Anderson, Wakeman and Rabin Working on New Album

[allgoodyes]

An article posted yesterday on the Something Else! website reports that Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin have been exchanging demos for a new album in the works. Given that Wakeman and Rabin have never worked together on a studio project, it will be fascinating to listen to the album when completed.
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012...-trevor-rabin/

[Sharp on Attack]

I hope they ultimately get together to WORK together as a unit and not just "guest" on each other's songs...

[SunshipVoyager]

Have we entered into a weird time warp where the last year or so never happened?

[soundchaser09]

I hope they give it all theyve got ive been looking forward to this

[Mind Driver]

This could be good.....and they are discussing a tour.

Anderson says that they would play new music and not focus on the old stuff from Yes.

[JL]

If, as advertised, these three embark on a tour that is all about the new music, I will enthusiastically attend!

[Chris2210]

If, as advertised, these three embark on a tour that is all about the new music, I will enthusiastically attend!

The quote was some new music and "Of course, you’d do old stuff that people want to hear".

I love Jon's contributions to Yes and I don't think they're as good a band without him [although I'd say the same about Steve and Chris], but his interviews always seem laced with stabs at the other guys and a certain degree of hypocrisy. I flicked through the new edition of Prog magazine the other day to see Anderson's parting line which was along the lines of him 'leaving every time the band started to be about money'. I don't know if that's astonishing cynical or just stupendously delusional - I wish it were truly unworthy of him.

He appears to be producing material in competition with Yes and that's no bad thing if it motivates him to produce good material. But I wouldn't place too much stock on his assertions about this collaboration - it is after all stuff he's said before with no outcome. I hate to think of him doing this to build a tower of spite - I'm doubtful anything good can come from such an impetus.

I did however buy SAOS and attended a Jon/Rick gig. I don't listen to music because I think musicians are saints, I listen to stuff that interests/moves me. Of all the YesWest material, Talk is by far my favourite and if these three can produce something of that quality [a genuine collaboration] all to the good. I can do without the bovine excreta that goes along with it.

[RelayerI]

This could be good.....and they are discussing a tour.

Anderson says that they would play new music and not focus on the old stuff from Yes.

I can't see them having more than 50/60 minutes of new music, so that would still be an hour or so of Yeswest / Classic Yes material. I'd rather it was Yeswest stuff - I can get Classic Yes from, er, Yes...

[Ceasar's Palace]

Have we entered into a weird time warp where the last year or so never happened?

I see what you mean. But maybe now with Jacaranda out, Rabin has the time to seriously work on AWR.
I got the impression that it was mainly Trevor's busy schedule that kept the project from happening.

[YesNY]

The quote was some new music and "Of course, you’d do old stuff that people want to hear".

I can't see them having more than 50/60 minutes of new music, so that would still be an hour or so of Yeswest / Classic Yes material. I'd rather it was Yeswest stuff - I can get Classic Yes from, er, Yes...

We might be putting the cart before the horse but...

The selection of "old" stuff in concert should be interesting. Just for an opening song the band has to consider a lot. They probably don't want to open with a new song. They might not want to open with any songs recent incarnations of Yes without Jon A. opened with. They might want to open with a Yes West song, but nothing too popish or was so lush on record that it is difficult to achieve live in a small to medium venue. Also, nothing that is too "Steve." Of course, there is the expected scratches like anything from Drama, but add to that anything from Relayer, Tales, or anything post Talk.

[1yesfan]

We might be putting the cart before the horse but...

The selection of "old" stuff in concert should be interesting. Just for an opening song the band has to consider a lot. They probably don't want to open with a new song. They might not want to open with any songs recent incarnations of Yes without Jon A. opened with. They might want to open with a Yes West song, but nothing too popish or was so lush on record that it is difficult to achieve live in a small to medium venue. Also, nothing that is too "Steve." Of course, there is the expected scratches like anything from Drama, but add to that anything from Relayer, Tales, or anything post Talk.

All I know is I would LOVE to hear them put in CAN'T LOOK AWAY from Trevor's solo album. That song SMOKES on his Live In LA album. Would be a great closer tune.

[pianozach]

AWR Live . . .

What non-new stuff WOULD they play live?

Considering that Rabin and Wakeman never collaborated on any studio Yes album . . .

Well . . . I'd venture that they'd play at least one solo career track each . . .

And since Talk was a Rabin/Anderson dominated Yes album, one might expect they'd perform one of those. Funny that when they performed a track from Talk on the Letterman show, they chose the Hodgson song Walls . . .

Everyone gives the Yes West version of And You and I high marks . . . . maybe they'll drag THAT one out.

I'd also expect Roundabout and Owner of a Lonely Heart, two of Yes' greatest hits, and very likely a Big Generator track (I'm rooting for I'm Running - hey - it even mentions the name of Rabin's new album in the lyrics . . . but I figure they'd perform one of the others, like Shoot High Aim Low, Rhythm of Love or Big Generator).

Maybe they'd pull out America.

Or perhaps something from Union. Umm . . . well, considering Wakey refers to it as "Onion", probably not



Yeah, I wouldn't expect anything from Drama, FFH, Relayer, OYE, The Ladder or Magnification.

[1yesfan]

Well it appears they are working on it again unless this article is pulling this info from the LAST time the guys said this was happening a YEAR ago or more, ha ha.
I think it happens, maybe just an album but I think it happens. I think they will bring alitlte of their own work to the table to a degree, put it together for a few songs and also do some new stuff they did from scratch, and if they tour it, play a few WEST tunes with the new and that is what we will get.
If they tour this I think it could be big in the core YES fan base. The chatter will be big. I think the new Rabin album has gained some new followers for him, then the JA factor of being off the radar some, rick even more, all put together would be a show seller if they did tour it.
We shall see.

[xlink_nz]

can someone move this thread to the AWR forum please

[somissound]

I bet they play 2 or 3 from Talk, BG, 90125, with a Wakeman style, a few classics with a Rabin style, and a handful of new ones.

If they get Levin and Bruford (or Cobham), the new stuff could be amazing...

Just pray Rick brings his Hammond, Mello-tron, or Trev picks his sounds

[Paul Allen]

They will play the entire Drama album. They will play it better than it has ever been played. The members of the current Yes will all be sad and jump off of a bridge.

[luvyesmusic]

April isn't until next year, you fools. ;-)

I wouldn't hold my breath. Go see a Jon, Rick show, this year, and a Jon & Rick show sometime next year instead.

[Rabin105]

They will play the entire Drama album. They will play it better than it has ever been played. The members of the current Yes will all be sad and jump off of a bridge.

joking about the deaths of yes members past or present... Yeah and your a yes fan!

[bondegezou]

An article posted yesterday on the Something Else! website reports that Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin have been exchanging demos for a new album in the works.

Something Else! are merely taking a quote from someone else's interview -- and adding a somewhat dubious headline. Go to the original at http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2012/09/06/...abin-football/ for a bit more context.

Henry

[Jackaranda]

I'd love to hear Wakeman play Endless Dream.