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No Anderson, no Yes. Fact. Can't help but think we're being left in the dark about something there. No offense to whatshisface, but why have a professional Jon Anderson tribute act if Jon Anderson is doing his own gigs?

SwingRiots 1 year ago

C'est si drôle (et si rare) de voir Jon Anderson se planter :-D Il gère ça avec sa classe habituelle ! Bien sûr, il n'est pas guitariste mais chanteur et compte tenu de son état de santé, sa prestation est exceptionnelle. Heureuse de le voir dans une telle forme !

Merci Yesmuseum !

fredlecanard 2 years ago

great version

StructuralAmbient 2 years ago

all of these songs from this gig sound like the same song with diferent lyrics. A couple of times the chords change to a reggae thing, but it sounds like its the same chords on every tune. Sounds as if his voice is getting better - hope it continues to improve, but I agree with the fellow here who suggested he hook up with a band.

joephonebone 2 years ago

Jon sounds GREAT It is great to hear him without all the hoopla that the band brings.

davens99 2 years ago

Making a solo semi-acoustic tour while Yes were touring without him was the best thing that Jon could do. He gave a lesson to his former group, who couldn't wait a bit for him while he was ill, and at the same time he offered the audience around the world an image of his real identity, because he's mainly a songwriter and pilgrim before being a vocalist, and this guitar/voice performings finally document the real Jon as one of the many-coloured disciples of the Beatles era.

70srules 2 years ago

It's really sad that Jon doesn't even bother to spend half an hour to look up the chords of his own songs, before he goes on stage or on tour...

He can't remember any of the chords of Time and a Word, and he tries to change his singing to fit with the wrong chords...

Yes, I am a professional musician, and I am a Yes fan.. but this is total rubbish.

Before you go out to play your songs, please check out the chords first, Jon.

kzosel 2 years ago

I disagree, though I understand your concern. First of all, Jon is a singer first, not a guitarist. Secondly, Jon isn't on tour right now. This was a one-time gig, just a few hours from his home. Finally, while his voice is brilliant, Jon was clearly not in full health - though it doesn't look so in the video. At 65 years old, his performance was excellent, despite losing track of the chord progressions. My mom is 69. If she could remember my name, I'd be content!

yesmuseum 2 years ago

BTW, Jon performed the entire "Dawn of the light" opening to The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) without error... and continued with most of the remaining lyrics from that track. I didn't take video of the full show, but his memory was exceptionally great.

yesmuseum 2 years ago

As a professional musician, you've never made a mistake on stage? You're absolutely perfect? Yeah, he goofed, but he handled it with his usual grace and joy and the audience loved it. What's more important, the performance, the moment, or the way you think the song "should" be? Jon is very much an "in the moment" performer and he took the song where the moment took it and had fun.

kdaltonbarrett 2 years ago 4

The general critisism at his last European solo tour was also that he just fooled around a bit... and charging people for that.. is not ok. Unless you think Jon Anderson is God, of course....

I still love the man, his music had a BIG impact on my life, but he is not good enough an instrumentalist to seriously accompany himself on a gig. He should hire one or more musicians to do that for him. I am willing to form a band for the next European tour :)

kzosel 2 years ago

The sad thing is that his previous European tour was the same as the one tour before that. This is atleast his third tour with precicely the same concept.

tuktuktok 2 years ago

Actually, I think Jon had the correct arrangement from the start, but it sounded wrong to him. When Jon visited the Roxy in Hollywood not too long ago, he had some electronics to turn to. This show was purely acoustic - no pre-recorded back up tracks. Either way, it was a lot of fun in Santa Barbara.

yesmuseum 2 years ago

@kzosel very true--I love Jon and Yes, but the "strikingly different" arrangements comes from not correctly nailing the original harmonic underpinnings. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Blah, blah--you said it better kzosel (I'm a musician too). I still love Jon!!

trilingual 1 year ago