{"id":24873,"date":"2023-03-17T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24873"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:45:59","slug":"interview-roundup-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/interview-roundup-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day not along ago, I decided to amuse myself by counting up just how many members &#8212; present and\/or former \u2013 of Yes I have had the pleasuring of interviewing. I expected the number to be fairly significant. After all, I\u2019ve been a fan of the group for many, many years, and would have jumped at most any chance to chat with the musicians therein. While I first saw them on the <em>90125<\/em> tour (great, but in retrospect hardly my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/march-through-time-yes\/\">Yes era<\/a>; that\u2019d be <em>The Yes Album<\/em> and then again for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/18\/yes-drama-at-40-a-critical-look-back-at-the-bands-most-controversial-lp\/\"><em>Drama<\/em><\/a>), I\u2019ve witnessed the group onstage at least two other times. I even got so lucky as to have met the band backstage one time. But (as I do) I digress. The number is <strong>eight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24874 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/bill_kopp_chris_squire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/bill_kopp_chris_squire.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/bill_kopp_chris_squire-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some Yes (and Yes-adjacent) interviews.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/04\/jon-anderson-invention-of-a-new-musical-collaboration\/\">Jon Anderson<\/a> #1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/11956\/\">Jon Anderson<\/a> #2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/yes-geoff-downes-were-still-here\/\">Geoff Downes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reinventingpinkfloyd.com\/exclusive_interviews.html#howe\">Steve Howe<\/a> #1<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/09\/chasing-the-sound-of-yes-50-years-on\/\">Steve Howe<\/a> #2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/28\/before-and-beyond-with-yes-guitarist-steve-howe\/\">Steve Howe<\/a> #3<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/patrick-moraz-and-the-poetry-of-creation\/\">Patrick Moraz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/31\/billy-sherwood-progs-pinch-hitter\/\">Billy Sherwood<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=550\">Chris Squire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/17\/yes-drummer-alan-white-on-yes-past-present-and-future\/\">Alan White<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oh, yeah: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/interview-roundup-rick-wakeman\/\">Rick Wakeman<\/a> gets his own separate entry (with six interviews)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day not along ago, I decided to amuse myself by counting up just how many members &#8212; present and\/or former \u2013 of Yes I have had the pleasuring of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2413],"class_list":["post-24873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-yes","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24876,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24873\/revisions\/24876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}