Post Tagged with: "Chris Squire"

by / on April 14, 2013 at 12:43 pm / in Progressive rock, Rock Music

‘It was great, great fun’: Ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett optimistic about another album with Yes’ Chris Squire

Nearly a year after releasing a celebrated collaboration with fellow prog legend Chris Squire of Yes, Steve Hackett says another album could be in the offing. The former Genesis guitarist says it just a matter of scheduling.

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by / on April 3, 2013 at 9:23 am / in Concerts, Progressive rock, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood – Conspiracy Live (2013)

Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood, it seemed, had an immediate spark. Only Yes, the band Squire co-founded in the late 1960s and one that Sherwood was associated with throughout the 1990s, just kept getting in the way.

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by / on March 15, 2013 at 7:13 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music, Streams, Uncategorized

Exclusive stream: Conspiracy featuring Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood, “New World” (2004; 2013 reissue)

Stream an advance track from the long-awaited remaster of Conspiracy Live, featuring former Yes band mates Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood.

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by / on February 9, 2013 at 7:17 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music

‘There could still be a Yes’: Chris Squire says time ought not to stop his legendary prog-rock group

Since its late-1960s founding, the pioneering progressive-rock band Yes has seen an ever-shifting line up transform its sound time and time again — to the point that bassist Chris Squire sees the group going on without him.

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by / on January 21, 2013 at 10:34 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music

‘It would have to be with everybody’: Are Yes’ ever-shifting lineups hurting its Hall of Fame chances?

Does Yes’ apparent inability to earn induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have something to do with how many members have passed through its lineup over the years? Stalwart Chris Squire thinks that just might be it.

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by / on January 15, 2013 at 6:15 pm / in Concerts, Progressive rock, Rock Music

‘We’ll see how this one goes’: Chris Squire says Yes could perform more complete albums

Chris Squire confirms that Yes won’t be returning to the studio until at least 2014, and that a new tour won’t perhaps be the last to feature performances of complete albums from their legendary past.

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by / on December 24, 2012 at 7:17 am / in Deep Cuts, Progressive rock, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Deep Cuts: Forgotten Yes favorites from the post-1970s era

Anyone can recite, bass line and verse, their favorite moments from Yes’ seminal 1972 release Close to the Edge. Everybody knows about the mountains coming out of the sky, and how they stood there, too.

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by / on December 10, 2012 at 10:31 am / in Concerts, Progressive rock, Rock Music

Yes’ upcoming North American tour to include complete readings of three 1970s-era albums

Yes’ 2013 North American tour will feature a trio of 1970s-era albums, performed in their entirety — including The Yes Album from ’71, Close to the Edge from ’72 and Going for the One from ’77.

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by / on November 28, 2012 at 1:03 pm / in Progressive rock, Rock Music

‘It was challenging for me, but I got there’: Jimmy Page on his aborted 1980s collaboration with Yes

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page remembers an abandoned early-1980s supergroup with two members of Yes in a new Rolling Stone interview, saying they had “good synchronicity.”

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by / on November 8, 2012 at 8:29 am / in Progressive rock, Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Tony Kaye, of Yes and Circa

Yes has been a part of Tony Kaye’s life, off and on, since the late 1960s. He was a co-founding member, and helped craft the band’s breakthrough release The Yes Album, then returned for its platinum 1980s era.

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