Tag Archives: Jon Anderson

News: Albums of the Month (July – September 2024)

Posted on October 30, 2024 by GRTR! HQ

A quarterly feature highlighting album releases rated highly by the GRTR! review team and worthy of your investigation KALANDRA A Frame Of Mind (By Norse Music) Turn on the heat, settle down with your favourite tipple, and let ‘A Frame … Continue reading →

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Album review : JON ANDERSON AND THE BAND GEEKS – True

Posted on August 15, 2024 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date : 23.08.24] An almost 80 year old Jon Anderson, and the Band Geeks will be finishing off their second annual US tour in September. Just about when their first album, True, is being released by Frontiers. Quite … Continue reading →

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Album review: YES – Talk

Posted on June 2, 2024 by alanjones

Spirit Of Unicorn/Cherry Red Records [Release date: 24.05.24] Originally released in 1994 and remastered here for its 30th anniversary, ‘Talk’ is very much the lost album of the Yes canon (not helped by the Victor record company going bust not … Continue reading →

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Gig review: YES – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 24 May 2024

Posted on May 26, 2024 by david.wilson

Tonight’s show was another date in the current ‘Classic Tales Of Yes’ tour, a celebration of 50 plus years of Yessong with an emphasis on the band’s ‘Tales From Topographic Oceans’ opus which turn 50 in 2023. You could argue … Continue reading →

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Gig review: JON ANDERSON/MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND – Erkel Szinhaz, Budapest, Hungary, 9 July 2023

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Davoski

A city break you won’t find on Expedia: the Queen of the Danube by day; prog rock royalty by night! Budapest is an amazing city and no surprise that the venue for this co-headline gig was a classy, plush, comfy-seated … Continue reading →

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Album review: WIND OF CHANGE – Progressive Sounds Of 1973 (4 CD Boxset)

Posted on November 23, 2022 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date: 25.11.22] The logistics: Wind of Change comprises 4 CDs, 5 hours of music and 49 tracks. No doubt many will look at compilations like this one and think you just cannot maintain the quality level over … Continue reading →

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Album review: GRAND – Grand

Posted on October 12, 2022 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date 14.10.22] Swedish songwriter/singer Mattias Olofsson teamed up with Wigelius guitarist, Jakob Svensson and drummer Anton Martinez to form Grand in 2020. The band subsequently signed with Frontiers. This is the debut. Grand are as good an AOR/Melodic … Continue reading →

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Album review: VON HERTZEN BROTHERS – Red Alert In The Blue Forest

Posted on March 19, 2022 by petefeenstra

Doing Being Music [Release date: 18.03.22] Described by the 3 Von Hertzen Brothers – Kie, Mikko and Jonne – as 70 minutes of art rock, ‘Red Alert In The Blue Forest is a concept album written separately by all 3 brothers … Continue reading →

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Album review: COLIN SCOT – Colin Scot

Posted on August 7, 2021 by jason

Esoteric/Cherry Red [Release date 30.7.21] It’s more than a little unfair that the late singer-songwriter Colin Scot’s 1971 debut seems to be regarded more for the myriad of guest musicians than for Scot’s own undoubted talent. Reissued on CD for … Continue reading →

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Album review: YES – The Ladder, Open Your Eyes

Posted on March 15, 2020 by jason

YES The Ladder (Collector’s Edition CD, Gatefold Digipack) EarMUSIC/Edel [Release date 20.03.20] How much was producer, Bruce Fairbairn responsible for the the band’s return to creative form on 1999′s “The Ladder”? Considering that his path through the nineties was littered … Continue reading →

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Album review: SON OF MAN – State of Dystopia

Posted on February 13, 2020 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to George Jones for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, getting the background to the new album ‘State Of Dystopia’. First broadcast on 5 April 2020. Cherry Red Records [Release date 27.03.20] Son Of Man’s ‘State of Dystopia’ … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: ATOM WORKS, YES

Posted on September 27, 2019 by GRTR! HQ

YES Live At Glastonbury 2003 The Store For Music [Release date 04.10.19] There is not even an inlay for this double album lifted from the soundtrack to the “Director’s Cut” DVD released in 2008. Roger Dean’s iconic logo is the … Continue reading →

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Album review: AYREON – Into The Electric Castle

