Usually when we mention teenagers on this site there’s an immediate follow-up mention of either Pete Townshend or Gary Glitter. But this post is about precocious teenagers, not the kind that are physically exploited for kicks.

Head Yes-man Jon Anderson fronted Paul Green’s School of Rock All Stars last night at BB King’s for a unique take on the catalog of his 70s progressive rock outfit, and Hidden Track Podcaster General Mike Newman was smart enough to shuttle himself over to Times Square for the evening’s action.

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Read on after the jump for more of Newman’s photos and a couple of YouTube videos of Anderson’s fantastic collaboration with the PGSRAS. And if the videos are any indication, we all definitely missed the boat on this one…

First, a quick note from our eyewitness: “The treat was seeing these 14, 15, 16-year-old kids playing the hell out of Yes songs with Jon Anderson. Sometimes Jon would break and they’d keep ripping through Yes songs. They rotated so that no kid played on every song, and there were a lot of amazing little guitar players, the majority of them were female! Absolutely amazing! This Paul Green Rock School guy deserves a lot of credit.”

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Newman took this cool video of Your Move:

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And because we like you, here’s a bonus clip of Yours Is No Disgrace from the Keswick Theater on 2/15/07 (a more smokin’ performance).

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It’s amazing, no matter how old Anderson gets, he still sounds like a trite slapstick character that someone just kicked right in the junk. I love it.

Here are three more of Newman’s amateur pics:

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Rockin’ out without Jon:

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Shuttin’r down for the evening…

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