FISH OUT OF WATER

Imagine what Yes became with Tormato. Once they had lost theheavy part of their sound. Or imagine if Mr Squire was demoing songs for Jon Anderson to sing for Yes, that ended up as out-takes, or went on to be fully developed by the group. Imagine Sting attempting a prog album after spending a weekend on a Yes bender. Or at best, as I've mentioned in a thread on this album, imagine the concept of a musician being an important cog in a whole group being better than the sum of its' parts, but the musician, when apart from the group being unable to fill the hole(s) left by the other members of the group. This is not a bad album. If you've ever stumbled across a copy of the 1979 Paris sessions demoes (before Jon left, and the rest went on to compose the album Drama) then I can tell you the songs are of the same quality. There's something there, but it never quite reaches the level of magic. Summary, professional, competent, commonplace. Nice try.