![]() ![]() ![]() Keyboard player, Geoff Downes has some history with a well-stamped passbook and with new drummer Jay Schellen making his debut and Billy Sherwood on bass replacing dearly departed members, there’s a fresh sheen about the current Yes. Maybe he was right all along all those years ago.Ģ023 finds Yes a long way from the edge the lineup over the years having gone through regular shifts to the extent now that many see the current Yes as the Steve Howe band. The reason Bill Bruford quit the band as he thought they’d peaked. For many, 1972’s Close To The Edge proving the milestone (or millstone around the neck?) that’s inevitably brought up whenever new Yes music appeared over the following decades. Guitarist and longest-serving current member, Steve Howe has talked in the recent past of how he considers 70s Yes as the embodiment of what the band is about. The fact that they’re committed to making new music in 2023 is certainly commendable, but they have a certain legacy and expectations to live up to. Having been in existence for over fifty years, Yes has seen it all. Longevity in the music business is a rare thing, especially in the current age of immediate self-gratification. ![]() ![]() Seminal Prog Rockers Yes deliver album #22 in a discography spanning over fifty years. ![]()
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