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In this excerpt from today's Drum Talk TV News Desk Report presented by Steven Shinder and Shylee Graf, we remember Christina Burbano-Jeffrey, who passed away earlier this week. She was a talented musician, music instructor, and wonderful person loved by many. If you knew her, feel to share any memories of her.

On this Yesshift News Desk Edition, Steven talks about the new Pete Roth Trio single "Group Chat," the new Downes Braide Association single "Hello Hello," Rick Wakeman's Return to the Red Planet and other updates, and more. Plus, Steven recounts the Yes concert he saw at Humphrey's by the Bay in San Diego on this day ten years ago!

Dan and Steven review The Roaring Waves, the new album by Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery! The Steves, both huge prog artists in their own right, have had this in the works for quite a while, and it releases August 28th! You can order it here: https://stevehackettsteverothery.lnk.to/TheRoaringWaves-AlbumID

Dan and Steven interview Charles Snider, author of The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock! Hear them chat about prog rock, and check out Snider's site here: https://strawberrybricks.com/

Steven presents another Yesshift News Desk Edition, bringing attention to the upcoming Magnification reissue, Asia's "Echo of You" single, the start of filming for the Alan White documentary, and more.

Tune in to a Yesshift interview with Angus Clark! He is a guitarist, songwriter, and producer who has worked with Kitaro, Cher, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Anna Phoebe of Jethro Tull,Jill Janus of Huntress, and more! He will be playing guitar on the European leg of Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks' tour! Check out the dates over at https://richiecastellano.com/jonyesepic/And check out https://angusclarkgtr.com/

Dan and Steven share overall thoughts on Charles Snider's book The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock! We were going to have Charles on the show and are looking into rescheduling with him if possible. Check out his book and visit his website https://strawberrybricks.com/

Thursday, August 6th, Jay Schellen joined us for an interview/fan Q&A session! The public interview session is here and up on socials. But the rest of the session, the fan Q&A portion, is exclusive for Premium members of www.DrumTalkTVBrilliance.com Hear Jay talk with Dan about Yes and his book Rocking Independence, and then hear Jay talk with fans about World Trade, The Big Peace, Badfinger, and "Blink of an Eye," and more!

Steven reminds people of how they can join the online Jay Schellen Fan Q&A by registering at http://www.DrumTalkTVBrilliance.com for a Gig Pass or Premium membership. He also goes through a bunch of news including Rick Wakeman's Return to the Red Planet, Angus Clark joining Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks, Downes Braide Association's new single "Wonderlands" from their upcoming album Trauma, Pete-Roth Trio's "Full Circle" from their upcoming release Group Chat, and some catch up on other prog-related events including the BBC Proms performances and the John Lodge tribute concerts.

Join us for an EXCLUSIVE Fan Q&A Session with Jay Schellen of YES at http://www.drumtalktvbrilliance.com ! This is Aug. 6, 12PM PDT/3PM EDT US, 8PM UK! The first 15 - 20 minutes will be live on Facebook and YouTube, and the remainder of the Q&A session will be exclusively for our members in the Drum Talk TV Brilliance Membership Site. Here's how you can attend, even if you are not a member:Not a member? Get a gig pass just for this event at https://hub-o9w278v3xy.membership.io/register for only $7 so you can be put on screen with Jay to ask your question and hang with him throughout his answer!If you want our entire Drum Talk TV Brilliance Experience, a virtual playground for all types of music fans, get a Premium Membership for only $12 a mo. Or $120 a year (that’s 2 free months) at https://hub-o9w278v3xy.membership.io/register and come meet Jay and ask a question, or hang out and be an innocent bystander! Here’s what you get with Premium:🎸Exclusive Fan Q&A Sessions with big artists, producers and record execs, + the archives.YOU ask the questions in these sessions.Recently we have had:Nicko McBrainCindy Blackman SantanaPeter ErskineRikki RockettRoger EarlTerri Lyn CarringtonRudy Sarzo (Yes, not just drummers!)And so many more, with more on the way !🏰And our soon to be released ARCADE complete with 1,000s of music themed brain teaser games, such as, Word Search, Anagrams, Matching Artists with song and album games and more on the way—all releasing this month♬Exclusive Private Live Stream Concerts and all the archives.🥁Over 100 Fun-Fact Segments of artists saying what they like to do outside their musical career!♬100 Viral Videos of our first 10 years! The highest had over 32M views 3 years ago!🎸The Brilliance Showcase for drummers and musicians to post videos playing to their favorite music without it getting muted or pulled!♬Music-Themed Game Shows where and winners for prizes!🎉AND SO MUCH MORE NEW EXPERIENCES FOR ALL MUSIC FANS FOR THE REST OF 2026!

