Yes and Styx on tour....is this progressive?

Noted.  Wednesday July 20th.  I'll be there.  I think.  I'll have to sell my Tigers' tickets for that day, but that can be done.

Come on up to Detroit...and bring cake.

I guess they hate Canada. I remember the Vancouver gig getting canceled a couple of years ago and now they're not even going to revisit it. Boo-urns.

If Yes had Jon Anderson and Styx wasn't Styx then this would be interesting but, sadly.....

I had tickets to the Yes show cancelled in Seattle......2006 I think? Anyhow if this comes around the Emerald City I will go. I mean why not, some of these bands are gonna start hanging it up for good soon, then what are we gonna do?

Edited by Catcher10 - April 07 2011 at 20:14

Originally posted by manofmystery If Yes had Jon Anderson and Styx wasn't Styx then this would be interesting but, sadly.....

Hi,

Originally posted by moshkito Hi, For people that have never seen YES, this is a good thing. It is a chance to re-connect with a band that did do a lot of nice things, albeit, at this point, I am not sure that I would want to hear the hits again, which are overplayed and overheard and ... I'm bored with! I can not comment on Oliver and what happened to him. I can imagine, however, that he is probably too young and not as well versed in the arts of the keyboard to be able to do things well enough and consistently ... but that is a supposition and not necessarily a reality. He really came into an impossible situation ... but might lack the compositional skills that would naturally help the band do something new? ... who knows ...  I wish them good luck, and hope for the best ... I saw them perform one of the greatest things ever done in rock music at the Long Beach Arena with Tales from Topographic Oceans ... and I still remember the insults in the audience with a couple of kids totally stoned out screaming "rock'n'roll" and one other that screamed "roundabout" as Yes was playing through Part 3 of their opus ...  In the end ... it's not times change ... it's ... we go back and redo our hits yet again. It's the newwave-prog, haven't you heard? ... the old days are coming around ... Buffalo Springfield, and some of those oldies ... and that means that one day we will see Yes do Tales again ... after we're dead, probably! But I have a feeling that's one piece that Chris doesn't like ... because it means he is not a special rock'n'roll bassist anymore? I think I would rather have tea and a nice and quiet evening with Jon ... I think that we old mountain goats might have a bit more to talk about than some esoteric discussion about proto-prog or some bs-prog ...

Styx are not a prog band, they're a rock band who dipped their toe in "art rock/crossover prog".  They made a few great albums but would never compare themselves to the English giants as far as being prog.  They were pretty humble about their place in the food chain, and despite all the venomous and petty press they received, their fans gave them the last laugh. 

I consider them irrelevant without DeYoung but then I consider Yes irrelevant after Drama.  Both bands are casino fare these days. 

  

Originally posted by Harry Hood It says co-headlining, but are Styx or Yes playing first? I imagine we'll see a lot of people leaving fashionably early or arriving fashionably late.