Yes, tonight

[wellREDman]

Just loaded Yes into the Brighton Centre, really looking forward to the show tonight.

Chris Squire's tech is looking after the new guy, had a great chinwag with him, He gave me a bag of Chris's old picks for my students,
they are just standard Jim Dunlop grey nylons, but if anyone is sentimental enough to want one PM me and ill post you one.

[Rob]

that's great!

[Dave W]

Very cool.

[wellREDman]

never seen a load in like it, a two truck production of which 45 foot (3/4 of the truck) was backline !

[uwe]

How were they? Sherwood is doing a good job I think though his bass playing doesn't quite have Squire's natural machismo. Live, (old) Yes were very often to me a very dominating (but entertainingly and musicianly so) bass player with assorted co-musicians, his bass lines were the structure of the music. These days they are a band with a (very good) bass player.

[wellREDman]

I really enjoyed it , my first time so nothing to compare them to, but live the bass still pleasingly dominates, Sherwood certainly is an impressive player but then I guess he'd have to be to fill those shoes.
apparently he won't play a Ric though, so he has the most ridiculous  pedalboard I've ever seen to make his Warwick's (I think) sound right , its a bonkers 3 tier thing, complete with magnifying glass over the readout
I've got a picture of it that I'll upload when I get home

[uwe]

Yeah, he plays a Warwick. Not touching the Ric is probably just a sign of respect, he doesn't want to ape Squire.

I like Downes as a keyboard player. He's no Rick Wakeman keyboard god, but I like the way he uses keyboards to embellish the music.

And Steve Howe is still a living breathing artefact of evidence for the apparent contradiction that you can get far as the guitarist in a rock band even if your own guitar style is totally non-rock. 

Did they play Owner of a Lonely Heart (after they were done with two of their 70ies albums plus Drama) as an encore and does Howe still grimace when he has to play it? 

[Alanko]

I think he is using Status basses; same thing really. Seems like he uses a few during a Yes set, presumably in different tunings. Active PJ basses, at the end of the day. With all the outboard gear in the world I don't see how he could get Squire's tone from a PJ configuration, but presumably he gets a similar scooped grind using various tricks. From the videos I've seen he doesn't shy away from the effects... fair play to the guy!

[uwe]

I've seen him with a Warwick - that characteristic headstock is a dead giveaway. It might have eben been a Thumb bass or some other abomination.

STOP PRESS!!!

Alan, we were both wrong, it's a Spector (in my defense: easy enough to mistake with a Warwick given Warwick's early "inspiration").

[wellREDman]

heres the pedalboard

apparently they wanted him to play Ric's but he couldnt get on with the necks, there is one of Squires Rics in his guitar vault that travels round with them as a tribute

they did play Lonely Heart, and Howe introduced it saying they make a point of playing material from every stage of their career

[Dave W]

heres the pedalboard

I'd never be able to figure out how to use that, much less how to program it.

[uwe]

they did play Lonely Heart, and Howe introduced it


- at gunpoint! -


saying they make a point of playing material from every stage of their career

His disdainful face is priceless when he plays it. 

[Alanko]

Looks like midi bass pedals (in the style of the Taurus), a multi effects unit and some sort of midi gadget? Or is it all midi controllers, controlling outboard effects?

[patman]

Who is singing now?

[Alanko]

I believe it is still Jon Davison?