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Alexander 23 on Yes' "Roundabout" | Hooked

The producer turned solo artist was captivated by his dad covering Steve Howe's intricate riff, ultimately triggering his own obsession with guitar.

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Chris Squire performs with Yes at Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on August 1, 2014, in Hollywood, Florida.

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PG’s Shawn Hammond reflects on his unlikely fall into extreme Yes fanhood as a teenager, and what it was like to finally meet the legendary late Yes bassist.

I only met Chris Squire once. It was just about as surreal as the Roger Dean paintings on old Yes album covers and, in retrospect, rather fittingly full of twists, turns, and humorous surprises. I say fitting because my first real exposure to what most hardcore fans would call “real" Yes—the classic lineup of the late legendary bassist, Steve Howe (guitars), Jon Anderson (vocals), Rick Wakeman (keys), and Bill Bruford (drums)—was a bit of an accident. I was 16 years old and lived in possibly the most conservative city in America, where I knew hardly any other rock musicians and pretty much everything I knew about music was from magazines.

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