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How Yes Marked the End of an Era With Triple Live LP ‘Yessongs’

Yes ' status had risen considerably following the back-to-back successes of 1971's The Yes Album and Fragile . With the hit single " Roundabout " under their belt, Yes had become rock royalty and a major concert draw.

Then things suddenly got interesting in the summer of 1972 just before they released Close to the Edge , a landmark LP that seemed to encompass everything Yes had been working toward: Drummer and founding member Bill Bruford decided to leave the band .

"When it got to what turned out to be for me the high spot, which was Close to the Edge , that's the moment you exist for in a rock group," Bruford said in the BBC documentary Prog Rock Britannia . "You think, that's the cookie; that's the one right there. I'm gone, I left then."

Replaced by Alan White, who had done work with the likes of John Lennon , George Harrison , Joe Cocker  and many others, Yes regrouped and hit the road.

To document the band's live set of the era, they recorded concerts during Yes' Fragile tour in early 1972. The first half featured Bruford, the second leg included White, who had only three days to learn the band's repertoire. (The show the band performed at the Rainbow Theatre in London in December 1972 was filmed and would eventually be released two years later as the movie Yessongs .)

Listen to Yes' Live Version of 'Roundabout'

The results became the triple-album set  Yessongs . Released in the spring of 1973, Yessongs  featured a triple-gatefold sleeve with artwork by Roger Dean spread throughout. A facsimile of a tour book was also included in the package. The record featured a cross-section of material from the two tours and a broad representation of the band's catalog, including all of Close to the Edge and excerpts from keyboardist Rick Wakeman's recent solo effort  The Six Wives of Henry VIII .

The LP was another hit, going gold upon its release and eventually turning platinum over the next couple of decades. Yessongs  was the first of many live albums Yes would release during their career, but nevertheless a critically important one.

" Yessongs signifies an end of an era for us," keyboardist Rick Wakeman told Rolling Stone at the time. "For the past few years, we've been on a continuous cycle of hard work where we tour, record a new album, tour to promote it, then record another album. It can go on and on if you let it. Yes has outgrown that now.

"After this tour, we're going back to England for five months to rehearse and record the next album, which hopefully will be a double-album concept ," Wakeman added. "By the next time we tour, our shows will consist only of us. We've talked about playing a three-to-four-hour set, which will probably only give us time to perform the new album and Close to the Edge . The future is very exciting for me."

The excitement wouldn't last long. Wakeman would leave the group a little more than a year later.

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‘Progeny’: A Guide To Yes’ Seven-Show, 21LP Live Box Set

Compiling seven concerts across 21 LPs, ‘Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two’ presents Yes at the peak of their prog-rock powers.

As 1972 came to a close, English progressive-rock group Yes were the hottest ticket in town. Thanks to the breakout success of their pioneering masterpiece Close To The Edge , the band embarked on a sold-out tour of the US and Canada, during which they road-tested their new material. The mammoth box set Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two collects seven of their most incendiary concert shows from that year across 21 slabs of vinyl, remastering every second of each setlist to capture Yes at their zenith for the sake of posterity.

Listen to ‘Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two’ here .

Despite the departure of drummer Bill Bruford, newcomer Alan White more than holds his own behind the kit, meshing perfectly with the mind-boggling complexity of Steve Howe’s virtuosic guitar work and Chris Squire’s nimble bass. Similarly fleet-fingered, keyboardist Rick Wakeman truly shines throughout, while singer Jon Anderson sings with fervour and has never sounded better.

With new artwork designed by long-time Yes illustrator Roger Dean, the Progeny packaging itself is stunning: packaged in a cigarette-style flip-top box, each concert is pressed on different coloured vinyl to complement the new-found sonic clarity of the live material.

To help guide listeners through over 11 hours’ worth of music, here is our selection of the finest moments from each gig in the treasure trove that is Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two .

31 October 1972: Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario

Marking the first major appearance of Yes in Canada, the group’s 31 October show, at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens, gave the Great White North’s prog-rock fans a treat right from the opening notes of the Close To The Edge highlight Siberian Khatru. Amazingly, it was during this show that a Spinal Tap -esque mishap occurred, as Rick Wakeman’s towering collection of keyboards, organs, Minimoogs and Mellotrons inadvertently picked up a local radio signal. Ever inventive, the keyboard wizard ended up playing an impromptu solo along with the intruding broadcast.

Naturally, one of the biggest highlights of the set is Yes’ storming live rendition of Roundabout , the single which had hit No.13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 earlier that year.

