Where are they now? - Others associated with Yes
(in alphabetical order)

This page last updated: 2 Jun 2020
 

YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Chris Squire	Steve Howe	Alan White
Geoff Downes	Trevor Horn	Tony Kaye	Peter Banks	Patrick Moraz
Bill Bruford	Rick Wakeman	Trevor Rabin	Billy Sherwood	Igor Khoroshev Oliver Wakeman
Benoît David	Asia	CIRCA:	Anderson Rabin Wakeman	Others associated with the band

On this page:  Mabel Greer's Toy Shop - Damion Anderson - Deborah Anderson - Jade (Anderson) Hawkins - Tony Anderson - Jeff Berlin - Tom Brislin - Matt Clifford - Julian Colbeck - Roger Dean - Francis Dunnery - Jonathan Elias - David Foster - Bruce Gowdy - Larry Groupé - Jimmy Haun - Aaron Horn - Iain Hornal - Dylan Howe - Zoë Street Howe - JJ Jeczalik - Eddie Jobson - Sidonie Jordan - Gary Langan - Alex Lasarenko - Tony Levin - Milton McDonald - Frank Macchia - Mark Mancina - Lou Molino - Eddie Offord - Lee Pomeroy - Steve Porcaro - Graham Preskett - Alex Proyce - Ryan Rabin - Randy Raine-Reusch - Bobby Sherwood - Jay Schellen - Michael Sherwood - Phyllis Sherwood - Pete Sinfield - Nikki Squire - Vangelis - Adam Wakeman - Benjamin Wakeman - Jemma Wakeman - Tim Weidner - Steven Wilson

News on the main page.

In a Jun 2011 interview, Jon said he was writing material with Damion: see under Jon Anderson for details.

In 2016, Jade (piano, vocals) and Eduardo del Signore (worked with Jon Anderson) performed a piece together at Pepperdine University, CA as part of del Signore's A Call 2 Peace concert.

Brislin is in Kansas and has been touring with them since 2019, beginning with the Rock Legends Cruise in Feb. In an early Feb 2019 interview, he reported having just done his first rehearsal with the band. He went on to say that "I'm an official member of Kansas, so my contributions to sound and songwriting are encouraged. We will record the next Kansas album this summer, aiming for a 2020 release." The rest of the band is Phil Ehart (drums), Rich Williams (guitar), Billy Greer (bass, vocals), David Ragsdale (violin, guitar), Ronnie Platt (vocals, keys) and Zak Rizvi (4Front; guitar). The Absence of Presence (InsideOut Music) is released 26 Jun 2020 as a limited edition CD + Blu-Ray Artbook (with 5.1 surround sound mix & Hi-Res Stereo), a Special Edition CD Digipak, a gatefold 2LP + CD (with etching on side D), and digitally. Tracks:

Brislin was one of two keyboardists on Invention of Knowledge by Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt (Transatlantic, The Flower Kings): see under Anderson for details. Brislin (keys, backing vocals) also joined Stolt (guitars, backing vocals, keys) in The Sea Within (Twitter), which includes two more performers who were on Invention of Knowledge, Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings, Steve Hackett, Karmakanic, worked with The Syn; bass) and Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation, Transatlantic, ex-The Flower Kings; vocals, guitar), plus Marco Minnemann (Levin Minnemann Rudess, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike Keneally, In Continuum, worked with Eddie Jobson, UK, Trey Gunn, Alex Lifeson, Joe Satriani; drums, percussion, guitar, backing vocals). Their debut album, also called The Sea Within (details in Yescography), was released Jun 2018. Anderson guested on 1 song. Tracks—disc 1:

In his May 2018 Yes Music Podcast interview, Brislin said he and Jon Anderson have been and are looking for further ways to work together. Likewise, in this Jul 2018 interview, he said, "Jon Anderson and I had been talking about ways to work together ever since my tours with Yes in 2001."

Dean's recent album art includes Focus's Focus 11 (released Feb 2019), Black Moth's Condemned to Hope, Steve Hackett's Broken Skies – Outspread Wings (1984-2006) (see under Steve Howe), Yes's 50 Live, and John Lodge's Live from Birmingham—The 10,000 Light Years Tour CD/DVD and tour.

