Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Come on, Woody, everyone knows that Alan is still the new Yes drummer! As for Steve, he is mixing it up like crazy, working as much solo material in as he can without repeating, so chances are that you'll hear something besides those two famous standards.

As for Oliver Wakeman, unless he puts on the silver cape and plays exactly like his dad, people are going to be critical. He is not the animated showman that his father was with Yes and he may be playing it cool by design. Imagine if he tried to act just like Rick, how badly would he be criticized for that! I had no problem with his performance at any of the shows I attended. As for mistakes and miscues, I think they were all guilty of one here and there, but it didn't detract from the shows in general, which were awesome!

Tony, only 14 days! Hang in there...

I think Oliver has tremendous pressure on him and whatever he does/tries will get criticized by someone. That he is touring says so much about him. My hats off to him. VERY tough shoes to fill.....

Oliver seems like a really nice guy in addition to being a great player caught between a rock and a hard place! After the show last night in St. Louis, he was very enthusiastic about meeting some fans, and he was happy to sign my ticket.

I got Alan's and Chris's signatures too--Steve Howe drove off a bit too tired to mess with the fans I think, and Benoit spoke to us for a long time but I didn't want to interrupt him to ask for a signature! He was waxing poetic about prog and I didn't want to be rude.

Chris also signed my copy of Fish Out Of Water! Pics later...

Chris is on the cover of the latest BP magazine , I just got it in the mail today so I haven't read it yet.

The last time I saw Yes was with that Russian keyboardist, Igor. He was great and I did not miss Wakeman one bit. Oliver does have big shoes to fill and the critics will always be at his heels. A few years ago I met Matthew Adams, the grandson of Ansel, at the now defunct Ansel Adams Gallery, in Monterey, Ca. He was very nice and we had a nice conversation. He did not take up photography knowing what his lineage would cost him; too bad, but I guess he was correct, in his own way.

just_bassics wrote:Tony, only 14 days! Hang in there...

ANY DAY............ANY DAY.......tick tock...........tick tock..............

Nice interview in BP! Chris even talks about the 75th anniversary show that we all went to, right?

What, you say, you didn't go?

heading out the door to my local barnes and noble now......

Um, Woody, this is the January '09 issue so it most likely won't be on the newsstands, yet. I subscribe to BP so I get my copy early.

Hopefully mine shows up in the morning mail.

doh!

Chris is certainly looking trim and fit! Great article, and informative too. Glad to see BP fawning over him - Chris is not the usual handful of players they fall all over. Sorry if that offends, but BP has been getting repetitively boring this past year. IMHO

http://www.bassplayer.com/

Look at how big his right hand looks on the RM1999 in the cover photo!

jps wrote:Look at how big his right hand looks on the RM1999 in the cover photo!

Yup, that's about the size of it!

ermmm,john, i couldn't see anything mentioning chris on that bp link..........? or was that your reason for posting it...? yeah,i met chris once in dallas,he is one big fella when you're standing face to face....

The BP website does not show the new issue yet, I guess that is the advantage us subscribers have! You will not be disappointed when you do finally get a copy of it.

I am surprised, no comments from Tony!