Must hear: Roundabout

1 November 1972: Ottawa Civic Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

Playing to a reported audience of 7,000 fans, Yes’ Ottawa show is nothing short of wondrous, aided in no small part by Chris Squire’s deep and thundering basslines and Steve Howe’s epic soloing. Considering this is a live recording, the sound quality is crystal-clear, with Jon Anderson’s voice capturing all the magic that fans of Close To The Edge fell in love with.

The Ottawa performance of I’ve Seen All Good People, from 1971’s The Yes Album , differs considerably from the studio version, unfurling from a slow-burn amble through acoustic folk before breaking into Howe’s more familiar uptempo hyperkinetic riffing.

Must hear: I’ve Seen All Good People

11 November 1972: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, North Carolina

As Yes headed to Cameron Indoor Studio, in Durham, North Carolina, their momentum as the UK’s foremost prog-rock act continued unabated. For many of the shows captured on Progeny , singer Jon Anderson was reportedly suffering from the flu, but you’d never notice – as if sweating out his illness through sheer catharsis alone, he effortlessly belts out a slew of the best Yes songs like a trooper.

The ecstatic crowd reaction heard at the start of this night’s epic take on Close To The Edge ’s title track was a frequent occurrence on Yes’ 1972 tour, prompted by a dazzling light display hitting a mirror disc to prepare the audience for the band’s jaw-dropping feats of showmanship.

Must hear: Close To The Edge

12 November 1972: Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Performing in Greensboro just one day after their Durham show, Yes showed no signs of fatigue. Like Roman gladiators attempting to prize the teeth out of a vicious lion, the Yes bandmates play like their lives depend on it, leaving zero chance of getting a thumbs-down from any would-be emperor inside the Coliseum.

During this show, Rick Wakeman’s crowd-pleasingly jazzy piano solo on Yours Is No Disgrace leads into a rollicking 16-minute reinterpretation of the song, full of Steve Howe’s lashing guitar riffs and showcasing new drummer Alan White’s insatiable bloodlust behind the kit.

Must hear: Yours Is No Disgrace

14 November 1972: University Of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

With all the transcendental tones Yes summon during their show at the University Of Georgia, it’s easy to see why Close To The Edge remains such a classic prog-rock album. From Chris Squire’s rubbery bass to Rick Wakeman’s free-flowing keyboards, Yes were clearly in a league of their own, exploring undiscovered nuances in each song every time they picked up their instruments.

The symphonic rock opus And You And I is a truly rousing moment in this night’s set, with little more than a pin-drop being heard from the crowd during Jon Anderson’s soaring early verses before Steve Howe’s cloud-grasping guitar solo summons the divine.

Must hear: And You And I

15 November 1972: Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee

Picking up where they left off the night before, Yes continue to discover new facets to their sound during their stop at Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite the setlists for each show being identical, this is a band totally unafraid of improvising around their source material, making each rendition of a song sound revelatory.

Kicking off at breakneck speed, Heart Of The Sunrise, from the group’s Fragile album , is the sound of prog-rock at its most essential. An 11-minute sonic journey that shifts tempos on a whim, this live performance moves seamlessly from Chris Squire’s hypnotic bass groove to Steve Howe’s rapid-fire riffage before blindsiding the audience with Rick Wakeman’s organ and piano solos.

Must hear: Heart Of The Sunrise

20 November 1972: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Closing the 21LP box set Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two , Yes’ performance at Nassau Coliseum, in New York state, sees each musician flaunt their prog-rock prowess. Chris Squire’s locomotive bass work on his famous Rickenbacker keeps things on track, while Steve Howe’s axle-grinding guitar-playing sends the group careening into the unknown.

As with most of the other shows on their 1972 tour, Yes walk on stage to an excerpt from Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite , setting the scene for an incendiary performance of Siberian Khatru. Clearly, 1972 was a vintage year for prog-rock and, like a fine wine, Progeny is proof that Yes are a band to savour.

Must hear: Opening (Excerpt From ‘Firebird Suite’)/Siberian Khatru

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YES Reveal ‘Close the Edge’ 50th Anniversary Tour

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YES have revealed the dates and details for the U.S. leg of their  “The Album Series Tour 2022,” celebrating the 50th anniversary of their 1972 iconic album,  Close to the Edge. This marks the band’s first trek in the U.S. since 2019 and will kick off with two shows in  Glenside, PA  at the  Keswick Theatre  on  Friday, October 7  and  Saturday, October 8  and wrap in  New York  at the  NYCB Theatre  on  November 19.  Tickets will begin to go on sale on  Friday, September 2 ; check local listings for information. See the full tour dates below.

