DON'T SHOOT ME...Tony Kaye

 


     Being the last guy to leave a band before they settle into their consensus “classic” lineup is a rough lot for any musician. This was also the case with one Tony Kaye, the founding keyboardist of a little prog rock band from London called Yes.
Kaye, who turns 76 today, recorded three albums with Yes. Then he got shitcanned for being reluctant to play any more of these newfangled synthesizers. Kaye was not nearly as flashy as his eventual replacement, and Yes was all about pomp and flash as the 70s soldiered on. Kaye preferred a relatively small set-up of piano and Hammond organ, with some splashes of Moog for colour.
Kaye bounced around in the 70s, recording with a couple of prog supergroups, including Flash (co-founded by another ex-Yes member, Peter Banks) and Badger (a prog band with a strong boogie-rock streak). He'd then join Badfinger, of all bands, before returning to Yes just as they were becoming bona fide pop stars. He's still busy, playing in a ton of supergroups I've never heard of, which is par for the course for prog lifers. Still, not a bad career arc, all in all, for someone who was fired for not being prog enough.

FLASH

Flash

Sovereign,1972


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