Jobson on Yes

Eddie Jobson - Many of you have probably read this. I had not, so maybe some of you haven't either. I enjoy reading about behind the scenes stuff good and bad, but if Admin feels this is too negative for polite company, feel free to delete.

Maybe we can get some idea of how it would have sounded like by listening to this:



Yes + electric violin = must be even better

richardh wrote: I've never liked that period of Yes anyway but maybe Eddie could have made it something interesting perhaps. Moraz was dumped out the band 8 years earlier so that should have already been a 'red flag' as he puts it so getting involved was risky. Even Wakeman had to seemingly fight for his place in the band.

Hi,

I mainly got RELAYER because of Patrick Moraz as I had enjoyed REFUGEE a heck of a lot, and still played it. Sadly, I'm not sure that he was strong enough in that album, perhaps brought on a bit late and he tried to fit in ... or similar idea.

When I heard that he was dumped, was, really, the time I really dumped YES ... it wasn't about the music and its meaning and strength at all ... it was about "let them eat cake" ... and they may have had a hit song, but it has never moved me, and I find it sad and poor for what the band had done for many years, a definite change, which even they did not keep!

Confusion was their epitaph ... but for me the European scene was vastly superior. Take away one album or two albums, none of the rest dances as much as so much stuff out of Europe.

I still have Jobson's stuff with Roxy Music, Curved Air, and some other things. I never got into the "super group" thing with UK, or even with Asia, though they had some nice stuff. Again, the European scene was vastly superior by that time.

Edited by moshkito - 1 hour 37 minutes ago at 09:36