“He’s been with us a couple of years and he’s a creative person in his own right: a tunesmith and lyricist-musician. “It was important to do an album with Jon,” Squire declares. That was especially the case now they have new frontman Jon Davison on board a frontman with songwriting chops. Still, it was important for Yes to maintain their credentials as the last prog band out there refusing to rest on their back catalogue, never mind worries such as commercial potential and sales figures in these tough economic times for the long-playing record. “So we were definitely a bit more cautious this time.” “I won’t say from which area, but there was some dissent about whether we should make an album at all because nobody makes any money out of them any more, and with the last one, Fly From Here, it ended up costing us,” he reveals. “That’s nice of him,” Squire says, before admitting that Heaven & Earth almost didn’t happen at all. Producer Baker has described it as a tour of Yes styles – the best of Yes, as it were. “There are a couple of longer, more complex tracks, and there are a few that are relatively simple and song-y. “This album’s got a bit of both,” he points out. On a broader level, does he agree that it’s hard to satisfy all Yes fans, with their various appetites for multipartite song suites and more concise material? “It’s something to do with digital noises,” he sort of explains. The problem, as he sees it, is that they are listening to an “un-de-popped” version of the album. “People all over the world are responding to it,” he says. The bassist happily acknowledges the early online reactions to Heaven & Earth, even though they have been somewhat mixed.
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