Enough with the Yes/No Yes arguments, already. Let’s stipulate that you fans kind of have the best of all worlds, with a band called Yes sans Jon Anderson, but also Anderson now working on a new album with Jean-Luc Ponty. That’s to say nothing of the on-going careers of fellow former members like Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin, Billy Sherwood, et al.
But which one, you hear the unhappy masses crying, is Yes? Who cares? As Jon Anderson, in one of the more memorable Yes solipsisms, sings here on “Your Move/All Good People”: “Don’t surround yourself with yourself.” Still, if you must, then I guess
Songs from Tsongas: The 35th Anniversary Concert (due on September 23, 2014 from Eagle Rock) arrives at the perfect moment, serving as this gust of nostalgic peacekeeping. After all, once more, there are no sides. Each member of the so-called classic-era lineup of Yes is on board (even Wakeman!), setting their differences aside in time for a final 2004 tour — long before
certain respiratory illnesses changed things seemingly for good.
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