Credit: Deborah AndersonAfter spending the last few years touring with his former Yes band mates Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman, the prog-rock group’s founding frontman Jon Anderson, is currently on a U.S solo trek promoting his star-studded new studio album, 1000 Hands.
Anderson initially had planned to record new music with Rabin and Wakeman, but he now tells ABC Radio that their band, Yes Featuring ARW, is on indefinite hiatus and he’s “not sure” if they’ll ever work together again.
“It’s something that didn’t evolve the way I would like, and same with Trevor and Rick,” he admits. “We wanted to make some new music, but for some reason, the powers that be just didn’t give us the chance to get in a studio and make some new music, even though we wrote some music.”
He adds, “Whether that will evolve and become [something concrete] is out of my hands, really. But I loved what I did with Trevor and Rick very much.”
While the project’s recording plans didn’t come to fruition, Anderson says he loved playing live with the band.
“The tour was fantastic,” he tells ABC Radio. “I mean, on stage we were cooking. We didn’t take any prisoners…And the audiences were great wherever we went. But everything else around it was very sort of un-together, should I say.”
As for his current 1000 Hands Tour, that’s currently mapped out through a September 1 concert in Montclair, California. The album, which he began nearly 30 years ago but only completed recently, features an impressive cast of guest musicians, including Yes’ Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White; Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson; Journey‘s Jonathan Cain; Rick Derringer; and Carmine Appice.
Here are all of Anderson’s upcoming shows, according to JonAnderson1000Hands.com:
4/24 — San Diego, CA, Humphreys Concerts by the Bay
4/26 — Los Angeles, CA, Saban Theatre
4/27 — Las Vegas, NV, Cannery Hotel and Casino
4/30 — Phoenix, AZ, The Van Buren
5/6 — Nashville, TN, Ryman Auditorium
5/8 — Clearwater, FL, Capitol Theatre
5/10 — Orlando, FL, Walt Disney Theater
5/11 — Biloxi, MS, Beau Rivage Casino
5/12 — Arlington, TX, KAABOO Texas
7/29 — Ocean City, NJ, Ocean City Music Pier
8/8 — Detroit, MI, Rockin’ on the Riverfront
8/29 — Pasadena, CA, The Rose
8/30 — Ojai, CA, Libbey Bowl
9/1 — Montclair, CA, The Canyon – Montclair
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