"Yes" displays full commitment, rehearses for tour...

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Re: "Yes" displays full commitment, rehearses for tour

Group: alt.music.yes Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 8:32am From:
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On Oct 30, 4:45 am, "robm... at (no spam) aol.com" <robm... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote:
I found the following to be just as funny as can be...it's the
"legendary" YES...and they are spending *three whole days* to prepare
for the European Tour.
Too fucking funny.
4.9.2009
Just confirmed! Brittish art-rock legend YES starts the world tour in
OLOMOUC!
Yes, legendary brittish art-rock band YES starts at the end of October,
exactly 29.10., the new world tour in hall of Palacky University in
OLOMOUC! YES will be a headliner of this year s 2.nd volume of music
festival Rock Olomouc! Famous band will come to Olomouc three days
earlier to prepare the whole tour there. Olomouc can look forward to see
a concert of the year!
Rob Allen
NP: Clannad, "Hourglass"
Considering that the band are well in the groove after the recent tour
with Asia I'd suggest that three days is quite enough for
acclimatisation and some decent practise time.
apparently they think like you.
Please note that the funny part is that they took any time at all to
prepare for the tour.
Oh, I thought the funny was that that quote appears to be from the
begining of September?
er...that part is *hilarious*, I'm sure.
But thanks for your thoughts on the matter.
that thanks doesn't sound very sincere, Paul.
Geez. Tough room. Would it have sounded any more sincere if I'd
capitalized that statement Rob?
I'm not sure that would have helped at all...no.
Rob Allen
NP: Yes, "The Calling"- Hide quoted text -
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I dont know. I'm 50. For the stuff I've been doing over and over and
over again for 40 years, I usually don't need 3 days to prepare....
I'm like you...only older...and yeah, things I've done over and
again...it's just like riding a bike. Of course most of what I do
doesn't involve a lot of playing in time with others. It does involve
coordination with others, but that's not at all the same thing.
There's a reason why sports teams practice constantly and why dancers,
actors and musicians rehearse. They look to be sure they've got it right
*as a unit*, when the lights go on. Yes has a history of kind of
preparing as they go...the first few shows of a tour, being the
rehearsal shows. A "won't work unless I'm getting paid right now" kind
of attitude.
This "Yes" clearly had some performance issues on previous outings. One
should think they'd be fully in to get it nailed down...and so they
were, for *three whole days*.
Brilliant stuff, really.
It's not like they are doing anything new, a statement in itself.
waitaminnit...I'm pretty sure they put _one_ different song in the
set...so they really are stretching for the European Tour!
It probably takes takes them 3 days to change strings now days anyway
their techs should be able to do that in their sleep.
But still, I won't see them w/o Anderson
as I understand it, all you have to do is _close your eyes_.
Rob Allen
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At least with Drama, they put out a new album (telling people is another
issue). I can close my eyes and listen in my living room I suppose and
pretend they are all there, but that would be weird. I'd just like to
see one more album with Jon and Rick and maybe a short tour and then
they hang it up and retire Yes with dignity and do their Christmas
albums or Squires solo album that had been 35 years in the making...or
whatever..
I think any chance of retiring Yes with dignity has been wiped out with
this tribute routine.
Now, an Anderson/Wakeman show I would go to.
I wouldn't travel very far to see that, but think it would be good for
them do something again.
That's an album I would
buy too.
yep, that would be an auto-buy for me.
I doubt I would buy an album from this version of Yes out of pure
principle
Geez, that would be ironic
I'm also inclined not to give at least the HS duo any more of my money.
Howe took it for granted and put in limited effort for the last number
of records and tours, while Squire just squanders the money away. Of
course there's also the issue that I don't believe they can generate
product that would capture my interest.

But all that aside, it looks like the European Tour has started off like
so many recent Yes and "Yes" tours...some reviewers are not real happy
and a guy at the third show of the tour calls it an "uninspired
rehearsal".
Not good.
Rob Allen
NP: Kenny Loggins, "Conviction of the Heart"
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Dhooooh! Give credit to the hopeless, uninspired, athesists, go figure..
I'll be watching for your latest *heathan report* tomorrow. Point out
where these heathans are that dislike the songs of YES. I leave it all
up to you to find them.