As with “The Album Series Tour 2022,” which started off in the UK this past June, the U.S. tour is dedicated to the late  Alan White —the band’s legendary drummer—following his passing this past May (see the band quotes below about  Alan ).Before the tour gets underway, a special tribute concert— “Alan White–Celebrating His Life and Music” —will be held  October 2, 7:00pm  at the  Paramount Theatre  in  Seattle : 

Alan White  joined  YES  in June 1972, just days before their  “Close To The Edge”  Tour began. Over the following 50 years,  Alan  would appear on every  YES  album including 2021’s The Quest. Following the global pandemic, he had been looking forward to this tour and re-joining his bandmates on stage, something he lived for, in the run up to his 50th anniversary of joining  YES.

Sadly, that was not be, but  Alan ’s towering presence will be omnipresent on the tour. Alan’s good friend, drummer  Jay Schellen , will join  YES  for the forthcoming tour, alongside  Steve Howe  (guitars & backing vocals),  Geoff Downes  (keyboards),  Jon Davison  (lead vocals) and  Billy Sherwood  (bass guitar and backing vocals).

The  “Close to the Edge”  show will comprise full production and a high-definition video wall directed by  Andy Clark  and featuring the artwork of Roger Dean.

YES 2022 U.S. Tour Dates Are :

10/7 – Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA

10/8 – Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA

10/9 – State Theatre – New Brunswick, NJ

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An Evening with Yes: 1972 Set Captures the Band in Fine Form

• by Jeff Wilson
• Apr 24, 2023

The new Yes release that came out on Record Store Day presents an entire concert the British progressive rock band performed on November 15, 1972. A 3-LP set, Live at Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee captures a period of transition for Yes. Right after the band spent months squeezing in recording sessions during the Fragile tour in order to record Close to the Edge , it was time to go on tour again. However, there was one major complication: Bill Bruford, who had been the drummer for the group since the first album ( CTTE was the fifth), decided to join forces with King Crimson.

Replacing Bruford presented an interesting challenge for the new drummer, Alan White, who passed away on May 26, 2022. White had to learn, at warp speed, songs that were extremely complex. Knoxville presents a show from early in the tour, and the band is in fine form. Bruford was a brilliant drummer, but White’s heavier sound and more aggressive attack seemed to fit the larger venues the band was starting to play during this tour. Already an aggressive bass player, Chris Squire became that much more animated, and the band as a whole rocked considerably harder than before while retaining their epic sweep.

Almost everything on Knoxville stems from The Yes Album , Fragile , and Close to the Edge . With their extreme use of dynamics, songs like “Heart of the Sunrise,” “I’ve Seen All Good People,” “Roundabout,” “And You And I,” and “Yours Is No Disgrace” begged to be played live, and what you hear on these tracks (and also heard on Yessongs , which was mostly recorded later in the tour) is the kind of live energy that’s can’t be captured in a studio. A definite highlight is “And You and I.” On the CTTE version, Howe mostly sticks to acoustic guitar (plus some steel guitar when things get epic), but the ringing sound of his electric guitar has its own appeal here. (Howe’s solo acoustic performances of “Clap” and “Mood for a Day” are also a treat.) The dramatic use of dynamics in “Heart of the Sunrise” also packs a punch live—and overall, the music from this period of Yes was a master class in dynamics.

My favorite performance here is “Yours Is No Disgrace,” which is longer than the Yessongs version. For Yes, there are points during this performance when the players actually sound a bit loose , if you can imagine that, with Rick Wakeman sneaking in some honky-tonk riffs on acoustic piano while Steve Howe throws in a few twangs on electric guitar. Eventually, though, the noodling gives way to some big, bombastic guitar chords from Steve Howe while Alan White pounds the skins aggressively. Suddenly the band is rocking in an unconventional way, once making it clear that these progsters were fully prepared to take on the arenas.

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Yes Refuses To Reunite With Singer Jon Anderson. He’s OK With That

By Andy Greene

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Jon Anderson started Yes in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire, and the prog rock band was at the center of his life for the next four decades through numerous permutations. But when illness forced him off the road after the group’s 2004 tour, Yes decided to hire a replacement vocalist and carry on without him. Anderson has been healthy and active for well over a decade, but the band — which now features Seventies guitarist Steve Howe, Drama -era keyboardist Geoff Downes, and hired guns — refuses to take him back.