Posted on October 11, 2018 by petefeenstra

Music Theories Recordings [Release date 26.10.18] Aside from being the 20th anniversary of its release and a long overdue vinyl release, the most significant thing about the Arjen Lucassen’s remixed and re-mastered 1998 Ayreon project, is the way it successfully … Continue reading →

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Album review: MICHAEL ROMEO – War Of The Worlds, Pt. One

Posted on July 4, 2018 by petefeenstra

Music Theories Recordings [Release date 27.07.18] Former Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo’s ‘War of the Worlds’ has very little to do with the enduring Jeff Wayne adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic sci-fi book. However, the title does give the … Continue reading →

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Gig review: STONE FREE FESTIVAL – Day 2 – 02 Arena, London, 17 June 2018

Posted on June 25, 2018 by andynathan

Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman - STONE FREE FESTIVAL- DAY 2 - 02 Arena, London, 17 June 2018

If day one of Stone Free exhibited classic rock at its heaviest and loudest, the Sunday – at least in the main O2 Arena- had a more progressive and thoughtful bent to it. However the Orange Amps stage was still … Continue reading →

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Album review: TOM TOOMEY – Turquoise

Posted on February 15, 2018 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Tom Toomey in his Feature show broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sunday 25 February 2018, including tracks from ‘Turquoise’. Giant Records [Release date 06.01.18] Tom Toomey is best known as the guitarist with The … Continue reading →

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DVD review: YES – The New Director’s Cut

Posted on February 9, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

The Store For Music [Release date 16.02.18] Talk about milking it. It may have been a major event when Wakeman reunited with Anderson, Squire, Howe and White in time for the band’s 35th anniversary tour in 2004, but there continues … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ANDERSON RABIN AND WAKEMAN – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 24 March 2017

Posted on March 26, 2017 by david.wilson

For anyone who has seen my profile picture on the site it may come as something of a surprise to find that I was too young to appreciate Yes during their 70’s heyday. No, for me my interest was piqued … Continue reading →

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News: VANGELIS 13-CD Box Set released via Universal on 3 February – win a copy! (Competition)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by GRTR! HQ

Modern music visionary Vangelis has announced the release on 3 February of a new 13-disc box set entitled ‘Delectus,’ featuring a chosen selection of his early discographic work. The mammoth collection will include all of his albums on Vertigo and … Continue reading →

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Album review: VANGELIS – Delectus (Box set)

Posted on January 23, 2017 by GRTR! HQ

Win the box set!! (Comp. closes 19.02.17) UMC [Release date 03.02.17] Just too late for Xmas, comes this mammoth 13-disc box set of Vangelis’ albums on Vertigo and Polydor, remastered from the original first generation tapes under the big man’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: ANDERSON PONTY BAND – Better Late Than Never

Posted on October 5, 2015 by jason

earMUSIC [Release date 25.09.15] The album features two legendary musicians, former Yes vocalist Jon Anderson and violinist/jazz composer Jean Luc Ponty. The idea for these two musicians to work together was first mooted back in the 1980′s, it is only … Continue reading →

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Album review: FRANCK CARDUCCI – Torn Apart

Posted on February 22, 2015 by petefeenstra

Franck Carducci [Release date 09.01.15] Multi instrumentalist Franck Carducci is a Frenchman who moved to Holland to find his blues tinged prog rock niche. He tells us that during his musical formative years he played with upwards of 20 different … Continue reading →

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Album review: YES – Songs From Tsongas

Posted on September 26, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Eagle Rock [Release date 22.09.14] 3-CD It comes to something when we get an anniversary release of an anniversary release! Following Rick Wakeman’s return to the band in 2002, the classic Yes line up of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris … Continue reading →

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DVD review: VANGELIS and the Journey to Ithaka

Posted on March 8, 2014 by jason

This is not a live concert or ‘best of’ his works performed live, instead it is a fascinating insight into the musical world of Vangelis. The thing that shines through the various interviews, which include Oliver Stone, Jessye Norman and … Continue reading →

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DVD review: JON ANDERSON – Tour Of The Universe

Posted on November 26, 2013 by jason

Store For Music www.thestoreformusic.com Although this is released this year by Store For Music, this DVD first saw the light of day back in 2005 when it was released by Classic Pictures. A word of caution for fans as the … Continue reading →