Jon Anderson has spent the last few years touring and recording with a group of devoted Yes fans he discovered on YouTube.
epic “Close to the Edge” to their YouTube channel and watched it rack up over half a million views. “I’m blown away by these comments,” he wrote in response to the outpouring of love by prog fans. “This isn’t a bunch of music snobs showing off. This is genuine love for Yes and their music. We are hardcore Yes fans and this video is not about conquering a song or doing it better than anyone.
Castellano got a job with Blue Öyster Cult as a sound engineer when he was done with his schooling, which led to occasional opportunities to guest with them at gigs. When bassist Danny Miranda let the band in 2004, they offered Castellano his spot. Three years later, whenSarzo has played with everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot to Whitesnake, Geoff Tate’s Queensrÿche, and the Guess Who. Castellano was in awe of him.
Whatever the story is, it ends with Anderson as a man without a band. But the instant he saw Castellano and the Band Geeks play “Close to the Edge,” he saw a path forward. “I told Richie I wanted to go on tour,” says Anderson. “He goes, ‘Jon are you serious?’ I said to him, ‘Yeah, I want to play ‘Gates of Delirium,’ ‘Close to the Edge,’ ‘Awaken’ and all the hits of the Seventies. If we have to do anything like ‘Owner ,’ we’ll do it at the end.
Most of these songs were in the Yes live repertoire for decades, which only complicated matters. “Over time, songs morph, tempos change, sections get cut out,” says Castellano. “What’s the right version of ‘Close to the Edge?’ They way they played it on live albumtour?’ I eventually just said to the guys, ‘Every way is correct. The way they played it in 2004 is just as valid as the way they played it in 1974.
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