Trevor Rabin

The first 10 years of a band, I think, are mostly their best stuff anyway.

I'm a huge Yes fan, especially with the Trevor Rabin era Yes.

And the fact that Chris Squire was dead before they were put in really made me think.

Chris Squire was the only... member of that band to pretty much play in every album until you know he died unfortunately but um yeah i got a lot of problems with the rock and roll hall of fame myself and i'm a huge sticks fan so sticks not even being mentioned either really grinds my gears it really does

Yeah.

I mean, I was even thinking of, we'll go on to it later, but, you know, kind of with Yes and Owner of a Lonely Heart with, you know, Trevor Rabin and all the rest of it, like Yes with another prog rock band.

But they knew as well, you need to have the hits.

Going back, of course, I've tripped up here because we had a big hit with Joybringer.

Yeah.

Because my mate Robbie McIntosh was on that record as well.

And Trevor Rabin producing, which is, you know, a great producer.

Produced for you.

So g- Chris Squire died, and the singer who sang on every single song that Yes released, he's not touring with them.

He, for a time, toured with, uh, Wakeman and, uh, Trevor Rabin in the Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he believed in the band and helped us hook up with an unknown producer, engineer, Paul DeVilliers.

He grew up with Trevor Rabin.

So a very musical guy.

And that's the guy that co-produced and engineered the Broken Wings, Curie, all the material on that record.

Let's talk about the music.

And no, I don't mean the heavy-handed, overly dramatic score by Harry Gregson Williams and Trevor Rabin.

I'm talking about a hypothetical, theoretical, metaphorical, potentially possible mixtape inspired by Enemy of the State.

Let's make one right after this quick break.

I mean, this guy, if there's a guy who knows a formula to appeal to the masses, it is Jerry B, without a doubt.

Let's talk about Jerry Bruckheimer and the Bruckheimer machine that was just cranking in the late 90s, early 2000s because Yeah, that's how our composer for today, new to the pod, I believe, Trevor Rabin, came to be.

So his kind of chain of events is that he started off as a rock guitarist for a band called Yes.

They actually had a couple hit singles, and he was looking, though, to offer guitar lessons as a side hustle in L.A., and ended up giving Steven Seagal some guitar lessons he offered to help him then connect him within the industry.

And I think his choice of guitars and sounds were really excellent throughout the night.

The only thing to say about that, though, is that like Trevor Rabin, he didn't play the steel guitar.

So he played, what's that thing called that you put over your finger and slide it? The slide.

Just the slide, yeah.

And, you know, with the Hendrix style of cleanup where you've got distortion and you just do it with your volume, that to me works for a lot of situations, but it takes a second to do it and then it's not really...

It's not the same sparkle as like Trevor Rabin gets in Honorable Lonely Heart.

So I've got a Boss line selector, and that allows me to make two signal loops.

One I have going through, well, first of all, the amp is clean.