Yes pupils, followers or clones.

 

There are no bands that sound like Yes.

 

 

I've collected any thing Yes has released, including most of their "Best of" compilations and "Anniversaries", and all their live albums. I have a lot of Wakeman, Howe and Anderson's solo albums, although they don't sound like Yes, but I like them. I also have a little of Brufford, solo and with King Crimsom and other bands. The point is that I really LOVE, ADORE or WORSHIP the sound of Yes, specially from The Yes Album through Drama, and now I've come to feel that I've got nothing else to collect in this field, so....(don't shoot!) I started to look for bands that have a similar sound, vibration or feel than Yes. And I don't care if you call them clones, as long as they give me more of that sound to which I'm so hooked. So far I have discovered Starcastle, Alaska, Druid, Multistory and Ring of Myth. Some, like Alaska are very cool and talented. Others not so much. Anyway, can you people recommend more bands that I can collect to put on my "Yes pupils" collection?.

 

Finally, I don't see anything wrong in admiring a band so much that you try to play like them. I think it's part of a process while developing your own style. I think that Yes deserves a lot of reverence. They created a school of sound, and those bands are students, not copies.