why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

http://yes.iq.pl/images/jade_sea.jpg

Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....

http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif

I fucking love "Yours Is No Disgrace" so damn much. What a beautiful, beautiful song. Howe's playing on the whole Yes Album just blows me away.

I grew listening to WIOT out of Toledo, Ohio, and when 90120 came out they used to play "Our Song" all the time because it had that line "Toledo is just another stop along the good king's highway". Like, they actually thought it was about Toledo, Ohio!!

Yes fans jonesing for more YESSOUNDS should totally check out those two latter-day Os Mutantes LPs, by the way. When they got all progged-out. Total Yes homages.

I thought "yessed out" was some sort of cockney slang for "sucking it's own dick" or somethin'.

Your mention of the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" video reminded me there was one version that had a guy with maggots crawling around on top of his closed eyelids. Did "Fear Factor" rip off this idea? I think MTV stopped showing that version.

i love yes. sometimes i'll be walking around and suddenly a bass line from some yes song will pop into my head and i'll be all excited.

would that ilm actually were a bit more yessed out.

One of my (many) large gaps of musical knowledge is rock of any variety from 1970-1985 or so.

Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .

best

Drew

at a booth that sells vocoder software there is a man earnestly saying in a silvery, elven speaking voice reminiscent of Glinda the Good Witch "no, no, NO, you don't understand. I want to make my computer-" and here he erupts into a shivery high melodious flutter "s-i-i-iing!" and it's HIM and he's singing the word "sing" in THAT Yes voice.

What is NAMM, anyway?

I just watched some of that DVD "The Future Is Wild", the cheezy computer animated forecast of what freakish species will dominate this planet in 200 million years. It was very Yessed out too, CGI supercontinent-formation footage and giant global oceans (topographic tales of .. .)

http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg

Olias of Sunhillow Critical Edition, with commentary track guest starring the 'scientists' from The Future Is Wild

maybe a little like the trevor horn yes (or maybe i just wish it sounded more like trevor horn yes).

it's basically arp-heavy metronomic 1978 eurosynth cheese.

I always see a Dean landscape, or some Art Nouveau P. Craig Russell planet landscape whenever I listen to Yes. Except for Yes mach-90125 and onward.

I guess the only interesting thing in them was that apparently Eddie Jobson was in the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" video. They tried to edit him out when he ended up not being in the band, but couldn't do it completely. The edits are one reason why the "plot" is so hard to follow.

and yes, there ARE maggots on the dude's eyes.

BUT! just guess what my classic rock station is playing right now on their so-called DEEP CUT weekedn at this ungodly hour ...

yup, STARSHIP TROOPER!!

good god what a tune.

and i'm out

I found my mint LP copy of Relayer for a dollar in a used bin.

http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/Moraz30.jpg

damn, and i'm not even close to being drunk tonight!!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/be70040c-9265-47c2-ab7b-0dc6abe418a.jpg

I'm yessed out on poppy pod tea and I just played guitar for an hour. Yes!

karaoke, yes-style!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoE9r11a-c

Oh dear...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgH7Oec__s

Nothing succeeds like excess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMF1-OEZYBE

Watching Bruford in that clip makes me think of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the Genesis tour he was on when he'd get bored and start playing different beats just to screw things up.

DIG IT! (the "it" being really bad stock footage, apparently)

as much shit as tormato gets, i do like squire's bass sound on that
and wtf with wakeman's synths? the birotron - cheesy to the max
xpost

LOL cheesy late 70s video effects -- also, it reminds me of the "i want candy" video.

"don't kill the whale" is actually an OK song, maybe the best thing on tormato. and the really painful wakeman synths are in the beginning of "arriving UFO" (maybe the worst yes song of all time?)

The Birotron was an ill-fated tape replay keyboard conceived by Dave Biro of Yalesville, Connecticut, USA, and funded by Rick Wakeman of the progressive-rock group Yes in the late 1970s.

The Birotron was a keyboard instrument that used 8-track cartridge tapes to play sounds whenever a key was pressed on the keyboard. It is similar in concept to the Chamberlin and Mellotron, and was a forerunner of digital sampling. Keyboards like the Mellotron and Birotron were mainly used for strings, choirs, brass, and flutes; sounds not easily reproduced on the synthesizers of that era. The major innovation of the Birotron was that it stored its sounds using 8-track tape loops, which allowed it to play the sounds indefinitely, a great improvement from the 8-second limit of the Mellotron.

History
Dave Biro invented this instrument and showed it to Rick Wakeman, who was so impressed by the idea that he offerred to fund its manufacture. It was developed by Birotronics, Ltd which was one of Wakeman's Complex 7 businesses. The Packhorse road case company was under this umbrella as well. Birotronics apparently made a very limited number of these instruments (David Biro says only 17 were made, including the original and 4 prototypes, while Rick Wakeman claims 35.) 4 of those were owned by Rick Wakeman, who noted in an interview in 1999 that 2 were stolen and 2 were damaged beyond repair. Only 5 or 6 Birotrons are accounted for today.

Two major factors led to the Birotron's demise. The most direct cause was a lack of necessary and consistent funding. The Birotron also suffered from poor timing, being introduced very shortly before the arrival of the digital sampling technology (such as the Fairlight_CMI) which would render it obsolete.

OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.

Squire on "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KQIaHFma4

The world of Yes tribute bands on YouTube is very strange, but I gotta give them points for trying...

The packs of Marlboros in the foreground totally makes this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvjkG5EgFxA

OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.

-- trashthumb, Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:29 AM

OMG I AM YESSED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A COON'S AGE

A raccoon killed my pet rabbit. It grabbed the thing through the cage, and smashed it again and again through the rails, and a lot of its body that the raccoon couldn't get dropped down into the plastic tub that captured its feces. So be careful what you say BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, or you might totally ruin my yes sesh..

Utterly ridiculous, but Howe really kills it here.

OMFG. "Awaken" sounding transcendent right now really LOUD after a night of bourbon & Guiness. On headphones, mind.

interesting that they covered "america" -- the beginning of "el condor pasa" sounds a lot like the beginning of "roundabout"

my wife and I were playing Yessongs after we got home from a show last night around 2 A.M. and I was telling her about this thread.

I come to revive this and look who posted last.

Really feeling CTTE this last week, listening to "And You And I" atm.

to answer the question way up above, yes, tormato is as bad as everyone says, and I can be captain save a yes. but really I think pretty much everything after 90125 (which I love) is awful, except for some things on Magnification, and drama is my third favorite Yes album after the Yes Album and Fragile.

Can never decide between Relayer and The Yes Album as my favourite. Going For The One and CTTE round out my top 4. Have never really liked Fragile; honestly I'd much rather listen to TFTO.

Gotta love Jon!

guy is saintly

a samurai sword

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qKboHKPEA

Yes, Arcade Fire are working with with James Murphy" -anybody else get unnecessarily excited by this pitchfork headline?

yestival quadrophronic prog festival

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-yestival/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEOK0En6Pk

yes i said i will. yes

"beyond and before" is one of the all-time debut album opening songs. like an overture to everything that would be awesome (and lame) about them as they keep on stargazing along

http://www.list.co.uk/article/59949-yes-bassist-chris-squire-writing-autobiography/

second response hall of fame

gonna listen to some Yes right now in honor of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96d5spC3tQg

Is there a specific thread about post-Bruford Yes records? I don't feel like wading through pages of threads with the word "yes" in the title

it is a thread called no

this is a post called hmm

I'm listening to Relayer for p much the first time right now and it's honestly much better than I expected in spite of seeming to miss something that the older records had. I guess I'm just one step further into old dude lameness now.

i've been pretty yessed out the past few years, got into other parts of the bruford era i had been cool to before, but once i hit relayer it's just like, cmon, this is not the same band

yeah but there's only a pretty small amount of bruford era, and an even smaller amount of anderson-bruford-wakeman-howe.

it's a good thing them some long-ass songs then

These days, post-Yes Bruford records get more of my attention than post-Bruford Yes records. Well, up until that Earthworks stuff.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MICP-30060

Relayer is actually my second-favourite after Close to the Edge. They went further 'out' than usual on it and I think Howe might have been at his peak there.

Yeah, Relayer is great.

The last time I listened, I actually wondered whether it could be my favourite.

Yes without Anderson or Howe definitely doesn't seem like the same 'classic' band to me but tbh I guess I'm a little surprised that the drummer would make so much of a difference to some listeners. I never really feel like there's a rhythmic weakness on Relayer. The ensemble playing on Relayer seems dazzlingly tight to me. I like Bruford but I mostly just appreciate the way he worked as part of the ensemble. If anything, I notice his playing much more in King Crimson. I never really thought of him as a star drummer like Bonham or Peart or Moon, though.

The ensemble playing on Relayer seems dazzlingly tight to me

"... [O]n 'Sound Chaser'" was what I meant.

Hm, now I'm thinking about the drums on side 2 of Fragile and reconsidering that...

side 1 of the yes album too ("clap" excepted obv.)

