Chris Squire diagnosed with Leukemia

[visog]

Sad news. Means he'll miss the Summer tour in the US. And it will be the first time he's missed a tour with Yes (ABWH excepted).

Here's hoping he gets well...

[Telebass]

Hear hear!

[KevB]

That's a real shame, fingers crossed it's diagnosed early enough so they can do something about it.

[silverfoxnik]

+1

[Number6]

Terrible disease.....i hope they can treat it successfully.

[Bilbo]

Jeff Berlin depped last time. I wonder if he will get the gig again?

I am free, otherwise.

[jacko]

Tony Levin was the bassist on most of the ABWH (not YES!) tour and berlin depped for him while he had a cold (unfortunately the same time as they videod the show).
Billy Sherwood is replacing Chris.

[visog]

Of the three replacements and one rumoured in previous years:
Tony Levin - brilliant, played his 'funk fingers' for most all the Squire parts, worked well with Bruford
Billy Sherwood - ok sideman on guitar for Yes tour few years ago, not sure about bass
Jeff Berlin - Great player, wrong for Yes - disdain for the music, no sense of rock tone or Chris' phrasing
Jon Camp - Lined up for ABWH but Jeff Berlin got it. Addresses both JB's defects above...

[Marc S]

Hope they've got it early enough
and hope he's OK.....

A terrible disease !

[Sonic_Groove]

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1432130396' post='2778432']
Of the three replacements and one rumoured in previous years:
Tony Levin - brilliant, played his 'funk fingers' for most all the Squire parts, worked well with Bruford
Billy Sherwood - ok sideman on guitar for Yes tour few years ago, not sure about bass
Jeff Berlin - Great player, wrong for Yes - disdain for the music, no sense of rock tone or Chris' phrasing
Jon Camp - Lined up for ABWH but Jeff Berlin got it. Addresses both JB's defects above...
[/quote]

But there is only ONE Chris Squire!!!

Wishing Chris all the best & sending love & strength for the fight ahead

Brendan

[spectoremg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uzNi1AEos0
The man at work.

[wishface]

They don't make them like this anymore.

This hasn't been a good year for bass players, let's hope fishy ain't on that list

[timmo]

I was quite amazed to hear that this will be the first gig Squire will have missed since they formed in 1968. Hopefully he well recover

[Russ]

In further bad news for prog fans, John Wetton has just had a cancerous growth removed too.

http://johnwetton.com/