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YES Featuring Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman Announces 50th Anniversary Tour

YES featuring Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin has gone and announced their 50th anniversary celebration. 

Yes, for the past year there have been two bands called YES. Both of them will be touring this year to celebrate 50 years of YES.

Back in 1968, there was just one YES. The ARW version of the group will perform a 100-concert world tour, the Quintessential YES: The 50th Anniversary Tour, beginning June 3 in Europe, then continuing through the U.K., North America, South American.

The tour will wrap up in Japan in 2019.

The band will kick off the United States leg of the trek with a special performance at Los Angeles' Whisky a Go Go, the legendary venue at which the band first performed as a headliner in June of 1971. 

YES Feat. ARW will also release a live CD and DVD from the band's March 2017 concert in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Get all the YES Feat. ARW tour dates here

Get the other YES tour dates here

And while that other YES—which dubs itself on social media as YES Official—has continued making new albums with Jon Anderson soundalikes, YES Feat. ARW is reportedly "hard at work, creating some stellar new recordings" with the real thing, according to a press release. 

Anderson said this past winter that YES Featuring ARW is "dreaming big all the time," and that he and his bandmates have been thrilled by the outpouring of support at their live shows since adopting the YES moniker following the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction last year. 

"There is no barriers to creating music, the doors are wide open, the new sounds of the cosmos are here and now, the soul is the conduit to music, it is a reflection of all beings, for the soul is music."

Anderson is also preparing to release a solo album he started writing 30 years ago

The singer said in January that the album will be called 1,000 Hands, due to all the musicians who contributed to it over the years. He said he hopes to have the LP ready by the spring, "fingers crossed."

YES Featuring Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman is an off-shoot (which many fans consider 'the real YES') that rebranded itself following YES' Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction last year. 

The other band called YES is the one led by co-founder and bassist Chris Squire up until his death in 2015, classic-era guitarist Steve Howe and classic-era drummer Alan White

That is the same collective that fired Anderson back in 2008 while he was recovering from acute respiratory failure and ordered by his doctor to avoid touring for at least six months.

YES Feat. ARW's management challenged "the other YES band" last year to identify its key members Howe and White, to avoid confusing fans, just like the Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman group has been doing with the 'ARW' tag.


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