Dean was exhibiting again at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex 1 Nov-8 Dec 2019. The Yes tribute band Yes Please played 8 Nov as part of the exhibition. He joined most of the Royal Affair Tour headlined by Yes in summer 2019: see under Yes.

Pierpaolo Piccioli's Jun 2019 fashion collection used prints featuring Dean landscapes (e.g., like this).

He has been working on Henk Rogers' moonbase project, with a prototype to be built in Hawaii. He continues to work on his film project, "Floating Islands"—details on main page. He also talked about making a film to show people how we could live in the future in this Feb 2018 YouTube video.

Francis Dunnery continues to record and tour as a solo artist. He appears at ProgStock, 13-5 Oct 2017 in New Jersey.

Dunnery has also been working with Dave Kerzner (Sonic Reality, working with Simon Collins, Billy Sherwood, Steve Hackett, worked with Steven Wilson, Jon Anderson, ex-Giraffe) on the Sonic Elements projects—see details on the main page.

On 3 Nov 2017, Yes announced that David Foster had died.

Foster's autobiography, "Yours is No Disgrace", was expected at some point from his webpage.

1. "Living in Someone Else's Dream", lyric video on YouTube
   
2. "All Over the World"
3. "Dirty Little Girl"
4. "Breaking the Chains"
5. "Are These Words Enough"
6. "Will We Give Up Today", video
   
7. "Beneath a Steady Rain"
8. "The Harder They will Fall"
9. "Down and Dirty"
10. "The Hard Way", YouTube stream
    

The band consists of Bruce Gowdy (guitars, bass, keys, vocals), Guy Allison (ex-World Trade, ex-Lodgic; keys, percussion, vocals), Marcie Michelle Free (ex-King Kobra; lead vocals), Jay Schellen (World Trade, working with Yes; drums) and Larry Antonio (bass, vocals). Lyrics were mostly by Allison and Betsy Summers.

In a Mar 2020 interview, Haun described multiple projects:

• a new band, with details to be announced soon—their album has been recorded;
• he has been working on a solo album for a couple of years, although he's "not yet happy with it"—he estimated it was 6 months away;
• he is also working on a father-daughter album with singer Lindsey Haun—also estimated to be 6 months away;
• he is doing the music for forthcoming film "Hanky Panky", which Lindsey co-directed and stars in.

He also said that he and Billy Sherwood had talked about re-recording some Lodgic material.

More generally, he continues to do music for adverts, TV and film as a freelancer. He stills works with Jonathan Elias.

Several years ago, Haun wrote some material with Noella Hutton that she is now recording on a new album.

Ally and dad Trevor's PA, Suzanne, have a band together called The Hornettes.

She has been managing director of SPZ.

Will said in a Feb 2017 interview that he was writing a memoir about being transgendered.

Hornal works with Jeff Lynne's ELO (see details under Lee Pomeroy, with whom he plays) and sings in the Gentle Giant spin-off band, Three Friends.

Dylan and Ross Stanley have continued in the Steve Howe Trio. Their latest album, New Frontier, is now out: see under Steve Howe for details. Dylan also plays drums on Steve's forthcoming solo album, Love Is: see under Steve Howe for details.

Due to persistent demand since announcing my retirement from concert touring, I have decided to perform a one-off concert with a full band on October 7 [2018] - headlining the last night of ProgStock 2018 [...] I shall be playing the music of ‘UK’ with a virtuoso lineup of players

an album does need to be an expression of where you are musically, sonically, socially, politically etc. at the time. 'Legacy' was started in 1995 and much of it was conceived then; unfortunately, the sonic choices I would make in 2007 are quite different from the ones I made in 1995. Furthermore, a solo album would be a different animal than a UK album - even if I did compose all of it myself. Songs were written with John in mind, not to mention possible guitar parts for Holdsworth, Fripp and others.

There is also an ownership issue with some of the recordings which will render some performances unusable.

