The Curse of Yes
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Topic: The Curse of Yes
Posted By: Evolver
Subject: The Curse of Yes
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 14:59
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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? ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 15:10
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Now who would call that a curse And i hope you didnt just jinx it ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 15:14
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Well, they're not that old. And they obviously didn't indulge in the same things that did for John Bonham, Hendrix and the like. Well, not as much anyway. |
Posted By: Firepuck
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 15:32
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Jon! Watch out for that bus!!! ------------- Kryten : "'Pub'? Ah yes, A meeting place where humans attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks." |
Posted By: Rashikal
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 15:33
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you guys are weird
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listen to Hella |
Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 15:47
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Genesis's numerous members unavailable for comment?
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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:13
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they are cursed because they have to live forever we are cursed because they are way, way past their prime and keep releasing albums Aaron |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:22
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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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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:23
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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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:30
Yes, but are they happy??? ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Evolver wrote:Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:46
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That's just mind boggling. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:47
Thousands of years from now, it'll just be Yes and the cockroaches. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:52
Damn,so that's what the film Starship Troopers was about.... |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 16:56
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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. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 17:02
try playing any piece of music and they appear to dance to it. I recommend Tales Of Topographic Oceans as a demonstration...... |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 17:25
The live version of "Killer" from the RFH gig of VdGG. Somehow fitting for a bunch of superheroes. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 18:03
how long before you two are dancing again? |
Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 18:23
They seem to ahve trouble keeping in time to Tarkus. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 19:04
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They're only in their late fifties... is it that surprising?... ------------- 
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Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 19:08
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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. |
Posted By: Hector Gilbert
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 19:31
Really?! |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 20:46
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Maybe I should consider a career in Yes... -------------  
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Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 22:43
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. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 25 2006 at 23:05
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. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Guillermo
Date Posted: March 25 2006 at 23:56
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? ------------- Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime. |
Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: March 26 2006 at 00:31
http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/band/member.cgi?martin - Not quite. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/omgwtfdagrush/">
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Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: March 26 2006 at 08:09
As I said to the orthopedic shoe salesman, "I stand corrected." Damn. There goes my prize. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |