![]() Well, since music speaks long after its creation, this service has a payment for those with the respect for those who are no longer with us today. Others merely attempt to gain notoriety for their musical endeavors. Steve Howe (acceptance speech): Fame is fickle for many people, and some may long to bask in its glory. I’m generally not nervous onstage at all, but when I got onstage to speak my nerves kicked in. When Geddy Lee was inducted he said he thought it should have been Yes. ![]() Geoff Downes: I liked Rush’s induction speech. So here we are, decades later, and the music of Yes is still echoing down through the years, showing me that music truly is a continuum. ![]() Geddy Lee (induction speech): It’s not overstating things to say changed the way I played and listened to music forever. Other inductees included Pearl Jam, Journey, ELO, Joan Baez and rapper Tupac Shakur, but the eyes of all prog fans were on Yes. The induction ceremony itself took place on April 7 at the 19,000-capacity Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, New York. Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin playing Owner Of A Lonely Heart at the induction (Image credit: Kevin Kane/WireImage for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/Getty Images) So I went over and shook his hand: “How you doing Steve?” And he was, like, “Hello.” OK, I’ll just get on with it and have fun… Jon Anderson: Steve wasn’t the most – what’s the word? – affable person. There was a lot of posturing and crap going on, and I could have done without all that stuff. Trevor Rabin: The sad thing is that there were really no real rehearsals. Then you get into the real nitty gritty of getting together to rehearse… Rick Wakeman: It was nice to see Alan, who had been really ill. I think we just got on with, it was something we got to do together, and I felt good about the evening. We were talking together in different ways. Were we polite to each other? Yes.Īlan White: I basically haven’t fallen out with anybody, I don’t think. Did we laugh and joke and muck around? No. Rick Wakeman: Were we cordial? Depends what you mean by cordial. There were smiles and “Hi!”s and things like that. We were staying in the same hotel as the other Yes. Given the band’s turbulent history and the sometimes strained personal relationships, there was the potential for tension between the two camps. The current and past members of Yes convened in New York the day before the induction ceremony. It seems to be that’s one of the things that drives the engine. But I’m not upset.īilly Sherwood: It’s no secret that Yes is political as hell – it’s always been that way. Had it been maybe two or three years ago when Chris was alive, I’m sure myself and Patrick and a number of others – maybe Trevor Horn – would have been inducted. Geoff Downes: Was I unhappy about not being inducted? No. I feel that’s an insult.” Then I got the message back that they were going to induct him posthumously. And when Yes suddenly get inducted, and Chris had died the year before – the only solid guy throughout the entire history of Yes – that made me angry. Jon Lord is an example – Deep Purple got in so late. Rick Wakeman: There have been so many musicians that deserved induction and were dead before it happened. Management at the time kept saying, “We’re going to get you in the Hall Of Fame.” I said, “ OK…” And this went on for about four years, and I said, “Forget about it – don’t even talk about the Hall Of Fame until it happens.” Of course, it took its time. Jon Anderson: It started about 15 years ago, when I was on tour with Yes.
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