It is clear to me that any usable compositional ideas and performances that, legally, I still have full rights to should be reviewed and probably reworked to reflect twelve years of further technical and musical growth.

Archival/online/re-releases
In the 1980s, Jobson worked on a follow-up to his 1983 The Green Album, to be called The Pink Album, but the project was never finished. To a fan after an Apr 2011 UK show, Jobson said he had plans to release the album. Further bits and bobs from Jobson's career have been released through the Zealots Lounge.

Jordan is still performing. In an interview around Jan 2018, she described her current activities:

I am currently working with a very talented artist/producer/engineer named "Cade Roberts" in Oklahoma for TV and movie sync deals. We are also producing a track together for a wonderful Americana/Alt Country artist named "Edan Archer," and I hope to do more tracks with her and keep working with Cade. I also hope to continue working with Jez Larder from Skyline Studios in the UK, who I have worked with on and off for over 15 years.

[...]

I am planning a track with my old studio mate Ric Parnell from Atomic Rooster/Spinal Tap and am working with Mark Murdock (Cymbalic Encounters and Brand X) [ex-Empire] on some retro tracks he has written.

Nov 2017 saw the release of The Complete Recordings by Empire, her 1970s band with Pete Banks: see under Banks. She also guests with The New Empire: see under Banks.

Langan continues to work with Trevor Horn on various projects, including Producers—see under Horn.

With fellow former Art of Noise members JJ Jeczalik and Anne Dudley, the trio are touring playing an Art of Noise set. Langan and Jeczalik are also doing a part DJ set/part Q&A on 28 Sep in London.

Lasarenko creative director (New York) at Elias Associates, leading the company with brothers Scott and Jonathan Elias. He continues to work doing music for films and commercials.

They were touring summer 2019, with 11 north-eastern US dates 30 Jul-10 Aug.

Since 2018, Stick Men have digitally released a large number of official bootlegs through Bandcamp, covering shows from 2011-8. These include 2018/03/29 Sala Bikini, Barcelona, Spain, which is free on Bandcamp.

The Bucket List is a 12-track album released 11 Jan 2019 from Phil Keaggy (guitars), Tony Levin (bass, Stick) and Jerry Marotta (drums, percussion), with Mike Pachelli (guitar) also appearing on the album. The album was engineered by Paul Grimsland. They played 5 US dates 28 Feb-5 Mar 2019, with Pachelli also in the touring line-up. Robert Frazza is the band's agent and sound engineer.

In the May 2020 interview, Levin also said he was "overdue on a solo album". In Apr 2020, he also released on YouTube an a capella tribute to the drummers he has worked on over the years.