I think there's a certain swing to brufords playing that made them a little, idk, funkier or something and counterbalanced the more technical aspect of their prog. White is a lithe and strong drummer and I think he works about as well as anyone other than bruford coukd have. But there's still a missing ingredient for me. I mean white can hold his own on pretty much anything but I can't imagine him coming up with the unforgettable fills bruford did on heart of the sunrise.

absolutely agree

Bruford was like a little jazz drummer, close-mic'ed, playing in the corner, while symphonic yes played in the center of room with reverb and space to infinity. The balance / counterpoint is dramatic and awesome.

I walked through midtown manhattan today around 3pm air-drumming to "heart of the sunrise."

The melodic parts of Silently Falling are so nice

fitting development (even if wayne has turned into a grade-a toolbag), since legend has it admitting to each other in the tourvan that they were separately listening to yes led to 'the soft bulletin'

http://www.spin.com/articles/flaming-lips-electric-wurms-heart-of-the-sunrise-video/

10:36-13:30 of Awaken is the best bit of Yes y/n

Absolutely.

This is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszeZhF9Xq4

14 cd set of live shows from '72.

http://www.amazon.com/Progeny-Seven-Shows-Seventy-Two-Deluxe/dp/B00U2MZU9C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425052178&sr=8-1&keywords=Progeny%3A+Seven+Shows+from+Seventy+Two

favorite thread title

it's like the let's get drunk and listen to waka flocka flame for prog dudes

it's the only searchable yes thread so i went with it. plus it's night. but not late. so i cheated.

i miss getting yessed out on ilx

ilx never should've tucked in its yessing

I'm listening to CTTE right now

I'm listening to Relayer. Again.

It's hard to say what will become of Yes now - however, it's tempting to imagine 50 years in the future where Yes are still going, minus any of the past members we currently know, still playing Close To The Edge... like a prog rock Menudo, or something.

http://i.imgur.com/Zx6oKfi.jpg

I'm listening to CTTE right now

i did this tonight

It's been Tales and Relayer for me

This thread is the reason I've been so Yessed out for the last 6 years.

https://vimeo.com/67135948

What's the opening song Yes plays at their first post-Squire show? THAT ONE...
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/yes/2015/grand-theater-at-foxwoods-mashantucket-ct-13f7bd8d.html

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/09/18/getting-yes-steve-howe-guitar-wizard-365831.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=184&v=W8XVrpEiyOU

Somebody tell me "South Side of the Sky" isn't a great song

SO I CAN PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH

advice column gets all yessed out

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/11/ask-polly-im-sick-of-being-unhappy-and-alone.html

Classic

She picked a dud live clip, though. Way better imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcvByrgofjc

These words spring into my mind often. I didn't know what they meant when I was younger and listened to Yes, partially because I was not just surrounded by myself, I was also full of myself. I was covered in myself and clothed in myself and swimming through a sea myself only to get to an island of myself, alone on a planet of myself, spinning through a universe of myself.

feelin' yessed

hahaha amazing

\m/

also, can i just say, the anderson-ponty band album better late than never is way better than two dudes in their 70s have any right to be, and is kind of a tonic for the wretched heaven & earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhqWpaW9s4o

First time I'm seeing footage of them play live - funny to see Anderson as a young man when I've always pictured him (just from his voice) so much older. And Howe like a wraith.

Man I decided to give Going for the One another chance after seeing that, and I just reached the point where it really started to give me a headache, which, it turns out, is about 4 minutes into Awaken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaKdI7v8XxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvANpEr3XbA

Had a dream that I was using some kind of remote-control device to change a convenience store's LED-light sign to read "TELL THE MOONDOG TELL THE MARCH HARE" in scrolling text, but the store's proprietor yelled at me before I could succeed.

Maybe he/she just wasn't into the Jon Anderson songs!

getting so yessed out rn

Anderson, Wakeman, and Rabin are touring this year.

woke up this morning all yessed out

really looking forward to an AWR album (though why not Wakeman Anderson & Rabin or Rabin Anderson & Rabin . . . WAR / RAW versus YES!). the collaboration jon a just did with roine stolt (kaipa / flower kings (!) / transatlantic (!!)) can err on the side of saccharine sometimes but is WAAAAAAY better than heaven & earth imho. there are some old school topographic vibes for sure

aint nearly yessed out yet got a ways to go

never mind ilm, the IOM is getting all yessed out from Friday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp6PYfNWAAIAEJq.jpg

"Grandpa, what are stamps?"

i like to think that the synth wooble just before the second verse of roundabout starts is what it sounds like to get yessed out

or the multilayered horn/squire "YEEEEEESSSSS" from near the end of Tempus Fugit

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jon-anderson-on-new-yes-spinoff-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-w439908

(If you want to see Steve Howe's Yes, their only gigs at the moment are a short run of Japanese dates and the Cruise to the Edge, departing from Tampa, Florida, on February 7th.)

seeeeeeagulls will pass you by

https://tributetoyes.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/soundchasersquareani.gif

Err...yeah I don't like Rabin's '80s El Lay guitar histrionics. Guys...Why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=949&v=LsUEXiSq0SM

Just had a listen to some ARW, and like, damn Jon Anderson sounds good. I'll take Howe over Rabin all day (though Howe has been sounding not so hot lately...) but Anderson is just killing it, even sloppy old Rick Wakeman sounds better than Downes, and I like Downes a lot. I'm probably the biggest Drama stan on this board but still I gotta say, ARW pretty much blows Yes out of the water

of course it doesn't help that Chris Squire is gone, still such a sad end to things. oftentimes I feel like "Fish out of Water" is the best Yes record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVhfWxyGorY

this is great though. I think I'll go after all.

kurt schitterz tell me if you're going to this in november. my wife thinks it's sad I keep going to these prog shows on my lonesome.

Definitely go. I'd be there if it was an option. Also bassist Lee Pomeroy was great when he played with Hackett on the Genesis Revisited Tour. Sounds pretty good here too.

oh that's right, that was him. hackett's band was excellent (except for nad sylvan who is annoying)

wow that was surprisingly excellent

cant believe Jon is like 70 now and still sounds like that

Glad he got his voice back.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7625660/yes-alan-white-rock-hall-fame-reaction

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7625660/yes-alan-white-rock-hall-fame-reaction🔗

hearing. talking. yes i love

two hearts will always be in and out of time

alec baldwin interviews jon anderson

http://www.wnyc.org/story/jon-anderson-musical-adventure-isnt-over/

saw a stoner skateboard kid getting off the train a couple days ago with a yes '77 tour t-shirt. are yes really big in the stoner set? i thought stoners went more for the floyd.

why not both?

That interview is great.

I'm surprised his Howard Stern interview isn't easier to find, I'd like to hear it. Apparently he was the first big guest Stern got to pick himself?

So, have you guys noticed this thing where the intro for 'Roundabout' is being used in meme-esque video clips where some sort of collision or confrontation is imminent. Except, right when the collision/whatever is going to happen, the video freezes just as the whole band joins in and 'Roundabout' begins, with a "To be continued" text somewhere on the screen. And that's it.

Where does this come from? I find it equally intriguing and hilarious that 'Roundabout' has found its way into "meme culture" in such a random way. And I find that every time someone uses it in one of their videos, the funnier it gets for me.

Dammit, it's not there anymore.

why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

Some anime cartoon used Roundabout as its soundtrack, but yeah, love those.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvANpEr3XbA

Okay. That was fantastic.

First time ever seeing this meme and I can confirm it's awesome. Dying laughing at some of those.

yeah I'm laughing like an idiot after 20 seconds of that

me 2

why must we wait till the morning light to wake up and be, wake up and be, wake up and be?

I wonder if OP trevor horn still hangs around these parts. I knew him IRL but haven't seen him in probably a decade.

It's almost 11pm on Friday night, I'm at my office dealing with work spillover stuff, and I am TOTALLY YESSED OUT

I know I posted this on the other thread, but you know what, I'm in the US and I want everybody to know it

I'm an American, I'm yessed out, it's late at night, and I vote

Which Yes transmission are you picking up?

All I want to do is live inside the bass line from "Roundabout" for the rest of my days

take sides: eclipse vs. apocalypse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hmHSaZMdlk

nice! I didn't know that band but am checking them out now

we hear you, eephus

Is there a better Yes song than "Going for the One?" I don't think so.

Is there as a good a Yes song as "Going for the One?" I haven't heard it.

Yessongs (the live movie) is on Amazon Prime streaming right now and it is fucking great

Now I know what I'm doing this afternoon

What year was that recorded ?

