Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakefield plays Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida on October 11, 2017. Credit: Caesar Carbajal

Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakefield plays Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida on October 11, 2017. Credit: Caesar Carbajal

Yes — the lineup featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman to be exact — circled back to Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall a year after kicking off a world tour in the very same room.

In his review, CL contributor Gabe Echazabal described part of the set like this:

Diehards were thrown a massive bone with the awesome, extended treatment 1977’s “Awaken” (from the Going For The One album) was given. The twenty-minute rendition spiraled and sailed and flawlessly ran the gamut from balladry to ethereal pop to rock and roll and — and it took the whole audience along with it for the twisting, turning ride.

Closing with the its biggest ever hit single, the dance/new wave classic “Owner Of a Lonely Heart,” the band seemed overjoyed and elated as it bashed out a crunchy, infectious version of the song and managed to throw in a verse from Cream’s blues rock classic “Sunshine Of Your Love” along the way.

Read the rest of Gabe's review (and see more of Caesar's photos) here. Listen to a playlist with songs from the set below. Download it via Spotify.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...