A musical Covid warning from The Fabriani Bros. = Steve Porcaro & David Kamp

The Fabriani Bros. = Steve Porcaro & David Kamp + friends, in homage to Messrs. Fagen and Becker.
Don’t be like the Covid Kid: Stay home, stay safe, and donate to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund for musicians whose livelihood has been affected by the pandemic: https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-...
Let’s bridge this gap until we can hear our musician friends play live again!
Music by Steve Porcaro
Lyrics by David Kamp
Lead vocals by Billy Sherwood (Yes)
Guitars by Denny Dias (Steely Dan) and Marc Bonilla (Keith Emerson, Derek Smalls, Ronnie Montrose)
Drums by Shannon Forrest (Toto, The Dukes of September)
Keyboards by Steve Porcaro (Toto)
A Fabriani Bros. production
Mixed by Mike Ging
Video produced and directed by Ted Kamp
Video edited By Dan Wolfmeyer
Original illustrations by Ross MacDonald
Additional photos and video via Envato

Yes and ELO to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Photo from Yesworld.com

The Yes Union tour line-up will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2017.
This is how Yes veteran drummer Bill Bruford comments it on Facebook and on Yesworld.com:
"Yes was like my first girlfriend, to whom I was hopelessly committed. Despite a couple of wrinkles, I’m glad to hear the old girl is in fine shape".

http://yesworld.com/2016/12/yes-to-be-inducted-into-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-class-of-2017/

Also ELO - Electric Light Orchestra - will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Joan Baez and some more artists. Read all about it here:

https://www.rockhall.com/class-2017-inductions

Yes continues after death of Chris Squire

"It's certainly going to be hard without him, but he called me and asked me to keep everything going regardless of what happens," drummer Alan White tells Billboard.

Yes bassist Chris Squire dies

Chris Squire, one of the co-founders of the group Yes passed away yesterday. 

The news comes from the other band members on the band's Facebook page:

"It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder, Chris Squire. Chris peacefully passed away last night in Phoenix Arizona. We will have more information for you soon."

https://www.facebook.com/yestheband/posts/1050133808331940?fref=nf

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/founding-yes-bassist-chris-squire-dead-at-67/

In May Squire was diagnosed with leukemia.

Yes members annoyed by name theft

Ho hum.


http://www.thenational.scot/culture/prog-rock-superstars-annoyed-by-independence-campaigners-stealing-the-word-yes.1623?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social

King Crimson - most popular on Radio Dupree 2014

We have compiled a Radio Dupree chart for the entire year 2014, based on the monthly charts compiled by listeners voting on the songs they hear on Radio Dupree. This is how we did it: A #1 position got 10 points, #2 got 9 points etc. 
So here it is:

1. King Crimson
39 points
7 listings

2. David Bowie
29 points
9 listings

3. Steely Dan
26 points
5 listings

4. The Beatles
23 points
5 listings

5. Jethro Tull
23 points
4 listings

6. Pink Floyd
23 points
4 listings

7. Kate Bush
23 points
3 listings

8. Walter Becker 
21 points
4 listings

9. Yes 
21 points
3 listings

10. Jimi Hendrix
20 points
4 listings

Chart analysis: Somewhat surprising to find King Crimson on the top of the 2014 chart. We have always been playing KC but we expected to find them as #9 och 10 or so. We have considered them to be a bit left field, even for our listeners, but this indicates that we should continue to play KC.
The rest of the artists/groups in the chart are ones that we expected to be there somewhere, with a couple of exceptions: First it's Kate Bush. She has appeared on our monthly charts three times. Well deserved! We have played more music by Kate, to celebrate her tour, and we assume that Kate's successful tour increased the interest for her music.
Then there is Yes. We often use to stick a couple of Yes songs into our playlists, but have seldom seen them getting any "thumbs up", until 2014.
2013 Frank Zappa was #2. Now he didn't really make it on the top ten chart, which is sad. Should we play less music by Frank? Come on, don't give me that!
Anyway, keep pushing them "thumbs up" buttons when you hear something you like on Radio Dupree.

Siggy, staff member

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Chart compiled by listeners voting
on the songs they hear on Radio Dupree

Yes. Yes is doing it. Again.

2014. And nothing much has changed. Roger Dean is still in charge of the cover art. And Yes is ready to release another new album July 21.

Titled Heaven And Earth it is produced by Roy Thomas Baker. The label releasing the album is called Frontier Records and also has new records from Ted Nugent (ShutUp&Jam) plus Chicago (Now - Chicago XXXVI) set for a July, 2014 release.

1974 Rick Wakeman album re-recorded

Keyboardist and Yes veteran Rick Wakeman's 1974 album Journey to the Centre of the Earth will be released on 23rd June in a newly re-recorded and extended format.
It will be available as a 'Ltd Edition Box Set', a very limited edition 'Super Deluxe Collector's Edition', and also as a digi CD, gatefold vinyl, and digitally. 

And here is an interesting interview with mr Wakeman, not new but very amusing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1045969/Yes-original-Spinal-Tap-says-Rick-Wakeman-Seventies-prog-rock-supergroup.html#ixzz2mORFOQdl

Jon Anderson (Yes) forms new band with Jean-Luc Ponty

http://www.prog-sphere.com/news/jon-anderson-forms-new-band/

Original Yes guitarist dies

Peter Banks, one of the founders of the group Yes, died recently.
Banks performed on the group's first two albums. He died at the age of 65.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-guitarist-peter-banks-dead/?trackback=fbshare

A Goldmine of prog rock

Readers of this blog/listeners to Radio Dupree may be interested in knowing that the February issue of the music colletors' magazine Goldmine focus on prog rock.

Among the stuff in the issue they go through the years with Yes, the iconic prog band that’s been through the roundabout of changes in its 40 years, but has always produced strong music (including the album it’s working on in the studio now.)

There's also Flash, the 1970s British prog-rock band that was a short-lived Yes spinoff band.
The original incarnation disbanded in 1973, but founding members Ray Bennett and Colin Carter have formed a new Flash, and is back in business.

Read more here.

And as you've noticed it just happens to be that The Yes Album is our Album of the Month on Radio Dupree.

Di Leva sings Bowie and Yes on new album

Swedish spectacular space pop artist Tomas Di Leva's new cd features cover versions of some his personal favourite songs, David Bowie's Let's Dance and Owner Of A Lonely Heart by Yes being two of them.

On his blog Di Leva explains that "David Bowie's song Let's Dance is one of the most influential songs of the eighties. It was also one of the biggest challenges to take this wonderful great evergreen into a completely new setting. We wanted to bring it into a futuristic sci-fi techno landscape. Really stripping it from its past, but still keeping its original soul and spirit."

Release date for the new cd Lovestar is March 31 (Universal). Other songs on the cd are Another Day In Paradise (Phil Collins) and Miracle Of Love (Eurythmics).

Wikipedia entry on Di Leva.

Wakeman plays Henry VIII live tonight and tomorrow

For all fans of vintage Yes and Rick Wakeman this article from The Times might be just the thing.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6200354.ece

He's playing The Six Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace in England tonight and tomorrow.