On this episode, Steven Sullivan joins us to talk about Yes - Live at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ (6/17/76)! (Or however you want to title it. Haha!) Yes fans may know Steven Sullivan for his Yes Gigs site, as well as his ongoing involvement over at Forgotten Yesterdays. He was also at this particular Roosevelt Stadium gig! He will share memories as well as his knowledge regarding the various shared recordings of this concert and what he figures that says about what makes up this new live album release of the concert. Sit back and get ready to be educated on some more Yes history!

Miguel Falcão (miguelbass) returns for another Yesshift chat! This time, we look back at the newly released Play for Chris 12, which you can check out here: https://youtu.be/PVlGt9OnyRk We will talk about the submissions, and perhaps speculate about what else people could showcase in the future.

Ron Onesti, president/CEO of Onesti Entertainment, joins us for an interview! He'll be talking about the 100th anniversary of the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois, Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks (and Yes!) having performed there and at the Des Plaines Theatre, and other memories related to Yes music!

It's our 5-year anniversary show! The theme is: Ask us anything! Could be about our lives outside the podcast, music topics we may or may not have covered, even trivia that can stump us! We’ll read and share answers when we go live Monday, July 13th, 6pm PDT! Maybe even see if you can stump us with Yes trivia!

Steven shares some of the recent news that has come out, much of it related to new upcoming albums! We've touched on Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks' Giving is Living, which is expected next year, and it seems that year could also be when we see an acoustic album by Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman! Rick mentioned this on his podcast while answering why an ARW album never happened. Today, we have also gotten the official announcement of a new Asia album titled Indigo (due on Steven's birthday), and we recently got news of an upcoming Downes-Braide Association album titled Trauma. Plus, some thoughts on a supposed upcoming backstage documentary titled Close to the Edge of Reason and more.

Scott Schorr, producer of 2011's Levin Torn White album by the trio featuring Tony Levin, David Torn, and Alan White, joins us for an interview about that project, his career, and his friendship with Alan! You can check out the album here: https://levintornwhite.bandcamp.com/album/levin-torn-whiteSee more of the Lazy Bones catalog here: https://lazybonesrecordings.bandcamp.com/And see Scott's website here: https://www.scott-schorr.com/

Dan and Steven do another Take It or Leave It episode! This time, they go track by track saying what they prefer between the 2011 album Fly from Here and 2018's Fly from Here - Return Trip!

Steven does another Yesshift News Desk Edition, talking about few passings, the Alan White documentary getting an update, details that have come out about the next Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks album, a new Pete Roth Trio release, and more.

Billy Sherwood joins us for another interview, talking about the new Yes album Aurora and more! You can order the album here: https://yes-band.lnk.to/AuroraID We also talk about his other projects, past, present and upcoming, and get his take on people using AI to create music and songs. Does it have a place?

Dan and Steven share their thoughts on the new Yes album Aurora, and read comments from fans about it as well! They talk about the songs, the overall sound, the band member contributions, and the packaging! You can order Aurora here: https://yes-band.lnk.to/AuroraID And be sure to catch our interview with Billy Sherwood Saturday, June 20th, 5am PDT / 8am EDT / 1pm UK Time!

