Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood, it seemed, had an immediate spark. Only Yes, the band Squire co-founded in the late 1960s and one that Sherwood was associated with throughout the 1990s, just kept getting in the way.
Beginning in the run up to 1991′s Union, the pair had been writing songs together, but the fruits of those labors would be sprinkled over a series of Yes projects, and Sherwood himself wouldn’t become an official member of the group for years. After Sherwood’s eventual departure in 2000, they finally issued a pair of albums as Conspiracy, and recorded this private show in 2004, but there remained a star-crossed sense of unfinished business.
Take “The More We Live,” the only remaining remnant of a collaboration that predates Sherwood’s official tenure in Yes. The track, presented here as a twilit reminiscence, illustrates how quickly these two began to mesh. Not much became of that fast start, unfortunately, as Sherwood would get pushed out when the 1980s-era edition of Yes combined with some of its former members. “The More We Live” would appear on the resulting Union, but with additional vocals from founding Yes frontman Jon Anderson recorded over the original demo. It’s restored here, at long last, as a soaring vocal collaboration between Squire and Sherwood.
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