daemon@decwrl.UUCP (11/21/83)
From: Ed Featherston HL01-1/P06 225-5241 <roll::featherston>
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Newsgroup : net.records
>From : ORPHAN::BLICKSTEIN
Organization : Digital Equipment Corp.
Subj: Attention Yes fans.
Yes is back together, and has just released a new album!
The new line up is
Jon Anderson - vocals
Chris Squire - bass, vocals
Alan White - Drums, Vocals
Tony Kaye - Keyboards
Trevor Rabin - Guitars, keyboards and vocals
Note that with one exception, all these people have been members of Yes in
the past although several members have not been in the band at the same time.
Tony Kaye left after The Yes Album, and Alan White joined during the Yessongs.
tour. Trevor Rabin is the new face.
The new album is called 90125. It has nine new songs, one of which is an
instrumental. Yes has evolved from each album to the next and this
album seems to follow that trend: it is most similar to the last couple of
albums "Drama" but mostly "Tormato" and "Going for the One". I've only
listened to it twice, but my impression has been favorable. They sound
much more like Yes than they did on the Drama album. The lyrics are much
more accessable now, but still have that wonderful Anderson flair for
diction. The music is also a bit more pop-oriented than in previous albums
but I don't think that they have sacrificed much progressive-integrity to
achieve this. To sum it up, I think if you liked Tormato and Going for
the One (as I do) you will like the new album.
Most Yes fans are probably wondering, "so who's this Trevor Rabin guy?"
I don't know. I've never heard of him before. Let's put it this way: I
haven't heard anybody who would be a much better "fit" for Yes, but he's no
Steve Howe. But he is very good and has a creative guitar style (Steve Howes
Forte in my opinion). I think there's much to look forward to.
I hope this signals a trend for a renaissance of the seventies style of
progressive music. Now if only Keith Emerson would get off his butt.
Dave Blickstein
P.S. Fairly well confirmed rumor: John Wetton has left Asia and has been
replaced by Greg Lake of ELP. (I always thought he sounded like Lake
anyway.) The rumor is that the rest of the band wanted to move towards
a more progressive format, while Wetton wanted to remain in a more
commercial style. I was extremely dissapointed with the Asia albums.
It's just not the kind of music I expect from those people, but maybe
there's hope.
Mail address : ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!orphan!blickstein
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End Forwarded Messagerlr@pyuxn.UUCP (11/22/83)
Boy, I pity these immensely wealthy, immensely overweight, and immensely redundant and immensely redundant progressive rock musicians. If they actually do something new and innovative (hardly likely), their legions of fans (who scream "Close to the f**king Edge, man!" at Asia concerts) will be disappointed. If they just rehash their old music over again, they'll be laughed at by anyone seriously into progressive rock. If they go "commercial", they won't please anybody, but they'll make a lot of money to help make the ongoing payments on their lifestyles from the seventies. Which option wil they pick?? Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr -- Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
tim@minn-ua.UUCP (Tim Giebelhaus) (11/28/83)
Depends what you mean by new. If you mean that garbage called pop, then I disagree. I think the so called "punk" is out for the money too. I think that music is a form of art. Art always suffers when it is just out for the money. The true artists in music are those that could care less about the public and just do what they want. There are lots of ways you could take the old progressive music; none of it in the pop direction. Yes and several other bands would not change their music just because it would sell better if they did. I feel that some of the musicians of yesterday are selling out today. Note: if I hear Girls Rock Your Boys one more time, I will puke!
jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (12/01/83)
I agree that old progressive rockers can rehash their old music and be
laughed at, or go commercial and make lots of money without pleasing
anybody. However, there is another alternative. They can still do
progressive rock, but instead of rehashing their old music they can
expand and update it to produce a fresh, new and exciting progressive
rock. An example of this is King Crimson's "Discipline", but maybe
it's too much to expect from Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis and Asia.
Perhaps it's a hope for something like this that keeps us listening
for these groups' new releases. Maybe we even think we hear something
interesting sometimes when we really don't.
Jeff Richardson
DCIEM, Torontorpk@mit-vax.UUCP (12/07/83)
Don't make YES and ELP look like martyrs for the cause of progressive rock
-- they sold a lot of records too. Each group had a few good ideas, maybe
too much musicianship (at the expense of musicality), and maybe two or three
good albums early in their careers. When was the last time YOU listened to
``TARKUS'' or Tormato ? Anyway, the commercial=bad /
progressive = non-commercial =good theory is so riddled with holes anyway.
>From Yes, I like
parts of the Yes album
most of Fragile
parts of ```Close to the Edge''
and the song ``Going for the One,'' where they actually do a SONG (and
it's self-deprecating, no less !)
--
``Bob'' Robert P. Krajewski ARPA: RpK@MC
MIT Local: RpK@OZ
UUCP: ...!genradbo!mit-eddie!mitvax!rpkellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis) (12/07/83)
This really pisses me off: << I think the so called "punk" is out for the money too >> Now the last time I went to a punk rock concert, it cost $6.00 to see TWO of the best top punk acts around (DOA and Millions of Dead Cops). Another time it was Red Cross, MDC, and Fear -- again, $6.00. I could go on... People who want to get rich do not play punk. Most hardcore I've seen was performed by people with more purpose, integrity, and idealism than anything I've heard since Zappa and Dylan of 60's vintage. Yes, ELP, Genesis -- `progressive' rock? That term is more ludicrous than `new wave'... -michael 'Anarchy, Peace & Freedom' ellis
naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert Berlinger) (01/16/84)
The YES concert tour which was supposed to start Feb 6 has been
postponed until March sometime because the drummer managed to
rupture his spleen in a pool accident. Hold on to your tickets
if you have any cause they will be honored at the postponed date.
--
Robert Berlinger
...{philabs,cucard,pegasus}!aecom!naftoli
"If you're not where you are, you're nowhere"rkp@drufl.UUCP (Pierce) (01/17/84)
CORRECTION: It wasn't the drummer, it was the guitarist Trevor Rabin.
rush@ihuxr.UUCP (a) (01/18/84)
This is response to the posting of the YES tour delay. Once again, we have been misinformed. The injured party is Trevor Rabin, the guitarist... not the "drummer" (Alan White). His (Rabin's) injury was sustained when a rather large woman, while using the pool slide, collided with him when entering the water. Mr. Berlinger, please check your sources.