Roger Dean to design the cover for new Yes CD
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Topic: Roger Dean to design the cover for new Yes CD
Posted By: chopper
Subject: Roger Dean to design the cover for new Yes CD
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 12:14
| Just read in the latest edition of Prog magazine that Roger Dean has been asked to design the cover for the new Yes CD. No other details apart from that, but it sounds promising. |
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 12:39
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In a interview in the French Prog-Mania web forum, Alan White had says this : " Were working individually on some new songs and after that we will work together for something new."
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 12:48
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Remember when King Crimson was working on a new CD? lol. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 12:59
Yeah, that album that was supposed to get released in 2008   |
stonebeard wrote:Posted By: Mac_Architect
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 13:09
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I hope it´s true..... Now I´m gonna save some money to order one. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 13:10
| Still no Jon Anderson? Not interested. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 13:11
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Wow! It made it through 5 posts. A new PA record. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 13:14
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Good oh! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 13:31
| Dean has done numerous covers for Yes compilations of course. Apart from Alan White's comment, is there any definite news on new Yes recordings? If so, perhaps Anderson and/or Wakeman will be involved. if I recall correctly, it was just the touring Rick said he did not want to participate in. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 14:23
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There's nothing definite and Dean doesn't say if Anderson is on the CD or not. He does also mention that a Japanese company called Disk Union are producing "a couple of box set of Yes product" including Yessongs "as it was originally designed" (i.e. a full booklet cover). |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 14:24
A record for what? |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 14:57
He's saying that the thread lasted for 5 posts before I 'hijacked' it with my anti-Yes hate-speech.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 15:07
They clearly want to start with the cover, then focus on the music. or They just want to book Roger Dean for the next 10 years, just in case. ------------- 
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Posted By: Clepsydra
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 17:45
| Jon & Rick will not be involved with the new Yes album. |
Posted By: nurcryme
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 17:48
| if jon anderson is not on the ned cd, im not buying and everyone else who have been on this ride with jon since the 70's should pass also. JON ANDERSON IS YES |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: January 31 2010 at 18:08
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NO! really? ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 06:40
Right now, the band that is working on the new cd, is the same as the one who is touring. No Jon Anderson and no Rick Wakeman. ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 06:44
We're seeing yes in DC next Saturday, and looking forward to it! Last summer we had just a taste of them, since their performance was interrupted by the mother of all thunderstorms .
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 06:59
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Drama showed that Yes can create an excellent album without Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman. I've always considered Chris Squire to be "behind the scenes" spirit of Yes, as it were, and I like most of what he does (I even enjoy his work with Sherwood on the side). It just strikes me as odd that people would pass up a potentially great album just because the band is using the name Yes.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 07:12
Yes, this is my thought!  ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 01 2010 at 10:18
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I feel free to doubt the excellence of Drama, but I agree that Yes should be capable of creating an excellent album without Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman. And indeed, the influence of Chris Squire is not to be underestimated. ------------- 
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Posted By: RalphWaldo
Date Posted: February 05 2010 at 00:09
| Chris Squires album Fish Out of Water is outstanding. His vocals are excellent not to mention the bass guitar. He does get help from other yes members at the time (not Jon). |
Posted By: grarschlonk
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 10:26
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Well I just went to see Yes in Northampton, Mass and went backstage after the show with the meet and greet package, just because Benoit David is a high school friend of mine. I actually recorded his first show ever in high school in Brossard, Qc Canada with his very first band "Crystal Rage" which was the first incarnation of what later became Visible Wind. Strangely enough, our High School, (called Polyvalente in quebecois) was decorated with huge Yes album covers (Yesongs and Fragile mainly) painted on the walls of the cafereria and student radio hall back in 1983. I asked Benoit if they were going to do a new album with this line-up. He didn't reply to that question. I also asked if Jon would ever come back in the band and he said: "It's over with Jon, they're not going to tour together anymore." Of course that could always change. On the other hand I got Alan White to sign my vinyl copy of ABWH and asked Steve Howe if Chris Squire would be willing to sign it also and he didn't think that was a good idea. Anyways, Chris was the last to come in the room and was the first to go so I didn't get a chance to talk to him. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 12:18
I'm not surprised. If you haven't already, look up the interviews Peter Banks did for the 2006 Yes documentary, and listen to his story about Steve Howe conspiring to force him out of a scheduled guest appearance on the 'Union' tour because his massive ego couldn't take it.  As for the Jon anderson thing, I'm more or less made peace with this. I will never support Yes again as long as they continue without their founder, but at the same time, many people don't seem to care, so who am I to judge? I won't buy any future records as it stands now, but I still wish them the best, and hope the fans who DO still support them will get a deserving new record someday. |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 13:26
I am surprised that he can be so certain on this matter. They're something big that happened in the band between Jon and the other guys. It would be sad to see this relationship broke like that. ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 13:32
I hate to contradict you, but, as far as I can remember, their founder was not only Jon Anderson, but Chris Squire as well. Actually, it was Squire who invited Anderson to join his band (Mabel Greer's Toyshop). Anyway, quibbles aside, I'm one of those people who still support the band, and will see them live (barring any natural disasters) next Monday. As to buying any future records, we will decide whether to do it or not when any come out, and on the basis of quality rather than lineup. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 13:42
| ^ I was just about to reply for the same issue. I just read the famous Peter Banks interview for The Marquee website and it appears as the birth of YES was possible because of the frequent collaborations between Squire, Banks and Bruford; by the time they were heavily involved in the underground scene Jon was but a boy who served at the bar and cleared the tables at The Marquee. Of course I'm aware of his importance in the musical mix of YES but calling him "the founder" of YES is incorrect. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 19:30
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This should be a nice album... surely I am going to miss Jon and Wakeman as I did with Drama, Relayer and Magnification (albums that I love)....