‘72, I used this thing called google

"wonderous stories" is the best song on going for the one

Yessongs (the live movie) is on Amazon Prime streaming right now and it is fucking great

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, November 2, 2017 1:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice, thanks for the tip!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne317y_eOYs

"Awaken" is the best song on GFTO

awaken is the best song ever written

I had a few beers last night and jammed 3 Starcastle albums, it was awesome

Which would you recommend ? Never heard ‘em

https://i.imgur.com/veCCsO3.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofNvr-xuwE

Original lineup v underrated, Peter Banks!

as armoured movers took approach to overlook the sea

as song and chance develop time, lost social temperance rules above

Which would you recommend ? Never heard ‘em

I'd say go for the first one, the first side of which is some of the best music Yes never put out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLcQ4LIRyU

Second album Fountains of Light is probably slightly better overall though

On Citadel they'd gone into more of a Kansas/Styx type direction, I still love it though

Haven't heard anything after that

Anyway I'm playing the new Yes live album now - it's not all bad, Sherwood fills in quite nicely for Squire, Davison sounds alright, the version of "Ritual" is good and it's kind of neat to hear all of Drama on a live album

but man, it's depressing to hear them so out of sync at spots, especially when the quick tunes like "Tempus Fugit", "Heart of the Sunrise", and "Roundabout" are only played at 75% speed. IDK maybe they come off better in person.

nice to have a discrete "leaves of green" on an *official* release

ahaha so apparently they're re-releasing Fly From Here with Trevor Horn on vocals, effectively erasing Benoit David's brief tenure with the band

never fear there's always like the four live albums they released from tours with him

a clearer future -- morning, evening -- nights with you

ooo-ooou!

Listening to live at Wembley show,1978, from a BBC broadcast. Jaw droppingly awesooooome. Prob some of my fave live versions of their stuff here. Even the "Tormato" tunes were on fire.

yousendit?

Last thing at the bottom of thispage will get you Yessed Out.

woooowww my mind is being blown by the "give peace a chance" quote in "i've seen all good people" that i never noticed before !!!

y'all wanna do this er wut

The apple doesn't fall far. My son spent the evening geeking out on our vinyl copies of Fragile and Close to the Edge with his buddy.

I dove back into "Tormato" because I'm fascinated by the ways established prog/prog-leaning bands reacted to punk. "Release, Release" is my favorite of such response songs, after Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack". I also love the raw sound of "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" - it's like a rehearsal that accidentally made it to final mastering. (Hell, you can almost smell the cigarette burns on the shag carpet in the wood-paneled basement beneath the "Ummagumma" poster with the thumbtack missing from the upper-left corner). And there's the whole "Was Rick Wakeman openly trying to sabotage the album?" solos that echo Viv Savage from "This Is Spinal Tap" (near the end of the track, Rick just goes up and down the first 5 notes of the Lydian mode for like 6 measures). Damn, I love that song!

When my Spotify shuffle setting played "Onward" after James Blake's "Unluck" and "Wilhelm's Scream", it finally hit me that Yes might have accidentally invented Dubstep (or, at least, the chill side of it). The sub-70bpm tempo, the underlying subtle-yet-propulsive keyboard rhythm that appears and disappears, the soaring chorus - all that's missing is a massive bass drop before "...OF MYYYY LIIIIFE!"

(Apologies for going Full Ronald Thomas Clontle if I swapped Yes for Madness and Dubstep for Ska)

good post brah
Are any of the b-sides notable?

I'm not aware of the B-sides (my copy of "Parallels" has "Wonderous Stories" on the blue vinyl), but there are bonus tracks on the remastered edition of the LP. They're all really folky - hell, "You Can Be Saved" might be the best song Band of Horses never recorded.

I picked up used vinyl copies of The Yes Album and Relayer today.

why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

not that there's an answer for this, or anyone would try to take a stab at one, but still
― trevor horn, Friday, August 27, 2004 12:24 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"yessed out"?
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, August 27, 2004 12:25 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think about this thread title and these two posts very often

it's like a joke between me and me

why has nobody made a pair of socks with the Yes logo on them? I would happily sport a pair of Yessocks.

i love that uncut did an ultimate music guide, and i get that they were boring to interview, but holy shit do they underrate major jams ~

"survival" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"then" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"astral traveller" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"starship trooper" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"siberian khatru" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"the gates of delirium" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"to be over" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"wonderous stories" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"tempus fugit" -- 2 out of 5 stars? 2 out of 5 stars??

go choke on velvet underground vinyl uncut MAGA. and to think that rick wakeman tickled the ivories on "life of mars?" and "get it on (bang a gong)" and was pretty much a member of black sabbath, bruford drummed for king fucking crimson, and the god damned buggles. imagine living your life graded on the curve yes is by rock critics

It's an outrage, is what it is

case in point

critical update:

the game Knights of the Crystallion was inspired by the cover of Relayer.

Ages ago, a colossal sea monster called an Orodrid died in a canyon passage. Millions of years later, after the valley was eroded, a nomadic people found its hulking skeleton, “incomprehensible” in size, and declared it their new home. “Orodrid, the city of bones” became more than a shelter. It was the new center of their world, their source of spiritual energy.

In Knights of the Crystallion, you live within this society. That’s the game. It combines a group of confusing, seemingly random activities – like a Nine Men’s Morris-style board game and an action sequence set in twisting cave – to depict the many sides of the communal, religious life of the Orodrim.

https://obscuritory.com/other/knights-of-the-crystallion/

oh hshit

Hey Reggie how much didja have to pay for that Uncut UMG? Amazon has it for $30 US which is, like, outrageous for a magazine. Trying to pay less than $15 for it.

$40. i'm a sucker for these guys; it felt like a huge bargain given how many other magazines i've bought over the years, and how little attention any pay to YES. unfortunately it's nowhere near the quality of other UMGs though -- pink floyd, bowie, zeppelin, etc -- so i would for sure say stick to cover price or thereabouts

the Genesis one is siqq!

feel like "astral traveler" is what the doors were always trying to pull off

the only one i know is 4/20 is best when it's on a friday, everyone who's been in love before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggxNnZQMQ4

in the wake of the Fragile poll I'm listening to the B-side tracks of CTTE and Relayer

turns out once again And You And I is one of the most monumental things ever recorded, when Apocalypse kicks in it is more than heaven

and now Sound Chaser, sweet lord

I can't help but throw comparative shade at Fragile but really I'd like to celebrate these songs

I just wish the actual verse of Sound Chaser was repeated a bit more, it's the best bit of the song

you wanna hear something nuts, check out this dude playing Sound Chaser on solo piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR0AP7A_l4

this is like those dudes who get perfect scores on the really difficult Guitar Hero songs

Thanks for the reply upthread , Reggie. Yeah it's a shame these things are nearly impossible to get in a cheap pdf version! Once in a while one pops up on a t0rr3nt but very rarely. I love their Zep and Pink Floyd ones.

Despite being oddly compiled (what with Relayer/GFTO/Tormato songs and different eras all jammed in) and not really a patch on the immortal Yessongs, I have a bit of a soft spot for Yesshows. It was my introduction to a bunch of those records (certainly Topographic Oceans, which I never owned) and Moraz, whose interplay with Howe blew me away. And the performances are uniformly quite good. For a dogs breakfast, it’s pretty likable.

Small moment: when they take like three minutes to introduce the band and crew, Jon gets momentarily lost in the groovy windup to “Ritual” and sings “Don’t put that funk in my face.”

It reminds me that for all their maximalist indulgence, long history and lineup permutations, there are still times when I actually think this band never reached its potential.

i just realized this thread is about the band Yes

Somebody buy flappy a beer

I suspect there is some yesshame in preferring “soon” to TGoD but hey whatever

The HBO show "Divorce" featuring Thomas Haden Church and Sarah Jessica Parker, is all Yessed out. A recent episode involved the daughter expressing frustration with the music at a roller rink, leading to her dad (Paul Giamatti's merlot-drinking buddy in "Sideways") arranging for "The Gates of Delirium" to be blasted from the rink's PA. there are other great Yes references, too.
http://www.yesfans.com/showthread.php?85143-Yes-featured-on-HBO-s-Divorce

folks

I am enjoying 90125

leading to her dad (Paul Giamatti's merlot-drinking buddy in "Sideways")

that's the dude from Wings show some respect

this is the first time I wanted to watch that show

now for big generator

let's attack bad-era yes head-on

that album's always been my answer to "what if The Police hadn't broken up?"

yknow this is bad, but it isn't bad

title track is a dreadful monstrosity but the rest is kind of nice

I'm Running is practically Cardiacs-inspired!

you wish :)

I had a comp a long time ago that had the title track and it put me off the album for a long time. If you removed that track I think the album would have a better reputation

always liked "Almost Like Love", as goofy as that one is

i have a hard time with big generator. they fell so hard after 90125, but it was a classic run -- 1969 - 1983 -- 14 years like the ideal number of songs on a perfect pop album

my short list of post-rabin studio jams: "without hope you cannot start the day"; "holding on"; "take the water to the mountain"; "real love"; "homeworld"; "lightning strikes / can i? / face to face"; "to be alive"; "new language"; "nine voices"; "madman at the screens"; "life on a film set"; and "into the storm"

I'm Running is maybe top-ten Yes, fuck all y'all

Which album has Love Will Find a Way? That's some solid AOR.

yeah that's on this one

But yeah, wow! If I like a deep cut from Big Bad Generator this much, what will I discover on their later, even badder albums? (I'm braced for 'nothing')

Talk is a pretty neat album. Always felt it was a bit underrated. It's definitely not as entertaining as 90125 or Big Generator though

a lot of Yes fans like the Keystudio stuff. I dug "That, That Is" a lot but it really doesn't need to be a 20 minute epic

lots of cool stuff on The Ladder (especially the title track which really is "classic Yes" in all its glory), but as an album it's very uneven

