Yes personnel list
Aaron M Strickland
was almost in, affiliated with and/or played with/on a Yes release.
(Included musicians from Union, guy that almost played drums back in early
70's, Jobson, etc...) I wanted to keep a copy of that list but neglected to
save it. If anyone still has this, could you post it? Thanks.
Henry Potts
Most of that information is available in the FAQ at
<http://www.bondegezou.demon.co.uk/amy_faq.htm#almost>, while news on
all these people can be found at
<http://www.bondegezou.demon.co.uk/wnoth.htm>.
Anyway, here's the relevant section from the FAQ (which needs updating
-- sorry)...
Clive Bailey: was in Mabel Greer's Toy Shop with Squire and Banks. One
Mabel Greer song ("Beyond and Before") was re-recorded for Yes and
Bailey also receives a credit on another Yes song, "Sweetness". Anderson
sang with Mabel Greer's Toy Shop and Clive Bailey may have played in the
band after it had changed name to Yes.
Jeff Berlin: filled in for an ill Levin at the end of the US ABWH tour,
he'd previously been a member of the Bruford group and played on Patrick
Moraz's _Story of i_ solo album.
Matt Clifford: credited with arrangements on ABWH, Clifford is a
colleague of Anderson's who also played some of the keyboard work on the
album. He also worked on Anderson's solo album _Change We Must_ and
played keys live for GTR.
Phil Collins: had an 'audition' with Yes, but did not turn up, joining
Genesis instead.
Jim Crichton: played additional keyboards on _Union_. He plays keyboards
and bass player in Saga.
Martyn Dean: with brother Roger, he worked on stage designs for the band
in the mid-seventies.
Roger Dean: did cover art for Yes from _Fragile_ to _Relayer_, _Drama_,
_ABWH_, _Union_, _YesYears_ and _Keys to Ascension_ onwards, as well as
for many other bands and people (notably Steve Howe and Asia). He also
did stage design for the band with brother Martyn.
Robbie Eagle: Tony Kaye's keyboard tech on the Big Generator tour, he
also played some extra keyboard parts off-stage.
Keith Emerson: was considered as Wakeman's replacement after Wakeman's
first departure. Emerson has been a leading figure in progressive rock
in The Nice and ELP. Before Rabin joined Cinema, he also had the option
of forming a bad with Emerson and Jack Bruce and, more recently, he was
asked to join ELP, but was unable to find the time.
David Foster: before joining Yes, Anderson had been in a band called The
Warriors with David Foster on bass. On _Time and a Word_, "Time and a
Word" and "Sweet Dreams" were co-written by Anderson and Foster and
Foster supplies some guitar work and backing vocals for the album.
Foster went on to found Badger with Tony Kaye, their first album (_One
Live Badger_, 1973) being co-produced by Anderson. (This is not the same
David Foster who emerged as a producer in the eighties, who has also
worked with Anderson.)
Robert Fripp: Fripp was considered for a place in the band after Banks
departure, but he refused. Anderson had worked with Fripp, guesting on
"Prince Rupert Awakes" on _Lizard_. Fripp later claimed to have coined
the term "dinosaurs" to describe bands like Yes.
Nick Glennie-Smith: was considered as Wakeman's replacement after
Wakeman's first departure. He also worked on the "Con Air" soundtrack
with Rabin.
Colin Goldring: played recorder on _The Yes Album_. He led the band
Gnidrolog in the early seventies.
Bruce Gowdy: guitarist in World Trade, he was associated with a Yes of
Squire/White/Kaye with Sherwood after _Big Generator_.
Tim Harries: bass on _Symphonic Music of Yes_, had worked with Bill
Bruford before in Bruford's jazz outfit, Earthworks.
Jimmy Haun: guitars on much of the ABWH component of _Union_, Haun also
played in the live Chris Squire Experiment band.
Roger Hodgson: half of Supertramp with Davies, Hodgson left the band to
go solo. Later, he and Rabin were working together between _Big
Generator_ and _Union_ and Hodgson was even offered the lead vocalist
spot in Yes, but refused. One song from those sessions made it to Yes's
Talk as "Walls".
Andrew Jackman: keyboard player in The Syn with Squire and Banks,
Jackman re-appeared doing orchestral arrangements and playing on
Squire's 1976 solo _Fish Out of Water_. He receives further credits for
directing the orchestra for Howe's "Double Rondo" and for arrangements
on _Tormato_. He has also done arrangements for other bands, including
Rush.
Eddie Jobson: first offered a place in Yes in 1974, replacing Wakeman,
he refused then. In 1982, when Cinema first formed, Squire also sought
to recruit Jobson, but he again refused. Between these two times, Jobson
worked with Bruford in UK. In 1983, Kaye left the band and Jobson,
having now completed his solo project _Zinc/The Green Album_, joined as
his replacement. Kaye soon returned and Jobson was unhappy with the
suggestion for the band to continue with both of them and soon left.
Jobson was in the video for "Owner of a Lonely Heart"; he was edited out
but can be seen fleetingly. He jammed together with the band only a few
times and never recorded with the band. Extensive notes on Jobson's
flirtation with the band can be found within the 'In the Dead of the
Night' UK mailing list homepage.
Kevin Kuhn: played bass with Steve Howe and Bill Bruford when they
performed "Roundabout" on a TV show as part of promotion for _Symphonic
Music of Yes_.