But they have another great keyboardist (as they did with Drama and Relayer... Moraz and Downess are very talented) and Oliver Wakeman proved to make a great team with Howe (3 Ages of Magick)... With Squire on backing vocals we are going to get some of the Yes vocal spirit (as shown on Fish Out of Water)... Benoit will preserve the Anderson element on the music, but I tend to think that if Jon isn't going to be there it would've been interesting to have a different kind of vocalist to experiment with... + Yes' 2000s works have been great: Keystudio (Keys to Ascension) and Magnification ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 19:43
No, you are right, it was actually the owner or manager I believe of the club both men frequented that introduced the two. (As I mentioned above, I am familiar with the 2006 documentary, which goes into great detail as to how the band was formed). I don't see how that contradicts what I said at all; Anderson is a founding member of Yes, and without him, it just doesn't feel the same for me. If my post implied that I thought Anderson was the ONLY founder, I apologize for my clumsy wording. If Yes still had Anderson but got rid of Squire, I would have the same qualms, by the way.
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Posted By: jplanet
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 03:50
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There are people who are angry that Pink Floyd still used the name after Roger Waters left - and possibly even more who thought they should stop using the name after Syd Barrett was no longer in the band. Each time, people were understandably attached to the lineup they had identified with. Personally, I will view this new album on its own merits. This is a good lineup, and seems to be one that honors the greatest of the band's catalog with superb performances. It's not like Sammy Hagar joining Van Halen, where he changed the whole sound and decided to never perform any of the band's older material live...there is a very good chance that this will be a good album, so long as they do not include the silly alien song that they performed at Westbury last year....That was Tormato-esque in its cheesiness! ------------- https://www.facebook.com/ShadowCircus/" rel="nofollow - ..::welcome to the shadow circus::.. |
Posted By: tet1963
Date Posted: March 21 2010 at 14:19
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Yes 2010 is only because they need the name to tour, to me it is Yes karaoke as Anderson is not singing, for better or worse he is the voice of Yes. Benoit David is a good impersonator.
Let's face it this has no credibility and Yes as in the classic Yes ended when Anderson's involvement did.
Anderson did ask to be involved on the UK tour and Squire said no so Benoit David is now permanent. They should go out as a new band not Yes.
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: March 21 2010 at 14:41
Yes is more then Jon Anderson. The music of Yes is beyond the presence of one of his member. The spirit of Yes is still there when Squire, Howe and White are part of it. Listen to one of the lastest live performance, and you'll see that it's still Yes. ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: Progfan1958
Date Posted: March 21 2010 at 16:35
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 21 2010 at 17:00
I agree that Jon Anderson is not Yes, but having a vocalist that sounds like Jon and still name yourself as Yes is something pretty odd.
I mean, if it were a totally different vocalist, perfect, it would be like what happened with Drama(great record, btw).
When you replace the vocalist for a new album you shouldn't look for someone "similar"(it's really the same voice) in style.
By the way, Jon Anderson together with Bill Bruford, Wakeman and Rabin will also be doing a new album this year probably. This is gonna be a very interesting year
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 22 2010 at 08:10
That's interesting, considering Bill has retired from performing two years ago (I think). He'll play on the album, but not perform? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 22 2010 at 08:45
There's a separate thread about this, entitled ABWR.
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: March 23 2010 at 05:46
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Edit - Sorry, changed my mind. |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: March 28 2010 at 17:36
| The idea of a Yes album with a Jon Anderson impersonator is ridiculous! Can't Chris Squire sing? I've never thought he was bad. It would be especially stupid for there to be a second band with Rabin and Anderson. They should unite with Yes and do some work with the outstanding 80s lineup. I guess whatever happens I don't expect a masterpiece from the worn-out formula of Yes and its offshoots. After 90125 the band stopped sounding new and exciting with every release, IMO. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 00:09
after seeing Asia's new cover art, I am afraid about Yes'  ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com)
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