Dan and Steven talk about the historic JFK Stadium show Yes did on June 12, 1976! This was a request from Brian Harris, who attended the show and appears here via a recording he sent us of himself recounting the experience! Were you t this concert? Did you see this tour?

Join us as we do another Take It or Leave It episode, this time comparing the tracklists of From a Page (remastered) and Fly from Here (2011), the album that could've come out in 2011 and the album that did come out in 2011. We will each share what we prefer between the different versions of tracks that are on both, and we will also state our preferences in track match-ups as we list them side by side. It's a bit trickier this time, but here are the match-ups:“To the Moment” vs “Overture” & “We Can Fly”“The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be (Alternate)” & “From the Turn of the Card” vs “Sad Night at the Airfield”“Into the Storm (Alternate)” vs “Madman at the Screens”“Aliens” vs “Bumpy Ride” & “We Can Fly Reprise”“Hour of Need (Alternate)” vs “The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be”“Words on a Page” vs “Life on a Film Set” & “Hour of Need”“The Gift of Love” vs “Solitaire” & “Into the Storm”

Here's something to tide you over: Derek Ferguson joins Dan Shinder for another Drum Talk TV interview! Derek is the drummer, songwriter, and lyricist of Refestramus, a progressive hard rock band which has a new album out titled Morri’s Rock Boutique. Check out the album here: https://refestramus.bandcamp.com/album/morri-s-rock-boutique Guests on the album include David Jackson (Van der Graaf Generator), Joe Deninzon (Kansas/Stratospheerius), and Rick Witowski (Crack the Sky)!

An archival Yes release has been announced: LIVE AT ROOSEVELT STADIUM, JERSEY CITY, 17 JUNE 1976. Coming out July 17, 2026, you can pre-order it here: https://yes.lnk.to/NJ76 Plus, tidbits from Geoff Downes and Tom Brislin interviews, additions to 2027's Cruise to the Edge lineup, and more.

Dan and Steven share their thoughts on the new Yes single "Turnaround Situation," from the upcoming Yes album Aurora! You can pre-order the album here: https://yes-band.lnk.to/AuroraID The conversation also leads to big picture questions about Yes that are interesting to think about.

In the lead-up to the new Yes album Aurora, Dan and Steven go through the tracklists of the two preceding Yes albums, The Quest and Mirror to the Sky, and play a game of Take It or Leave It, going through track match-ups and saying which track from which album they each prefer. And perhaps this will show which album they prefer overall, even if they do enjoy both of them. It'll all make sense when you see the conversation play out! The match-ups will be the following:“The Ice Bridge” vs “Cut from the Stars”“Dare to Know” vs “All Connected”“Minus the Man” vs “Luminosity”“Leave Well Alone” vs “Living Out Their Dream”“The Western Edge,” “Future Memories,” and “Music to My Ears” vs “Mirror to the Sky”“A Living Island” vs “Circles of Time”“Sister Sleeping Soul” vs “Unknown Place”“Mystery Tour” vs “One Second Is Enough”“Damaged World” vs “Magic Potion”

Steven presents another Yesshift News Desk Edition. Amidst the news is highlights regarding birthday boys Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman, with the former having posts about Peter Roth Trio and an Earthworks Dig album visualizer, and the latter having just announced The Wizard of Prog tour and autobiography. There are also Yes Fragile tour leg updates, and some catching up of other bits that have come out over the last several weeks! Plus, submissions are open for Miguelbass' Play for Chris 12 over at http://miguelbass.com/playforchris12

Dan and Steven talk about Yes' Union album! Released April 30, 1991, this album featured members of Yes West and ABWH, along with a bunch of session musicians, and was followed by a tour featuring an eight-member Yes lineup. Hear us share what we and others think about the album!

