Jon Anderson - Go Screw Yourself video - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Hello everyone. Just joined the forum after many years of following the website. Have also been a member of progressive ears for almost 15 years. Also write reviews for Sea of Tranquility.

Anyways, that's a pretty impressive tune from Anderson at this stage of his career. Nice to hear some vitriol as these times demand it if anything is going to change. And his voice still sounds great. Just my 2 cents.

zwordser wrote:

All right! Gloves off Jon!

Seems mainly targeted at American politics, but, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't he live in Florida these days?

He's an American white dude now, he can't deny it LOL

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

jlneudorf wrote:

Hello everyone. Just joined the forum after many years of following the website. Have also been a member of progressive ears for almost 15 years. Also write reviews for Sea of Tranquility.

Anyways, that's a pretty impressive tune from Anderson at this stage of his career. Nice to hear some vitriol as these times demand it if anything is going to change. And his voice still sounds great. Just my 2 cents.

Welcome. I visit Sea of Tranquility often. Hope you stick around and engage in music discussions.

It's a good site and a good youtube channel too. I used to talk to Peter Pardo a bit when I ran into him at prog festivals. We are both originally from the same part of NY.

Thanks guys. Will certainly chime in from time to time. Maybe post a few reviews.

cstack3 wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I saw this via the Jon Anderson facebook group I'm in. It was very controversial over there. Believe it or not some Jon/Yes fans are very conservative and are T*#@p supporters.

I know quite a few people in Jon-Land who are uber-conservative T*#@p supporters, quite shocking really.

Instead of "Don't Kill the Whale," they probably chant "Let's Eat the Whale!" They also probably sing "Let us rape the forests."

My guess is that most of them grew up with Yes in the early 70's with Fragile and other older Yes albums and like them because they were cool at the time. Their other favorite bands are probably Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, ELP, Boston, Foghat, Bad Company, Styx, Ted Nugent(especially him) etc. In other words mostly stuff from that era. Some(but maybe not all)are juvenile and get a kick out of putting people down to see if they can get a reaction out of them. I would guess the lyrics of Yes or the message of Jon Anderson goes over their heads and is largely irrelevant to them. Also, most are probably not really big prog fans but are more like classic rock fans. Am I generalizing and stereotyping the conservative Yes fans? Absolutely but I'm probably not too far off the mark.

Yeah, instead of don't get kill the whale for them it's "nuke the whale" and "on the silent wings of a free enterprise." Oh yeah, also "the revealing science of don't take my guns away."

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 15 2020 at 21:04

rushfan4 wrote:

Even angry he sounds happy and joyous. LOL

Yeah, that's like having Tweety Bird playing Conan The Barbarian. LOL

I mean, Roger Waters is much more credible than Jon!! Stern Smile

Now that all the accolades are done, it's time for the important question: Is it prog? ;)

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When I heard this song, I thought it was a fan made thing / Joke to make it look like an actual Jon song. Yet I thought it was actually not bad. Later on seeing all the controversy it caused on Yes's FB page it became clear he had actually done it. Nice to see there's mostly support for Jon in here, while there are people even threatening (or actually leaving, I don't know) the FB page given the political discussions it created.

Does anyone have a clue who plays on the song besides Jon? The lead guitar reminds me of Trevor Rabin a bit.

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I'll be honest...

...This keeps getting better and better.

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