Yes Touring this Spring

I didn't realize that Jon Anderson wasn't singing with Yes anymore. I knew he had health issues and he's been doing some solo work, but I didn't realize that he's been replaced in the band.
 
I didn't realize I had a popular first and/or last name (Benoit). I thought they were talking about the jazz pianist singing too lol. I had a chance to see Yes, i think, at Music Midtown in Atlanta a few years back... but my brother and I decided to see some mediocre bands instead :\
 
TheLongshot said:
I didn't realize that Jon Anderson wasn't singing with Yes anymore. I knew he had health issues and he's been doing some solo work, but I didn't realize that he's been replaced in the band.
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Yeah, a similar situation like Styx, Accept and Journey, they have a new vocalist who does the job, if you can deal with that by all means go see them!!!
 
MysticX9 said:
Yeah, a similar situation like Styx, Accept and Journey, they have a new vocalist who does the job, if you can deal with that by all means go see them!!!
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  • Like Journey did with Arnel Pineda, Yes discovered Benoit David through Youtube: he sang for a Yes tribute band. And yes, he can sound eerily like Jon Anderson.
  • He also sings in a slightly metallic Canadian prog band that I suspect many here would appreciate. Band is called Mystery (not to be confused with Glenn's mystery band.)
  • Apropos Styx and Yes, see also http://home.netcom.com/~zmoq/pages/Yestyx.htm :)
 
Other than the new singer, it is a dam solid line-up, almost like the original YES, I mean they still have a Wakeman on keyboards, even if it is Rick Wakemans son, who cares I anticipate he has his dad's talent.
 
esa said:
  • He also sings in a slightly metallic Canadian prog band that I suspect many here would appreciate. Band is called Mystery (not to be confused with Glenn's mystery band.)
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I actually have one of their older albums (that doesn't have him on it). It isn't bad stuff.
 
Not coming anywhere near me. Sucks that Anderson isn't on vocals, but I caught a few live clips from their US tour last summer (which I couldn't make) and their new guy sounded great.
 
AeonicSlumber said:
Not coming anywhere near me. Sucks that Anderson isn't on vocals, but I caught a few live clips from their US tour last summer (which I couldn't make) and their new guy sounded great.
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I saw them last year and he was fantastic. For those not wanting to go due to Anderson not singing I would suggest changing your mind.
 
Not to stir the proverbial pot, but let's do it anyway....

"Jon Anderson is a founding member of the seminal British progressive rock group Yes. The singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist fronted the group through several decades of commercially successful and musically adventurous albums and tours. In 2008 Anderson suffered a severe asthma attack and acute respiratory failure, leaving him unable to perform a planned Yes tour, and the group replaced him with the singer from a Yes tribute act from YouTube and moved on.
Anderson recently released a new album with former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman called The Living Tree, and in a new interview with Sterling Whitaker of Examiner.com he talked about his years with Yes and how he saw his role in the group.
"I'd write the songs, I'd come up with ideas for the structure . . . I pushed them up the mountain every time," Anderson said. "Close to the Edge, Topographic, "Gates of Delirium" [and] "Awaken" are my favorite pieces. I pushed them up the mountain. They wouldn't have gone there without me. It was my dream. I had this idea of, we're talented musicians. Why don't we expand music and make it something different, rather than chase the charts?"
Anderson added that it's not unusual for bands that stay together for a long time to have problems. "Over years, you get to a stage where bands stay together because it's business," he noted. "When I got sick, I just couldn't continue. I was really ill, and the guys didn't understand it. And what's to say why they didn't understand it. I don't know. But that's life. You know, you get on with my next thing."
Asked if he would ever consider re-joining Yes, Anderson didn't give a definite answer, saying, "That's a difficult question, obviously. They just disappointed me totally, and a lot of fans. They decided they wanted to go and get a guy that sounded like me and looked like me. "I'm doing what I believe to be the right thing by just getting on with music, rather than worrying about the band. I know they're out there, they're making an album. Good luck to them." Read Part One of the interview here ( http://www.examiner.com/classic-har...th-former-yes-front-man-jon-anderson-part-one ), and Part Two here ( http://www.examiner.com/classic-har...th-former-yes-front-man-jon-anderson-part-two )."
 
KingsGene said:
Not to stir the proverbial pot, but let's do it anyway....

"Jon Anderson is a founding member of the seminal British progressive rock group Yes. The singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist fronted the group through several decades of commercially successful and musically adventurous albums and tours. In 2008 Anderson suffered a severe asthma attack and acute respiratory failure, leaving him unable to perform a planned Yes tour, and the group replaced him with the singer from a Yes tribute act from YouTube and moved on.
Anderson recently released a new album with former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman called The Living Tree, and in a new interview with Sterling Whitaker of Examiner.com he talked about his years with Yes and how he saw his role in the group.
"I'd write the songs, I'd come up with ideas for the structure . . . I pushed them up the mountain every time," Anderson said. "Close to the Edge, Topographic, "Gates of Delirium" [and] "Awaken" are my favorite pieces. I pushed them up the mountain. They wouldn't have gone there without me. It was my dream. I had this idea of, we're talented musicians. Why don't we expand music and make it something different, rather than chase the charts?"
Anderson added that it's not unusual for bands that stay together for a long time to have problems. "Over years, you get to a stage where bands stay together because it's business," he noted. "When I got sick, I just couldn't continue. I was really ill, and the guys didn't understand it. And what's to say why they didn't understand it. I don't know. But that's life. You know, you get on with my next thing."
Asked if he would ever consider re-joining Yes, Anderson didn't give a definite answer, saying, "That's a difficult question, obviously. They just disappointed me totally, and a lot of fans. They decided they wanted to go and get a guy that sounded like me and looked like me. "I'm doing what I believe to be the right thing by just getting on with music, rather than worrying about the band. I know they're out there, they're making an album. Good luck to them." Read Part One of the interview here ( http://www.examiner.com/classic-har...th-former-yes-front-man-jon-anderson-part-one ), and Part Two here ( http://www.examiner.com/classic-har...th-former-yes-front-man-jon-anderson-part-two )."
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I had no clue about that. Very interesting read and I don't blame him for being pissed and not wanting to come back. Does anyone know how long he was sick?

Edit: I read the full interview now which answered my question.
 
Via http://www.bravewords.com/news/156285

Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Write recently caught up with former YES keyboardist RICK WAKEMAN. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

When asked if he will ever play with the band Yes again, Rick Wakeman answers with a resounding, “No.” This one simple word is a huge statement coming from the man whose roots go back to the band’s 1971 classic album Fragile. Rick has made it known that he does not agree with the recent decision his former band mates made when they sought out a replacement for Yes vocalist JON ANDERSON on YouTube during a time when Anderson was physically unable to perform.

“What Chris [Squire], Alan [White] and Steve [Howe] do is their business and it is for them to decide what they do in the same way that I make my own decisions as to what I want to do,” Wakeman continues, “All I will say is that I did have dreams as to how I saw Yes in it’s twilight years but those dreams are now passed and totally unachievable, so life moves on.”

When asked if he is angry or hurt by his band mate’s behavior Wakeman simply says, “I’ve moved on.”

Go to this location for the complete story.
 
None of it is really surprising. Yes has been full of drama for years, often at the whim of Chris Squire, who owns the name of the band.

Funny tho that they interview Wakeman, when he has rarely recorded with the band for the past 30 years, with his only appearances are with ABWH, Union and Keys To Ascension.
 
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