Title: Nothing New - A Limp Effort
Product review: One would have hoped that a late-90s bio on England's best Progressive Rock band would have picked up where Dan Hedges' excellent YES (1979) left off. But Chris dropped the ball big-time.Most of the book deals with 70s Yes - in fact some of it reads like Hedges' book. But once we get into the 90125-era the author resorts solely to interviews for his material. The story drops any pretense at narrative and becomes a transcript of his interview tapes.And the period from 90125 to the present is merely glossed over; there is no depth in his writing. The reader comes away with the impression that this period is unimportant to the author, and maybe even to the band itself. Maybe that's why live Yes consists in large part of music from three 70s albums and rarely of music post-90125.Overall a lukewarm offering.Whatever happened to the book BEYOND AND BEFORE that was promised in the Yes boxed set of 1991?
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