Close To The Edge - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks | Live @ State Theater NJ (5/30/2024)

[@johndial3934]

This band is excellent and to be playing with a musical legend that is Jon Anderson. Jon Anderson is Yes. Sounds as good as he did in the 70's. I have there new cd and it is excellent.

[@johndial3934]

I agree with Anthony Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Squire was the Very Best Yes lineup.

[@MarkDelRusso]

It's a shame that Steve Howe did not Wait for Jon when he was having medical issues. This music is not the same without Jon's voice. They just don't get it. BUT NOW Jon has a band that can RECREATE this awesome music that I listened to my whole life. And now at 65 I can see a 79 year old Jon Anderson perform and sing this music and sound so BEAUTIFUL at his age!!! I am thrilled to see these guys. And my opinion is, THIS BAND KILLS IT !!!!!

[@kevinmcconnell3641]

Nobody plays guitar like Steve Howe!! Same with base, drums, and key boards!!

[@MarkDelRusso]

@@kevinmcconnell3641 AGREED

[@Jamesmatthews-nc6iw]

You have no idea what and why..... I was there. ..

[@derekbeauchamp2409]

BEAUTIFUL ✨

[@chocky60]

Jon won’t tour outside the US sadly. He still has health issues and the US suits him fine

[@tata-z9i3f]

They look very happy to play the music!! It is the essential of art, it makes the viewer so happy, this is the true players or prayers !!!

[@johnwitt583]

Future times are standing clearly see Anderson is YES and this band is Andersons FUTURE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@lindazee]

I was there and it was a great show. Jon Anderson is a treasure!

[@AnthonyPoetica]

You Lucky, Lucky So and So! 😆😇

[@Chudhole]

Jon’s voice is still really good. I’m glad he’s hooked up with these guys.

[@lastdaysguitar]

Jon remains such an inspiration.

[@longtallj2158]

Absolutely fabulous playing with the same ferocity and energy of the early YES

[@finnwin348]

Tears in my eyes!!

[@donmathews7253]

My all time favorite album! Just saw this tour last night in Denver! Had to visit this video. Well done! Jon is a pro! He grabbed a bunch of talented musicians who are obviously Yes Heads that want to carry on the great music! I get up! I get down!

[@pimtelman]

Perfection, but also an amazing qualified band as well as all the singing parts that are also perfect!

[@RZoneFitnessForWomen]

Amazing!!!😊

[@aisharay4765]

awesome!!

[@jeffschielka7845]

Jon Anderson THE VOICE. THE MASTER. FOREVER YES❣️❣️❣️🎤🎤🎤 Love and Light ❤️🌅

[@mattleppard1970]

Chasing you, Jeff ❤🎉😎

[@chrisbrogan3307]

Perfection

[@digimediamen]

Hell to the yeah! Jon Anderson IS Yes! So happy for him and for us who get to enjoy this national treasure of a voice!

[@carriemaybrun1904]

I would not agree with that - he is the VOICE - the players ARE the band - and these guys do it much justice indeed...

[@reneelyons6836]

The Band Geeks are so good! If I was Jon I would want to sing with them too. 🥰

[@shamrockschool6406]

Dylan: Thanks for the great video! Well done!

[@christopherdavies3079]

Wow ! Really impressed with this .

[@215Gallagher]

Who needs a tribute band when you have the real Jon Anderson and his new lineup of Yes. (Of course they're not the calibre of the Yes who made Yessongs, but to many of us that was the best live album ever, and in an era when bands were making the greatest live albums ever).

[@AnthonyPoetica]

They are absolutely Killing This.... The best YES Line-up since: Jon, Chris, Rick, Bill and Steve. PLEASE!!! Come to the UK Jon!.🙏

[@scottross2762]

You go and on and on, Jon. Statement. Hearts.

[@IntotheAgora]

It's genuinely amazing how Jon Anderson can still sing the whole thing perfectly in his late 70s

[@JeanSpencer-xz2ke]

I saw Yes 6 times. The first time was August 5th 1972 at Berkley Community theatre Alan White had only joined the band a week and a half prior, so they couldn't do 'Close to the edge' yet. Still a great show. I saw 6 consecutive North American tour, the 6th in June of 1976. Best progressive rock band EVER!!!!!

[@stevennovakovich2525]

I was at the Chicago show at the Copernicus Center. Loved it!! Was 2nd row center, sitting behind Jon's beloved 'Janey' and his daughter. Was a very nice evening even though the sound that close tends to be a bit muddled. The visuals were outstanding!