I remember liking Magnification a good amount but I don't really recall a single thing from it

Shoot High, Aim Low is kind of a cool track

it's one of my favorite yes songs! there's a dropoff from 90125 to big generator but i don't think it's all that dramatic

I've taken the wild decision that BG is even better

Yo lj you wildin

Hold On comes close but there's nothing quite as good as BG's highlights on 90125

btw how the hell did Hold On get 0 votes in the 90125 poll, it sounds like the closing-credits music to an 80s eco-cop hero movie. The Emerald Weapon

lj you need to spend way more time with 90125 my god

nothing on big generator is as good as "leave it" or its several remixes

I'm listening to 90125 again now haha. I only heard it for the first time the other day! It is a Powerful Mood

When "Leave It" was released as a single, MTV played like 10 different variations on the video in a row.

who would believe you, LJ? wise men do

imago, don't sleep on "Changes" or "It Can Happen"

I certainly won't sleep on them - I just heard them again. They're great. Leave It just began

Yeah, v good. But as I say, it feels like they wrote I'm Running just for me. It's something I don't expect anyone else to go for as hard as I do. It's imagocore

It's interesting to hear some of the 90125 demos to see just how much these are Chris Squire songs that got spliced with Trevor Rabin songs.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU
IT CAN HAPPEN TO ME
IT CAN HAPPEN TO EVERYONE EEE VENT YOU ALL EEE

btw how the hell did Hold On get 0 votes in the 90125 poll, it sounds like the closing-credits music to an 80s eco-cop hero movie. The Emerald Weapon

imago check out the "hello/goodbye" 12" mix of "leave it", it rules

lol that was the one i was gonna post

Let us agree that songs that feature Chris Squire prominently on vocals are inherently works of startling genius.

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, April 27, 2018 1:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(An answer to all of your answers to)...YEEESSSSSS!!!!!

Is there a better "just got home from a party on Saturday night and feel like grabbing a beer and blasting some tunes for the remaining people in the house who i might have awaken(ed)" than "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom"?

Jamming 90125 right now that's my word

Yeah I've been playing the hell out of 90125

I think frogbs linked to this ages ago on another Yes thread.

Icelandic band Todmobile's cover of Awaken w/ Anderson guesting, a great arrangement, augmented by a choir, some brass and strings, they really know how to effectively pile on the layers for the very end section, best version I've heard so far (other than nitpicky issues with the bass player).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwspoyRdeV0

I've taken the wild decision that BG is even better

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you can feel no sense of measure

holy shit, this version of Awaken

that's one of the greatest things ever recorded, surely

also, at the end of the video is the first time i've heard Roundabout and thought 'ah NOW i get it'

ya, this is terrific, even when it's not late at night

So, there wasn't really this spirit of this magical, wonderful, open-hearted feeling of the word Yes that I expected, which sort of devastated me at first. It took me a couple of weeks to really understand that. I had just worked with Duran Duran and we'd had several number one songs.

http://zenponies.com/yitp/2001/mar/mar_01.html

lmao

JE: There was no material. Basically, what there was was Steve (Howe) was working on a solo album (later released as Turbulence) and he brought in some things. Jon (Anderson) brought in one or two faint ideas. The problem is they hated each other so much at that point. I couldn't get Jon and Steve to sit down in a room together without me and the only way that Steve would do anything is to wake up and get very stoned and he was no good for the whole day after that. So we would sit down and try to write a few chords and here are my sort of kid pop idols and they couldn't string three chords together without fighting about what they were. And that was just putting Jon and Steve together, and constantly Steve would be badgering me about how he hated Jon's lyrics and how Jon had no good ideas. And Jon would say to me, 'Oh, Steve's just so washed out and Asia was such a horrible thing—look what it did to him.' You had Rick Wakeman who… all he wanted to do was get out there in the mix. And Rick had three or four parts that he would play, the same thing on everything. I would bring a Hammond organ in—he wouldn't touch the Hammond. He said, 'That's old-fashioned.' Not realising… well, he's so out of touch—what good would it have done had he played? I couldn't get these guys to sit down and write material without other people being in the room because of the social reasons. They had just been on the road for so many years and they probably had so many episodes with each other. Half of them couldn't really play any more. I mean, it was really sad. They were just sloppy and tired and old.

I guess that confirms everything I suspected about Union

Just listened to Yessongs recently. Love how heavy the bit is after "I Get Up I Get Down".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yXaZYZGDo

https://www.facebook.com/yesmusicpodcast/photos/a.1240630969322023.1073741829.1120877741297347/1983610341690745/?type=3&theater

Cool. Where is that?

reach out as 'forward taste' begin to enter "you" "oo" "moo"

Got p Yessed out listening to the title track of "Close to the Edge" on the drive home last night, marvelling at how well something so busy hangs together as a large composition.

steve howe's best guest bit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N0TkfrQhY

That's great, didn't know about it. Don't know about any of his guest appearances.

i was watching that "other side of the wind" documentary when all of a sudden out of nowhere fucking heart of the sunrise showed up

what the hell does yes have to do with orson welles

for my money steve howe's best guitar solo is in tomorrow's version of "why", not strictly a guest bit i don't think

When Yessearches Go Wrong (Yet Oh So Right), or
Watch, look over your shoulder, this one is strictly for you:

I was looking for the demos record called "90124", which led to a Trevor Rabin Spotify deep-dive. While said album wasn't there, I looked up/down/out/all around and located "Something to Hold On To" (it's a shame the band didn't add this track to "Big Generator", as it would be a total blast to hear between "Almost Like Love" and "Love will find a way"), and cranked the stereo to "middle drum section of 'The Gates of Delirium'-level" volume. As I scrolled through Trevor's oeuvre, I noticed that he scored a Jacaranda-esque number of soundtracks, including the epochal "Snakes on a Plane".

(Samuelljacksonsayingmotherfuckingplane.gif)!

The track titles are almost as hilarious as the movie:
-"Snakes on Crack"
-"Snake Chaos"
-"Serpent Situation"
-"Snakes Kill"
-"Snake Kabab" (perhaps that's how it's spelled in Johannesburg?)
-"Reptile Wrecker"

Next time you enter the (wait for it) cinema - especially anything directed or produced by Jerry Bruckheimer - check the credits, as our Trevor may have been responsible for that additional emotional gut-punch.

I'm guessing that for many of you, Yes has a heavy influence on your musical taste, to the point where you a song with a hint of their influence will quickly become one of your faves.

that recently happened to me, after discovering the song "Refugees" by South Australia-based Atlas Genius. If you ever wondered what it would sound like if a band said "What if The 1975 decided to base their sound on 'Big Generator'..."

In addition to 4 great chord progressions (verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge), "Refugees" has these awesome scream-along harmonies in the "Rhythm of Love" counter-melodic style that could lead a morning daydream through the fire to the water!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75dj5EGdxL4

they stand there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST97kob06Ss

That's a pretty good version, interesting how Todd handles it vocally.

good cover, the still-image video cracks me up tho

Lack of Wakeman organ riffs really leaves some holes in that tune.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-songs-ranked/

nice to see respect for "survival"

Howe as guest star? Hmmm -- I know he played on this album (along with David Sylvian among others!) and always felt the little Wes Montgomeryish guitar moment at 3:25 sounds pretty Howeish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzt2iSNyN8Q

wtf there is no way "Man in the Moon" is worse than "It Was All We Knew"

lots of rankings on that list are straight up bullshit (i particularly don't get all the challopsy stanning for open your eyes) but it's refreshing to read an overview of their stuff that goes past 90215

https://www.facebook.com/motherearth1000/posts/646902405764619

tried hard to refrain from making the drive-thru joke but I couldn't help it

god i am so yessed out rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSak3PG-tjg

wondrous rainy day album: tales from topographic oceans

man.

there was never any doubt since the first time i heard it; it's easily my favorite thing any of those people ever did. steve howe is just in another galaxy the entire time.

that bit on Side 2 (where Jon sings "relayer…") has one of the best guitar riffs ever

Korekojinn does an amazing "Yes medley" (all their best stuff in like 5 minutes) and when that part came on I was frustrated because I couldn't remember what it was from. but it got me listening to Tales again, because honestly where else would it be

I dunno, to me, Yes is nighttime music, 'cos like, when a lot of us first heard it, we were curled up in bed and the parents were asleep we were sneaking in a listen to the rock radio, so it's like a good memory. The radio stations were better at night, they'd play more obscure songs or albums and stuff.

