Talk:Jon Anderson

message: All very interesting & plausible, can we get some references though? --Son of Somebody 19:19, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Elf Culture, Mushrooms, 4th Dimension?

message: Since January 10th, a total of 5 vandal-edits by IP 69.86.188.10 have been reverted by me, and one other editor.
Yesterday, I posted a message on his talk-page about his latest one, in which he attempted to use Wiki POV rules to justify a blatantly anti-Jon edit.
Today, I received a rather mysterious message on my talk-page here, featuring an attempt to use Wiki rules to stop me calling the troll a "vandal". Not, of course, that I'm saying that there is any possible connection between 69.86.188.10 and the poster on my talk page.
I get the impression that the vandalism may continue. Keep an eye on it.
Gardener of Geda | Message Me.... 17:40, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Vigilance 

message: Does anyone have citations for this article or provide inline citations?  I added in Jon Anderson's bio from his website, but we need more than one source.  Thanks, --Midorihana(talk)(contribs) 08:03, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: Most of Mike Oldfied's Crises album was recorded in 1983, so I'm guessing Jon recorded the track In High Places in 1983 rather than 1982, so I've changed that. I'm not sure about it though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.71.246.65 (talk) 13:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In High Places 

message: In the interview with Eddie Offord on the NFTE site he mentions that he [Offord] was pushing to get the band in a country setting - that the  wooden cows and trees/plants were there to appease him and I guess Anderson. Interesting thing is he mentions that by the end of the sessions the plants died and the cows were graffiti'd - fitting; he states, "...sums up that whole album..."
LINK - http://www.nfte.org/interviews/EO234.html or go the main NFTE.org site archives http://www.nfte.org/archives.aspx#special
Wamnet (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 13:08, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  recording of TALES - citation needed 

message: This has been in the article for several years now, but the supposed source (www.jonanderson.com) doesn't make any reference to it. The only reference to his family it does make is "October 25, 1944
John Roy Anderson is born in Accrington, Lancashire, England to Albert and Kathleen Anderson. (Of course, later in life he will drop the "h" in his first name.)". Not a word about his supposed Irish background.
This sounds like a hoax to me. I suggest that the mention of his Irish ancestry be removed unless someone can back it up. There are oodles of Google hits for it, but of course they are without exception echoes of this article.Shiresman (talk) 00:37, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alleged Irish ancestry 

message: No mention of Jon's multiple collaborations with Cleveland's Contemporary Youth Orchestra?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.161.132.229 (talk) 20:36, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration 

message: These sources do not ever belong in External links. I have moved the link farm there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 15:38, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources belong here-- not in External links 

message: Anderson doesn't use falsetto, even as recently as 2012. He discusses it here:  Cheers. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 04:04, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Back to the falsetto question years later

message: Anderson cannot have appeared with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones in 1982/83 as they did not form until 1988  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.55.48.46 (talk) 08:47, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. He appears on this album: Outbound (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album), released 2000. Bondegezou (talk) 17:39, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Béla Fleck and the Flecktones 

message: The article's discography is split by act. These subsections used just to be titled with the name of each act. User:HurluGumene would like to change these to "As..." ("As Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe", "As Anderson Ponty Band") etc. I looked at a number of other musician articles and "With..." seemed the commonest form, with the name of the act without any preposition also used, so I've changed the titles to "With...", but actually on the grounds of brevity, I'd be happiest with no preposition.
"As...", I suggest, is simply wrong. "As..." means an individual was working under a particular name (e.g., Anderson's early singles as Hans Christian), but you can't use "as" about a collaboration with other people. ABWH and the Anderson Ponty Band are different bands, not merely Jon Anderson using different names. Bondegezou (talk) 07:20, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: For comparison, Steve Howe discography, Chris Squire, Alan White (Yes drummer), Tony_Kaye_(musician)#Discography, Peter Banks and Billy Sherwood use "With...". Geoff Downes#Discography uses no preposition for acts, but "with" for collaborations under the individuals' names (e.g. Wetton/Downes work is listed under "With John Wetton"). Bill_Bruford#Discography and Jon Davison use no prepositions, just the act name. None use "as". Bondegezou (talk) 09:11, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography format

message: This article has, for many years, opened, "John Roy Anderson (born 25 October 1944), known professionally as Jon Anderson", but  has removed the bit about being known as Jon, citing the Manual of Style. I looked at MOS:NICK and it says, "If a person has a common English-language hypocorism (diminutive or abbreviation) used in lieu of a given name, it is not presented between quotation marks or parentheses within or after their name." So the prior text was not contravening MOS. Given Jon is more an alternate spelling than a hypocorism, I would suggest it is useful to restore that text. But what do other editors think? Bondegezou (talk) 10:39, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jon 

message: Article said ”Anderson plans to release the album in three parts, with a tour currently following the first part, which he wants to document on film.”. These plans have presumably been met, or not met, by now. I’ve moved the comment here so that hopefully someone who knows the topic can bring it up to date as it doesn’t make much sense in the article in its current form.--Northernhenge (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  2018 plans