Better Late Than Never (AndersonPonty Band album)
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| Live album by AndersonPonty Band (Jon Anderson & Jean-Luc Ponty) | ||||
| Released | 25 September 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 20 September 2014 at the Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado, United States | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock music | |||
| Length | 60.57 (CD) + 65 min (DVD) | |||
| Label | Liaison Records / earMUSIC Verycords | |||
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Better Late Than Never is the debut live album by the AndersonPonty Band, released in September 2015.
The AndersonPonty Band is a progressive rock supergroup formed in Summer 2014, centered around French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and singer/songwriter and founding member of Yes, Jon Anderson.
Jean-Luc Ponty was originally approached by Jon Anderson with the idea of working together as far back as the 1980s, but the idea didn't come to fruition until about 30 years later. when the project was put up on Kickstarter and was successfully funded by August 2014.
Better Late Than Never was largely recorded during the band's debut concert on September 20, 2014 at the Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado, but the released recording also includes studio embellishments and overdubs. It presents new musical compositions, rearrangements of classic Yes hits like "Owner of a Lonely Heart", "Roundabout" and "Wonderous Stories", as well as Jean-Luc Ponty compositions with lyrics penned by Jon Anderson such as "Infinite Mirage" (based on Enigmatic Ocean's "Mirage") and "Listening with Me" (based on A Taste for Passion's "Stay with Me").
The band's original line-up, which played at the Aspen debut, included bassist Baron Browne, drummer Rayford Griffin, keyboardist Wally Minko and guitarist Jamie Dunlap. But by January 2015, Jamie Dunlap had left the band and Ponty's guitarist, Jamie Glaser, subsequently overdubbed all of Dunlap's original parts for the album.
Better Late Than Never is a double disc Digipak including the 14-track audio CD, an hour long 10-song performance bonus DVD (including artist interviews) and a 20-page booklet with complete song lyrics.
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