YES Tickets

Great intimate venue! Too bad the set list lacked much luster. Growing up with the early music and enjoying the work from the 80’s I was disappointed not to hear anything from 90125 and much of the rest sounded like B side tracks I had not heard before. The crowd enthusiasm reflected the same till Roundabout and Starship were played at the end, then the crowd came to their feet. The frontman did a fine job on vocals.

I left the concert actually feeling that I will die slightly easier having enjoyed a soul-stirring rendition of “Turn of the Century” live. Steve Howe was flawless.

Horrible. Paid good money and drove an hour and a half to see a PowerPoint presentation of a band members artwork for 45 minutes and then they only played one of their most popular songs. Very disappointing! Wasn't worth the time or money. People were booing.

I have seen Yes many times with different lineups. This lineup is very good but the sound honestly left a lot to be desired. The vocals were muddy and it was hard to hear the individual instruments. Performance was good but both Roundabout and Starship Troopers had points where they're on the verge of falling apart. They left out all of Close To The Edge which IMO is their strongest release. At the very least they could have played Siberian Kertru.

Solid show! It was more of a Steve Howe show. Nothing from the Trevor Rabin Yes years which was somewhat expected but we’re my personal favorites with Fragile my all time favorite from the older work.

Top Yes musicians playing outstanding Yes music... 13 songs was slightly thin, would love to hear 20 or 22 total songs over two hours with a few more all-time super favorites from Fragile, Close to the Edge, 90125 such as Yours is No Disgrace, Closer to the Heart, Love Will Find a Way, etc. But will definitely go again...

Yes is ever-changing, yet remains classic at the same time. One of the few Progressive Rock bands to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Yes is still going strong after well over 50 years and a myriad of personnel changes (27?). Steve Howe plays with as much fervor as he did when he took over guitar duties in 1970. His passion for the music shows when he shakes a disapproving head if fans whistle or whoop during delicate passages of songs. My gen-X daughter was floored by his talent when I took her to the 50th anniversary show. Geoff Downes, a keyboard master in his 2nd tenure in Yes, is just as famous for founding the band Asia with Steve. Chris Squire picked Billy Sherwood to succeed him before he passed and plays with strong dedication to the classics and has written many of the newer songs. Jay Schellen plays great, taking over the drum riser from his friend, the late Alan White. Jon Davison, formerly of Glass Hammer, is a strong singer-songwriter and front man. This year the set list was full of fun surprising choices of material that had been shelved for awhile, plus one of their new songs from the album "Mirror to the Sky". This kept it interesting for a fan on his 24th show since 1975. If I were required to list a quibble with the set; it was that bits and bobs of the 80-minute "Tales from Topographic Oceans"were cobbled into a jarring 20-minute medley. I think most long-time fans would have preferred just one of the least-often pieces of the four 20-minute pieces be played in its entirety instead. Yes can be counted on for amazing complicated music performed by top-tier musicians and a well-produced show.

I took my dad to the concert and I was surprised, it was an excellent time and great experience

I was super excited to try out the new Magnolia. Especially since El Cajon needs to step up it's game in the entertainment venues. The meal at Por Favor was great, the ambience of Main street was bumpin. It felt great. The show itself was a little underwhelming. Maybe because YES was just finishing up it's tour. Seemed a little tired. Not a lot of genuine energy coming from the band. Perhaps it was the sound. Vocal's were not that crisp. And the sound could have been a little more intense during the rock riffs. That's about it. I'll go back to the Magnolia, but I'm good with YES.

The sound system seemed adequate for the show. I was at the bar upstairs and then in row 2. I can live with the over $200 ticket price for an obscure band that mostly is just remembered by old hippies. But $15 for a can of soda is ridiculous. 🤬

We had a great time at The Magnolia where every seat is has a great view. Having the. Album Cover Artist there was a fun addition. Would have liked it to start earlier. I wanted to hear more of their older music but overall it was a great date night.

I almost didn't go into the theater for the show, embarrassed as I was that the line of geriatrics waiting outside the venue forced me to confront my own advanced state of decrepitude. But I endeavored to persevere and filed in to find my $200+ seat. I was alone; my wife, always too cool for school, hates the band. Immediately I sat down, an old broad sitting near me struck up an entertaining conversation, being something of a hippie holdout. Okay... I have been to see Yes many times and try to go whenever they come around. I am a particular fan of Steve Howe, and looking like the Crypt-Keeper, as he does now, who knows how long he can keep it up. In recent years there were two versions of the band touring. This one, with Steve Howe and the new young singer has the name Yes and has done shows featuring a number of the band's veteran musicians, including Alan White, Bill Bruford, and others. It was more like the "Yes Review"than a self-contained band, and though they faithfully reproduced the recorded canon of classic Yes, there was something in the timing of the rhythm section that was just off. I got the feeling that they were following the guitar, and Steve's timing was not as solid as it once was. At the same time, there was another incarnation of Yes with Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, and Trevor Rabin performing Yes songs. This group did not try to just sound like the records. They reworked the music for the instrumentation they had, and they were a very tight band. It felt much more alive to me. A great surprise at this week's show was the presence of Roger Dean, whose art and album covers are so closely identified with Yes music. He gave a very interesting talk before the show with slides and explanations of the evolution of his work. There was no other opening act. When the band came on, it was just the five of them, no special guests, and with a new young drummer taking the place of the late Alan White, the band was much more solid. I always liked Alan White, but I think the new guy made a big difference. They felt much more like a real band, and they rocked pretty hard. Steve's playing felt much more solid, timing-wise and it was hard not to get into it, despite former reservations. To be sure, there were some very fine-looking age-appropriate women in attendance, so I was not reduced to surreptitiously leering at the daughters of my contemporaries, of which there were very few anyway. But these more mature Dianas gave great comfort in their enjoyment of the music... inspirational, one might say. So, all in all, a lot more fun than I expected, waiting on the sidewalk. Glad I went in.

