kenobi_65:
That may well be. Anderson’s Wikipedia page shows him recording and performing regularly over the past few years, but those tours seem to be a fairly limited number of dates, and are likely shorter / less intensive than recent Yes tours. Plus, there are several notes in there about delayed / cancelled dates due to Anderson’s health.
I read a Steve Howe interview not long ago talking about how intensive Yes’s schedule is, which is why he’s no longer in Asia. Geoff Downes is still in both bands, but he’s a bit younger than Howe or Anderson. I can’t remember if it was that interview or not, but someone from Yes was talking about replacing singers (about replacing Benoit David) that, at their age, they didn’t have time to wait 6 months or a year for someone to recover from illness.
There are “ghost bands” of big bands from the 1930s that tour today. I looked up the Glenn Miller Orchestra and they are playing a lot of dates. I have no idea about when was the last original member…Miller died in 1944.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is a band formed after the loss of Glenn Miller, named in memory of him and the original Glenn Miller Orchestra.
After the disappearance of Glenn Miller in 1944, the band was reconstituted under the direction of Tex Beneke, its lead tenor saxophonist, singer, and one of Miller's longtime close friends. A few years later, the Miller estate, having parted ways with Beneke over creative differences, hired Ray McKinley, principal drummer and later leader of the Major Glenn...
Maybe slightly. I live there as well.
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MrAtoz:
There do, in fact, appear to be laws on the books in some states requiring a group to have at least one original member in order to advertise themselves as that band, as opposed to a tribute band. The general term for them is “Truth in Music” laws. Jon Bauman (you know, “Bowzer” from Sha Na Na) has been very involved in lobbying for such laws.
Here is a page touting their success in getting these laws passed in 33 states, which are listed.
Some caveats. This page does not appear to have been updated for some time. There is reference to a Federal version of the law, “to be introduced” in 2009. To the best of my knowledge, that Federal did not pass, if it was in fact ever introduced. Who knows if more states have passed similar laws, if the state laws already passed have been repealed or expired, and how diligently the laws were enforced.
The most amusing part of that page, in retrospect, is the bit at the top which celebrates Governor Blagojevich signing the Illinois bill into law.
Those laws are obviously not enforced.
I think Annabella Lwin was the Wow. Without her, the bad was just…Bow.
