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On 12/15/2018 at 12:09 PM, L. Marcus said:

Are Mormons allowed to gamble?

 

My objection to gambling is more mathematical than doctrinal. Personally, I think of a casino as a place where they administer the tax on people who are bad at math.

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19 hours ago, Bazza said:

Are you aware of the group: "Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman"? 

 

http://www.yesfeaturingarw.com/

 

What we have here is dueling Yeses...again. it first happened in the late eighties, when Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford, and Steve Howe got together to record new music, but didn't invite Chris Squire to participate because of some kind of personality conflict, I suppose. Since Squire was the only founding member that hadn't left the band at some point, he had sole rights to the name Yes. So without him, they couldn't call themselves Yes. So they went with Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, which was just as effective.

 

Meanwhile, Anderson was also working with Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, Alan White, and Chris Squire in the then-current iteration of Yes, the one that had a huge hit with 90125. These latter four had combined to form a band they were going to call Cinema with Rabin as the lead vocalist. Someone said something about the project to Anderson, who listened to it and offered to contribute some songwriting and vocals. They invited him to join them, and the band decided to call themselves Yes to take advantage of the name recognition.

 

Since Anderson was working with both groups, somebody at the record label had the brilliant idea about getting the two together to perform as a single band and record an album together. That isn't quite what happened; the old version of Yes recorded six or eight songs, and the new version of Yes recorded six or eight songs, and the label put them all together on a single album they called Union.

 

The band then went on tour, performing with all 8 members together. As evidence of how well that went, there was no further collaboration with all 8 members after that. The closest they got was when those eight--Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe, Squire, Rabin, White, and Kaye--were chosen as the lineup for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Of course, they couldn't all play together, as Bruford declined the invitation to join them on stage and Chris Squire had died two years previous.

 

The current 'official' version of Yes features Jon Davison, formerly of Glass Hammer, on vocals, along with long-time members Steve Howe and Alan White on guitars and drums, respectively. Geoff Downs (who is probably more famous as a member of Asia and the Buggles) is on keys, and one-time backup guitarist Billy Sherwood is trying to fill Chris Squire's shoes on bass.

 

I've seen a couple of performances of the Anderson Rabin Wakeman lineup on YouTube. I was underwhelmed.

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No criticism intended. I keep reading that this new iteration, who I understood were calling themselves AWR, is going to release some new music soon. I'll give it a listen when (if) it comes out; bands like this typically sound better in the studio than they do live.

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