Vol. 6, No. 12 - December 1999

Yes Square Pendant/Pin

Eddie Lee wrote:
"Hi Teressa & Doug, How's everything? I have several friends wanted to purchase your Yes square logo pin and pendant, can I refer them to you? Is the price still the same as earlier this year?"

Teressa & Doug respond:
"We're offering these to friends at $25.00 ea. If we need to ship, we're adding $3.00 per order to cover shipping costs. We're casting these pins in silver and merlin's gold. Merlin's gold is great, it shines and looks like gold but costs the same as silver. Just let us know if your interested and we'll make the number of pieces you want at our next casting."

Eddie wrote:
"Those of you who's interested in getting a Yes square pendant or pin, please contact Teressa & Doug at maya@ptmc.net:

Hello Eddie,
We're doing fine. Thanks for asking. We've just returned from Philadelphia, saw YES at the Tower Theater, the shows were fabulous. Also seeing many people we had met at Yestival (in Camden) was special.

We still have the square Yes logos: four (4) sterling silver pins, one (1) merlin's gold pin, and two (2) merlin's gold pendants. The prices are still the same. If anyone is interested, feel free to refer them our way.

Just to let you know, we will be casting some new creations by February. We're carving a new version of the Olias symbol (more modern version) and also a peace symbol based on the new Olias. Each one will be a little larger than the current Olias we have on the emporium website. We'll let you know when these come together if you're interested.

Thanks for writing, we're pleased to hear from you!

All the best,
Teressa & Doug

Yes is Artist of the Month on Retro Rewind

Retro Rewind: An Internet radio site specializing 70's, 80's and 90's music, Interviews and more.

They have a few pics, a contest for an autograph cd, and an interview in text form with Alan and Chris.

A Message from Yes

With some help from our friends at Ticketmaster.com, we're able to bring you news from our tour..... and what a tour it was!

Thanks to each and every one of you who came out to see us, we had a great time. We really enjoyed performing the new material from "The Ladder" and hope that you all enjoyed hearing it as much as we did playing it.

Now we are off to Europe to continue the tour over there, but before we go we wanted to leave you all with a little something. Checkout out the really cool video stream of our Las Vegas show. http://maildispatch.ticketmaster.com/go/991217y/YES/

Hope you enjoy it, see you all again real soon....

Jon, Chris, Alan, Steve, Billy & Igor
YES

Also available, courtesy of Ticketmaster.com, YES's CD "The Ladder". Click here to learn how to receive two * exclusive * live YES downloads with the purchase of "The Ladder". http://maildispatch.ticketmaster.com/go/991217y/YES2/

Are you ready for this?

This is the article - from the Telegraph (UK) as written by Frances Welch, under the heading Me and My God.

My apologies for the delay - I've been away from home until now. My only comment on the writing of the article is, Jon is still (IMO) singer with a supergroup - they are just not as super as they used to be!

Jon Anderson, singer in the Seventies supergroup Yes, is a strong believer. He believes in fairies, singing flowers, angels, reincarnation and much else besides. He speaks to me before going onstage for a concert in Venezuela. "There really is a kingdom of light beings," he croons, his voice strikingly high-pitched. "I once met a beautiful 80-year-old lady. She took me to a beautiful part of Hawaii, in the rainforest. At six in the morning we would walk around the forest and hear these beautiful songs. The fairies are light beings in an interdimensional kingdom. You have to slow your physical self down in order to visualise them."

Anderson claims that he has heard flowers sing. "Flowers have three energies: colour, beautiful perfume and a beautiful sound -you can't hear it like a radio but there is a sound emitted from flowers," He believes his experience in the rock world has helped him develop what he calls his God-self. "You meet a lot of different kinds of people who are asking questions about life. People who have success are bound to ask: 'Why me?'

He is a lifelong believer in God, but thinks of himself as spiritual rather than religious. This year he was invited to sing a prayer at an annual convention of all religions in Chicago attended by 5,000 people. "I got up and said:'I feet good because I can embrace all religions. I believe all rivers go to the same ocean.'"

Anderson seems to have enjoyed a dizzying profusion of spiritual experiences with almost as many different ladies. Aside from the Hawaiian lady and another little lady he met 12 years ago, they include his mother, his wife and Audrey, who is on the Internet. "The lady I met 12 years ago died at the same time as my mother. Audrey took over the mantle of my spiritual representative."

He has discussed his own reincarnation with one of the ladies on the phone."! went to China about eight years ago and I realised I'd been there before. Three months later I spoke to this lady and she told me: 'I think you used to travel on a bike in China.' I said 'Yes, I've just been there.' She said: 'It's something to do with medicine.' I said: 'Yes, I think my mother was a medicine maker. I used to go from village to village with her medicines.'"

Anderson says his predominant memory of religion in his childhood is one of fear. His parents were Roman Catholics, though he was brought up Anglican. As a child he attended Sunday school and church. Though he gave up attending church years ago, he regrets the demise of established religion. "Two hundred years ago the tallest buildings in every city were the churches and cathedrals; now it's banks and insurance companies."

"Have you had any experiences of the paranormal?" I ask, feeling rather like the man who asked for ice on the Titanic.

"Are you ready for this'?" he replies. "I was on tour in '77 singing this song, Soon I'll See the Light Within, in Las Vegas. Afterwards I saw this little girl, about five years old. She tapped me on the shoulder. She said: 'Are you ready, Jon?' I knew by the tone of her voice that she was all angel, I said 'Yeah' and she ran off. Then another guy appeared on my left. He said: 'Would you rather win a million dollars or meet God?' I said: 'I'd like to meet God.'

"He came back to my room and chanted. He was looking at the wall and it disappeared. Then I could see two or three beings far away in space. I realised they were interdimensional beings, I burst into tears. The angel said: 'Well done, Jon.'"

Before leaving, the angel apparently told Anderson to read the works of William Blake, "I asked him his name but I couldn't hear it, I heard later that you can never hear the name of an angel, "But you can hear the name of your higher self. You have to ask quietly. On January 1 this year my wife told me to ask the name of my higher self."

"And what was the name?"

"A little voice popped into my head; 'Terence, Jon'"

"Sorry?"

"The name of my higher self is Terence."

yessng@aol.com | Moonrise Mountain | Yes News | Traveling | Marillion