I love “awaken” so much

sometimes, under certain circumstances and alcohol levels, the yessing becomes necessary

('roundabout' being played at last night's hockey game was not, but it doesn't take much)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospDSOyjuC4

Sister bluebird, flying high above

Big Generator: title track is fun and "Rhythm Of Love" is pretty good. "Final Eyes" has a lot of nice things going on but doesn't quite make it. "I'm Running" is the obvious highlight for me, hope they have more stuff like this, Yes or solo Jon doing some kind of world/tropical thing makes a lot of sense to me.
Really should have cut "Love Will Find A Way". I liked some of Rabin's songs on previous album's bonus tracks but this is just rote pop. The rest is "meh" to okay.

cold-blooded to drop this on jon anderson's 75th birthday

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/yes-reveals-four-previously-unreleased-2010-recordings-on-the-new-from-a-page-mini-box-set/

Wore this last week

I read about Jon's new album, I think 1000 people are on it, tons of guest stars, some of the recordings date back to the 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Hands:_Chapter_One

Totally new to me that Anderson was the godfather of Ari Up.

wow, Larry Coryell *sheds tear*

How was he involved?

Heard a number of people say it’s his best solo effort since Olais but idk if that’s a compliment

I think it’s pretty nice, more modern sounding than I was expecting and way better than the “Make me Happy” single implied it would be

all i know can be shown by your acceptance of the facts there shown before you

Heard a number of people say it’s his best solo effort since Olais but idk if that’s a compliment

Haven't heard this new one yet but the album he did with Roine Stolt in 2016, Invention of Knowledge, was pretty great.

JA's 1,000 Hands has my favorite new "yes" music since fly from here

this sounds way better than heaven & earth but still pretty shitty of them to surprise-release this "new" stuff on JA's 75th birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUK_frQEsQ

Invention of Knowledge is pretty good but idk if it's a true solo album. I kinda assumed Stolt wrote most of the music there

this new EP (?) looks pretty decent, Benoit David sounds a lot better than I remember him

lol that they're packaging this with a pretty lame live set, cmon guys

the level of commitment here to post-anderson yes deserves a characterization stronger than "yessed out"

like maybe "yessed af" or "hyperyessed"

or "yessgottabekiddin'!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMMpdxAxDjw

https://www.altpress.com/features/battles-juice-b-crypts-interview/

Just a bit of backstory on it.

political ends as sad remains will die

I spun 'Animation' the other day- definitely not Yes but it had its moments.

they move fast
they tell me
but i just can't believe
that i can feeeeeeel iiiiiiiit

ok the 4-song EP with Benoit David is actually pretty nice

Sharp distancing

i feel lost in the cityyyyyyyy

awaken gentle mass DON'T touch

lol reggie

yessed out rn in fact

Has this been linked before?

http://yessongs.nl/

A dizzying amount of live recordings and studio outtakes from all eras, endless amounts of stuff and no hoops to jump through.

And there you are
Saying we have the moon
So now the stars

yesterday, a morning came. a smile upon your face!

love it when late at night does qualmsley get yessed out

Silly human race

I’m listening to the Anderson Bruford wakeman howe album from 89. I know it’s the 80s but that gated snare just kills Howe’s feel. Tons of synthy bleep bloops. Anderson going on about deserts and religions.

a lot of the best deserts started in religions

was that a typo for "deserets"

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness and tales from topographic oceans.

I was going to ask in the Rough Guide requests thread, but it hasn't been opened in 14 years.

Could any kind soul please provide a map to the good stuff from their output from 90125 to present day?

I have heard some things from that period but I don't feel up to a qualitative audit and am sure there must be some worthy tunes hiding in there.

i like pretty much everything on 90125. "city of love" is my least favorite, though the chorus is HUGE, and i think its moodiness sets up the finale, "hearts", really well

never been able to get into big generator

songs i listen to on union -- "masquerade", "lift me up", "without hope you cannot start the day", "silent talking", "holding on", and "take the water to the mountain"

the only song on talk i'd say is a keeper is "real love", though if you can find a version of "endless dream" that's one track, that's worth a listen

i go back and forth with keystudio -- give the first song, "footprints", a listen, and if that does it for you, keep going. otherwise, skip it

open your eyes -- skip it

the ladder rules. "homeworld", "it will be a good day", "lightning strikes"/"can i?"/"face to face", "to be alive", "new language", and "nine voices" all feature classic yes spirit in part or all the way through

never been able to get into magnification

fly from here rules, both versions (david's vocals and trevor's vocals, a few years later). "sad night at the airfield", "madman at the screens", "life on a film set", "hour of need", and "into the storm" are all worth your time

if open your eyes isn't the worst yes album, then heaven & earth is

some solo stuff you might want to check out

trevor rabin -- jacaranda. this is the best stuff i've heard from him since 90125

jon anderson -- his most recent album, 1000 hands, has some decent jams on it, as does the album he recorded with jean-luc ponty. i keep giving the one he recorded with roine stolt a chance, but nothing ever sticks

skyscraper souls (geoff downes and chris braide) is the most underrated recentish solo project i've heard. andy partridge is on half the songs, kate pierson sings backing vocals on the 18-minute epic, and marc almond sings on one of the other songs

Big Generator - pretty decent if you like 90125, kinda sounds to me like what The Police would've become had they not split in '86. The title track single is pretty bad but I like most of the rest.

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - all I can remember from this one is fucking "Teikbois" but it's kinda okay, its got a whole lotta Jon on it though

Union - as bad as everyone says it is. only the solo Howe instrumental is worth saving.

Talk - fairly decent, has their first bona fide epic in forever and a lot of it is pretty if kinda New Ageish. despite being sort of a trilogy with 90125 and BG I don't think it really sounds like those albums.

Keys to Ascension - half studio and half live, I guess this is okay if you wanna hear the classic Yes lineup operating at 80% capacity. some of the new tunes are pretty good but mostly they're just long. It does have that "classic Yes" feel to it in spots.

Open Your Eyes - roundly derided by most of their fans, I actually feel it's a pretty decent pop album, just don't expect classic Yes

The Ladder - the title track here is absolutely a return to their classic glory, IMO the best thing they've done since Drama. unfortunately the rest of the album is kinda lightweight and gimmicky, but they do some interesting things like embrace a bit of electronica and sample their old records. could've been the start of a legit comeback but it was not to be.

Magnification - recorded with an orchestra as they'd sacked their keyboard player for getting too handsy with a security guard. Actually quite good, just not as hooky as they usually are.

Fly From Here - the sequel to Drama that nobody really asked for, with Downes and Horn back on board. some of the material dates back to 1980 but I think that element is sort of overstated, most of the music is new. As you might expect it's not quite as good as Drama but it's actually pretty close, clearly one of their best efforts since 90125. The final track "Into the Storm" is particularly good. For some reason they re-made this album in 2018, replacing one-time singer Benoit David with Horn - the new version is probably the better one but I feel bad for the dude.

Heaven & Earth - their most recent and famously a total dud. some of the songs are actually kinda catchy but it's ridiculously lethargic, especially coming after FFH which was sort of a shot in the arm. almost falls into "so bad it's good" territory, it's one of those albums you enjoy a bit despite yourself

agree with these assessments. 90125, the Ladder, and FFH (either version) are the only really strong albums in this batch, and Talk, Open Your Eyes, and Heaven and Earth are absolutely terrible.

They recently released a few more old tracks with Benoit David on the 'From a Page' box, and those songs are pretty good but not super memorable. certainly better than anything on H&E though.

I never liked Big Generator, it loses all the interesting subtlety that was on 90125 and becomes a bombastic mess; Talk is even worse in this regard.

yea at best a lot of these albums are guilty pleasures, I have a lot of goodwill towards Yes so I probably overrate a lot of it as "really not that bad". if it wasn't Yes I'd probably only listen to Fly From Here and "The Ladder"

"That, That Is" from KTA has a pretty gnarly riff on it though, sucks that it's buried in a 20 minute epic. Tales-esque really

Thanks folks!

So it seems like a general paucity of good music considering the amount of records they'e made since '83, kinda amazing really.

the degree to which these guys fucking hated each other after 1977 is not to be understated

I'm quite a fan of Magnification and there's at least 2 or 3 songs I really liked on Big Generator.

i really want to like magnification -- yes with an orchestra for the first time since time and a word! but i don't know, maybe they slowed the tempos a bit too much to accommodate that orchestra? maybe they were missing igor, who'd brought so much energy to the ladder? i've never found a way in; if you have any song suggestions, i'd appreciate it!

I wrote a big ranking of their albums for Stereogum almost exactly 5 years ago. I liked Talk and Magnification better than some others above.

it’s a safe bet that the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame will burn to the ground before they’ll be inducted.

Hope you didn't put too much money on this!

I was really into Union when it came out, and even went to see them on that tour, which was an incredibly dull concert despite being the first time the classic lineup had been together since CttE.

I always though this thread was a euphemism for something more interesting.

I was wrong.

But what could be more interesting than getting all yessed out on a Thursday night?

I forgot about Magnification. The songs on it are really good but something about the presence of the orchestra makes it very bleh. There's nothing objectionable about it, it's just missing some spark.

http://wmmr.com/2020/06/12/this-day-in-philly-rock-history-yes-played-to-130l-at-jfk-stadium/

no doubt they were all celebrating dock ellis

happy ye(l)s(d) day!

