Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks Live - Part II

[John Vehadija]

Feel free to continue the discussion here

On my part I really loved the Gates video from the 29th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5m1Qitwlw

[Enlighten]

Was going to check in with you about the other thread being closed. Was it a technological space thing?

[John Vehadija]

I just want to keep things simple, cuz we're running the cloud version of the software

[Gtkgasman]

Excellent. Looking forward to more reviews from those going. And some more clips! 👍👍

[Enlighten]

I just want to keep things simple, cuz we're running the cloud version of the software

Good to know, John. I just wanted to be clear because I’ve noticed certain threads being closed and was curious as to why.

[YESOLA]

I'm not a Jon fanboy. Drama is in my top 3, and I love FFH with Benoit and Horn... However I have not had Yes bring that auto grin and raised amazed eyebrows in a long long time. There is something unique, different, energetic, and a chemistry and sound with with a lot of mojo. Steve is my favorite guitarist, period. But this Jon and Geeks is just on another level. Not just the tempos, energy, and the actual lead vocals of Yes, but the sounds they are using. It just sounds way better on so many different levels. I never saw Yes in the mid to late 70's, but this seems much more like that than Steve's band... Sure they might have done a few different arrangements, but Gates of Delirium and Ritual from this Geek tour brought this Yes fan who sort of lost hope, a huge smile on his face. The Jon haters and Quest lovers will pick this apart and that's fine, but I'm just so happy to be excited again about a Yes project

I also happen to love the gainy Rickenbacker tone in Ritual and the whole shows. It's got some balls like Squire's tone. His tone from 74-80 at times had plenty of grit and distortion or wah. I'm sure it sounds way better live than on a cell phone youtube... This is the best the bass has sounded since Chris IMHO

Embrace your inner fanboy.

Yes I also enjoyed the sounds. The Band Geeks really brought in some brightness with their sounds.

Three points from this:

1. Jon Anderson brings joy to the Yestable.

2. Don't be afraid to be wildly excited about this project.

3. Any flack from Jon Haters or Yes O lovers can easily be met with "This isn't Yes so what's the issue?" But it is a Yes music project. Its a great win here for the Yes brand all around.

[kkleinschmidt]

^ This

[rePete]

Embrace your inner fanboy.

Yes I also enjoyed the sounds. The Band Geeks really brought in some brightness with their sounds.

Three points from this:

1. Jon Anderson brings joy to the Yestable.

2. Don't be afraid to be wildly excited about this project.

3. Any flack from Jon Haters or Yes O lovers can easily be met with "This isn't Yes so what's the issue?" But it is a Yes music project. Its a great win here for the Yes brand all around.

Yep.

[Gtkgasman]

Embrace your inner fanboy.

Yes I also enjoyed the sounds. The Band Geeks really brought in some brightness with their sounds.

Three points from this:

1. Jon Anderson brings joy to the Yestable.

2. Don't be afraid to be wildly excited about this project.

3. Any flack from Jon Haters or Yes O lovers can easily be met with "This isn't Yes so what's the issue?" But it is a Yes music project. Its a great win here for the Yes brand all around.

I embrace it, freely admit it, 😆. Hey I just love JA (and RW for the sake of argument) “more”. So I always see thru any blemishes easily. I know it.

BUT, just because I like them “more”, doesn’t mean I dislike any of YesO at all!(including Benoit and TR, etc)) :
Steve - still number one guitarist no matter how i gush on the geeks. Simple.
GD - still love to hear him play, esp in his own style, and his own tunes, and he is a tremendously nice person!
Billy - ditto - he helped keep yes going as much as anyone else!!!! Also a nice person when we have run into him. And he killed it when they did Drama!!! A pros pro.
Jay - again, such a nice person, talked at length in Vegas one time with my wife, helped when the band needed him the most.
JD - this is a broken record it sounds like - again so very nice at every turn. Keeps and kept that yes brand going!! And a true professional musician all around. You can’t not like this guy, he’s not JA, he’s JD.

So, while the YesO today is surely diff from Yes, of past, that is my favorite, I do still like that it is called Yes.

Hell, I haven’t missed any incarnation in years!!! And I was so pumped after the Geeks show, couple days later I put on TQ.

Not sure why I had to qualify all that. Guess just to hear myself talk. 😆😆. And I liked that sentence above about the Yes Brand. It’s a broad brush……

Give me more JA live!! And Give me more YesO live again when it’s time!


edit: Oh, yeah, I know I have posted some negative thoughts on recent lps, in the past, but in hindsight, i think I jumped too fast to “compare”, rather to listen and enjoy, and rate them on their own current merit.

[Gtkgasman]

Who is going on 5/3?

[josuev80]

Good to know, John. I just wanted to be clear because I’ve noticed certain threads being closed and was curious as to why.

Certain threads were or evolved to be political despite there being no more politic threads allowed on the site and rightfully closed,. I thought for a bit that the first thread was closed because it was becoming too much pro/against YesO vs pro/against "YesFJA&BG"

[Somis Sound]

Embrace your inner fanboy.

Yes I also enjoyed the sounds. The Band Geeks really brought in some brightness with their sounds.

Three points from this:

1. Jon Anderson brings joy to the Yestable.

2. Don't be afraid to be wildly excited about this project.

3. Any flack from Jon Haters or Yes O lovers can easily be met with "This isn't Yes so what's the issue?" But it is a Yes music project. Its a great win here for the Yes brand all around.

Right on brotha.... I am super psyched on the Jon and Geeks performance of Ritual and Gates of Delirium. A great Yes project indeed! Also looking forward to the centerpiece of the new Steve and Co. album. I hear it's really good.

[Enlighten]

Certain threads were or evolved to be political despite there being no more politic threads allowed on the site and rightfully closed,. I thought for a bit that the first thread was closed because it was becoming too much pro/against YesO vs pro/against "YesFJA&BG"

I hope that’s not the case, it doesn’t seem like it is. It wouldn’t make sense either. We’re going to have that debate in a variety of different threads because once again, we have two different representations of Yes out there right now.

[Mr. Holland]

Embrace your inner fanboy.

Yes I also enjoyed the sounds. The Band Geeks really brought in some brightness with their sounds.

Three points from this:

1. Jon Anderson brings joy to the Yestable.

2. Don't be afraid to be wildly excited about this project.

3. Any flack from Jon Haters or Yes O lovers can easily be met with "This isn't Yes so what's the issue?" But it is a Yes music project. Its a great win here for the Yes brand all around.

Can I just say that it isn't necessarily "or". I like YesO, well at least what I've heard so far off the new album and I like parts of the Quest, and I like Anderson and the Geeks. So good times for me personally.

I also don't see much hatred on this forum either way. Criticisms sure, people explaining why they don't like something, sure. But that doesn't equal hatred. I think we should be careful making things so extremely black or white.

[Enlighten]

Can I just say that it isn't necessarily "or". I like YesO, well at least what I've heard so far off the new album and I like parts of the Quest, and I like Anderson and the Geeks. So good times for me personally.

I also don't see much hatred on this forum either way. Criticisms sure, people explaining why they don't like something, sure. But that doesn't equal hatred. I think we should be careful making things so extremely black or white.

I don’t see hatred either, Arno but there can be a certain kind of dismissive disdain (by some) for Jon A. No one has his voice and no one can deliver classic Yes music like the guy who was fundamental in creating it and giving it a voice. Like Erik, I’ve never been a no Jon/no Yes type of fan. Drama is one of my favorite Yes albums too but Jon’s got a special kind of magic and we’re getting another opportunity to hear Yes music performed in a way that is passionate, powerful and exciting.