Bands that always had an original member, but not always the same one?

John Anderson

 

Depends on which version of Yes you are talking about. Howe Yes or Anderson/ Wakeman Yes.

Howe's Yes has no original members. While Jon Anderson is an original in the alternate Yes.

 

I’m talking about the band named Yes that has toured for almost 50 years. Their one constant was Chris Squire. Now, there is no one.

 

That’s Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, and Trevor Rabin, correct? Do they now tour under the Yes name, too? They didn’t the last time I checked.

 

Sorry but you are wrong as I saw Anderson/ Wakeman in concert billed as Yes last year. There are currently two bands touring as Yes these days.

Evidently Howe is ok with so who is to say which band is more legit.

Steve Howe on Former Yes Members Touring Under the Yes Name

They were touring as Yes featuring ARW.

ARW YES York venue Gig poster. UK warm up show 13.06.2018. ALTERNATIVE GRAPHIC | eBay

YES "QUINTESSENTIAL" 2018 LAS VEGAS CONCERT TOUR POSTER-Anderson Rabin Wakeman | eBay

 

This was recorded live 2017, released 2018. The whole Yes lineup & who is currently in Yes thing is very confusing to me. Sorry about spelling Jon incorrectly

 

No worries. I could argue this point about what is Yes/what is not until I’m blue in the face and I’d get nowhere.

Fine: Yes.

 

Not currently. ARW is on ice and Anderson is touring with his own band.

 

True enough but there were 2 bands called YES when they were both touring this past year and that was my point. Saw the ARW version at the Boston Orpheum theater and they sounded fantastic.

 

Don't really think Yes can count as Steve Howe's post Squire line-up didn't have any original members.

I think Asia would work though - didn't they exist for a while without Geoff Downes, the overall sole mainstay, or at least play some concerts without him, while John Wetton was still in the band?

 

I believe that the Swingin’ Medallions qualify. John McElreath and then Jimmy Perkins.

 

No, Geoff has been in every real incarnation. I don't count the "Asia featuring John Payne" as Asia. Not quite sure how he legally toured under that name.

 

I think Fairport Convention might fall into this category. I have to check the lineups.

 

My thinking as well, but I got shouted down.

 

There was a very brief version of Asia that did perform with Wetton and without Downes. Also, there's at least one track on the "Then & Now" compilation that he isn't on.

 

Jon*

 

No, because they haven't always had an original member (None during most of the '70s, even though some of their best-known members were there).

Steeleye Span qualifies however-- They had Gay Woods while Maddy Prior was absent.

 

I was thinking simon nicol might have qualified.

 

Yes, but he was out of the band from about 72-77, during which time there were no originals.

 

Not referring to the John Payne led version of the band but a time in 1989 when Wetton and Palmer toured without Downes, with John Young on keyboards instead. Apart from that Downes has been in every official incarnation.

 

I was checking to see if Molly Hatchet worked. They don't. But why on earth are they still a going thing? There is no one left alive in that band who ever had anything to do with their hit making days.

 

Because Bobby Ingram inherited the name after dudes quit and still makes money playing as Molly Hatchet.

 

I think this lineup toured under the name "Qango".

 

Didn't study it, but...

Quicksilver comes to mind.

 

I think I read on Wikipedia that Downes & co. gave him permission.