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New, old Yes members
reunite for ’Union’ tour
By Todd Stone
King ol
is becc
thing new is becoming an en
tertaining formula for the clas
sical, art-rock group Yes. The
band's Union performance at
the Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion in The Woodlands Fri
day night featured some of the
best Yes music performed by
the best Yes players.
Until this tour, former and
current Yes musicians were in
two distinct bands — the cur
rent Yes band, featuring Trevor
Rabin, Chris Squire, Alan White
and Tony Kaye, and also Jon
Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick
Wakeman and Steve Howe
(known by their collective last
names).
Indeed, the highly hyped
Union was
nothing
more than a
new CD-re
lease con
taining mu
sic by the
two differ
ent bands
under the
same Yes
logo. But as
a collective
group, this unionized Yes put
on one hell of a show.
Following the tradition of
1970s' Yes performances, the
concert began with a recording
of Stravinsky's "Firebird" as Yes
walked on stage to an encour
aging ovation. Keyboard wiz
ard Wakeman continued play
ing "Firebird" along with drum
mers White and Bruford as the
recording faded. Thentheband
cleverly lead into "Yours Is No
Disgrace" (from the album Frag
ile).
During "Disgrace," guitar
ists Howe and Rabin performed
extended solos that few musi
cians could match. Still, the band
seemed to be going through the
motions during the first group
of songs.
However, after performing
"Rhythmn of Love" (Big Genera
tor) and the strong rocker "Shock
To The System" (Union), Yes
found a groove while perform
ing "Heart of the Sunrise" (Frag
ile).
Bassist Squire supported
"Heart" with some energetic and
well-timed bass lines, and lead
vocalist Anderson punctuated
the fine melodies with some
powerful high notes.
Unaccompanied, Howe
dazzled the auaience while play
ing his neo-classical piece "The
Clap" on acoustic guitar. Dur
ing the piece, Howe carefully
wandered into "Autumn," the
second movement of Vivaldi's
Four Seasons, then finished with
"Clap"’s original finale.
: Wakeman
was
equ ally
amazing
during his
solo as he
played ex
cerpts from
his solo al
bums Six
Wives of
Henry VIII
and Myths
As a collective
group, this
unionized Yes
put on one hell
of a show.
and Legendsof King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table.
Further, Bruford and White
made a fine percussion team
throughout the show. White's
thundering drumming style was
marvelously augmented by
Bruford's more fluid, jazz tech
niques. Bruford used an array of
electronic Tama drums to create
unusual sounds and rhythms
See CONCERT/Page 4
Band members
revolve through
Yes history
The personnel changes of
Yes during the past 23 years is
as fascinating as the music it
self. Certainly, the "union"
concept is quite different from
the revolving door which char
acterized Yes in the past.
There have been four dif
ferent keyboardists with Yes,
three guitarists, two drum
mers, two lead vocalists but
one bass guitarist.
Thatbass player was Chris
Squire, who along with singer
Jon Anderson formed Yes in
London in 1968. Guitarist Pe
ter Banks, who was in a group
with Squire called Mabel
Greer's Toyshop, also joined.
Keyboardist Tony Kaye and
drummer B ill Bruford were re
cruited to make-up the first
Yes band.
This group made the first
two Yes albums — Yes
andTime And A Word. Banks
left the group in 1970, and gui
tar-great Steve Howe replaced
him.
Kaye stayed with the
group for just one more al
bum, The Yes Album, then left
to join a group called Badger
in 1971. The Yes Album con
tained the classic Yes songs
"I've Seen All Good People,"
"Starship Trooper" and
"Yours Is No Disgrace." Ka
was
train
The Yes group of Ander
son, Squire, Howe, Bruford
and Wakeman made only two
albums together, but those
projects are considered Yes
masterpieces—Fragile (1972),
featuring "Roundabout" and
"Heart of the Sunrise" and
Close To The Edge (late 1972),
including "And You and 1
Bruford left the group im
mediately after the release of
Close To The Edge to join King
Crimson. Alan White, who
played with John Lennon's
Plastic Ono Band, joined Yes
three days before the group
was suppose to tour.
Wakeman left the group
after the release of the first live
Yes album,Yes Songs (1973),
and Tales From Topographic
Oceans (1974). Patrick Moraz
replaced Wakeman for one al
bum, Relayer, and tour.
Wakeman rejoined Yes
Yesl976 to make Going For The
One and Tormato (1978).
Then, Anderson and
See YES/Page 4
f Doc Hollywood 9 prescribes
laughter as best medicine
By Julia E.S. Spencer
If Michael J. Fox's career has been derailed re
cently after a series of misses, "Doc Hollywood" is
just tne comic medicine he needs to get it back on
track.