12:30am and I'm Yessing out to these clips just posted by Beat Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_GIji9EGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gaZRACHMSk

Bruford's drum faces always pretty funny.

for some reason probably because i hate yes it was only yesterday that i heard "parallels" for the first time and it was one of those surprising "wait hold on i actually like this song" experiences

i'm sure as hell not going to listen to every yes song just on the off chance that i might like one of them but it's nice when it happens

I've never considered clicking on the thread of a band I don't like but I can't think of a single band I hate.

INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE VP DEBATE I AM LISTENING TO RELAYER GOD this record is fucking insane

its like....Evil Yes

listen

should we fight forever

knowing as we do know

fear destroys?

exactly!! when does Good Jon ever write lyrics like that?

<3

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3362163313902980

gentle masks dont touch

I mean you expect us to log in to a Facebook post📘😊? Just not going to happen

Just post a link to south side lmfao

Go Jon!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKqEMQACepSftCYRGR-Au1HF3LBusS-ioH_nO2Vf8ffGXuzccIb4Ap7wee3WmmoSbbDWaoNXorZMtXmUNXtyF57OHr7dlg&feature=emb_title&time_continue=258&v=04xaMR9pzDk

wtf WOW

never thought I'd see the day Jon Anderson used the phrase "soulless motherfucker" in a song

Holy shit, amazing!

TS: "Go Screw Yourself" vs "With All Due Respect"

"If I may"

wow... one for the This Must Be A Tim & Eric Sketch thread?

I'm unclear on the message here. I thought the unflattering images of Trump in the first chorus meant this was anti-Trump but he's not really a sweet-talker and there are images of Democrats as well, and we see both "gun rights" and "gun control", for instance. So then I thought it might be just general 'both-sides' fatigue like the deYoung song but there are also lots of reminders to vote.

lol yeah "all politicians are crooks but you should get out and vote for them anyway" is kind of a weird message

This video is unlisted apparently? This suggests an additional layer of, uh, ambivalence.

Eating an edible in preparation for getting all Yessed out tonight with the 3xLP of Yessongs

i hope the edible starts kicking in once howe starts vamping right before the opening riff of "yours is no disgrace"

#jelly

i should say, i hope the second edible kicks in at that point

I just hope the thing plays alright, it was three dollars and it looks like its survived multiple hurricanes

more like multiple tormatoes amirite

xpost I misread that as three LP copies of Yessongs. Like, analog Zaireeka.

alright here we go

every copy of yessongs i’ve ever seen looks like it was used for many joint rollings and/or warhammer matches

oh damn there's a little book in here

lmao @ the audience hootin and hollerin for "Excerpts from 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII'"

man how the fuck do you play Close to the Edge

Just plow right through it

wow this is really kickin' in

i hope the edible starts kicking in once howe starts vamping right before the opening riff of "yours is no disgrace"

HA HA YES THIS IS VERY GOOD

my god this Yours Is No Disgrace is the best thing I've ever heard

ok i looked it up and it really is 14 minutes long. thats not just the gummy bear talkin

this is great i am getting yessed out vicariously

The Yes equivalent of Zaireeka is simultaneously playing all five mid-70s solo albums.

Hah, totally had a mental picture of frogbs having some sort of R Crumb/Zap Comix freakout, astral rabbit-hole moment whilst balancing his copy of YesSongs on his knee.

yessongs is probably their single best recording, and yeah the "total mass retain" section of "close to the edge" has a totally impossible groove, no idea how they pull it off

Only a seasoned witch could pull off such a groove.

I actually don't think I've listened to Yessongs since the early 90s, maybe I should give it a spin. Lack of Bill Bruford always ticked me off.

Oooh whatta ride! Jealous!!

alan white does a pretty good job for a guy who had to learn all these crazy difficult songs with limited-to-zero rehearsals

It was definitely a tough situation to be thrown into

Yessongs was the first Yes album I bought; I wasn't sure where to start with their catalog so I figured "Live album? Sure, OK." Definitely the right choice. When I went back for the studio albums, I knew what I was looking for. (I was still totally unprpeared for Relayer, of course.)

Bruford does actually play drums on bits of Yessongs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yessongs#Personnel

the version of "The Fish" on here is also quite insane

have a new level of respect for these guys now, even stuff like Howe having to play that same twisting riff for like six minutes straight on "Siberian Khatru" just seems incredibly difficult

Oh wow, I have these LPs. I haven't spun them in a little while but I remember really liking them, esp the version of "Close to the Edge". I'm excited to listen again.

I guess tonight I'll have to put on its companion, Welcome Back My Friends, To the Show That Never Ends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Bruford does actually play drums on bits of Yessongs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yessongs#Personnel

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true, but that still leaves wild drum parts like "siberian khatru," "heart of the sunrise," and the aforementioned "total mass retain" for alan white

Yeah the lad did a good job at short notice, he gets unfairly maligned imo.

Finally got them out. Man, that version of "Perpetual Change" is everything I love about these guys.

“Sharp!”

It’s a boring pick for best live prog album (I usually go with GGs Playing the Fool) but it’s the right choice

for sheer listening pleasure i'll take the three record run from the yes album - close to the edge over just about anything. to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms must have been a peak aesthetic experience, like hanging out in bach's church back in the day drunk on communion wine. just imagine! the motherlode they released in progeny of all the shows that went into yessongs is a sweet consolation though

I'll say it again: their debut is painfully underrated. Probably in my top 5.

My choice for best live prog album might be USA by King Crimson or Concerts by Henry Cow. I love Yes but the live albums don't tell me anything I didn't already know about their music. The Yessongs movie is worthwhile though.

I only heard the debut years after I'd heard most of the other albums - it was a lot heavier than I had been led to expect, but Peter Banks doesn't particularly distinguish himself and the covers on it and Time and a Word are pretty weak and ill-conceived. I remember reading somewhere that, in this era, they would play a version of the Young Rascals' Good Lovin' with a 20 minute bass solo in the middle.

Listened to Vol. III this morning. I'd forgotten how great that version of "Close to the Edge" is, jeez. It's actually the first I ever heard. The live version of "Yours Is No Disgrace" really grooves too

holy shit i heard Mr Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow for the first time this week and it is SO good. bits of it hit the same pleasure centres for me that tangerine dream / early animal collective do. big recommend for those haven't heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRHC-nTufaQ

to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms

<<raises hand>>
well, except for the mushrooms part. my second ever concert. late '72, nassau coliseum, sadly not w/bruford.

damn! lucky you. the first time i ever got to see them was way later, when i was really young, the ABWH tour, then the second time, in the round on the union tour. they ruled as much as i was hoping. can't begin to imagine what those songs sounded like fresh

the first yes binge is always a gratifying relief after months of OCD musical exploration

all i remember (i was 14, i guess?) was how cool they looked with the hair and that cape and the super high boots, all seen through the scary smoky adult haze that was the nassau coliseum in 1972.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/10/archives/coliseum-in-nassau-scene-of-53-arrests-in-2-days-for-drugs.html

I saw the Big Generator tour and they absolutely smoked

SCHIN

Saw them in 2003 in NYC and it was one of the most intense concert experiences I’ve had for both good and bad reasons. And I’ve been to plenty of intense shows,

What were the bad reasons?

Holy shit. I did not ever need to hear Yes covering "Imagine", what a train wreck.

xpost Drunken upstate NY redneck audience ( seemed to be a big part of the turnout) booing Jon Anderson’s guru when she came out to give NYC a blessing. Just a nasty loutish crowd when they weren’t getting that glorious music. And it *was* glorious. I think the show is on YT.

I say “Upstate NY” but those hicks probably came from all over the Tri-State ( NY, NJ, Connecticut).

Yeah I saw them around 2005 and it was really good. I remember Jon talking about a new Tales-type album coming out. Sucks it never happened. I think after Magnification they could’ve mounted a nice late career comeback but as always interband drama derailed it

I think I'm gonna get Yessed out right now

the record store in Green Bay that I bought a lot of shit from was a total Yeshead. one day I walked in and he was playing "Yours is No Disgrace" at max volume and that was the moment I decided I needed an expensive soundsystem

also the first and only time I've bought a record directly off the turntable. just put it on in fact

wow I never noticed the instrumental part 5 minutes into "Perpetual Change" coalesces into all parts of the song playing at once

:D

YES epiphanies are always a pleasure to read!

My show was 2004, actually. And here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez07S8hoE3g

Jump to “South Side Of The Sky” on that video for a good sample of what was in store for the audience that night. That’s when it really took off.

Serious Yes confessions: I saw them twice on the Union tour (the only times I've seen them).

another thing I noticed last night - Howe sneaks that weird up n' down riff in a few places on "Yours is no Disgrace"...I don't know how to describe this exactly but it's close to the riff that kicks off "Close to the Edge"

so I think the middle section in "Sound Chaser" and the ending of "Gates of Delirium" (the part before "Soon") are probably the two greatest prog instrumental jams of all time

not sure i agree but i love that you are thinking about it

**taps on wristwatch**

been jamming "heart of the sunrise" lately

been drinking water lately

to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms must have been a peak aesthetic experience, Was not on shrooms just then alas but a security guard opened the side door and motioned Tall Paul and me in---down a little hallway to the wings, where we heard bass & drums up front, though no prob w guitar, keys, helium vocals. Pretty great, and not to be anywhere near-replicated at home unless somebody trusted me w the EQ, and it would have to be a really good EQ. Even then, still not an impact equiv to live of course: nobody had speakers that good at home.

so I think the middle section in "Sound Chaser" and the ending of "Gates of Delirium" (the part before "Soon") are probably the two greatest prog instrumental jams of all time

I tend to agree, even though some shorter Van der Graaf Generator passages might come close. (I'm not counting post '72 King Crimson, as their instrumental jams, which are the greatest, don't register to me as "proggy".

