Yes Music Podcast

YesKit Part 4 - Jon Anderson Edition - 697


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From a tiny idea I had about Jon Anderson's use of instruments live with Yes, Mark and I managed to bang on for ages again this week. Hopefully, you will find the discussion as interesting as we did, particularly as I noticed some definite links between the band's sonic changes over the decades, Jon's development as a musician and the instruments he used.

In order to create some kind of helpful structure to the conversation, I managed to find the earliest examples of each kind of instrument Jon uses live in the photos on the amazing Forgotten Yesterdays website and I have embedded them into the show notes for this week's episode - do take a look at those and add a comment if you can think of any other Yeskit Jon used live with the band - or add a comment even if you can't.

  • What are all the instruments Jon used live with Yes?
  • When did he start playing tuned instruments?
  • What can we glean about the band amd about Jon from his choice of instruments?

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