[@golos7670]

Now that we have Jon Anderson fronting a band that captures the ENERGY of 70's Yes, it is now crystal clear that he always was the spirit and essence of Yes. Steve Howe just seems so tired leading his Yes tribute band...

[@ono1dij]

Este me hizo llorar, y eso que no suelo llorar fácil... Jon es un genio, no hay dudas, y es el alma de Yes, Jon y su Band Geeks están sonando tal como debería sonar Yes ahora, y es increíble que este hombre pueda hacerlo así... Entiendo que Howe ya no puede tocar a la velocidad que tocaba hace años, y amo su forma de tocar, al igual que el irremplazable Chris Squire, pero esta banda suena asombrosamente bien... Que siga!!!

[@witeskyn7]

Wait....What? @8:02 No fog drifting across the stage..?? C'mon guys...!! ;) (J/K) Jon and The Band Geeks are making it look easy to nail this classic and epic tale of progressive rock genius. Excellent and well done, boys!

[@PeterJVogel]

Glorious. 🙏

[@MarkPassero]

I was in the front row, right by the guitarist. A transcendent show!!! Insofar as Steve and Jon not working together, well, sometimes art and commerce just don't always mix. I'm just very grateful for the material they did produce together instead of lamenting what they might have done. Besides, I would't want to hear Steve and Jon with Rick in the fold. Then, I would just get weepy-eyed over Chris and Alan not being there. That 2004 tour was simply the finest Yes tour I'd ever seen (the 1990/1991 Union tour was second best for me and I was too young for the 1978 In The Round tour).

[@jamesmicucci7028]

@MarkPassero Agreed, 2004 was an amazing Yes tour year. I caught them at Hartford (Aug 22), NY State Fair in Syracuse (Sept 2 ), and VT State Fair in Essex Junction, near Burlington, VT (Sept 4). I've got a dvd of the NY show, and a 2 CD-R set of the complete VT show (a great audience recording, btw... to me, this Awaken was absolutely otherworldly. Little did I know that this was to be the end of (one of) the classic Yes lineups).

[@kevinrothe361]

Too bad . I was lucky enough to be in my youth during their finest years. I was 19 in '78. This is pretty close to the real thing. God bless Jon for giving us his best ....still.

[@lifeonmars5975]

So great!!

[@harrisrosenberg7992]

THIS IS REAL "YES"

[@johnmorrell]

Isn't ironic that we have all these people saying that Yes 2024 are just a tribute band and not the real Yes, and now we do have a tribute band and people are hailing them as the 'real' Yes. Go figure... (Can't wait to see them live though !)

[@RicardoBirdlegs]

Spot on. We should in stead appreciate and cherish the fact that Yes music is being performed live. How fortunate we are that Jon Anderson is still able to do this. Saw him twice with Paul Green School of Rock. Hope he comes to Europe soon with Band Geeks

[@Johnny-re9kg]

Saw it in Rochester last night. Just an inspiring and fantastical aural experience.

[@samepstein6163]

they don't go by the name YES...there's a BIG DIFFERENCE...their name is Jon nderson & the Band Geeks...so keep on figuring

[@johnmorrell]

@@samepstein6163 I actually didn't say they were calling themselves Yes, I said 'people are hailing them as the 'real' Yes'.

[@izzyizborn]

Well the only 'original' Yes member is right here, singing alongside 'TBG'.. I DO know I'm splitting hairs.. But really, I haven't seen Yes play with this kind of fire in a long time. There's an exuberance here. A joy that's missing in that other iteration.

[@robertjannush4403]

When I first saw The Band Geeks a few years ago I had a thought that if Jon Anderson was to get together with this band it would be A Great Combination because of All the Turmoil over the years with the other band members from the past as well as they wanted to do their own things and Jon wanted to get back into the band after he recovered from his illness but they took it upon themselves to continue to tour without him before he was able to do it again. Then they formed ARW and they started to tour for a while and then Jon found this Band and the rest is History. Jon’s Voice is still in Very Good Shape and Almost at 100% like it was back in the early days.

[@fandru5538]

Steve Howe is by far my favorite guitarist of all time, but , man, this is the true Yes ! Just wonderful ! So much better than the one circling the globe nowadays under the Yes moniker.

[@johndial3934]

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Squire. The Best Yes lineup Ever. Close To Edge Fragile The Yes Album 3 of the best Yes album's.

[@RichardLanthier]

Wow…!! 😳🎶😎💥

[@itsshrike1237]

Jon Anderson is the only person who could replace Ann Marie when the band geeks play yes songs.

