

Demand Formation Of A Third Touring Version Of Yes


Demand Formation Of A Third Touring Version Of Yes
The Issue
The British progressive rock band Yes has had a substantial impact on the musical and spiritual lives of an incredible amount of fans around the world.
There are currently two versions of the group out on tour. One features "Classic Yes" guitarist Steve Howe as captain of a crew which includes the 1980 'Drama' album keyboardist and supergroup Asia cohort Geoff Downes, replacement singer since 2012 Jon Davison, bassist Billy Sherwood who stepped onboard after founding member Chris Squire's passing in 2015 and drummer Jay Schellen who has been manning the kit since Alan White went on to his greater reward in 2022.
Yes founding member and vocalist Jon Anderson also has his own musical unit called Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks presenting themselves onstage during a “YES Epics, Classics, and More” tour in 2023 and 2024.
For the rabid Yes fan two bands on tour are not quite enough. There are a plethora of other former members who could and should form a third unit to allow more presentations of the great catalog of Yes music onstage.
This petition requests, nay, demands that these former past members of Yes, calling themselves Bruford Horn Levin & Moraz, also immediately start meeting, creating an amazing four hour set list, rehearsing until exhaustion, financing a tour of immense and spectacular proportions and then hoist onstage an incredible cosmic musical adventure which incessantly tours Europe, Asia, Australia and both North and South America:
Bill Bruford - drums and percussion ("retirement" will not be respected nor accepted as an excuse)
Trevor Horn - vocals (with more instrumental pieces replacing sung numbers as the tour proceeds)
Tony Levin - bass guitar and Chapman stick (only when absolutely necessary)
Patrick Moraz - a multitude of both keyboards and hair
As a side note sideman Jimmy Haun will handle all the guitar parts as he did on the 1991 "Union" album.

The Issue
The British progressive rock band Yes has had a substantial impact on the musical and spiritual lives of an incredible amount of fans around the world.
There are currently two versions of the group out on tour. One features "Classic Yes" guitarist Steve Howe as captain of a crew which includes the 1980 'Drama' album keyboardist and supergroup Asia cohort Geoff Downes, replacement singer since 2012 Jon Davison, bassist Billy Sherwood who stepped onboard after founding member Chris Squire's passing in 2015 and drummer Jay Schellen who has been manning the kit since Alan White went on to his greater reward in 2022.
Yes founding member and vocalist Jon Anderson also has his own musical unit called Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks presenting themselves onstage during a “YES Epics, Classics, and More” tour in 2023 and 2024.
For the rabid Yes fan two bands on tour are not quite enough. There are a plethora of other former members who could and should form a third unit to allow more presentations of the great catalog of Yes music onstage.
This petition requests, nay, demands that these former past members of Yes, calling themselves Bruford Horn Levin & Moraz, also immediately start meeting, creating an amazing four hour set list, rehearsing until exhaustion, financing a tour of immense and spectacular proportions and then hoist onstage an incredible cosmic musical adventure which incessantly tours Europe, Asia, Australia and both North and South America:
Bill Bruford - drums and percussion ("retirement" will not be respected nor accepted as an excuse)
Trevor Horn - vocals (with more instrumental pieces replacing sung numbers as the tour proceeds)
Tony Levin - bass guitar and Chapman stick (only when absolutely necessary)
Patrick Moraz - a multitude of both keyboards and hair
As a side note sideman Jimmy Haun will handle all the guitar parts as he did on the 1991 "Union" album.

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Petition created on September 3, 2017