As the 1980s came to a close, the famed progressive rock group Yes had achieved major commercial and critical success over the course of several albums, but their lineup became splintered over time. A chance meeting between current Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin, and original vocalist Jon Anderson, who had recently formed a new supergroup with several other previous Yes members. (ABWH) The two brainstormed demos off of each other, and expressed an interest in collaborating. This discussion would
...
Más informaciones
make its way back to Yes' management, who turned the small collaboration between Anderson and Rabin into a merging of Yes' current lineup and ABWH.
The album was appropriately titled Union, saw release in 1991, and featured a massive 8-member lineup of Yes that was inevitably too stacked and front-loaded to not turn into a mess behind the scenes. The record itself meanwhile was mostly dismissed by critics, who considered the album bloated and uninteresting, while the band members themselves largely reject Union to this day, referring to it more as a failed project than a proper Yes record.
On this episode of Jukebox Zeroes, Lilz & Patrick meet up with Austin Scholl, the musician behind the post-punk outfit ThornBrain, and a YouTube streamer under the StrawHatNO channel. Join them as they give a listen to Union and decide for themselves whether the album was a failed project or not.
Local Music Feature: "Bird Ghosts" by Smell