That hasn’t stopped Anderson from bringing Yes music to concert stages all over the road. In 2016, he went out with fellow Yes alums Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin as ARW (later renamed Yes Featuring ARW), and last year he celebrated the 50th anniversary of Close to the Edge by playing the album straight through on tour with teenage musicians from the Paul Green Rock Academy .

We phoned up Anderson at his Central California home to talk about the Band Geeks tour, the deaths of Squire and drummer Alan White, his estrangement from Howe, his dim hopes for a Yes reunion, and his five-year plan for releasing new music.

How did you discover the Band Geeks? My good friend works at Sirius Radio. He got in touch and said, “I’m going to send you a video of this band.” I said, “Go for it.” They were performing “Heart of the Sunrise.” I went, “Wow. These guys are so damn good!” Not only are they good, they sound just like the record. Quite amazing.

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After a month or so, I decided to call up the bass player, Richie [Castellano], and have a chat with him. We had a very nice conversation. I said, “Would you be interested in going out and performing the Yes epics and classics?” I thought that covered everything. He was very excited. That’s how we started.

I’m sure he was stunned to hear from you. Yeah. That was the great thing. You can sense an energy from somebody over the phone. I was thinking about playing “Close to the Edge,” “Awaken,” “Gates of Delirium,” and things like that. He was overjoyed. It was probably a couple months later that we got in touch again. Working with his agent, I said, “Let’s go out and have fun for three weeks, do about a dozen shows, and see how it feels.” That’s the whole concept. I want to see how it feels to perform those songs from 50 years ago.

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Have you worked out any songs that will surprise fans other than “Mind Drive?” Well, I did write a song for Yes about 20 years ago that we never recorded, “Counties and Countries.” I sent it to Richie and he did a beautiful rendition of it. He’s an excellent producer in addition to being a bass player. It sounded really good. When we do a rehearsal, we’ll decide whether or not we want to throw that new song in.

You’re just booked in 12 East Coast venues so far. If the tour goes well, will you do more shows? Yeah. The idea was, “Let’s give it a whirl. Let’s see how the fans react to it and how we do.” From then on it’ll be, “Let’s go to Europe. Let’s tour the world.”

Your last tour was with the Paul Green Rock Academy. Those were obviously very young musicians without a ton of experience. This is almost the opposite. Yeah. I’m going out with the teenagers in Europe this summer. They’re brilliant to work with because they are very grateful to do a show like that. The same goes for the Band Geeks. I feel very grateful that they actually play so good. They seem to be thankful about doing this show.

I’m at a place in my career where I’m feeling like I’m in a very creative mode all the time. I’m finishing four projects for the coming five years. You’re going to have a lot of music coming out over the next five years.

What were you going through medically after the 2004 tour that prevented you from touring for a while? It was just asthma. I had asthmatic attacks. I went through a really tough time. My wife saved my life, actually. You recover from that and can’t think about doing what you used to do, so you just need to take it easy for a few months. I was in a hospital for a couple of months. I got better and better. Then I put together a solo show with a guitar.

Yes didn’t tour for four years. I’m sure the guys got frustrated at having to wait. I didn’t ask them to do anything. They just decided they wanted to get on the road. As you know, they hired a Canadian singer , a really nice guy. People just need to get on with life, no matter what.

How did you feel about them bringing someone else on? In some ways, I thought, “Forget it. I’m just going to go on the road myself and tell stories and play small clubs.” In a way, it was a breakthrough for me. I was emotionally still able to enjoy performing the songs that I wrote for the band. You have to let go of things and just get on with life.

I spoke to the first guy that replaced you a couple of months ago. He said that singing your vocal parts was really hard for him. It ultimately just blew out his voice. Those are tough sings to sing every night. Yep. [Laughs.] Well, I’m an alto tenor. Some of the recordings in the late Seventies and Eighties, I sing as though I’m in helium.

He pointed to the climax of “Heart of the Sunrise” where you go “Sharp…Distance!” It just killed him trying to recreate what you did there. It’s true. It’s not easy up there. But I’m doing it now. It seems to be going pretty good.

I woke up from the dream and told my wife. I said, “I just saw Chris. He was heading towards the light of Heaven.” She said, “He loved you.” I said, “Yeah. We were brothers.” It was an incredible moment.

A couple of months later, I was doing a show in Phoenix. I met Chris’ widow, Scotland, and I told her the story. She said to me, “He kept saying before he passed away that he wanted to go to Maui.” There you go.

