Trevor or Benoit?

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

I like progress......sive rock. Why do so many gasp in awe as artists move on for one reason or another and follow different paths. They feel institutional bands should remain the same and give us the old stuff, brilliantly.

I have to say I am NOT a fan of Trevor Horn. Not because he isn't talented or an accomplished musician. He has, on a few occasions, taken to stage for his work. But he's a producer, and a successful one at that. But he is known as a POP producer. Wiki introduces him thusly: Trevor Charles Horn CBE (born 15 July 1949)[1] is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer.

The one thing I fear in the upcoming album is the overinfluce of Horn and Rabin's POP oriented tastes.

I do look forward to Benoit contributing a new level of a symponic prog nature, but like that of Mystery, where he fared very well. Their album, especially One Among the Living. He was exceptional. I did see Benoit with Yes, twice. He was a little rough - it was in the early dates of the tour. But he carried it off. He did not fail. The songs were intact and did not fall apart. One Among the Living was one of the best albums last year, especially the incredible epid Through Different Eyes. Look for something like that to come.

Personally, making suppositions on the album prior to the actual release is a time waste. Everything you "suppose" closes you mind a little more each time so you won't be properly open to the new.

So, there's my humble opining. Let them do what they feel they want to do. But that's just MHO

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by OverHillandDale

Personally, making suppositions on the album prior to the actual release is a time waste. Everything you "suppose" closes you mind a little more each time so you won't be properly open to the new.

Trust me here: No one - NO ONE - is more hopeful that the new album will rule. That's why I purposefully stated that we have to take into consideration the fact we haven't heard it yet.

All I was asking is if Jon can't come back, and Rabin's not in the picture at all, then which of the two "current" singers would you prefer? And yes, remember that Benoit was discovered by Chris Squire on youtube singing in a Yes tribute band, not an original band. They were looking for someone to sound like Jon! They were not looking for a new vocalist "in his own right." So I think there we do have the right to mention the "clone" argument.