It has been ten years now since the passing of Yes bassist Chris Squire. Steven talks a little bit about a new article in which artists, bandmates, and collaborators share their favorite songs featuring Chris: https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/chris-squire-remembered-30-best-songs Also, as a reminder, you can submit tributes to Play for Chris 11 by June 30th over at miguelbass.com/playforchris11 Steven also covers today's breaking news that a remastered version of Alan White's Ramshackle...
Jun 27, 2025•22 min
Steven does another Yesshift News Desk Edition. It's Patrick Moraz's birthday, and there was a recent announcement that he'll be returning to ProgStock later this year! And over on the Original Asia page, it was announced that Asia are now on Frontiers Music again and plan to release an album in 2026. All this and more!
Jun 24, 2025•38 min
Steve Hackett joins us for another interview to give us an update on what's new with him! You can pre-order the live album The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall here: https://stevehackett.lnk.to/TheLambStandsUpLive-Album And check out his tour dates here: https://hackettsongs.com/tour.html
Jun 18, 2025•26 min
Last night, news came out that Johnny Bruhns, who had been fighting cancer, passed away. He was a guitarist who worked with multiple Yes members and was in Yes tribute band Total Mass Retain for a bit not too long ago. And of course, he was a husband and a father. An album titled Welcome to the Kingdom, which he worked on and remastered over the years, has just been rereleased on Bandcamp, and all proceeds go to his widow Laurie. https://johnnybruhns.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-kingdom Peo...
Jun 15, 2025•10 min
Steven does kind of another Yesshift News Desk Edition. First, an acknowledgement of Alan White's birthday, which then leads to tributes to Brian Wilson, who departed earlier this week. It is also the 40th anniversary of Bruford-Moraz album Flags. (And on Flag Day!) There's also a lyric video for Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks' "Once Upon a Dream" from the Frontiers channel. And Steven also includes a whole Venue Adventures segment talking about the bands he saw perform at Regal Inn in Lakewo...
Jun 14, 2025•47 min
Steven talks about the announcement of Yes' Fragile 2025 Tour, shares his thoughts on exo-X-xeno's album Luminous Voyage which releases June 19th at exo-X-xeno.com and more!
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Andy Graziano, guitarist for Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks, joins us for a Yesshift interview! After having Matt Beck sub for him on recent tour dates, Andy is back in the guitarist slot for the next leg of the tour! You can see the June-July dates and venues here: https://richiecastellano.com/jonyesepic/...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 13 min
John Lodge of The Moody Blues joins us for an interview! Tune in to another great conversation about music! He has tour dates coming up on the US East Coast July-August, which you can check out at https://www.johnlodge.com/pages/tour-dates He also recently released n EP titled Love Conquers All, which you can get here: https://slinky.to/LoveConquersAll
May 30, 2025•32 min
Miguel Falcão (miguelbass) joins us once again to talk about Play for Chris 11. Can you believe it's been ten years since this annual tradition began? Do you have tributes to Chris you want to submit? Check out the guidelines at miguelbass.com
May 22, 2025•52 min
Steven hosts another Yesshift News Desk Edition, giving May birthday shout-outs, sharing the Cruise to the Edge 2026 lineup updates, talking about publication news (including a new issue of Prog Magazine focused on Chris Squire), and more!
May 20, 2025•1 hr
Billy Sherwood, bassist of Yes, joins us to talk about his solo tour happening this month! Check out the tour dates at billysherwoodmusic.com Billy gives us a good idea of what to expect from the setlist, given the breadth of his career, and gives us the rundown of each of the musicians accompanying him on this tour (Scott Connor on drums, Scott Walton on keys, and John Thomas on guitar). He also touches a little bit on the next Yes album, a new Circa record, and Cruise to the Edge along the way...
May 05, 2025•50 min
We interview Chris Clark, one of the keyboardists for Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks! (You might also know him from Brand X!) We talk about how he got into playing music, his Yes discovery origin story, playing with Brand X, a past Cruise to the Edge, working with Virgil Donati, and working on True!
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Steven recaps a concert he saw at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles April 26, 2025 featuring Conflict at Serenity Pools, Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller, and Ruby Haunt! He'll also review two vinyl records he acquired there: Gateways by Adam Miller, and Blinking in the Wind by Ruby Haunt.
Apr 28, 2025•36 min
Dan and Steven review their copies of Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - Live - Perpetual Change! Dan got the CD/DVD set, and Steven got the Blu-ray!