[@PANJEAK]

There are some small mistakes (Wakeman's parts) but overall great. Anderson perfect like in the 70s.

[@actionjax1987]

Chris Clark is probably the closest to Wakeman of any of the Yes keyboardists. He does a fantastic job and adds his own flair as well.

[@lindazee]

Actually, Jon made some errors, but I didn't care. It's just amazing to see him.

[@Chudhole]

The keyboard parts being a little off throws me. But otherwise good performance!

[@Vinylathome]

Totally in a different league to the Steve Howe Band touring the UK at the moment.

[@steevrush]

Just noted at the start of his outro jam, it takes two players to handle (Rick) Wakeman’s part!

[@arturovillalobos8716]

Los ví 2 veces a los oi r ori

[@michaelfleming40]

Well, my cup runneth over. 😊❤

[@stevetheq]

The "Official YES" I wouldn't cross the street to see for free. Zero energy

[@diannkelley3481]

This is really good, but…I sure miss Chris’s vocals, Ricks’s masterful playing, and I know some won’t like this, but I believe Steve’s playing is more passionate and precise. I will see them in about six weeks and can’t wait. There’s lots of debate about who today’s best version of Yes is, and well, my FANTASY is a Jon, Steve, and Rick or at least Oliver, and Bill reunion. I seriously doubt it would ever happen, but the money so many of us would pay might just be worth it. Yes, I know Rick is retiring and Bill already has, but I guess as Aerosmith would say, Dream On. Nonetheless, I’m so thrilled at least Jon and Steve memoralize this classic music. Saw Yes last year for Steve and will continue to see them as long as they are within 5 hours drive. Long live the music of Yes and its classic members!

[@mariobaert8346]

Agree with most. And recently saw Yes performing an adapted Tales From Topographic Oceans suite which was pretty damn good. This is not bad at all, but just as Yes logically (they're not in their 20s or 30s -their peak- anymore) isn't quite getting the fire from the seventies and eighties anymore and this is not up to that level either. It's a good thing we have the memories and studio- and live-CD's to go back to when we want to.

[@yeswolf1]

I have loved YES since I first saw them in 1972 but I am unable to appreciate the current lineup for a wide variety of reasons. Jon IS Yes, also for a wide variety of reasons. Jon and The Band Geeks is the closes thing to YES that exists in 2024, for various reasons. I hope they will continue to produce new 'Yes music'. Looking forward to their upcoming album TRUE. Jon has said he doesn't think he and Band Geeks "need" to do another album, but Jon, it isn't whether you need to, it's that Yes fans everywhere want you to.

[@215Gallagher]

Jon Anderson is Yes; I will say Chris Squire effed up his legacy by playing on Drama with those vile Buggles and then later by remaining with Steve Howe which without Jon became another band entirely. Jon's resurgence has made me realise the most important and defining element of Yes was and is Jon and if he's not singing you are listening to some other band.

[@morbidmanmusic]

his "legacy" is fine. relax

[@sallocurto1571]

This is so good. I wish Carl Palmer would do something like this. Get great musicians and play the music live accurately. His tour with video isn’t doing it for me. The Band Geeks have done Karn Evil 9.

[@alonsolopez1011]

I will suggest a new name for JA and Geeks: JA & Yes-sons! 😉

[@carriemaybrun1904]

Kills on the Wakeman solo - hard to do - not many can handle it at tempo...

[@geneloeb9203]

Anyband, try doing this today! You cant ..

[@gerardoantoniorosastrejo6774]

Suite "Close to the Edge"

[@johndellow5088]

met him long time ago, why does he use own music

[@manfredschirmer-nt4st]

The Geeks Band has a fresher Sound better as Yes Why need Jon Anderson a Steve Howe he is a timeless modern brilliant Musican

[@Jamesmatthews-nc6iw]

Great band no doubt.... Jon sounds awesome... But the tempo is too forced.... After 154 yes shows... And being personal friends with Chris.... These guys are great.... But trying too hard... Slow it down a bit and show some style and feeling!

[@Jamesmatthews-nc6iw]

And don't get me wrong... The BOG are aweosome! BUT... In my heart and my mind.... I know these songs, the feeling, the heart ... Too fast, to much trying too be Yessongs versions..... No question, they're better than the current Yes.... But stop trying so hard, put some feeling in it!

[@budgreenwood9359]

My god! Somebody in the comments said perfection! How utterly disrepectful to all that went before.

[@p-Nitti]

A band that played Yes Music better than Yes, But this one is Yes Because Yes founder and Voice Jon Anderson leads it .! The other one is Steve Howe and the Yes tribute Band