why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

It’s not late at night rn where I am but just popping in to recommend the latest YES “Ultimate Music Guide” thing from NME or Uncut - unsure. It’s an engrossing read as far as these things go. Love the ‘70s interviews.

I’m at a bar where it’s “prog night” and currently Jon Anderson doing Awaken with some Icelandic orchestra is projected on the wall, life is good

By the way LJ if you’re still here I did request Cardiacs “Flap Off You Beak” and it KILLED. I guess I found the right crowd. Weeeeird feeling

This is up in WI? I can only imagine it is several shades of weird.

Prog night sounds amazing, I wish I knew about something like that down here.

Dance on a Volcano lmao this rules

that jon anderson with todmobile concert is really something

was checking out a solo jon anderson show the other night and like, I can't imagine what fresh hell it would be to play yes with just an acoustic guitar, probably helps that he sang/co-wrote the tunes but he really does an admirable job, would see a solo jon show in a heartbeat

https://youtube.com/@progessiverockstories

I only watched the one of these he did for Duke and it was really good. Need to watch more.

oh yeah I've only watched that guys Yes videos but they are very good and are clearly a passion project, lord knows how much time it must take to research and produce them but very much picking up a dropped ball for all of us late night in the u.s.

This is up in WI? I can only imagine it is several shades of weird.

yeah it brings some strange and interesting people out. for me it's nice because I actually get to be the young guy at the bar again :) also lets me indulge my inner On Cinema Gregg Turkington, half the conversations were just "you know what other band this guy was in??"

MIRROR to the SKY (5/19/23) better not blow. that would be three in a row if so

I mean, I'm not holding out a lot of hope that this is going to break that run, but I'll be thrilled to be proven wrong. Not having "Mystery Tour" on the tracklist already makes it better than the last one.

By the way LJ if you’re still here I did request Cardiacs “Flap Off You Beak” and it KILLED. I guess I found the right crowd. Weeeeird feeling

― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 01:45 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

siiiick! gj

three songs longer than nine minutes. the title track is the longest since "endless dream" on talk. my hope is steve howe is really feeling it again

That Todmobile/Jon Andrson version of Awaken might be the best version ever

^^^this, i often watch it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dMQpNP1wGY

I love how Doug immediately cops the idea behind the chord sequence in the 'workings of man' section.

that big grin! i know the feeling pal. "wow!"

there's an obvious question i have regarding a certain other band our man could be made to hear, and it appears the answer is 'not yet', my vote is 'jitterbug'

okay it's 'dirty boy' really, obviously, ffs, lol

Everso...

new song out today. it's uh...not bad? some nice playing from Sherwood (who I suspect wrote most of this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WSqjH6mFhk

did roger dean do that art because it looks like someone did some fake dean-inspired work

song is surprisingly not horrible but it's not good either ('find my place in the jewel collective' no)

It appears he did, yeah

All of this is very...naff.

It sounds like a Yes song put together with AI so, yeah, that album cover is probably ideal.

sometimes my favorite yes is Drama yes, and I wish they had leaned more into that era a decade ago when that was the lineup, with a ringer on vox, tho presumably even trevor horn realized that was a mistake as he re-recorded the vocals himself later

and I get that trevor horn was never going to tour the countryside singing in yes for funsies, but it might have been cool to somehow keep him on as the brian wilson and have a bruce johnston to play the county fair or whatever

anyways steve howe's yes is fine I guess, it sounds kind of like yes, I admire that they are still bothering to write new music at least

I really like the cover, I think some of Dean's newer work looks different because it doesn't have the same textured detail? I didn't like his new version of a Uriah Heep album I bought recently, it wasn't an improvement and I wonder why he changed it?

did roger dean do that art because it looks like someone did some fake dean-inspired work

song is surprisingly not horrible but it's not good either ('find my place in the jewel collective' no)

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, March 10, 2023 9:55 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i want to believe he's singing about the jeweled antler collective

Looks like someone hipped Doug to the Todmobile version of Awaken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVT2SNjM44

This might be the worst Dean cover

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Asia_-_Omega_%282010%29_front_cover.jpg

lol yeah c'mon roger dean, have we polled dean covers? was pretty unassailable for at least three decades right?

Relayer is my favorite and Dean's favorite too

Whose idea was it to put a butt on the cover of going for the one

its stupid that steve jon and rick arent touring together with some amazing drummer before they all kick the bucket

hipignosis! xpost

Topographic oceans cover is my favorite

my favorite yes cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HWa1ssYl8

The Anderson/Rabin/Wakeman band was pretty good at least. Too bad they didn’t do a studio album.

Maybe I'm feeling particularly uncharitable but that new song made my brain bleed.

Listening to Magnification, an album I maintain is underrated, as a palate cleanser.

I CAN FEEL NO SENZS OF MEASURE

One down, one to go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAP_LwJOAQM

Whoa!

This is kinda mad.

Jon "It’s amazing to me. I don't know if you know the story but, these wonderful musicians, I met them a week ago, and we've been rehearsing for six days and this is our first show. I can't believe how good these guys are!"

The band geeks are these YT musicians that do lots of proggy covers and suchlike, pretty good show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g62gVU9A8fU

Maybe we can get two different warring factions of Yes touring again!

they sound pretty good! better than the current Yes for sure. pretty tough setlist they're tackling too.

there are actually a few really talented prog cover bands out there...typically they start writing original music at some point

Jon with live karaoke. But he sounds decent , i.e. the “sharp distance how can the wind with so very round me” part of “heart”
(More Tambourine)

So so far from being karaoke imho. Band sounds powerful & committed. Jon on fabulous form. Fair brought a tear to the eye!

A friend was sniffy and said, 'They're playing them a little too fast.' But I think he might be right in some cases.