King Crimson and related projects

King Crimson consists of Robert Fripp (guitar), Levin (bass, Stick, upright electric bass, backing vocals), Pat Mastelotto (KTU, ex-King Crimson, The Flower Kings; drums, percussion), Gavin Harrison (ex-Porcupine Tree; drums, percussion), Mel Collins (ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, worked with Chris Squire; saxes, flutes), Jakko Jakszyk (ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, worked with Dave Stewart, Lenny Henry; as "primary vocalist and secondary guitarist", in Fripp's words to him) and Jeremy Stacey (Steven Wilson, ex-The Syn, ex-Squackett, ex-Chris Squire, ex-Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds; drums, percussion, keys). The band focuses on touring the back catalogue with no plans for a studio album, but play some new material live. An article on the band in the Nov 2018 issue of Prog dismisses the chances of a new studio album "any time soon". Previously, in the Sep 2014 issue of Prog, Mastelotto said, "I'd love to see this line-up in the studio. [...] Can I control that? No way. But I know we'd make a great record." And Jakszyk said: "We're all of a mind where we are more than happy to continue doing this into the foreseeable future[.] As well as the older material being completely re-evaluated and reconstructed, there's some material that's been written and recorded with five of the current members post-A Scarcity of Miracles, which has yet to be played live and has never been released. I've been writing new material, as has Robert, and we've been discussing that." In an Oct 2017 interview,  Jakszyk said, "my plan from then on [end of 2017] is just to concentrate on Crimson and write more Crimson material. We've been doing that anyway; not all of it makes it to the live arena, but some of it does, and some we're still working on. There's also a lot of new stuff Robert's been writing on his own." In a May 2020 interview, Levin talked about the composing process: "It's usually Jakko that I hear from, and he says he has an idea for a song or something he's worked out with Robert. Maybe Gavin's played on it. He'd send it to me to redo the bass part as I felt it should be. In a similar way, they'd hand it to Gavin and ask him to do an arrangement for the three drummers. That might not be the only way we did it, but that's what comes to mind when you ask about that. It's been a few years since we've done that kind of writing." The band have also played a number of pieces for the drummers. Levin explained, "when Robert first asked the drummers to do some pieces, the intention was that we would gradually fly along, the rest of us [...] that they'd become band pieces. That just didn't happen. That's not a problem. It's hard to say why things don't happen. We ended up maybe tinkering with that, but maybe the thing was that they sounded so good with just the drummers — there's so much going on, and they're so interesting. But there was that thought at one point: having that be a new way of coming up with material." The band regularly release live material. There's a 2019 tour box, and forthcoming is Live in Rome, seemingly recorded 22 Jul 2018. They played European dates in 2018 and tour more in 2019, joined by Theo Travis (Soft Machine, ex-Gong, worked with Steven Wilson, Robert Fripp, David Gilmour, Richard Sinclair; keys) filling in for Bill Rieflin (ex-Ministry, ex-R.E.M., worked with Fripp, Nine Inch Nails), who had been in the band, but was absent because of illness. Rieflin eventually passed away in Mar 2020 without returning to the band.

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A North American tour with The Zappa Band was announced for 4 Jun-12 Jul 2020 with a line-up of Fripp, Collins, Levin, Mastelotto, Harrison, Jakszyk and Stacey. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this has been postponed to 2021.

The band came 6th in the Band category of Prog magazine's 2019 Readers' Poll, with Jakszyk coming 8th in the Male Vocalist category and Fripp coming 6th in the Guitarist category and 2nd in the Person of the Year category. Harrison was 1st in the Drummer category, with Mastelotto 6th. Levin himself was 9th in the Bassists.

At an Apr 2019 press do, Fripp was asked about new music. As described at Innerviews, Fripp answered, "In terms of new writing, there's about 40-45 minutes available. During our rehearsal period, what we can engage with is somewhat constrained because we're introducing Theo Travis to nearly four-hours worth of music [...] So, rather than shooting off in that direction, more focus is needed. However, both Theo and Jeremy Stacey are jazzers among other things, and those boys are going to shoot off in strange and interesting directions. So, who knows where that might lead?"

As well as touring, the band's 50th anniversary will bring "Cosmic FuKc", a documentary by Toby Amies, and another multi-disc box set. The documentary includes a live performance done just for the film and interviews with Bruford and Belew.

McDonald has been playing with Take That and Jeff Lynne's ELO: see details under Lee Pomeroy, with whom he plays.

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Molino plays with Yes featuring ARW. He has also worked regularly with Trevor Rabin.

Offord lives in South Carolina and had retired from the music business. However, he re-emerged to produce a forthcoming album, Comes in Phases, by New York City band The Midnight Moan, led by Andrew Paine Bradbury (vocals, guitar, harmonica), with Ricky Gordon (drums), Joe Sweeney (bass), Brian Baker (guitar), Steve Cuiffo (guitar) and Doug Anson (guitar). The debut single from the album, "Short Stay", was released digitally on Bandcamp.

Toto's latest line-up has been Steve Porcaro, Steve Lukather, David Paich and Joseph Williams. The band played European and North America in 2018. However, Paich has sat out later tour dates due to ill health, with Dominique "Xavier" Talpin (ex-Prince) subbing for him. The band (still without Paich) then toured Australia (6 dates, 30 Dec 2018-6 Jan 2019), New Zealand (4 dates, 9-13 Jan), and Japan (8 dates, 14-27 Feb). After that was a European leg 13 Jun-18 Jul 2019, covering the UK (1 date), Ireland (1 date), Sweden (1 date), Norway (3 dates), Poland (1 date), Hungary (1 date), Austria (2 dates), Germany (5 dates), Italy (3 dates), France (3 dates), and Switzerland (1 date). There was then a US leg, with Paich appearing at the leg opening date in Los Angeles, CA. The band are then taking a break.

