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Prog Superthread
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More about ARW in an interview with Trevor Rabin here. He's a teeny bit snarky about Yes:i'm reading about a new Prog Supergroup planning to tour this year, so I thought I should bring back the Prog Superthread. ARW will consist of Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman, and others TBC. Between R and W, I think we can expect way too many notes...
Ouch. But then I hear what are, to me, magic words:Rabin insists there's no rivalry between the two bands.
"To be honest, it doesn't even enter our minds," he said. "When Rick, Jon and I decided to get together we actively decided not to call it Yes, even though we have just as much right to do so.
"Steve Howe has been playing, in essence, with a tribute band, but there are no bad vibes,"
This is more like it. I'm always underwhelmed when a band slavishy sticks to particular arrangements. When Rabin was in Yes they did songs like And You And I and Starship Trooper live with significant deviation from the original arrangements, which makes them more interesting. If I want to hear the originals, I can, since they never go away."We took a lot of Yes songs and stripped them down to nothing, then reconstructed them differently," he said. "Rick is calling it 22nd century Yes."
So Trevor may be a bit snotty in calling today's Yes a tribute band, but I think he has a point. Much as I appreciate Chris Squire and all he did, he was the one who kept Yes going past its sell-by date.You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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