Gates of Delirium maybe, I find the middle of Sound Chaser a little too oblique. Don't know whether you would consider the ending of Starless a "jam".

Just saw this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMoLoGfjyQ

That is very well done as these things go.

Yes on stage at the Crystal Palace Bowl, London, UK, 1971 pic.twitter.com/Am0fDvUGS5

— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) January 30, 2021

What is that keyboard pedalboard Squire is playing? It's too early to be a Taurus, I think.

He looks like a dr Seuss character

Big fan of Squire's foofy boots here.

I suspect the pedalboard doesn't actually work, he's just miming so that people pay more attention to the footwear.

What is that keyboard pedalboard Squire is playing? It's too early to be a Taurus, I think.

My keyboard guru got back in touch to tell me they seem to be a set of Dewtron Mr.Bassman pedals: https://www.matrixsynth.com/2013/10/early-1970s-dewtron-mister-bassman-bass.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLsvpwZchA

Ah, thanks. Why did Squire need a bass synth pedalboard? I get that Geddy Lee used them when he played keyboards.

They had a deep, well-rounded tonality, so good for punctuation in parallel with his handful-of-gravel-hitting-a-tin-bath bass sound, I imagine he probably didn't really need it once Wakeman moved in.

End of Starship Trooper for a start!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DQua8h82M why is howe in the video?

Silly human race

that '71 concert includes the Paul Simon tune 'america' - love hearing little Jon sing about the New Jersey turnpike

the studio version of "America" is fantastic

did i dream that they once did a live version where they mashed up simon & garfunkel's "america" with west side story's "america"?

Maybe you're thinking about The Nice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLVEIGsG1Og

yeah i think i mashed those two up in my mind. but there's a free idea for any enterprising band that wants it.

finally listening to Yesshows, I don't think I've ever actually heard this before. you know how copies of Yessongs & ELP's Welcome Back My Friends are always beat to shit? with Yesshows and ELP's In Concert it's the opposite, every copy I see looks pristine, which to me is a signal that the people who bought these listened to it once or twice before filing it away forever.

still, it's pretty good! "Gates", much like "Close to the Edge" on Yessongs, seems like something it would be impossible to do live. and despite being 10 minutes longer than the studio version I think "Ritual" absolves itself quite well, though it's pretty fucking endless ain't it?

"Ritual" is my least favourite side of Tales, the first side is wonderful and each subsequent one a little less so. I don't really want to hear extended bass solos even from Squire, never mind percussion improvisations.
I do appreciate that they didn't include any of the pieces they had already done on Yessongs, I'm glad they took pride in their more recent material (and "Time and a Word").

the percussion bit is pretty cool I think, even if only because it's something they'd never really done before. I think the live take injects far more energy. But it's not exactly Close to Close to the Edge

imo sides 1 & 4 of Tales are the best, though my favorite section is the amazing funky riff on side 2. side 3 I never remember a thing about other than it has a lot of Steve Howe licking the strings

guess what album turned 50 today. i'll give you a hint it has 5 guys standing around a chair and the first song is Yours Is No Disgrace

Oh nice, getting Yessed out to "Starship Trooper" rn. I'll be putting the LP on when cleaning the apartment tomorrow.

I just got my new turntable today I guess this is the first record I'm playing

Oh Yes. The Yes Album: possibly the most uplifting album I know of. So full of unbridled positive energy. I don't have it on vinyl and this is something I need to remedy ASAP

caesars' palace, frogbs' phono

shining flying purple bullfrogbs

Steve Howe is so good. he plays the guitar the way i would imagine a spider playing a guitar

Yes!

Currently wearing my XXL black Relayer sweatshirt

Silly human race

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:27 PM (nine months ago)

In some ways their most impressive album, in that it's still very much rock music, but a completely fresh and wild take on it

hey frogbs how's it sounding? i've been spinning Olias Of Sunhillow and it is great when i'm in the right mood. i keep waiting for it to start.

Speaking of which:
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/jon-anderson-olias-of-sunhillow-2-disc-remastered-expanded-edition/

Released March 26, 2021

• A NEWLY REMASTERED & EXPANDED 2 DISC EDITION OF THE LEGENDARY 1976 SOLO ALBUM BY YES VOCALIST JON ANDERSON
• NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES
• FEATURES A DVD WITH A HIGH RESOLUTION 96 kHz / 24-BIT REMASTER OF THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX ALONG WITH A 5.1 SURROUND SOUND UP-MIX DERIVED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES
• WITH FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK AND AN ESSAY WITH AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JON ANDERSON
• INCLUDES ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET WITH NEW ESSAY

Was it necessary for Yes to replace Kaye with Wakeman in order to achieve the level of commercial and musical success they did with Fragile?

I think Tony Kaye didn't like playing anything other than the Hammond, but by that time synthesizers and Mellotrons etc were all the rage so just sticking to the organ would have seemed a little dated. Plus Wakeman was a much better and more versatile musician.

Sure, but I get the impression some comments above are hinting that something was lost between The Yes Album and Fragile, and it's hard to pin that on anything other than Kaye's departure.

I don’t think Kaye’s presence made much of a huge musical difference. He was a fine player but I dunno... maybe their minds were expanding, musically, as a unit and someone as —um — expansive as Wakeman fit where they were headed much better than Kaye?

Wakeman brought a neoclassical flair to the band that made Fragile and later works possible, but this also diluted the rock elements that made Yes Album so effective. So I think it was necessary, but meant losing a more focused rock energy.

I'm not sure why Fragile is so inferior (imo) but it is. The songs just aren't nearly as strong. They were transitioning away from being a rock group into something else, and they rushed out their transitional album

Or what Moodles said

One listen to Kaye's post-Yes band Badger tells you where he was at musically, kind of blues prog. I don't think they'd have made Close to the Edge with him still there. Topographic Oceans neither, but that's another story.

The Yes Album and Fragile would both be much better with the shorter songs excised, other than Long Distance Runaround/The Fish.

Another way to look at is that Kaye was willing to chug away and let Howe take the lead. With Wakeman, you end up having two lead instrumental voices battling it out for space.

Do you mean "Clap" and "A Venture " from the Yes Album? Really disagree there.

Xp

Squire was always the lead instrumentalist but yes fine ;)

I like Fragile a lot too, though!

The three epic tracks are all amazing, "Long Distance Runaround" is delightful, and the short solo excursions are nice diversions.

Squire is much more melodic than your average bass player, but he still mostly plays the traditional bass role with Howe and Wakeman often layering in lead squiggles over the top.

I thought the shorter tracks on The Yes Album and Fragile broke the flow, although they're not bad in and of themselves (with the exception of "Cans & Brahms", which is the worst track Yes ever put to tape by a long way and I'm including "Circus of Heaven" in that).

Squire is much more melodic than your average bass player, but he still mostly plays the traditional bass role with Howe and Wakeman often layering in lead squiggles over the top.

This is where it all started going wrong on Topographic Oceans for me, the keys and bass are more like colouring or back-up instruments while Howe and Anderson wank off endlessly on top.

hey frogbs how's it sounding? i've been spinning Olias Of Sunhillow and it is great when i'm in the right mood. i keep waiting for it to start.

was pretty fucking amazing. I've always wanted a copy of Olias, should probably pull the trigger on that some day. judging by my last haul apparently I am in the "get all the 74-76 solo albums" phase now

IMO Fragile is better than TYA but I guess I'll have to confirm this when the sun goes down (4:30 PM)

I heard the first two albums long after I knew the rest of the catalogue, and I was surprised to find that Time and a Word featured Kaye much more than the Yes Album did. Of course, Peter Banks was a much more retiring guitarist than Howe, so it may be that Kaye stepped up when there was more room to fill, and stepped back as Howe took the reins. I guess it's also worth noting the Kaye only took 1/5 songwriting credit on a single song in his three albums with the band.

One thing that I read awhile ago that might not be apparent from the records or the credits was how much Wakeman had to do with coming up with transitions between musical bits; since he was the only one with a serious musical education, he knew the "proper" way to resolve and combine the parts that the others contributed.

I think Eddie Offord's editing skills were a big part of corralling the chaos into coherent musical pieces too, although I suspect that aspect of his contribution was sidelined to some extent by the time they did Topographic Oceans as the egos got out of hand.

IN the meantime, the dregs of current Yes have put out an album as Arc of Life

Here's a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_84UCEDeEkc

This album sounds exactly how you'd expect an album featuring Billy Sherwood, Jimmy Haun, Jay Schellen (Alan White's replacement/double) and Jon Davidson to sound: like lukewarm oatmeal. It's better than Heaven and Earth though.

