful part of Yes' career as an influential part of the band. I can see how that would feel more like Yes than Steve Howe and three and a half guys who've more or less jumped on the bandwagon.

Not setting your hopes too high then! 

I'm sure there are bands around that have no original members but still go around with the same name. I guess it depends on who has legal rights to the name but you do get some stupid situations like Wishbone Ash when there are 2 bands with the same name knocking around.

I have no problems if they call themselves Yes but I reserve the right to not buy their CDs now.

Simple! No Squire No Yes

Not even maybe!

The one that comes to mind is Foreigner.......We saw them in summer 2019 (I also saw Foreigner back in '82), although it was a great show because it was a setlist of hit song after hit song, not a single musician is from the original lineup. Mick Jones only shows up for the big shows, everyone else in the current band joined in the early 2000s. Essentially it is a cover band now.......You are going to see a bunch of great musicians playing songs they had nothing to do with originally.......so yea I voted NO.