How about a YES Mark I reunion album!!!???

[Bo Locks]

Imagine: the founder members together again after more than 30 years! They could play and do anything without expectations or prejudice! And no it WOULDN'T be TFTO!

Rerecord the first and second second album?
Play a one-off series of gigs a la San Luis Obispo?
Release a live album in the style of KTA?
Record sixties throwback covers?
Change the grooves for modern radio ears?
Yes play pop and are heard on the radio again?

Imagine: what a blow out of the cobwebs that could be? Astral Traveller with modern instruments? Ridiculous multi-tracked Hammond? A guitar player who doesn't sound like Howe? Progression through regression?

WHY NOT...?

[ELLIS]

This is a great idea IMHO.

But could you really get Banks or Bruford to agree?

[Bo Locks]

>koff, koff, koff<

<...the dust and cobwebs in here...>

Nacherelly, I think it's a good idea. And afterall Original SYN has happened since this post! Banks AND Bruford? Realistically? No. But maybe if everyone visited the studio on different days? You'd think you'd get 2 out 3: Banks, Bruford, Kaye. Maybe if Banks and Kaye needed the money? <ooh, terrible slur, sorry>

[umgekehrt]

How could they play and do anything without expectations or prejudice? That's exactly the first thing that people would have with the original lineup.

[About The Round]

In The Round connected to the world wrestlers association maybe!

[Bo Locks]

How could they play and do anything without expectations or prejudice? That's exactly the first thing that people would have with the original lineup.oh... still...? after 35 years...?

Like we're not waiting for TFTO II from the classic line-up? Isn't it fair to say that we're just a teensy bit more expectant and biased there?

erm... wow

[umgekehrt]

No I mean Yes music has changed very much since TAAW, especially after Howe and Wakeman joined in. And still some people are hoping that they would return to their roots and record another album like the first two ones. But then if Peter Banks and Tony Kaye and Bill Bruford rejoin the band (a very big if), they would most certainly record a very different sound now, because they too have evolved as musicians in their own personal ways.

[Bo Locks]

Ok then. So back to my original position. I'd love for this to happen. The music that might be produced is indeterminate. It could be a jazzed up version of the 60s; it could be the experimental rock of the future. We don't know. The musicians have lost their naivete so it can't be an exact copy of the past, but it could be something a whole lot better!

[umgekehrt]

It would probably be a bit jazzy if Bruford had any say in it. And Tony would play his Hammond B3. But I hope the result would sound a bit Beatlesque.

[scootwhoman]

I do hope that somewhere along the line Jon and Chris have gotten tegether with Peter Banks, as well as Tony and Bill. I would hope that the friendship surrounding the launch of a new group would last beyond the time when people realize that maybe the thing was not for them.

But I have never considered Yes to be interested in anything but the future, and doing a reunion for 'old times sake' just does not seem like Yes. I hope that they pay their former bandmates the honor of performing some of the music they created together live, and I look forward to someday hearing live versions of 'Looking Around' and 'Survival'.

Those two songs continue to astonish me, as they have stood the test of time as well as 'Your Move' or 'And You And I'. For a groups first album, they have a remarkable maturity, especially 'Survival'.

And, who knows? Maybe Peter Banks will return to fill in for Steve when he gets burned out again.

When 'Yes' is the answer, anything is possible.

[YepMan]

I would love to see Peter Banks play with Yes again, just to see what might happen. Apparently, it almost did one time...

[yarstruly]

Not likely to happen, but it would be fun....(To hear)

[crotale2112]

For me seeing yes perform machine messiah with jon anderson and tom brislin would blow out the cobwebs and maybe blow down the walls aswell.In my eyes this sounds like serious yes energy to me.:worm:

[Full Tilt Boogie]

I'd settle for a 'Yes' new material album. Call me old fashioned.

[AmyK]

I've always wondered why they did not round up a truckload of vintage equipment (think tube amps, mellotrons, etc.) and make another new album. That's true progression through regression. Even loyal fans that had slipped away would give them another chance.

Let's face it, if it is "modern" the folks that are not familiar with Yes will probably not listen to it, and most current fans will be like "Oh another OYE".

If it is retro for its own sake it will actually get attention, and 90% of the current fans will be lined up to hear it and get tickets for any tour of the new material no matter how small.