Jon Davison and John Lodge in my neck of the woods

[Enlighten]

Jon and John performing “Tuesday Afternoon” at the Cabot Theatre, just up the road from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIC7AHy28xQ

[John Vehadija]

Great! Thank you for this!

[Enlighten]

Great! Thank you for this!

Sure thing, they do a nice job here.

[highfell]

Jon and John performing “Tuesday Afternoon” at the Cabot Theatre, just up the road from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIC7AHy28xQ

Not overimpressed by the clip. Did you go and see them ?

[downbyariver]

I really enjoyed Jon Davison's singing on that.

I'm hoping at some point they'll let him do my favorite Moody Blues song, "Your Wildest Dreams".

I think he shows some legitimate range here. You know, he doesn't sound like "The voice of Yes tries singing the Moody Blues". He sounds like a guy who could legitimately have been a lead singer in a later version of the Moody Blues had they continued on with newer members.

I've also seen clips of him, less formally, singing a Genesis song with a pickup band, and, again, he sounds good there.

While I probably enjoy him more in as a member of Glass Hammer and Arc of Life, along with guest appearances in the Prog Collective, on a Billy Sherwood solo album, and so on and so forth (and obviously in Yes!), those are all parts that were written for, at least in a very generalized sense, a Jon Anderson-type singer, so you don't really get the sense of what he can do apart from that. Here you do.

It's hard to tell what the future holds for our favorite classic rock music, but one possibility is that there will only be a few bands left that retain the rights to the classic band names and the ability to get booked, but that they'll have to broaden their appeal a little bit by picking up some songs from the bands that ended their tenures in order to keep drawing the crowds. So, for example, one could see a band called Yes that mostly performs Yes music and creates new Yes albums, but also does a cover song or two for each of a few other bands that, unlike Yes or whatever band carries on, didn't make it that far in the future. Some examples might be songs from bands like Genesis, The Moody Blues, Rush, The Police, and so on and so forth that are already basically gone, and perhaps extending to bands that now exist in some form, but may not by then like, say, Asia and/or Supertramp, and/or other bands and artists that are sort of in some way connected with the band that is actually carrying on (i.e. Hit songs in one or more of the same eras, similar types of music in some regards, maybe some common performers in their histories, etc.). Davison seems versatile enough as a singer that he could pull it off, especially if Sherwood is also still in the band at that point (Where there would logically be some songs and parts of songs he could handle best vocally.).

Obviously, things may not go that way at all. It's just something I think about now and again as one (perhaps improbable) scenario.

[Enlighten]

Different night, different theatre, Nights in White Satin. I think Jon does another good job here.

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