But you didn’t actually speak with him before he died? Didn’t need to. He had his life to live, and I had my life. I actually had a great dream about Alan White last night. It was a lovely dream. He was with all the guys in the band … Not just one or two, but everybody who has been in the band. They were up there doing some gig or something. The next minute, he was right next to me. We hugged since he was the best man at my wedding about 25 years ago.

You got a chance to play with Alan and Steve at the Hall of Fame in 2017. What was that experience like for you? It was great, but I was hyperventilating a lot. I just loved the idea of getting up onstage and performing a couple of songs. When you’re just doing a couple of songs, that’s one thing. When you’re hanging around and getting ready to go up, you’ve got your fingers crossed it’s going sound OK. When we got up onstage to say “thank you,” I was totally out of control. I just kept saying, “Everyone is so beautiful!” Then Rick, perfect, gets up and starts telling dirty jokes. That was perfect for me. It made me relax.

I could see you enjoying Rick’s speech, which I really think is one of the best Hall of Fame speeches ever, if not the very best, and Steve not really enjoying it so much. Oh yeah. Exactly. [Laughs.]

Did you guys make any new music? We did some recordings at Trevor [Rabin]’s place. It just didn’t work out. Things are like that sometimes.

Are you still on good terms with Trevor and Rick? Sure. I sang happy birthday to Trevor last week.

Might you tour with Rick as a duo again some day? That was fun. That was so damn funny. You never know in life. You never really know. As I mentioned earlier, I have so many things I’m working on, especially the last couple years, just things coming together that I want to get clarified and produced, just get out there and perform and finish some recordings. I’m actually working a musical that I wrote 40 years ago.

What’s that? I met this guy called Marc Chagall on his 90th birthday. He was a painter, very, very famous guy. I didn’t know how famous he was when I met him. I met him at his birthday party down in the south of France. Bill Wyman brought me. He was such a sweet guy. Then I discovered the incredible art of this man, and the stained glass he’d created around the world. He was so well-known around the art world, so I decided to write a musical about him.

He said to me, “Jon, if you’re going to write a musical, it’ll take a long time.” I thought, “I’ll get it done next year.” Of course, 40 years later, we’re in the brink of getting it produced. It’s about his life.

What’s the status of it? We actually did a short performance of the project in San Francisco just a month ago. We’re testing the idea of it visually, musically. It was an abbreviated version, but it’s given us a lot of impetus to get on with it and possibly get it into production this year or next year. After waiting 40 years, it doesn’t matter.

You’re playing Yes music on tour with new musicians. Steve is playing Yes music on tour with new people. Can’t one argue that what you’re doing is just as authentically Yes as what he’s doing? Yeah. I’ve never seen his show though, so I can’t tell you. [Laughs.]

I spoke to Steve a couple years ago. He said that any reunion was “completely unthinkable.” [Big laugh.]

Why do you think he’s being so absolutist? I’m a pessimist… I’m a pessimistic optimist. You never know in this life. And that was just him at that moment in time. I sang with him on my last album, 1,000 Hands. At the very end, I had worked on a piece of music [“Now and Again”] I started with Chris and Alan about 28 years earlier. I sent it to Steve and said, “Would you play some lovely guitar at the end?” And he did. All I could think of when I heard was to sing with it, and I did.

And every night he goes onstage with a singer that sounds just like you. How do you feel about that? There’s a phrase for that: Imitation is the most sincere most form of flattery. [Laughs.]

To me and so many fans, the two of you are the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of prog rock. You should be onstage together. Well, it’s not going to happen as far as I know. I’ve mentioned a couple of times over the years that I’m very open to giving it a whirl. In these days, though, you never know what’s going to happen.

They play about 50 shows a year. They even did nearly 90 a few years back. Do you think that would be too much traveling for you at this point in your life? I don’t think so. I feel very healthy and happy. Me and my wife love touring. We’re going to be on the road this summer with the Academy of Rock all over Europe. Now we’re doing this wonderful experience with the Band Geeks. I just love their name. It’s so cool.

Are you working on a second chapter of your solo album 1,000 Hands? Yes. We’re working on it. I reckon that it’s going to be ready next year. I’ve been writing some songs. I even wrote an album in Chinese. Singing in Chinese is not easy.

You’re so positive and optimistic. A lot of people would be really bitter and angry if the band they started and fronted for decades was carrying on without them. I come from the North of England. I had my first band in 1963. That’s when the Beatles came out. I saw them before they were famous. I just keep going because life is a wonderful experience, if you want.

