Just keep swimming, Fish.

Today the Yes organization officially announced that founding member and bassist Chris Squire will be unable to join the band's upcoming summer tour due to illness, thus former member Billy Sherwood will be filling in at Chris' personal request.  My best wishes follow with those of the Yesfans community for a stable and enduring recovery for Chris, and strength to his family during this difficult time.

Chris' message to the fans is as follows:
This will be the first time since the band formed in 1968 that YES will have performed live without me. But the other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts and the show as a whole will deliver the same YES experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.

upcoming score release

This week FilmMusicSite.com announced Trevor's score for the upcoming film Max will feature a score release from Sony Masterworks.

Sony Masterworks will release on June 23rd a soundtrack for 'Max' composed by Trevor Rabin http://t.co/u9d7EkIDHw pic.twitter.com/QL4zEI0R8V

— FilmMusicSite.com (@FilmMusicSite) May 12, 2015

Welcome to the family!

A very joyful congratulations to Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi, now expecting their first child, who will be surrounded with love and music, and to new uncles Ryan and Andrew and Daniel.

So damn excited to welcome our newest member of Grouplove this summer @LadyGrouplove #PREGNANT pic.twitter.com/J2duJHZwKT
— GROUPLOVE (@GROUPLOVE) April 15, 2015

Media Watch: article at PROG online

An ongoing series wherein I comment on Trevor's recent publicity.

Last week an article about "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was featured on the PROG website, part of their "Top of the Progs" series, containing quotes from Trevor which appear to be sourced from previous articles, but still an interesting read for those who may not be familiar with the song's history; especially in the wake of Trevor's own admission last year that Trevor Horn's credit on the song had nothing to do with actual composition or arrangement.

http://prog.teamrock.com/features/2015-04-14/top-of-the-progs-yes-owner-of-a-lonely-heart

upcoming Talk reissue on vinyl

For those avid collectors/completists/vinyl enthusiasts, boutique audiophile label Music On Vinyl will be reissuing Talk - Yes' 1994 release produced by Trevor - next month (May 18th), which will include the original unedited version of "The Calling," previously only available on the Japanese version of the CD release.  Here's a chance to complete your YesWest vinyl collection (if you have one)!

The catalog listing for the release can be found here at MOV's website:
http://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/yes/talk#.VTgD19LBwXB

spotted in "Arms of Mine"

This tweet caught my eye (it was before I had watched the finale):

confused by random "GUITAR MASTERS: TREVOR RABIN" poster in 12 monkeys tv show until i checked and he scores the show
— Atrios (@Atrios) April 11, 2015

For those of you watching the show, you saw this nod to the scoring team as well.  For those who did not, it comes about ten minutes into the episode:

Matalas confirms 12 Monkeys score album release

As some of you might have seen on Twitter last week, prior to the season finale of 12 Monkeys, series co-producer/showrunner Terry Matalas answered a fan query regarding the score:

.@gozdeuca @12MonkeysSyfy Yes it will. The soundtrack is in the works by @VareseSarabande. Music by @Rabin_News & @paullinford
— Terry Matalas (@TerryMatalas) April 6, 2015

It will be interesting to find out, across thirteen episodes of the show, what themes and motifs are selected for inclusion (besides the opening credits theme, of course).