YES says Yes To A New Tour

The guys that make up "Yes" are back on the tour bus. The most recent loss of bassist Chris Squire won't go unnoticed. His Rickenbacker will be bathed under a single spotlight during the entire journey. Guitarist Steve Howe adds, "It is pretty exceptional that Chris has been at all those Yes shows [over] all those years, so we're gonna have to respect that and pay some tribute to that, which we're very happy to be able to do, And let people kind of find a way, an inner voice to express and get over and hopefully heal some of the sadness that's gone down." Following the tribute, Yes walked on stage and dug deep with such rarely played songs as "Don't Kill the Whale" and "Tempus Fugit," as well as some of its most well-known songs, including "Owner of a Lonely Heart," its cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "America," "Roundabout," "I've Seen All Good People," "Siberian Khatru" and "Starship Trooper." Billy Sherwood, who played in Yes from 1997 to 2000, is now on bass at the personal request of Squire. And, despite having such big shoes to fill, he did an admirable job. Drummer Alan White tells us having Sherwood back made it a little easier for the band during tour rehearsals, but goes onto say that "it will never still be the same playing without seeing that big structure of a guy in front of me holding down the bass area. But we've got to make it work."