I'm pretty much in agreement with Anteater that they should have gone with the Starcastle guy instead.
For those who don't know, Starcastle were a 70s prog band and a straight up shameless ripoff of Yes in pretty much every way, but a pretty damn good one nontheless.
The band is still around and their most recent album Song of Times (2007) is argubly the best Yes album in the last 30 years.