I listened to Billy Sherwood's interview with a podcast called Yesshift ( https://anchor.fm/yesshift ).
They took an interesting approach to interviewing him, as much of the interview was him kind of recapping his career in his own words.
It's an excellent interview that I think a lot of people will want to listen to.
Here are a few things I thought were noteworthy, though this is far from comprehensive, and some of the decision making about what made it into a note and what didn't depended on my proximity to the computer I was taking notes with at the time something was being said.
- The second Arc of Life album is finished and was mastered three weeks ago. Frontier Records is the label. He doesn't know when it will be released.
It is described as "much more progressive" relative to the first album, and ends with a 17 minute track called "Arc of Life Last Track" (Or possibly just "Last Track"). He said he had an early demo for it that he presented to Frontier for the first album, but they wanted a more "straight ahead" approach on the debut album.
- Took extended pauses and sounded like he was choking back tears during some of the discussion of Chris Squire's death, even though it's almost a decade later. It's clear that he loved Chris.
- In regard to Yes continuing in the wake of Squire's death: "I took it as a personal mission to keep this thing going. It bothers me when I hear people tell me to stop. It makes me more defiant, [inaudible] dig my heels in, and keep it going."
- "My theory is that those who believe in Yes want it to go forward. Those are the people I'm doing it for, and those were the people Chris was talking about doing it for."
- Mentions that he's working on another Yes studio album. Declined to give further details so as to preserve what he categorizes as his great relationship with Steve. Declined to talk about the setlist for the upcoming tours for the same reason.
- Later, in sort of a lightning round of questions, Billy mentions "The More We Live" as a Yes song he would like to play live that he hasn't played yet with Yes, though he noted that his pick may be partly because the song was top of mind after they had discussed it earlier in the podcast.
- One of his hobbies is playing Occulus Quest 2 (A video game played with VR goggles, I think.).
- Sherwood likes scifi movies and says he thinks of the scifi genre on film as sort of the equivalent of prog music in a non-musical format and vice-versa (Not an exact quote).
- No one asked him about the Circa: album that was said to be in the works a while back, or the potential for a future Asia album.
They took an interesting approach to interviewing him, as much of the interview was him kind of recapping his career in his own words.
It's an excellent interview that I think a lot of people will want to listen to.
Here are a few things I thought were noteworthy, though this is far from comprehensive, and some of the decision making about what made it into a note and what didn't depended on my proximity to the computer I was taking notes with at the time something was being said.
- The second Arc of Life album is finished and was mastered three weeks ago. Frontier Records is the label. He doesn't know when it will be released.
It is described as "much more progressive" relative to the first album, and ends with a 17 minute track called "Arc of Life Last Track" (Or possibly just "Last Track"). He said he had an early demo for it that he presented to Frontier for the first album, but they wanted a more "straight ahead" approach on the debut album.
- Took extended pauses and sounded like he was choking back tears during some of the discussion of Chris Squire's death, even though it's almost a decade later. It's clear that he loved Chris.
- In regard to Yes continuing in the wake of Squire's death: "I took it as a personal mission to keep this thing going. It bothers me when I hear people tell me to stop. It makes me more defiant, [inaudible] dig my heels in, and keep it going."
- "My theory is that those who believe in Yes want it to go forward. Those are the people I'm doing it for, and those were the people Chris was talking about doing it for."
- Mentions that he's working on another Yes studio album. Declined to give further details so as to preserve what he categorizes as his great relationship with Steve. Declined to talk about the setlist for the upcoming tours for the same reason.
- Later, in sort of a lightning round of questions, Billy mentions "The More We Live" as a Yes song he would like to play live that he hasn't played yet with Yes, though he noted that his pick may be partly because the song was top of mind after they had discussed it earlier in the podcast.
- One of his hobbies is playing Occulus Quest 2 (A video game played with VR goggles, I think.).
- Sherwood likes scifi movies and says he thinks of the scifi genre on film as sort of the equivalent of prog music in a non-musical format and vice-versa (Not an exact quote).
- No one asked him about the Circa: album that was said to be in the works a while back, or the potential for a future Asia album.
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