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
― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
This is up in WI? I can only imagine it is several shades of weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 02:01 (one year ago) link
Prog night sounds amazing, I wish I knew about something like that down here.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 March 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link
Dance on a Volcano lmao this rules
― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
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
― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 3 March 2023 03:07 (one year ago) link
https://youtube.com/@progessiverockstories
I only watched the one of these he did for Duke and it was really good. Need to watch more.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 3 March 2023 04:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:21 (one year ago) link
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??"
― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
MIRROR to the SKY (5/19/23) better not blow. that would be three in a row if so
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
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.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 01:45 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
siiiick! gj
― imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
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
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
That Todmobile/Jon Andrson version of Awaken might be the best version ever
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
^^^this, i often watch it
― imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
that big grin! i know the feeling pal. "wow!"
― imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
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'
― imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
okay it's 'dirty boy' really, obviously, ffs, lol
― imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
Everso...
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
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, 10 March 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
It appears he did, yeah
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
All of this is very...naff.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
It sounds like a Yes song put together with AI so, yeah, that album cover is probably ideal.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
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
― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 10 March 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
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?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 10 March 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
― 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
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 March 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
Looks like someone hipped Doug to the Todmobile version of Awaken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVT2SNjM44
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 March 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
This might be the worst Dean coverhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Asia_-_Omega_%282010%29_front_cover.jpg
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
lol yeah c'mon roger dean, have we polled dean covers? was pretty unassailable for at least three decades right?
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 11 March 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
Relayer is my favorite and Dean's favorite too
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 March 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
Whose idea was it to put a butt on the cover of going for the one
― calstars, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
its stupid that steve jon and rick arent touring together with some amazing drummer before they all kick the bucket
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
hipignosis! xpost
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
Topographic oceans cover is my favorite
― calstars, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
my favorite yes cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HWa1ssYl8
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
The Anderson/Rabin/Wakeman band was pretty good at least. Too bad they didn’t do a studio album.
― frogbs, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 12 March 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
I CAN FEEL NO SENZS OF MEASURE
― calstars, Sunday, 12 March 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
One down, one to go
― calstars, Saturday, 18 March 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAP_LwJOAQM
― MaresNest, Sunday, 2 April 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link
Whoa!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Monday, 24 April 2023 20:54 (eleven months ago) link
Maybe we can get two different warring factions of Yes touring again!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 April 2023 21:17 (eleven months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:25 (eleven months ago) link
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)
― calstars, Monday, 24 April 2023 22:23 (eleven months ago) link
So so far from being karaoke imho. Band sounds powerful & committed. Jon on fabulous form. Fair brought a tear to the eye!
― Sunset Claus (Uncle Juice), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 02:30 (eleven months ago) link
A friend was sniffy and said, 'They're playing them a little too fast.' But I think he might be right in some cases.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 10:35 (eleven months ago) link
Jon + buncha randos >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything that has called itself Yes for the past 30 years
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 10:39 (eleven months ago) link