Fox once again brings megawatt charm to his
role as an ultimately loveable scnmuck. This particu
lar one is smart-alec doctor Ben Stone, who is leaving
the 18-hour days and clamoring patients of a busy
inner-city hospital in
Washington, D.C for a
Fox once again brings
megawatt charm to his
role as an ultimately
loveable schmuck.
geon in La La Land.
We are thankfully
spared an intermi
nable prologue. In
stead, the script deftly
suggests, in the space
of a few minutes, the
stressful nature of
Stone's previous job,
and his flippant, insen- '
sitive, materialistic personality.
Out on the roaa, he nimbly avoids roadblocks,
but a couple of women walking their cows are too
much for him, and he and his beloved speedster go
crashing through the underbrush, and into a newly
erected and painted picket fence. Stone's attempts at
the damage fail;
of medical practioners, the judge instead sentences
Ben to 32 hours of community service. Mayor Nick
Nicholson (David Ogden Stiers) takes Ben under his
wing and shows him around, bragging about the
annual squash festival, among other simple plea
sures the town has to offer. The city council offers Ben
a job as the town doctor, but he finds the place
hopelessly provincial, and is still firmly resolved to
leave for L.A. as soon as his car is fixed.
Resolved, that is, until he meets his literal dream
girl, ambulance driver Lou (Julie Warner), a mysteri
ous beauty who will have none of his big-city slick
ness or cute come-ons. Stone's rival is Hank Gordon
(Woody Harrelson), an insurance salesman who is
"sweet on her." Bridget Fonda plays Nancy Lee
Nicholson, a girl very much taken with Ben and the
idea of moving to the big city with him.
On the medical
front. Stone is humbled
by an encounter with cur-
mudgeonly old Dr.
Hogue, and as he does
his rounds, begins to lose
his arrogance and to
genuinely care about his
quirky patients. As he
begins to feel accepted
and at home with the
loveably loony residents,
we fall in love with them
too.
paying for i
town of Grady, Soutl
of any kind.
Hearing tha t Ben is an M.D., and citing a shortage
no one in the sleepy little
Carolina takes plastic or credit
The plot of this Capraesque tale is of the will-he-
or-won't-he variety, and there is really never any
doubt as to the outcome. As with all such stories,
however, the pleasure isn't so much in the goal as in
getting there.
"Doc Holly wood'"s attractive leads, lovely set
ting, subtly imaginative direction, and gentle humor
make it a perfect anecdote to the big-city blues. And
with all the violence going down this summer, that's
good news indeed.
Group calls for national TV boycott
NEW YORK (AP) - CBS, NBC
and ABC, at times bedeviled by
calls for boycotts against sponsors
of their shows, are urging adver
tisers not to give in to such threats
and not to shun controversial pro
grams.
But one viewer, Vicki Riley,
head of a small activist group. Con
cerned Viewers for Quality Televi
sion, in Wilmington, Del., is pro
posing what would be the mother
of all TV boycotts a national 24-
hour tune-out next season.
She's urging viewers to mark
Tuesday, Oct. 29 in their calendars
for a national "Turn Off TV Day"
to protest what she considers ex
cessive sex and violence, and pro
grams that she feels go against tra
ditional family values.
Peter Chrisanthopolous, presi
dent of the NationalTelevision As
sociation, said the call for a na
tional day of TV darkness "has
nothing to do" with his group's
three-page appeal to advertisers,
issued Monday.
The NTA was founded last
year by CBS, NBC and ABC to help
state their case to advertisers. Con
gress and the public.
The epistle has been in the
works three months, and was sent
after NTA board meetings and
talks with Jeff Sagansky, Robert
Iger and Warren Littlefield, the pro-
' of CBS, ABC and
he said.
boycott threats
and advertiser "hitlists" programs
that sponsors avoid because of
possible controversy "has never
been addressed head-on by the
networks in this tupe of format,"
he said.
The letter says the networks
"vigorously support" freedom of
expression. But it asserts that "boy
cotts and so-called advertiser 'hit
lists' are attempts to manipulate
our free society and democratic
process.'"
The networks, it says, "employ
the strictest standards of all elec
tronic media" for program con
tent, "stricter than other over-the-
air broadcasters and stricter than
cable networks."
It also cites research that it says
supports its contention that "the
vast majority of Americans find
network programming to be
widely acceptable."
"I am delighted this letter has
gone out I think it shows we are
indeed having some effect," says
the Rev. Donald Wildmon, a Tu
pelo, Miss., minister who has been
assailing the networks over pro
gram content since the days of
Archie Bunker.
Riley said her protest is ah
at all television, not just the
; aimed
net
works, and has been endorsed by
several other activist groups. Her
own group has between 800 and
1,000 members, she says.
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