Does he seem to have a real inherent feel for Yes music?
SH: He has an understanding, a knowledge. It may be a good thing that it’s not too involved, it’s not a fan-based sort of knowledge, he understands our successful music; I wouldn’t comment on how deep it goes, but I think the most important thing for a producer is to get the nowness out of the artist, and I think the contact that he has with us now, he’s getting to know us really very quickly and getting to know what we do, how we talk and interact, and he’s controlling that, he’s making that work, but he’s got to talk somebody like this or somebody else about that, he’s got to keep things balanced, that’s what a producer does, and Yes without that, of course we get imbalanced and projects take too long or cost too much money or things aren’t guided well, so what with getting better management now we’ve got production. There’s many things we don’t know, we don’t know how deep his familiarity or knowledge is with Yes, we don’t know as artists, how he works with us in different ways to h