Steven reviews his vinyl copy of the expanded and remastered edition of Yes album From a Page. He recently talked with Oliver Wakeman about the process of putting this together, and now we get to hear the results. There are also sure to be comparisons to the Fly from Here versions of certain tracks that appear here. You can get the album here: ⁠https://mercury-studios.lnk.to/eYQTpbMB⁠

Steven is back home from a vacation, and there is now quite a bit of news to catch up on! Today, we have gotten confirmation of the rescheduled Yes Fragile UK Tour, now happening May 2027. More info at https://yesworld.com/ In the meantime, Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks have started their 2026 touring and even debuted a new song. (Setlist details saved for the end of the episode.) Steven was also able to catch Yes tribute band Awaken's stream of their 9012Live Revisited concert last week and has a recap to provide. Plus, some tidbits from the Q&A Roger Dean did on Facebook Live yesterday!

Oliver Wakeman returned for another Yesshift interview! The conversation began with a bit of a recap of the recent Wakeman & Son Tour, before moving into the From a Page tour, the expanded and remastered edition of From a Page (which you can pre-order here: https://mercury-studios.lnk.to/eYQTpbMB ) and details of how it all came together, and then a bit of solo works talk including the recently re-released Mother's Ruin album!

Dan and Steven talk about the album details that have come out regarding the new Yes album Aurora. The title track even made its debut online, accompanied by its own animated music video. Hear our thoughts on all of these! You can pre-order Aurora here: https://yes-band.lnk.to/Aurora

Joe Luca, keyboardist of Yes tribute band Awaken, joins Steven Shinder for a Yesshift interview! Last time Joe was on the show, he talked about how Awaken would be performing the 90125 tour setlist. We'll be talking about how that all went, and the full concert footage will premiere on the Awaken page Friday, April 17th, 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT. Check out the event here, 9012LIVE Revisited: The 40th Anniversary Celebration: https://www.facebook.com/events/4442332079421971/

For Steve Howe's 79th birthday, Dan and Steven have a general and somewhat chronological discussion about Steve Howe's career! What are some of the highlights, in your opinion?

News came out today that Yes' Fragile Tour of the UK and EU has been postponed due to Steve Howe needing an operation and recovery time. Steven goes over this news and also shares thoughts on the 1986 Asia EP Aurora (40 years old today), Kansas touring with Deep Purple and Jefferson Starship, and more. Today is also Dan's birthday, so he's getting some rest but will be back with Steven for a Steve Howe-themed Yesshift episode Wednesdsay, April 8th, 6pm PDT.

Dan and Steven are joined by the Gottlieb Bros. for a joint announcement! What could it be? Check this out and find out! And here's a link to a band mentioned in the episode, Angine de Poitrine: https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so And check out http://gottliebbros.com

Steven goes over news items of the last couple weeks, including three more European dates for Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks, Trevor Horn tour dates in December, the Wakeman & Son setlist (at the very end of this episode) and more. Plus, he reviews two new releases: Asia - Live in England, and Oliver Wakeman's album Mother's Ruin 20th Anniversary Edition. And at the very end, he goes through the Wakeman & Son setlist.

Phil Castellano joins us live for a Yesshift interview Wednesday, March 25th, 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT / 7pm UK Time on FB and YT! He is one of the keyboardists for Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks, having been on tour with them since about a year ago. Hear us talk with him about his music journey, the band, Yes music, and recreational habits! Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks are getting ready to tour again on the US East Coast in April and May, then the West Coast from June to July, and (for the first time) in the UK and Europe from September to October! Check out the tour dates here: https://richiecastellano.com/jonyesepic/

In this pre-recorded episode, Steven talks about his vinyl copy of The Yes Album for the 55th anniversary of the US release of The Yes Album.

In honor of Adam Wakeman's birthday, Steven talks about his vinyl copy of the latest Jazz Sabbath release, Jazz Sabbath Live. Check out www.jazzsabbath.net and jazzsabbath.bandcamp.com Plus, he takes a moment to remember Keith Emerson on the 10th anniversary of his passing.

