Peter Banks & The Syn |
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Phil
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 17 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1881 |
Topic: Peter Banks & The Syn Posted: November 22 2005 at 10:35 |
You may be aware from the review by sigod that he and I saw the Syn play at the Marquee last week, and very good they were too!!
Before the gig I bought two Syn CD's - "Original Syn" which I had mistakenly thought was the new album - and then "Syndestructable", which is. On Original Syn one CD is given over to 3 tracks recorded in 2004 that feature Peter Banks (who of course was in the original band along with Chris Squire, and both of whom went on to join Yes). The new album and the band now perfoming does not include Peter Banks, and I wondered why as he was involved last year.......then I came across this: http://www.peterbanks.net/syn_letter.html It's a sad and very bitter statement allegedly from Peter Banks about how he was dumped from the band. I can't comment on the detail of this and I'm not posting this to invite wild specualtion, but if anyone does know anything substantive I would be interested. It is sad that he should feel the need to have written this. ....and whatever the circumstances of his departure I do have to say that I think the new Syn material is excellent. |
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Trotsky
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771 |
Posted: November 22 2005 at 11:27 |
There's a couple of different-angled stories here ... but no explanation is forthcoming
http://www.relayer35.com/Yescography/OriginalSyn.htm http://www.synmusic.net/press/archives/2005/oct/101805.htm l (please copy and paste if links don't work) The wild speculation would be that once Nardelli got Squire interested in the project he dropped Banks like a hot potato ... I emphasize that I do not know anything substantive ... |
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bluetailfly
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 28 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1383 |
Posted: January 09 2006 at 15:32 |
Hello, I am curious if anyone has heard any further info on this. I find this sort of thing fascinating and am wondering what the hell happened here. It's truly sad that Banks is not on the road with them, for that would have made seeing them that much more special (they're coming to S.F. in Feb. 2006). As prog rock fans, we need to get to the bottom of this; because we have devoted many years of our lives to both refining our aesthetic senibilities and subsizing this genre, the very genre that gives bands like The Syn a niche and a marketable handle, we deserve to know the truth... NOTE: I think we need to paste Peter Banks public statement on The Syn in this thread since eventually the link to it will be lost: *DECEPTION AND LIES: A TIME AND A NEED FOR PROVOCATION* |
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chopper
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Posted: January 10 2006 at 07:44 |
I don't know about the situation with The Syn, but reading the notes he made for the Yes At The BBC CD, Peter Banks has pretty much the same opinion of Yes and the way he was "removed" from that band (and is particularly sour towards Steve Howe). They do say there's no smoke without fire! |
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sigod
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 17 2004 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 2779 |
Posted: January 10 2006 at 09:45 |
It seems a bit sad but like most things in life, there are always two
sides to every story. All I can say was when Phil and I saw The Syn at
The Marquee, they were really good.
I feel like a kid watching their parents fighting. |
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Trotsky
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771 |
Posted: January 10 2006 at 21:44 |
Let's be honest ... whether this particular incident is true or not ... there can be little doubt that our heroes in Yes had a ruthless side and were capable of back-stabbing ... Nor indeed is this sort of ruthlessness restricted to Yes, I'd read bitter complaints from Nicky Simper about his ejection from Deep Purple (and since Purple have printed the fact that they were rehearsing with Glover and Gillan behind the backs of Simper and Evans on their own liner notes, I can well imagine that he's justified) ... I think Pete Bardens depature from Camel ... Martin Smith's exit from Gentle Giant ... even Lemmy's ousting from Hawkwind may not all have been entirely honourable ... And don't tell me Bobby Fripp was an angel, either!
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
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NetsNJFan
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 12 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3047 |
Posted: January 10 2006 at 22:13 |
Poor Peter Banks.
treated like crap by Yes and the Syn. As Trotsky so well pointed out, Yes was ruthless, and despite Jon Anderson masquerading around as an Angel, from what I've read he's a hippie-Fripp, a complete dictator over Yes, with Chris Squire as his deputy. too bad, a very able guitarist, his collaborations with Jan Akkerman are decent. |
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