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With great drummer Adam Nussbaum last night at ‘the Pizza’… Conventional wisdom has it that, like the Queen of England, working performers have no right of reply. Anyone posing as a ‘critic’ may villify you [...]

L-R: Hagger, Banks, Anderson, Squire. Here's a slice of history. Mabel Greer's Toyshop was the short-lived late 1960's British band best known for having three future Yes members (Jon Anderson, Peter Banks, and Chris Squire) in its [...]

The following fairly complicated question came in, and I thought it might be good to try to air an answer in public. It’s a bit long, so I’ll split the answer in two, with Part 2 to [...]

10 Albums that changed my life. Goldmine Magazine has had a few people offering ‘10 Albums that Changed My Life’ recently. Sounds a bit portentous, but it’s true - some of them really did change [...]

With many others I’m saddened to hear of the recent death of Mick Karn, who recently at age 52 lost his struggle with cancer. Master of the fretless snakebass, I played with him and guitarist [...]

Rummaging through his early Yes posters for an upcoming book project, Bill came across this fine example of the sort of intricate poster art that was much used on the European scene in the 60s [...]

On stage May 1969: L-R Banks, Bruford, Anderson, Squire Sal suggests that very little has been said about Yes’ first album, so I thought I’d try to be helpful. Of course we Yesmen were new [...]

After at least a decade of frantic music-business-related computerising, it may be helpful to try to stand back and attempt to assess the net effect of the arrival of the machine into our musicianly lives. [...]

With a lean and hungry Yes, 1969: L-R Anderson, Bruford, Banks, Squire, Kaye.I was again reminded of the generally low esteem in which the drummer is held by the above description of a drumming colleague, [...]