This Yesshift News Edition goes live after having just gotten exciting news! One of the news items is the announcement of an expanded and remastered edition of Yes' From a Page, which you can pre-order here: https://mercury-studios.lnk.to/eYQTpbMB There have also been more tour dates added for Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks: a second US leg for this year going westward, and four additional UK dates! There has also just now been an announcement of two upcoming tribute shows honoring John Lodge in July, with Jon Davison involved. Plus, Cruise to the Edge has finished, and we may know of some of the guests who will be on the Cruise next year.

Dan and Steven talk about the 1996 San Luis Obispo shows, which commenced on Chris Squire's birthday and featured the classic lineup of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, and Alan White performing live for the first time since 1979. We'll read comments from anyone who remembers this period!

On this Yesshift News Desk Edition, Steven catches people up on February news they may or may not have missed, including Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks touring the UK and Europe, recent Yes member interviews, scanned footage from the 1976 Yes San Diego show, and more! Plus, Steven finally provides his thoughts on the Tales from Topographic Oceans Super Deluxe Edition! Over the course of a couple weeks, Steven's general listening order was the rarities, then live tracks, then single edits/rarities, then more live tracks, then the different mixes, then the Blu-ray, then the LP.

Dan and Steven discuss The Yes Album on the 55th anniversary of its release! The third Yes album overall, this was the first to feature Steve Howe as the guitarist, and also the end of their three-album run with Tony Kaye as the keyboardist, long before his eventual return. Where does this album rank for you? We'll be reading some fan comments as well!

Steven talks about the rereleased Yes - Symphonic Live set, which comes in vinyl and CD/Blu-ray formats! Photo slideshow included! Order it at https://linktr.ee/YESSymphonicLive

Leon Alvarado joins Dan and Steven for an interview about his upcoming album, The Wicked Forest, coming out February 27th! Leon plays drums and keyboards on the album, which also features Yes' Billy Sherwood on bass and Jon Davison on vocals, as well as the late great Johnny Bruhns on guitar. Head over to http://leonalvarado.bandcamp.com and keep an eye out for this release.

On this Steven's Vinyl Adventures episode, Steven talks about Asia in Asia, the 1983-recorded live album, in honor of the current Asia lineup paying tribute to that setlist on their Japanese tour! But first, some Record Store Day announcements involving Yes, Jon Anderson, and Bill Bruford. And perhaps a sprinkling of Rick Wakeman news, because, why not? Tune in!

Steven recaps his experience seeing Spock's Beard perform at Alvas Showroom, San Pedro February 2, 2026! He got their album The Archaeoptimist on red vinyl from the merch stand there, so he has given the album another listen and talks about that as well! Purchase the album here: https://spocksbeardmadfish.lnk.to/The_Archaeoptimist And check out the band's upcoming tour dates here: ⁠https://www.spocksbeard.com/tour/

On this episode, Steven talks about his vinyl copy of Asia's second album, Alpha, released in 1983. He also talks about the video of John Wetton's final concert (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSny30oIVJk) and the video of Asia's single "Only Time Will Tell" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWtf1du8uSc) from the upcoming Live in England release. There's also a donation link for the Love Hope Strength Charity and details here about how you can have your name featured in the booklet of the upcoming Asia studio album: https://www.facebook.com/asiatheband/posts/pfbid08SSAVJxn51zFxwJ2NuRumWAqFTgBXyQT9Lsi3KVghHMDyWPhxjqnUnk6fgKcnvj2l

Steven presents another Yesshift News Desk Edition, reminding everyone that January 31st is the deadline for fan submissions for the book Yesstuff 4 over at http://gottliebbros.com There's also a surprise David Cross & Peter Banks album release titled The Other Horizon. And, of course, some Oliver Wakeman updates, and more!