Yes - 50th Anniversary Show @ Whiskey A Go Go (Los Angeles) 

Right?

Sounds great!

He had a problem a couple of years ago, didn't he? They had to get in a stand-in. Back to form now. I miss Chris. (And, in this case, Steve.)

The marijuana helped for sure!

90125, Big Generator and Talk are amazing albums to me after all of this time. Love this lineup. Yet I loved Peter, Tony, Bill, Chris and Jon. Then Steve, Tony, Bill, Chris and Jon. Then Steve, Rick, Bill, Chris and Jon. Followed with Steve, Rick, Alan, Chris and Jon. Then Steve, Patrick, Alan, Chris and Jon. Back to Steve, Rick, Alan, Chris and Jon. Onward to Steve, Geoff, Alan, Chris and Trevor. Onto Trevor, Tony, Alan, Chris and Jon!!! Cheers

a dont think these guys even would ever play big venues anymore pointless the slaller the venue the more it feels intimite

Lol. That's a joke. They are done. The real Yes will keep things going though.

Billy Sherwood, is Awesome

carl palmer is to tour and play elp stuff

think Van Der Graf still around...as good as Yes

Which DVD?

Exactly! I saw Yes with Jon Davidson and even bought their album. I went to see Yes because I thought I may never get a chance to see them again. It was Yes music and I enjoyed it better than I thought. But watching this and hearing Anderson's voice, I realize how different the two sound. His voice makes this band sound very close to 1979. Now, they got to come back to Michigan.

You lucky bugger :) !!

I love both 2. Actually prefer Rabin but also prefer actual Yes over ARW. Have enjoyed a few ARW shows however.

Amen.

Trevor is a mainstay, brought great sound and vocals but I will always favor the strings of Steve Howe. He was mesmerizing to watch.

Owner of a smelly fart? The only real Yes music came from the 70s.

@@twinsmm1 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

Pomeroy is the best thing in Yes now...!!! JA is okay too.

because Anderson quit....and multiple times. Then treated Yes like shit just about the whole time since especially the last two years. That's how.

@@donutcookiepie um, no it was actually Howe who’s made a reunion impossible.

thay must be fucking morons born before 1 after 1985 ppl have bread fucking gangbangers

I don't have a sufficient answer for your great comment/question. I just think that people have grown up with the album's that pulled them through their whole lives; like everyone knows how John Bonham's Speed King Ludwig drum pedal squeaks throughout "Since I've Been Loving You." And we've literally had these songs grow into our lives DNA. And so when we see something such as this Not Even Live-such as this audience is experiencing it; and we expect to hear it like we've heard it all our lives. But like you said - these are just men. They wrote, recorded, toured this stuff and moved on. I think if they were there live these people who view the show on RU-vid and make comments about everything they believe they ought to be hearing - if they were experiencing it live they'd be caught up in that magic. I think this is great. Almost unbelievable that Jon can still sing this stuff at all! He's a treasure... But I don't really know what I'm getting at. I just loved your question.

I remember that tour. Saw Yes at the Oakland Coloseum, with Donovan opening, but I think that tour was actually in 1977 or 1978.

You mean Rabin’s parts. He played most of the keys in the studio for YesWest.

And it was odd to hear Kaye play Wakeman parts on the 90125 tour.

I agree, but if it wasn't for one persons phone......we wouldn't be watching it now.

haha. same thing I was thinking!

bluestate69 I’d just be rally pissed standing behind one of the guys watching the gig thru their phone - AND - you can buy the DVD!!!

Steve Jensen Yes 🤭

Yes

YES!!!!!!!!!!

I just listened to Steve Howe's tribute abomination....Playing Close to the Edge,should have called it Close to the Recliner...

Bullshit. They hold a higher quality than ARW for sure!

Tim Sivils That's Londoner Lee Pomeroy (Take That, It Bites, ELO and now AWH/Yes) 👍

Go see the real Yes and you'll see it!

@@donutcookiepie Oh, just politely kind of shut the fuck up, will you? I mean that in the nicest way. Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, and Trevor aren't "real Yes" enough? Bill Bruford and Alan White are probably at home being happy Grandfathers, Steve Howe I is doing his thing, and Chris Squire is dead. So just fuck off with your pushing out this negativity into this world of loveliness and peace. ☮️

Kurt I Agree 100%

totally true

Kurt I couldn’t agree more

It's the truth! We went for more than 2 years waiting for Steve Howe to finish touring with Asia before we got a Yes (cancelled) tour booked for the 40th anniversary - and then he and Chris couldn't wait for Jon to get well? What a bunch of hooey! That said, this lineup was totally worth going through all of that LOL Good fun every time, ARW RULE!!!

Only Steve Howe's band seems fractured to me, Yes feat ARW is a super band!

Current Yes: 84 combined years in Yes and 36 combined Yes studio albums > ARW/FakeYes: 59 combined years in Yes and 28 combined Yes albums.

“90125” is one of the best prog rock album of all times. What? It is AOR pop. Not prog at all.

"Going for the One" is the last really good Yes album, except for the title track. Howe's playing on that is as irritating as his playing on "The Ancient".

I agree 100%

@@mikew5858 GftO the song is freaking fantastic - you are nuts.

