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    #62
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,976 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    bnt wrote: »
    i'm reading about a new Prog Supergroup planning to tour this year, so I thought I should bring back the Prog Superthread. ARW will consist of Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman, and others TBC. Between R and W, I think we can expect way too many notes... :p
    More about ARW in an interview with Trevor Rabin here. He's a teeny bit snarky about Yes:
    Rabin insists there's no rivalry between the two bands.

    "To be honest, it doesn't even enter our minds," he said. "When Rick, Jon and I decided to get together we actively decided not to call it Yes, even though we have just as much right to do so.

    "Steve Howe has been playing, in essence, with a tribute band, but there are no bad vibes,"
    Ouch. But then I hear what are, to me, magic words:
    "We took a lot of Yes songs and stripped them down to nothing, then reconstructed them differently," he said. "Rick is calling it 22nd century Yes."
    This is more like it. I'm always underwhelmed when a band slavishy sticks to particular arrangements. When Rabin was in Yes they did songs like And You And I and Starship Trooper live with significant deviation from the original arrangements, which makes them more interesting. If I want to hear the originals, I can, since they never go away.

    So Trevor may be a bit snotty in calling today's Yes a tribute band, but I think he has a point. Much as I appreciate Chris Squire and all he did, he was the one who kept Yes going past its sell-by date.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #63
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,330 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    I'm just missing out on the ARW new York show, would've been an experience to say the least!


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    #64
    rednik
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    ARW tour started in Orlando last night, I have tickets for London in March.


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    #65
    rednik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,157 ✭✭✭rednik


    Article & setlist from the first ARW show.

    http://ultimateclassicrock.com/arw-2016-tour-opener/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4572276


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