In Feb 2018, Toto released 40 Trips Around the Sun, a remastered greatest hits compilation with three previously unreleased tracks: "Spanish Sea", "Alone" and "Struck by Lightning". "Spanish Sea" was an unfinished '80s track, re-visited with a new chorus written: it combines recordings from sessions for Isolation (1984) with recordings by Porcaro, Lukather, Paich and Williams in 2017. "Struck by Lightning" was based on a riff by Paich.

A limited edition 17 LP/13 CD boxset, All In, was released Nov 2018. This contained the band's catalogue remastered, namely Toto, Hydra, Turn Back, IV, Isolation, Fahrenheit, The Seventh One (with Jon Anderson on 1 track), Kingdom of Desire (2LP; with Billy Sherwood on 1 track), Tambu (2LP), Mindfields (2LP), Toto XX (2LP set), plus unreleased material. There is an EP, Live in Tokyo, from their 1980 tour and the 10-track Old is New, which includes the 3 new tracks from 40 Trips Around the Sun plus 7 previously unreleased tracks. The set also includes a Blu-ray with "Live in Paris 1990" and a 5.1 remix of IV, plus an 80-page book. There is also a CD-only version, All In - The CDs.

1. "Alone"
2. "Hold the Line"
3. "Lovers in the Night"
4. "Spanish Sea"
5. "I will Remember"
6. "English Eyes"
7. "Jake to the Bone"
8. "Lea"
9. "Rosanna"

10. "Miss Sun"
11. "Georgy Porgy"
12. "Human Nature"
13. "Holyanna"
14. "No Love"
15. "Mushanga"
16. "Stop Loving You"

17. "Girl Goodbye"
18. "Angela"
19. "Lion"
20. "Dune (Desert Theme)"
21. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
22. "Stranger in Town"
23. "Make Believe"
24. "Africa"

25. "The Road Goes On"

He continues to do soundtrack work.

Preskett writes music for TV, film and adverts, as well as doing session work.

Raine-Reusch guests on Crossover by David Cross & Peter Banks, now out: see under Banks for details.

Schellen has been touring with Yes, playing much of the show while Alan White has back problems. He appears on Topographic Drama – Live Across America and Yes Live 50.

He appeared on the eponymous release from Dukes of the Orient, a project that began as Asia Featuring John Payne: see under Asia for details.

Schellen re-united with Unruly Child for their latest album: see details under Gowdy.

Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood and Schellen finished off an incomplete Peter Banks recording for the compilation of his music, Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology. All 3 also guested on the forthcoming Crossover by David Cross & Peter Banks. See under Banks for details. Schellen also drummed on A Tribute to Keith Emerson & Greg Lake, produced by Sherwood: see on the main page for details.

Phyllis is retired.

Sinfield was working on a new solo album, entitled Thread to Heaven, co-produced by Poli Palmer. In a Jan 2008 blog, Jakko M. Jakszyk talked of writing for the album. He may also be working with the David Cross/Andrew Keeling collaboration.

Esquire released their third album, No Spare Planet (Esquire Records), in Nov 2016. The album consists of 9 tracks co-written by Nikki Squire and the late Nigel McLaren (bass, backing vocals). There is also some unreleased Esquire material from over the years which could be released. Nikki was interviewed in Notes from the Edge #232, in which she discussed some other possible forthcoming projects.

Nikki guested on a tribute album to Chris put together by Billy Sherwood: see on the main page.

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Jem is a songwriter, pianist and vocalist. She now works as a videographer and designer for Surrey web design company 1minus1.

Weidner has been working with Trevor Horn as an engineer, mixer, programmer and/or performer on a variety of projects, including Horn's soundtrack for The Reflection, Trevor Horn Reimagines the Eighties and live—see details under Horn.

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