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Yes (from left, Jay Schellen, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes).
Yes will perform its 1971 album Fragile — featuring songs such as “Roundabout,” “Long Distance Runaround,” and “Heart of the Sunrise” — and other songs on its fall tour, which will include shows at The Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, Oct. 2; and The Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, Oct. 4.
Tickets will go on sale June 13 at 10 a.m., with pre-sales beginning June 11 at 10 a.m. Visit mayoarts.org for Morristown, ticketmaster.com for Atlantic City.
The band currently includes Steve Howe on guitar, Geoff Downes on keyboards, Jon Davison on vocals and guitar, Billy Sherwood on bass and Jay Schellen on drums. Only Howe was a member of the band at the time of Fragile, which was the band’s fourth album, following Yes (1969), Time and a Word (1970) and The Yes Album (1971). Fragile was also the band’s first album to yield a Top 20 hit: “Roundabout.”
The cover of Yes’ 1971 album, “Fragile.”
“All the band’s albums had a unique feel and approach,” said How in a press release “After The Yes Album, so many things came together, with (co-producer) Eddie Offord steering the proceedings. While the band focused on only four main songs with full arrangements, each of us wrote and designed a solo piece, which was Bill (Bruford)’s great idea. It’s fairly ‘odd-ball,’ but we were at the height of our creativity, determined for success.”
Howe also said: “It gave us confidence, further than our own in-stock belief, we’d crafted this unusual but noticeable musical twist to rock and what later became prog.”
The tour’s stage design will include a video wall featuring AI treatment of Roger Dean’s art. Dean did the cover art for Fragile and most of the Yes albums that followed it.
The tour is currently scheduled to run from Oct. 1 in Wallingford, Connecticut, to Nov. 16 in Reno, Nevada. Other Northeast shows include Oct. 5 in Port Chester, New York; Oct. 7 in Huntington, New York; Oct. 8-9 in Glenside, Pennsylvania; and Oct. 12 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
For information and updates, visit yesworld.com.
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If you really want to see Yes live, get a ticket for Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks instead.