Jon Anderson Sets 2025 Tour with the Band Geeks to Support Live Album of Classic YES
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Jon Anderson has announced the first leg of his 2025 tour with the Band Geeks. The run is in support of their upcoming live album of YES classics recorded during their 2023 tour as well as their acclaimed debut studio collaboration, True, that arrived in 2024. The 18-show tour begins April 1 and continues until May 18. Pre-sales begin as early as January 9. Tickets for the general public will go on sale shortly thereafter here. Live – Perpetual Change arrives on March 14, 2025, via Frontiers Music SRL, in a variety of formats including CD, vinyl and Blu-ray. They’re available for pre-order in the U.S. here. It will be available in the U.K. here.
The band recorded and filmed the entire concert album at the Aracada Theater in St. Charles, Illinois on their August 2023 summer tour. The set features such YES favorites as “Yours Is No Disgrace,” Close To The Edge,” “Starship Trooper,” “Heart Of The Sunrise” and “Roundabout,” among others. On the day of the new release’s December 12 announcement, the band premiered a video of “And You And I.”
Anderson, who turned 80 on October 25, 2024, is one of the most recognizable voices in music as the lead vocalist behind YES. In 2022, he said, “I never left YES in my heart and soul…ever!! Too many amazingly powerful memories. And of course the music never left me. So here I am, still wanting to sing the songs again, and bring my true feelings to the lyrics.”
Of presenting these favorites again, Anderson says, “I’ve been wanting to have that feeling again…of performing the songs I lived for, and the music I helped to create and design, with the sound of the band of old around me once more. The first time I heard the Band Geeks I truly freaked out; they sound just like the classic YES of the seventies, the YES that I know and love.”
Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks Live Perpetual Change Track Listing
Yours Is No Disgrace
Perpetual Change
Close To The Edge
Heart Of The Sunrise
Starship Trooper
Awaken
And You And I
Your Move/ I’ve Seen All Good People
Gates Of Delirium
Roundabout
Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks 2025 Tour (Tickets will be available here)
Apr 01-Tucson AZ –The Rialto Theater
Apr 03-Anaheim CA-The Grove of Anaheim
Apr 05-Las Vegas NV-The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Apr 08-Oakland CA-Fox Theater
Apr 11-Sacramento CA-SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center
Apr 14-Seattle WA-Moore Theater
Apr 19-Rockford IL-Coronado Pac
Apr 23-Milwaukee WI-Pabst Theater
Apr 25-Des Plaines IL-Des Plaines Theater
Apr 27-St. Charles IL-The Arcada Theater
Apr 30-North Tonawanda NY-Riviera Theater
May 02-Cleveland OH-The Agora
May 04-Lancaster PA-American Music Theater
May 07-Wilmington DE-The Grand Opera House
May 10-Ridgefield CT –The Ridgefield Playhouse
May 12-Ridgefield CT-The Ridgefield Playhouse
May 16-Westbury NY-Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair
May 18-Carteret NJ- Carteret Performing Arts Center
2 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationAs a fan of the “True” album and of Yes in general, I (and many others) see no point in releasing a live album of Yes covers, especially since their M.O. is to reproduce the classic studio tracks perfectly. A live album of new material, or of songs from “True”, would be of more interest.
Like it was yesterday, I still fondly remember the YES concert back in 1979 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I believe that all the original members were there. We (my spouse) had great seats, and with a small pair of binoculars we were able to get up close.