{"id":28604,"date":"2024-09-09T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=28604"},"modified":"2024-09-09T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:48:46","slug":"jon-anderson-and-the-band-geeks-true-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/09\/jon-anderson-and-the-band-geeks-true-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks True Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"28604\" class=\"elementor elementor-28604\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0736fb0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"0736fb0\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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band are great.<\/p><p>It consists of Jon on vocals of course, along with Richie Castellano on guitar\/bass\/keyboards\/backing vocals, Andy Ascolece on drums\/percussion\/keyboards\/backing vocals, Andy Graziano on guitar\/backing vocals, Christopher Clark on keyboards, Robert Kipp on Hammond Organ\/backing vocals, and Ann Marie Nacohio on backing vocals also.<\/p><p>If you are a fan of Jon, you should really enjoy this.<\/p><p>Every song is great.<\/p><p>I love when my favorite musicians keep making great music, even in their later years.<\/p><p>Sometimes they make some of their best work then.<\/p><p>I wish more would do that.\u00a0 I know most people don&#8217;t buy music like they used to, but I know there is still an audience out there.<\/p><p>Many classic artists like Jon Anderson, Ace Frehley, Deep Purple, Mr. Big, and others have put out great albums just this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>So, it is possible for new music by classic artists to still be great.<\/p><p>Fans need to 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Called True, it is very much what you expect from Jon and his massive discography. This album is truly awesome. Jon&#8217;s voice is still as great as ever, and his band are great. It consists of Jon on vocals of course, along with Richie Castellano on guitar\/bass\/keyboards\/backing vocals, Andy Ascolece on drums\/percussion\/keyboards\/backing vocals, Andy Graziano on guitar\/backing vocals, Christopher Clark on keyboards, Robert Kipp on Hammond Organ\/backing vocals, and Ann Marie Nacohio on backing vocals also. If you are a fan of Jon, you should really enjoy this. Every song is great. I love when my favorite musicians keep making great music, even in their later years. Sometimes they make some of their best work then. I wish more would do that.\u00a0 I know most people don&#8217;t buy music like they used to, but I know there is still an audience out there. Many classic artists like Jon Anderson, Ace Frehley, Deep Purple, Mr. Big, and others have put out great albums just this year.\u00a0\u00a0 So, it is possible for new music by classic artists to still be great. Fans need to seek it out.\u00a0\u00a0 So, seek this one and others out and see what you think. Oh, and I got this album signed by Jon, courtesy of TalkShopLive.\u00a0 I appreciate it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28615,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions\/28615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}