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

You have $17 dollars, build your version of Yes

$5 - Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman
$4 - Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Tony Levin, Alan White
$3 - Jon Davison, Benoit David, Dylan Howe, Oliver Wakeman
$2 - Billy Sherwood, Tony O'Reilly, Igor Khoroshev

is it buy 4 get Squire free

members must be living and active

strawbs keeps popping 'em out.

ok fine I'll bite

Howe (can't be Yes without him), Moraz (can he still play?), Davison (dude is more Jon than Jon), Sherwood (he's not bad!), and O'Reilly (whoever he is I'm sure he can play better than White at this point), guess I pocket a dollar

Khoroshev is the bargain in this group, alas the man is too horny for Yes

Anderson, Howe, White, Oliver Wakeman and no bass I guess?

by that I mean he's a horny guy, not that he wants to bone the members of Yes

Tonys Kaye and Levin are overpriced.

my super duper group

Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Tony O'Reilly, Billy Sherwood, Patrick Moraz

as good as Levin is I don't think his style really jives with Yes. then again I suppose he can do just about anything.

I liked him on Union!

In addition to being a fantastic bass player, I have a soft spot for him because he is also from Brookline, Massachusetts.

Nothing to do with Yes, but I was annoyed listening to one of the recent Crimson live albums by how he slid around between notes instead of just hitting them dead-on like Wetton.

proper intonation is for chumps!

I mean when he was playing the 70s stuff, of course he's fine with the parts that he devised.

aint no frets on the bing bong stick or whatever the fuck its called

I'm pretty sure there are frets on the Chapman Stick

oh fine excuse me mr music genius

Gentlefolks, you can't fret about the Chapman Stick here! This is a prog thread!

don't shoot the stick messenger!

For years, I swore Tony Levin was a stage name meant as a brag about his bass sound ("Tone Eleven"). Then i learned that he primarily played something resembling an electric cribbage board, and "Tony Levin" is his real name.

But the serious question: when will Yes give us their "Honkin' on Bobo"?

I think they may be warming up to their Honkin' on Bobo. The most recent live album (I think, they may have squeezed another one out since I heard it) inexplicably included a cover of "Imagine" and a Richie Havens song.

They covered Richie Havens on their second album.

So they've been honkin' on bobo for a long, long time, it seems.

down at the honk
round by the bobo

loooooose one
onn too the honk of the bobo

Honks From Bobographic Oceans

They covered Richie Havens on their second album.

Yeah, I knew that, I guess by "inexplicable" I just meant that they haven't put non-Yes stuff on very many of these recent live tours where they've been performing full albums.

Shining, flying, purple bobo, tell me where you honk

Bobo Honker, go sailing on by

Honker Of A Lonely Bobo

LISTEN TO THIS TREVOR

I've Honked All Good Bobos

LISTEN TO THIS TREVOR

Honks From Bobographic Oceans

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, July 12, 2021 10:16 AM (eleven hours ago)

There were several great ones up above, but this is some God-level "Revealing corridors of time provoking memories Disjointed but with purpose" level topography

I was listening to Guided by Voices and it occurred to me they might be the only band that was just influenced by Yes's (particularly Anderson's) melodic sensibilities while taking absolutely nothing from their musicianship etc

So I don't keep up with current Yes at all but Youtube recommended this new video to me and, while it's not the classic band, if it were a new Mew song, it would be completely acceptable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbGEa7ju8bg

That's the first post-2000 Yes song I've heard. It wasn't embarrassing, but somehow it feels like they're hampered trying to "be progressive". I was wishing for the arrangement to be a little more straight rock (but, admittedly, what does that even mean in 2021).

lol why do they fake out "Touch and Go" at the beginning

its better than anything on Heaven & Earth, that's for sure

Mew? lol

It's not really as infectious melodically as Mew or classic Yes; just had a contemporary progressive pop quality for me and a strong sense of groove + the vocals and meandering melodic lines made me think a bit of Mew.

Miss Mew

well yeah also I miss Mew and would accept this if it was new material

Was probably overrating it out of hopefulness.

late night and I got the Yes Album on blast, I don't care how much embarrassing bullshit they put out they're still one of the sickest bands ever

inside out
outside in

I'll probably only hear the post-Magnification albums after I've heard like 30 solo albums.

I've been listening to Steve Howe's Beginnings. He sings too much, sometimes straining both his physical and emotional range, but unlike a lot of people I wouldn't say the vocals ruin the record.

Seems to me that great prog bands have a lot of great solo artists too. I know Steve Hackett's debut album is a classic but it's so brilliant that I'm surprised it doesn't come up in conversation here more.

Hackett's solo career is indeed quite good. all his first 4 are good, it gets a bit corny after that. but his recent albums are apparently on par with his early ones.

I too like Beginnings but am surprised Howe tries to even sing at all. I'm curious what his other solo albums sound like. I too am in that "Yes solo album" phase; so far Olias of Sunhollow, The Six Wives of Henry VII, and The Story of i are my favorites

Seems to me that great prog bands have a lot of great solo artists too.

not Gentle Giant! I don't know if they have a single solo album!