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    Posted: November 23 2008 at 03:50
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"I truly feel reborn, feeling better and stronger each day, and it’s gonna take some months (probably six months),  but I plan to do some shows with new music. Because, apart from my recent health problems, the reason I hadn't agreed to tour with yes in many years was the lack of new music. With no new music - a lack of passion for music, really, as well as each other - and no real sense of what Yes truly is, etc., things just looked bleak to me. In the past, there had been too many tours, too much pressure from outside of the band to keep those tours going,  and we were not communicating as a band. This had made it impossible for Yes to progress as it should. That’s why I suggested a break: to explore new ideas and attempt a different approach to writing and playing; maybe do a  semi-acoustic CD, and then tour in a completely different manner; do less shows per year, but make the shows more innovative and truly special …totally reinvent ourselves. Both Rick and myself could see it happening, but sadly the others just wanted to keep going down that same old touring spiral, and I think that the fans (and the band!) deserve much better."

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This is why I will always consider him Yes. He is truly a leader in every sense of the word.
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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:23
I'm not a big Yes fan but you just gotta like that attitude. Clap

RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:37
Even if I don't consider him YES, here's a demonstration that he's a big part of it, that without him, the soul is gone, while the mind is still on Chris and Steve.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:39
Originally posted by ProgBagel ProgBagel wrote:

This is why I will always consider him Yes. He is truly a leader in every sense of the word.
 
He's been remarkably unsuccessful in getting the others to follow him.  If he'd posted something like this in 2003 or 2004 I'd have been far more accepting of it.   But it has been a LONG layoff, and this sounds a lot more like excuses than reasons.
 
I'd be nearly as happy if Anderson Wakeman would release a studio album and do a limited tour though.  The Anderson Wakeman tour was the most interesting Yes side project in many a year.
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Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

The Anderson Wakeman tour was the most interesting Yes side project in many a year.
 
Do anyone know if some shows from that tour was filmed/recorded. Is there a chance that we will ever see a live DVD from that tour?
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Jon is the true soul and spirit of Yes. Those other guys may have musical chops, but they're dead inside.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 21:49
Originally posted by peskypesky peskypesky wrote:

Jon is the true soul and spirit of Yes. Those other guys may have musical chops, but they're dead inside.
That is pretty damn harsh.  I wouldn't even say that of Squire, and I dislike most of what he's done over the last 25 years.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 22:00
Originally posted by peskypesky peskypesky wrote:

Jon is the true soul and spirit of Yes. Those other guys may have musical chops, but they're dead inside.
Hahaha, wow. You don't think that's a little extreme?
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 22:01
Don't you know to read between the lines?
 
Sounds like there's an internal problem between Jon, Rick and the rest of the guys,
 
I believe the name Yes is property of Chris Squire...Or am I wrong?
 
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Last I heard it was collectively owned by several members, but I could be wrong.  Squire having control alone has been superseded though, I'm pretty sure.  It may explain why they are not touring OFFICIALLY under the Yes name, albeit doing their best to capitalize on it unofficially (in the ABWH spirit.)
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 23:38
Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

Last I heard it was collectively owned by several members, but I could be wrong.  Squire having control alone has been superseded though, I'm pretty sure.  It may explain why they are not touring OFFICIALLY under the Yes name, albeit doing their best to capitalize on it unofficially (in the ABWH spirit.)
 
Probably, even when the first contract said that the last original member to leave the band would own the name, and that was Squire during the Rabin years I believe.
 
But anyway, maybe they changed contract after Onion.
 
But it smells as an internal problem, the words of Jon are extremely hard for him.
 
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