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From jlw2000@mindspring.com (23.10.97):
Reuters, New York: In an amazing turn of events, the rock band "Yes" has announced they will now actually be several seperate bands. Jon Anderson explains. "In an effort to please *everyone* we will now be multiple bands, all of which will be referred to as YES." According to Anderson, each band will assume the others do not exist. This does not mean there will be another membership change. "Each YES will consist of the same people," explains Anderson. "All bands will release albums under the name of Yes, except that the one coming out in October will be the followup to KTAI, while the one coming out in November will actually be the first new Yes album since 1987. We have one coming out next year that will be the first new recording of Yes music since Tales From Topographic Oceans. The followup to that will be only our second album. Look for out debut sometime in late in the year 2000." Law suits are pending. This may seem confusing to most people, but hard-core Yes fans need no explanation. "I'm just waiting for Yes to finally reunite," explains Henry Potts. "They have not made an album since 1980!". Apparently, Yes fans understand.
From Carolynne Dunn (29.7.96):
YESWOLF1 wrote:
>
> Rick Wakeman's Greatest Hits is an odd package to say the least.
[...]
> I didn't get the supermarket effect myself but
> I did wonder when the elevator would stop...
I get the same effect from extensive listening to _Tales_.
<anticipates lots of people telling me what wonderful elevators we must have in Aus>
From Steven Sullivan (25.7.96):
lerxst (lerxst@io.com) wrote:
[re: Howe's singing]
:Works bizarrely well when combined with Squire's, but alone he frightens
: me: "Australia, I'm leaving myself behind" The horror...the
horror...
_____________________________________^^^^^^ it's 'be-hi-yee-yind', goshblammit. Can't you guys even get the lyrics right? ;>
From Bill Wade (25.7.96):
Anthony Hobbs wrote:
:My bassist Sean, a Yeswhole in the proper sense of the term (appreciates
:all Yes without the cheesy Andersonspeak), claims that the Mahavishnu
:influence is more than borne out by "Sludge" from _Can't
Look Away_. I
:can't see what he sees in it, personally.
I'd say Sean sounds like the man to speak with when weed time rolls around.
From Diane197 (24.7.96):
In article <4t4tvd$cti@news.ox.ac.uk>, some0280@sable.ox.ac.uk
(Henry Potts) wrote:
>
> PS: Can we start calling the 'Savour-the-Flavour' brigade the
UVs' Suicide
> Squad?
Think carefully. A Suicide Squad composed of folks who advocate reincarnation?
:::shiver:::
From Anthony Hobbs (22.7.96):
There's a trend of POSITIVITY going on? Great Goddess, I got back just in time. Surlyvin? How could you let things get to such a state? I suppose it falls to me to reintroduce this group's quotient of snotty one-liners and grim fanatical factionalism.
From Carolynne Dunn (21.7.96):
Henry Potts wrote:
: I think it's about time A.m.y. entered into the Olympic spirit. This
: thread welcomes all Olympic - Yes links.
Atlanta opening ceremony - grossly overdone ... i'd better leave that right there.
Sydney 2000 - residents of New South Wales - increased taxes - bankruptcy - Jon Anderson
:>
From Steve Sullivan (20.7.96):
: I'm Alanna,Merry's daughter.
: I agree with Kevin. I don't think the animals on the Drama cover
are panthers
: either. They look like domestic shorthairs. 'cause panthers are more
muscular.
: Also panthers live in more wooded areas. The cover doesn't show much
cover,
: only fields and water. What would they be doing there?
: Meow!
: Alanna
foraging for coral?
From ZMOQ (20.7.96):
[Quoting Rick Wakeman on _Tales from Topographic Oceans_]
"_TFTO_ is like a woman's padded bra. The outside looks good, but peel off the padding and there's not a lot there. I think it's a dreadfully padded album."
From merry celeste (18.7.96):
Michael C. Kaye wrote:
> Perhaps you are right. It seems to me that whenever I read an
interview with
> any Yes members they are always making derogatory remarks about
each other.
> I love their music but, it amazes me that any of the members can
get along
> with each other long enough to make an album.
*michael*
[...] It seems to me that whenever I read the posts by any lineup of
Yesfans on *amy,* they are always making derogatory remarks about eachother
(hi, *steve!*).
I love the newsgroup but, it amazes me that any of the members can
get along long enough to read it again on any given day.
oxox
*m*
From Steven Sullivan (11.7.96):
merry celeste (celeste@bright.net) wrote:
[Anthony Hobbs wrote:]
[merry celeste wrote:]
[A lengthy and furry discussion of _Drama_ versus JonYes...]
: [...] I know what I like and I know what I *love.*
..there is such a thing as loving too well. Not that *you* do that, M --
you seem to have managed to retain a sense of humor about it -- but it certainly seems endemic among other Jonophiles. (I was worried about the Panthers for awhile there but they seem to have shown the thickness of their, um, fur.)
