Yes to tour w/ "Jon understudy"

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by kirk

From Variety online:
http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlis...y=chris+squire
"For the second time in the last 20-odd years Yes is not Yes, using the names of the musicians in the band for a North American tour that begins Nov. 4 in Hamilton, Ontario. Dates are still being booked so no tour route yet.
Billed as Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White of Yes - try putting that on a marquee - the band will head out on its "In The Present" tour with the son of Rick Wakeman on keyboards and a singer from a Yes tribute band handling lead vocals.
Singer Benoit David, a native of Montreal, is understudying for Jon Anderson whose health issues are keeping him home through the end of the year. To not suggest that Anderson is out of the band, the man who founded the act with the singer, bassist Squire, they are not using the name Yes. "

Good move, says I .

K

Just marketing, that's all. Unnecessarily cumbersome, says I.

How about "three virtuosos + two scrubs"?

Understudy lol - guy's probably well into his 40's.

[kirk]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Just marketing, that's all. Unnecessarily cumbersome, says I.

How about "three virtuosos + two scrubs"?

Understudy lol - guy's probably well into his 40's.

Good self preservation move, in the way that
Plant and Page didn't include JPJ, making it a Zep reunion...imo.

If it bombs, then the Yes franchise is still intact.

K

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by kirk

Good self preservation move, in the way that
Plant and Page didn't include JPJ, making it a Zep reunion...imo.

If it bombs, then the Yes franchise is still intact.

K

Good point. And still less cumbersome tha the law firm of "Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe".

[secrettouch2me]

It all good in the end, and the end is not over

[Rick and Roll]

Spaz, I appreciate the passion, but the tone needs tweaking. there are many examples of bands that look like they used to, and especially in the 50's, artists touring w/o any original members (the Kingston Trio is one, I know, I saw them).

It's really just a franchise to them.

Yes and the bands from that era engender so much debate, and it's like a soap opera at times. Now we have Martin Orford and his drama.

Matters not what they call it. Agreed, it sounds like they're cold blooded, but if the music's good I'll listen. If not (see most of the last 15 years), I'll pass.