Easy to access my tickets, Scan and enter the venue. Great show!

The current lineup doesn’t have any original members (yes, Steve Howe is not an original member), but this is a lineup comprised of virtuoso musicians performing at the top of their game led by the amazing Steve Howe. Just seeing rock god Howe tearing it up is worth the price of admission and he hasn’t lost a step. Jon Davison is a wonderful lead singer and keyboardist Geoffrey Downes is incredible. Bassist Billy Sherwood is fantastic as well. They played a wonderful cross section of tunes from many of Yes’s eras but I was very pleasantly surprised by some selections from Drama and Magnification. It was a great show. I just wish the Wiltern would turn in the heat. It was freezing in there! :)

I somewhat enjoyed the "opening act"- hearing from the artist behind their album art, but I was the ONLY one of the six in our group that did. The rest were annoyed. Also, WHY ON EARTH did they skip all of their music from the 1980s? Throw your audience a bone and play your #1 hit, for crying out loud. And to top it off, Steve Howe was constantly pointing out people in the audience to security for taking video. Hey, Steve, you should be HAPPY anyone still wants to have video of you playing.

I love YES! They were my crossover prog band from high school to college. When I got to college in 1973, I would listen to "The Yes Album"(1971), "Fragile"(1971), and "Close to the Edge"(1972) on 8-track, while driving the PCH in Malibu with the top down in a 1972 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce convertible. I could almost mimic the lyrics of every song on all three albums. When I attended the Yes concert at the Wiltern, 30 October 2023, I occupied a middle seat three rows back from the stage. Great concert! Problem, though. I could only hear the articulation of 2% of the lyrics sung. For the most part, the lyrics were blurred, two dimensional and indistinguishable. I believe, due to the sound system, that close to the stage. Years ago, I went to a David Bowie "Reality"concert, 7 February 2004, there, at the Wiltern, and sat in the middle isle section, several rows out from the wall, up in the balcony. Remarkably, the sound quality was amazing! I could hear the silent space between every syllable, between every word. It was a three dimensional marvel! The clarity was magnificent! I could even distinguish the words belted out by Macy Gray — someone I was only familiar with from "Training Day"(2001) and Spider-Man (2002) — who opened for David Bowie, that best of concerts I've ever been to. 🌷 Hare Kṛṣṇa 🌷

Yes was amazing and the sound quality even better! Highly recomend live natio. Wiltern.

The October 30 Yes show at The Wiltern shows the veteran group still has the great chops to wow audiences. Jon Anderson & Steve Howe, the lone surviving original members, haven't lost a step: Jon can still hit all the beautiful melodies he's crafted, and Howe is still one of the finest guitarists around. After opening with "Going for the One,"they chose some downtempo material that frankly left the audience flat, though we enthusiastically supported the band; once they got to "South Side of the Sky,"from the "Fragile"album, the show really took off; to my ear, that's also when the sound crew turned up Howe's guitar! In a bold move that was simply amazing, Yes closed with a suite from their epic "Tales From Topographic Oceans"album, that had us rabidly cheering for the encore! "Roundabout"and "Starship Trooper"brought the show to a satisfying close. My wife had the right idea: if Yes had opened with, say, "Heart of the Sunrise,"the adoring audience would have been all the more enthusiastic throughout! A really fine show that could've been much better with better pacing in the song choices.

First ticket master site said that the concert started at 7:00pm. We arrived at 6:00pm only to find that the doors open at 7:00. No where on the ticket said this so most people were waiting outside to get in for an hour. Then once the show started at 8:00 there was a speaker that did the albums artwork that talked for 40 minutes, very boring! Sorry I didn’t go to a concert for a lecture. Then once yes finally came on they really didn’t play there hits like I was expecting. The vocalist really didn’t sound that good either. The seating at the Wiltern is not good. You sit in chairs that are placed right behind the chair in front of you and you can’t see that good. I don’t think I would go back to this venue again and definitely would not go to see Yes again.

I felt I was listening to the original YES members