Do you see yourself touring and playing Yes songs in your eighties? Oh yeah. Of course.

Retirement is never a thought? Never. There’s no point.

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Crazy it’s been 50 years. I performed it with the Academy of Rock last year. We’re going to do it again this year in Europe. And doing it with teenagers is just unbelievable, the feeling.

I’ll let you go, but I’m optimistic that you and Steve are going to find a way to patch things up at some point and play together again. It just makes too much sense. You never know. You really never know, honestly.

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Deep Purple announces 2024 tour with Yes. Get tickets today

In 1972, Deep Purple released the iconic “Smoke On The Water.”

Now, 52 years (!) later, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will celebrate their mega hit on their ‘1 More Time Tour’ with fellow Rock Hall inductees Yes all summer long.

Along the way, Ian Gillan and co. are scheduled to make five New York and New Jersey stops.

First, the heavy hitmakers drop into Camden, NJ’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on Friday, Aug. 30.

After that, the London natives swoop into Holmdel, NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center on Aug. 31, Wantagh, NY’s Jones Beach Theater on Sept. 1 and Saratoga Springs, NY’s Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Sept. 4.

Deep Purple closes their NY run at Bethel’s Bethel Woods Center For The Arts on Sept. 6.

For fans that can’t wait to rock out to “Hush,” “Highway Star,” “Space Truckin'” — and of course “Smoke On The Water” — tickets for all North American concerts can be picked up as soon as today.

Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, April 12, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.

Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.

A complete calendar including all North American tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.

The band closed the North American leg of their 2023 tour in Orlando on Feb. 21.

According to Set List FM , here’s what Deep Purple performed — including guitar, keyboard and bass solos — that evening:

01.) “Highway Star”

02.) “Pictures of Home”

03.) “No Need to Shout”

04.) “Nothing at All”

05.) “Guitar Solo”

06.) “Uncommon Man”

07.) “Lazy”

08.) “When a Blind Man Cries”

09.) “Anya”

10.) “Keyboard Solo”

11.) “Perfect Strangers”

12.) “Space Truckin'”

13.) “Smoke on the Water”

14.) “Hush” (Joe South cover)

15.) “Bass Solo”

16.) “Black Night”

Being together for 56 years doesn’t mean Deep Purple doesn’t have more to give to the world.

In 2022, the band reached deep into their archives and dug out “ Extras: The Infinite B Sides and Bonus Songs”  which is a must for any Purple superfan.

However, what we found most interesting was the band’s latest record of original music, 2021’s bluesy, New Orleans-y  “Turning To Crime.”

Featuring epic rock (“7 and 7 Is”) as well as lively party startin’ tunes (“Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”) and covers from B.B. King (“Let the Good Times Roll”) and Cream (“White Room”), the album is certainly a departure from the hard rockers’ heavy fare they’re famous for.

Still, for our money, the best track on the record is the Southern-fried rock and roll number “Oh Well.”

We’ve been listening to it on repeat all day.

You can hear the jubilant  “Turning To Crime” album in its entirety here .

After over 50 years together — they formed in 1968 — the core of Deep Purple remains the same.

Should you attend a show, here’s who you’ll likely see take the stage:

Ian Gillan lead vocals, harmonica, percussion (1969–1973, 1984–1989, 1992–present)

Roger Glover bass, keyboards, occasional backing vocals (1969–1973, 1984–present)

Ian Paice drums (1968–1976, 1984–present)

Don Airey keyboards (2002–present)

Simon McBride guitars, backing vocals (2022–present)

This tour is a twofer.

Joining Deep Purple on the road are fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Yes.

The long-running prog band is known for their hits like “Owner of A Lonely Heart,” “Roundabout,” “I’ve Seen All Good People” and many, many more.

If you want to dive into their deep catalog, you can find all of Yes’ music here .

It’s hard to believe the ’60s were over 50 years ago now.

Still, many acts that defined the sound of the groundbreaking musical era are still kicking it and on the road this year.

Here are just five of our favorite acts that have been rocking out since Nixon was in office that you can see live in the next few months.

•  Rolling Stones

•  Robert Plant with Allison Krauss

•  Bob Dylan with Willie Nelson

•  Ringo Starr

•  Graham Nash

Need even more classic rock in your life? We’ve got you covered. Check out our list of the  52 biggest classic rockers on tour in 2024 here to find out.

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