Music, we were told, is from the Pleiades system. It’s a force that filters down from the heavens and into the souls of artists such as Jon Anderson, the ousted frontman of Yes, who is spreading the love on his own these days.
Call him flaky if you must — classic rock’s most resolute hippie — but it’s not like anyone else has a better theory. Maybe he is right, and music really is the pulse of a galaxy in which everything, including and especially human hearts, is connected. And perhaps it is just his unshakable belief in cosmic harmony that makes this jocular, deeply spiritual man sing as sweetly as he does. For more than 40 years, he has assured fans of the revealing science of God in a high, pure voice. He has called the tune and mystics of all sorts have followed.
It was the temporary frailty of that voice that got Anderson pitched out of Yes, a group he fronted off and on (but mostly on) since the late 1960s. Respiratory failure after an asthma attack sidelined him in 2008; shortly afterward, bassist Chris Squire, the mordant yin to his cheery yang since the formation of the band, insisted he wasn’t up to the rigors of touring anymore. Anderson was replaced by a singer from a tribute band, and Yes rolled on without its most identifiable member.
But there was the voice on Sunday night, a bit ragged from time to time but still otherworldly, beckoning from the Narnian side of the wardrobe. Sprightly in sneakers at 69, Anderson held the stage at the Victoria Theater at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for nearly two hours, delighting the crowd with stripped-down interpretations of Yes favorites, covers, rarities and amusing stories.
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