Dave Lawson: purportedly helped on Squire & White's "Run with the Fox".
Also played on Anderson's _Animation_.
Donald Lehmkuhl: contributed poems to the liner notes of _Relayer_ and
to the concert programmes for the Tales and Relayer tours, as well as
the introduction to "Views", a collection of Roger Dean's art.
Mark Mancina: worked with Rabin on his contributions to _Union_. Mancina
played on Rabin's tour following his solo album _Can't Look Away_, while
Rabin has played on film soundtracks written by Mancina. (Mancina also
worked on ELP's _Black Moon_.)
Tony O'Riley (spelling also given as O'Reilly): in 1969, Bruford left
Yes to go to college and was replaced by O'Riley, whose band The Koobas
had just broken up. Bruford soon had a change of heart and returned to
Yes. O'Riley had been in The Thunderbeats, before joining The Koobas
(originally The Kubas), a Merseybeat band. The Koobas toured with the
Beatles and the Moody Blues in 1965 and were managed by Brian Epstein,
then later Tony Stratton-Smith. O'Riley plays on _The Koobas_, the
band's one album, released in 1969 just after their break up. O'Riley
went on to join Bakerloo, although I don't think he recorded with them.
Steve Porcaro: played keyboards on one track on _Open Your Eyes_, on
_Union_, live with the Chris Squire Experiment, on Anderson's _In the
City of Angels_. Porcaro is a very active session player and former
member of Toto.
Dave Potts (no relation!): Potts was living with Anderson when Bruford
briefly left Yes in 1969. He rehearsed with the band for about a week,
before Yes chose Tony O'Riley instead. Potts later played in and then
managed Praying Mantis. He described events in an interview thus:
I was actually with Yes for about a week. What it was, was they
were looking for a drummer and I lived with Jon Anderson. I
rehearsed with them for about a week. At the end of the week
they had to make a decision about which drummer they kept and
Jack Barry tells me that he suggested they keep this drummer
called Tony Kelly [sic] that used to be with the Koobas. And
although nobody knows about him being in the band, or me, but it
was between the two of us. He was 22 and I was 18. And Jack said
he suggested keeping Tony Kelly in the band because he was more
level headed. If a 22 year old can be more level headed. So that
was a little kick.
Graham Preskett: played violin on _90125_ and on "The Continental" on
Steve Howe's _The Steve Howe Album_.
Randy Raine-Reusch: Played various world instruments on _The Ladder_. He
discusses his work on the album and other projects with Bruce Fairbairn
here.
Jean Jacques Roussel: auditioned as Wakeman's replacement after
Wakeman's first departure. He's worked with Keef Hartley Band, Donovan,
Cat Stevens and The Police (on "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic").
Pete Sinfield: lyricist for early King Crimson and then ELP, Sinfield
first became involved with Yes with Squire's _Fish Out of Water_. Squire
thanks Sinfield for (presumably lyrical) help on the final track "Safe".
During the hiatus between _Drama_ and _90125_, Squire and White released
a single ("Run with the Fox") and Sinfield co-wrote the lyrics. Sinfield
has also worked with Asia, although nothing has been released.
Ted Stockwell: engineer. As well as working as an engineer for the band,
Stockwell plays keyboards in Treason. In case Khoroshev had immigration
problems for the Japanese leg of Yes's Open Your Eyes tour, Stockwell
was on hand to play with them.
John Wetton: Wetton has never been, even fleetingly, in Yes, but he has
worked with numerous Yesmen: with Bill Bruford (King Crimson, UK); Geoff
Downes (Asia); Steve Howe (Asia); Peter Banks (The Two Sides of Peter
Banks); Alan White (Manzanera/Wetton); Rick Wakeman (abortive attempt at
a supergroup with Wakeman, Wetton and Bruford; 'Everybody's Got a Crisis
in Their Life' charity single); Trevor Horn (abortive project also
involving Billy Liesegang) and Tony Levin (Steve Hackett's _Genesis
Revisited_).
Vangelis: Jon Anderson and Vangelis first worked together on Vangelis'
1975 _Heaven & Hell_ album. He was offered the keyboard job in Yes after
Wakeman's first departure and played with the band a few times, but did
not join. An unreleased mid-eighties album Jon & Vangelis spawned two
later Yes songs: "Let's Pretend" on _ABWH_ and "Children of Light:
Children of Light" on _Keys to Ascension 2_.
Ian Wallace: drummer in The Warriors, Wallace filled in at one show
during Bruford's brief hiatus from the band (see O'Riley). He later
worked in King Crimson and on Anderson's _Animation_.
Casey Young: Additional keyboard player (hidden away) on the 9012Live
tour.
--
Henry
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Aaron M Strickland
gmelin
Henry Potts <he...@bondegezou.demon.co.ukREMOVETOEMAIL> wrote in article
<BxWhjaBD...@bondegezou.demon.co.uk>...
| Dave Lawson: purportedly helped on Squire & White's "Run with the Fox".
| Also played on Anderson's _Animation_.
Of note only because you mention the associations of others here: Lawson
was in Greenslade.
| Graham Preskett: played violin on _90125_
Anything besides "Leave It"?
--
gmelin
How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. . .
-- Wallace Stevens