Apr 24, 2025•42 min
For Benoît David's birthday, Dan and Steven touch on a couple Hamadryad tracks on which Benoît David's vocals are credited: "Omnipresent Umbra" from the 2005 album Safe in Conformity, and "In My Country" from their 2010 album Intrusion. And we'll of course touch on his role in Yes!
Apr 19, 2025•30 min
Steven does another Yesshift News Desk Edition! Topics include Billy Sherwood's solo tour, an update on the new Yes album, Cruise to the Edge (a little bit about this past one and what's now expected for the next), and more!
Apr 17, 2025•41 min
Matt Beck joins us for a Yesshift interview! He's been playing guitar with Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks on the current leg of touring. Other credits include Matchbox Twenty, Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, Rosanne Cash, and even Broadway shows of Bono and The Edge (Spider Man), Sting (The Last Ship) and Carole King (Beautiful). Also, check out this live stream of The Band Geeks chat that took place right after this was broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8dT-jxoGo&pp=ygURcmljaGllIGN...
Apr 11, 2025•50 min
For Steve Howe's birthday, Dan and Steven talk about some of their favorite Steve Howe stuff from the '70s. (And he's in his seventies!) Feel free to comment some of your favorites!
Apr 09, 2025•30 min
Steven recounts his experience seeing Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks perform April 3, 2025 at Grove of Anaheim. There will be a warning before setlist spoilers!
Apr 05, 2025•54 min
Dan and Steven share their thoughts on an upcoming Yes tour!
Apr 01, 2025•18 min
Steven presents another Yesshift News Desk Edition. First, words on the passing of Billy James of Glass Onyon PR, instrumental in relations between artists and media outlets. Other topics include Geoff Downes' statement about future Yes touring and album releasing, first impressions of the Close to the Edge Super Deluxe Edition and Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks' Live - Perpetual Change (the audio tracks, anyway), and more.
Mar 18, 2025•39 min
To celebrate Billy Sherwood's 60th birthday, we take a dip into the chronology of one of the bands he's been in, CIRCA: Every lineup has featured Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye, and other faces involved over the years include Alan White, Jimmy Haun, Jay Schellen, Johnny Bruhns, Ronnie Ciago, Scott Connor, and Rick Tierney. Hear what we have to say about the history and the music.
Mar 15, 2025•59 min
Steven talks about his vinyl copy of Yes' Close to the Edge. This not about the Super Deluxe Edition (which you can get here: https://lnk.to/YesCTTE ) but rather actually about a copy he's had for over 12 years and finally given a listen.
Mar 09, 2025•22 min
Ronnie Ciago joined us for an interview! Drummer, drum instructor, clinician, author, vocalist, songwriter, and producer, he's worked with a LOT of people! In the Yes sphere, he has performed with Patrick Moraz at the Baked Potato and the Musicians Institute in 1996, on a cover of "Los Endos" from 1998's The Fox Lies Down on Broadway - A Tribute to Genesis, and the track "One Day in June" which ended up on Moraz's solo album Change of Space. And in 2011, he was part of a lineup of Circa: that al...
Mar 06, 2025•44 min
We once again take time to remember Chris Squire on what would've been his birthday. What are your favorite Chris Squire moments? Anything you think is underrated?
Mar 05, 2025•50 min
This Yesshift News Desk Edition begins with an acknowledgement of Oliver Wakeman's Birthday, new work he's alluded to, and an article about his time with Yes. There's also a unique project Adam Wakeman has taken part in, press interviews with Bill Bruford and Steve Howe (separately) containing interesting info, an upcoming Trevor Horn conversation tour, and more.
Feb 26, 2025•50 min
We share our thoughts on the upcoming Jethro Tull album Curious Ruminant, which you can pre-order ahead of its March 7th release: https://jethrotullband.lnk.to/CuriousRuminant-AlbumID
Feb 24, 2025•40 min
We review Dave Kerzner's recently released IT - A Celebration of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway! Available on sonicelements.bandcamp.com The album includes Dave Kerzner, Fernando Perdomo, Francis Dunnery, Billy Sherwood, Nick D'Virgilio, and more!
Feb 21, 2025•41 min
Steven talks about his vinyl record of the new Steve Hackett live album Live Magic at Trading Boundaries! Plus, he reminds people again about other stuff that's been going on at and scheduled for Trading Boundaries.
Feb 12, 2025•35 min
Steven is back with another Yesshift News Desk Edition talking about recent announcements of the Close to the Edge Super Deluxe Edition, the debut of Rick Wakeman's new podcast, performance events going on including those of Trading Boundaries, and more!
Feb 06, 2025•55 min