When was the last time you listened to it? It's not 70's prog for sure, but it's prog. Complex harmonies, irregular rhytms, advanced synthetic sounds. Sorry but AOR pop is another thing. "90125" is a 80's prog album, with 80's sounds and moods, obviously different from 70's albums. The first 2 Marillion albums, "Script for a Jester's Tear" (1983) and "Fugazi" (1984) were were great albums but more commercial than Yes "90125" (1983) and "Big Generator" (1987). And consider that Marillion were labelled as the Prog flagship band on 80's. The single "Owner of a lonely heart" was the only radio hit of "90125", but it's a complex and easy listening song at the same time.

Nah, Howe's been phoning it in for the last 20 years. At least Rabin plays with passion. He actually believes in what he's playing. Howe? Not so much. I think it's a pay check to him.

Rabin’s ok? Are you stupid?

@@escommentss whatever the case...howe's light years a better guitarist/musician than rabin. Just wish he and anderson would play together live again someday....loved his guitar playing with asia and GTR as well... .great stuff.

Hey, I love Steve Howe. I love his style, his eclectic composition and performance. Let's face it Howe is Yes as I know them. The '80s line up to me is not Yes and I have seen both line ups live. I saw the classic line up in '78 at MSG where they were touring for Tormato in the round where they just blew the roof off of the place. I also saw them around '83 with the Rabin Kaye line up. Really good, in fact great! But to me that was not Yes. I don't know about him being better than Rabin, he's just different. Rabin is an accomplished composer who's one of the best movie scorers in the business. Think "National Treasure". But I digress. I saw Yes in 2014 with Jon davidson and Geoff Downes. The rest of the line up as you know, Squire, Howe, and White. I was severely disappointed. Almost to the point that I wish I hadn't gone. With the exception of Squire, the rest were just phoning it in. You gotta love Squire, He truly loved what he did! This ARW show looks very exciting where they love what they are doing. That is my point. I don't know that Anderson and Wakeman reuniting with Howe would be any different. I think Howe's best days are behind him.

@@escommentss agreed they are different....guess we all have our favs and opinions...i saw yes back in either 76'-77 at the cow palace in daly city ca. It was either relayer or tales tour i believe. Wakeman had taken a hiatus from the band at this time and was replaced by patrick moraz...those 70s yes was the best...' guess just keep enjoying the yes classics.

You walk lost friend

Although I like ARW very much, and have enjoyably seen them live (along with Yes proper many times) I agree that the title was clickbait and not completely accurate.

Yes!yes!yes!

No need to miss Howe. Just go see the real Yes like the rest of us real Yes fans do. This cover band here is good. But why not go see the real thing?

What a waste. You should have stayed home and given an actual fan your spot

whoitisnot I am an "actual fan" you fuckwit. I've seen Yes many many times through the years in all of their incarnations. I've met some of them and have many special memories. Ive been a fan since '73. For this show you had to show up five hours early like I did to be admitted. So you're wasting your breathe. I'm more a fan than you'll ever be and I also like to drink when I'm waiting around 7 fkn hours to see a show. Its called living, you should try it some time. Cheers! 🍷🍺🍻

@@RealDiaz Lol. When you get so drunk you don't remember the music and then go online to brag about it you are just a douche, not a fan. Maybe get some treatment for that drinking problem. Your words don't match your actions, even 'on paper".

Really, you can't win this one, Diaz. There are people who would have stood in line exactly as long as you but would have been capable of paying attention throughout the gig. It's hard to argue that you are a 'bigger' fan than that person.

BenjWarrant Lol this isn't bout Winning or losing you idiot it's a comment thread. What a dork. But when it all gets down to it, I was there and you weren't so guess I win. Bahahaha.

Chris Squire is gone, so this is Yes.

He is in the other Yes.

Good catch. Fixed it in comments...

grajmahal agree 100%

grajmahal they were trying to push musical/artistic boundaries, as art should.

@@Cesarpena Yeah, I know. But they say the same thing about Jackson Pollack. The elitists will say he's a genius, but to me he's just a deluded person that was messy. There's a point where it's just pretentious, and quite frankly a bunch of BS. To me, pushing boundaries in art are the ones that can make a something so incredible through insane methods. Just as an easy example, pointillism. Or they Japanese artist that uses Microsoft Excel to create insanely beautiful images. That's boundaries, my friend. Not saying that Yes is equivalent to Pollack, but they were kind of getting out there for a while.

@@grajmahal well, "my friend", we don't see art in the same manner.

@@Cesarpena I agree, but nobody does look at art the same way.

He doesn't play it just like Howe, but sounds good.

Trevor has a mind of his own.. he ain't no clone

Just like Steve can't get Owner right, right? ;-)

Or perhaps he just want to play it his own way ;-)

Not to worry. Rick was there to help him with the difficult sections of Steve's part. Like with *I've seen all good people*.

Well Cinema, Hold On, Changes and Owner of a Lonely Heart were all from 90125.

thank you for that. what I should have said where is" leave it" and" it can happen".

On the album? :-)

those 2 songs i'm sure many fans would like to hear live at this gig.

To be fair, I, for one, would love to hear the whole album. But maybe that's just me...

xfunkster sad yes, a travesty might be taking it a bit far. I wish Bill was on drums tho 😉

Agree! To me, Squire was the true musical innovator of Yes.

Francisco Diaz nice avatar Rickey 😉