The years between Drama and 90125 are a bit of a mystery in the history of Yes—even more so after hearing this story told by Tony Kaye.

In a recent interview with Something Else! Kaye talks about about a possible reunion with Chris Squire and Steve Howe in Yes in 1980. The keyboardist spent much of that year in Miami recording Say No More with Badfinger. While he was there he met up with Squire, who floated the idea.

“Just as it happened, the Drama tour played in Miami, and I was living next door to Chris Squire’s wife and kids on Key Biscayne,” he said. “It was just one of those moments where everything comes together. I went to the show, and Chris came back and we talked. He wasn’t that happy with what was going on at the moment with (then Yes frontman) Trevor Horn and (keyboardist) Geoff (Downes). It was just an idea of getting the band back together, really. Of course, it didn’t turn out like that, because Jon was away doing one of his projects.”

Kaye’s memory may be playing tricks on him—it’s not clear that the Drama tour ever stopped in Miami—but surely there’s some truth to the story. My guess: The Squires decamped to Key Biscayne during a break between the US and European legs of the tour and the bassist bumped into his old bandmate then (Yes were on break from Oct. 20 to Nov. 16; Badfinger finished recording sometime in November).

In any event, it seems Squire briefly toyed with ditching Horn and Downes and relaunching the band with a lineup of Squire, Howe, White, Kaye and Anderson. Who knows if this could have come to pass; Squire is known to have entertained the occasional scheme to keep the Yes engine running, but Howe and White might not have been on board (nor Anderson, for that matter). Still, it’s fun to imagine what might have been if the band had followed this alternate path.