: > Hey, I have *plenty* cosmic feeling, but I
don't feel the need to babble
: > on about rainbow-coloured unicorns and the like. A mystical
view of the
: > Universe doesn't *necessarily* require complete lack of taste.
: So you believe unicorns and rainbows are tasteless.
Mermaids and kitties
: and ponies, sunshines, moons, stars, yinyangs, peace signs, wizards
and
: faraway cloud castles, UFO's and The Fairy Kingdom similarly probably
: hold no sway over you. They are gentle, reassuring, sweet, reek of
: innocence and trigger mystery for me. [...]
'reek' was perhaps an unfortunate choice of word here.
: ( I know this will ruffle the collective panther
fur, but I don't
: mean it as an affront to anybody's tastes.) [...] The Yesvessel is
just
: best with Jon at the helm. [...]
Watch those icebergs! [...] despite its inherent flaws [...] Drama ain't that bad. Now I have to go get a flea collar....
: > > See how they were dressed in the Drama
video(s)?
: >
: > No different from how they usually dressed. Chris was wearing
that zebra
: > suit on the _GFTO_ tour. Or are you dissing Trevor and Geoff?
: They seemed almost to be teetering on glam, sans makeup. [...]
agreed. Squire circa 1977 didn't feel the need to augment said zebrawear with Elton John-approved glasses.
: > You don't feel wonder in the gradually building
momentum of "Run Through
: > the Light" or the final, crashing denouement of "Machine
Messiah"? Have
: > you at least heard "We Can Fly From Here"? Plenty
wonder, plenty mystical
: > vision, no toffee apples, no clowns.
: I'll give you a modicum of wonder. Enough, perhaps,
for me to hop into bed
: with Drama, but not to have it's children. I named my son Damien.
people naming their kids after pop musicians -- that scares me. But then again, Howe named his kid Dylan...........
From Diane197 (9.7.96):
Henry Potts (some0280@sable.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> [...] I mention these anecdotes merely as examples of how the
> differences between cultures can be a shock and mean no disrespect
to the US population.
So how do you think *we* felt when we first heard ROUNDABOUT? Jon can be obscure enough as it is...
("I'll be the rotary, the words will drive you up a tree?" Sorry--no rhymes on hand for "traffic circle.")
From YESFAN1046 (9.7.96):
Yeswolf1, if I may use your "SAVOR THE FLAVORS" theory:
Almost Like Love tastes like chicken (ok, chicken Mc Nuggets) compared to City of Love's anchovies & jalapeno dip harshness.
From Anthony Hobbs (9.7.96):
How can [Henry] relate this to his "Fripp as Machiavellian Marketer" thesis? Maybe, having witness the propagation of the "TREVOR HORN KICKS JON ANDERSON'S ASS!" virus on a.m.y, he's continuing diabolic memetic experiments to try to break our brains.
From Anthony Hobbs (30.6.96):
"Who's the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks?" "PICASSO!" "Uh, no, Jon, try again." "Uh...Chagall?" "No."
From Henry Potts (6.96):
ZMOQ (zmoq@ix.netcom.com) wrote: Short Stories vs. 1979 Paris sessions-----winner=Short Stories
Slap round the face with a wet fish vs. 1979 Paris sessions----winner=slap round the face with wet fish
From Steven Sullivan (6.96):
Dave Montuori (damont@dakota.wolfsden.org) wrote:
: In article <4r2v8r$alh@news.IAEhv.nl>, Nick Suurland <nicks@iaehv.nl>
wrote:
: >Steve Walsh, Greg Lake, John Wetton, Steve Perry, Dennis Deyoung:
: >Haven't they all voices that flatter your ears ?
: Or, in some cases, flatten?
or fatten, even.
From Todd Mullins (6.96):
If you think about it, the term "decade" has absolutely no practical use in discussions about societal (or sub-societal) effects. Mankind is much too amorphous to be so pigeonholed, musicians more so than most(*).
You might as well try to determine precisely where "happiness" ends and "joy" begins. We are all ruled by clock and calendar, and without even questioning why. True, temporal metrication has its utility: have you ever tried to schedule an appointment at "midday"? But, aside from such mundane uses, it's downright silly to insist that mass trends occur on such sharply delineated boundaries. Oh, now I get it. After typing the words "downright silly", this whole thread has come sharply into focus. Disregard my treatise above.
(*) I honestly did not intend the sentence to be so alliterative.
From Steven Sullivan (6.96):
Why do people scream YES at a YES concert when YES is onstage? Do they think the band has forgotten its name? Do they not recognize that's it's Yes up there? Why not scream something useful like DON'T PLAY ROUNDABOUT or DIET AND EXERCISE, THAT'S THE KEY! ?