Speaking of Davison if you really need a Yes fix you might want to check out his former band Glass Hammer

They’ve got a lot of good ones but If and Cor Coridum very much have a “what if Yes stayed the course after Going For the One” vibe to them

I love "Circus of Heaven". Definitely not near their worst.

I've said it before but those long weird meandering solos on "The Ancient" are really weird and beautiful, I've never heard anything else like that.

I enjoy "Cans & Brahms" for what it is tbh, a quick Wendy Carlos-style arrangement sketch. I know people hate it.

Seems far too short and breezy to be hateable.

I dislike it mostly because its prominent placement on the record can give people the idea that Yes is about "playing rock versions of classical music" like ELP, when that wasn't what they did at all.

As for the question of "What is the weakest Yes original released between 1969 and 1980", I might pick "Clap" or "Onward".

Oh, yeah, it's not the best introduction, especially coming right after the hit.

Hating "Clap" is madness, though.

that little bruford drumroll during the applause right before "starship trooper" launches rules

Howe's guitar sounds unpleasantly trebly on "Clap", and it seems like an exercise. I prefer the warmer classical guitar on "Mood for a Day".

i love "a venture". it's jaunty and trippy. it would have been a highlight on either of the first two albums, where anderson's lyrics were more often linear and narrative

god the yes album is just perfect

Okay, I just played "A Venture" and it seems I'd been mixing it up with "We Have Heaven", it's actually a nice little number. So that's a thumbs-up from me too. Steve Howe's Chet Atkins fantasies can still bog off though. I'm tempted to play "Circus of Heaven" now to see if it's less embarrassing than I remember.

It's pretty weak.

i love that they got one of the dudes from gnidrolog to play record on the first movement of "i've seen all good people", and they go from that into howe totally vamping in the second movement, into "a venture" and the space lounge of "perpetual change." as great as this record is it still sounds so weird

I think he played a steel-string on both pieces? xps

Matt #2 - you don't like "We Have Heaven"?

I have fond memories of singing "Circus Of Heaven" when I went for walks a decade ago.

I thought We Have Heaven was an OK-ish dry run for Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, which was also part of a "let's all do solo things" project thinking about it. Five Per Cent of Nothing just about beats Ramshackled if we're making comparisons. Squire was the winner both times though, Fish Out of Water is almost the great lost Yes album.

Fish Out of Water loses me a bit on the last orchestral track, but it is interesting to hear Squire's lead voice and his take on the Yes sound.

5% for Nothing is a perfect 30 second song, but Ramshackled is way way down on my listening list.

I wish Anderson had done more like "We Have Heaven", I think he might have used more loops on one of his later solo albums but not sure.

this should come packaged in a vacuum bong

https://www.musicglue.com/yes-union-30/products/yes-union-live-limited-edition-super-deluxe-flight-case-30-year-anniversary-edition

Union tour was the only time I saw Yes live, and it was deeply disappointing

Utterly baffling that they are releasing this and thinking it's something their fanbase wants. Their fanbase wants tours released, certainly; Progeny was proof of that. But they want good tours of the band in their prime, and Union is not that. I can't imagine listening to 30 discs of shows from that tour. This isn't King Crimson.

'union' had its own section in the used bin at my local record store circa '92

I don't think any of the Union live albums have had much tracks from the studio album. I've wanted something like that because Wakeman felt the studio album was butchered but was proud of the live performances, but this is too much.

I saw them twice on the Union tour, lol.

Yikes yeah this is just overblown — even for Yes !

You know what would’ve been cool for them to have played on this tour? “Machine Messiah”. Howe and Rabin would’ve sounded nice together on that. Because otherwise I hated when they were forced to play together. Oil (Rabin = motor oil) and water.

coming quickly to terms

I just BLASTED "Parallels" at plate-tectonic volume, then followed it with "Hold Out Your Hand" from Squire's Fish Out Of Water. If you're gonna get Yessed out, this is definitely a recommended venture

for real there's such an inherent joy to the way Wakeman plays on "Parallels"

I think it's the ending of "Parallels" on Yesshows where Wakeman sounds like he just went full Keith Moon on everything.

At the very least, the giant Union box should include the argument of Howe telling Peter Banks to fuck off backstage at the LA Forum.

Was just thinking how funny it would be if the current line up went out on tour and only played the ABWH album and Union.

say what you will about Jon Anderson, but the man knew computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8ZcY7nXiE

if I took an edible and watched that I would immediately become 10x more high

lmao

you would never be as high as Jon Anderson

https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/YES52020_CreditGottliebBros.jpg?resize=1800,1200&w=1800

New album, accompanied by a press photo with, uh, a lot going on.

Crypt Keeper cleans up well.

I might actually go to a show if they do all of Relayer...

Heart (Attack) of the Sunrise

Steve Howe looking like direct sunlight would turn him to dust.

I'll admit to not recognizing anyone except Howe...is that Jon Anderson's son in the middle? Maybe Trevor someone on the right?

Isn’t that Billy Sherwood?

Second guy is Jon Davison, who they poached from Glass Hammer. Though he only got hired there because he sounded like Jon Anderson so fair game I guess

Other two are Horn and White I think??

l-r: Steve Howe, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood, Alan White, Geoff Downes

Downes seems to be morphing into Christopher Biggins, Howe into the Ghost of Steve Howe Future

Looks like the only living members of the 1976 staff of TSR.

I really want these dudes to just finally go all out and do at least one mega-lineup, 18 person album credited to YESSSSS! with all the still alive former members.

vocalists - Jon Anderson, Jon Davison, Benoit David
gtrs - Steve Howe, Peter Banks, Trevor Rabin
keys - Tony Kaye, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes, Oliver Wakeman, Igor Khoroshev
drums - Bill Bruford, Alan White, Tony O'Reilly, Dylan Howe
bass - Trevor Horn, Billy Sherwood

let's go back to what worked for us on Union

Peter Banks is no longer with us unfortunately! Also Bruford retired some years ago. I think Khoroshev got kicked out for sexual harassment, don't quote me on that though. Wakeman would probably only do it if they called it 'Onion' (his oft-quoted joke about what the 'Union' album should have been called). Otherwise I'm all for it!

anyway some more info about this here

http://yesworld.com/2021/07/yes-announce-new-studio-album-the-quest

8 songs, all between 4-8 minutes, with a 3-track bonus CD for some reason. no samples but I assume this is gonna sound a lot like Heaven and Earth

I wonder what the odds are, in a group of five men of that age, that two of them would have had children die.

Swear to god, when I first saw this yesterday, my immediate reaction was "...Soul Asylum?"

Two boys on a playground
Tryin' to push each other down
See the crowd gather 'round
Call it morning driving thru the sound

This has got to be one of the final "all new" records by one of the original big prog bands (although Tull are preparing a new record, The Zealot Gene).

Have any name prog acts put out a Blackstar/You Want It Darker "reckoning with mortality" record? Peter Hammill, probably.

Isn't that most of his career?

Yeah Hammill's 2006 album Singularity was the first one he made after suffering a heart attack, several tracks on it deal with that.

Peter Banks is no longer with us unfortunately! Also Bruford retired some years ago. I think Khoroshev got kicked out for sexual harassment, don't quote me on that though. Wakeman would probably only do it if they called it 'Onion' (his oft-quoted joke about what the 'Union' album should have been called). Otherwise I'm all for it!

Totally blanked on Banks having passed away. And yeah I know Bruford retired, but might as well dream big!

You have $17 dollars, build your version of Yes

$5 - Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman
$4 - Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Tony Levin, Alan White
$3 - Jon Davison, Benoit David, Dylan Howe, Oliver Wakeman
$2 - Billy Sherwood, Tony O'Reilly, Igor Khoroshev

is it buy 4 get Squire free

members must be living and active

strawbs keeps popping 'em out.

ok fine I'll bite

Howe (can't be Yes without him), Moraz (can he still play?), Davison (dude is more Jon than Jon), Sherwood (he's not bad!), and O'Reilly (whoever he is I'm sure he can play better than White at this point), guess I pocket a dollar

Khoroshev is the bargain in this group, alas the man is too horny for Yes

Anderson, Howe, White, Oliver Wakeman and no bass I guess?

by that I mean he's a horny guy, not that he wants to bone the members of Yes

Tonys Kaye and Levin are overpriced.

my super duper group

Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Tony O'Reilly, Billy Sherwood, Patrick Moraz

as good as Levin is I don't think his style really jives with Yes. then again I suppose he can do just about anything.

I liked him on Union!

In addition to being a fantastic bass player, I have a soft spot for him because he is also from Brookline, Massachusetts.

Nothing to do with Yes, but I was annoyed listening to one of the recent Crimson live albums by how he slid around between notes instead of just hitting them dead-on like Wetton.

proper intonation is for chumps!

I mean when he was playing the 70s stuff, of course he's fine with the parts that he devised.

aint no frets on the bing bong stick or whatever the fuck its called

I'm pretty sure there are frets on the Chapman Stick

oh fine excuse me mr music genius

Gentlefolks, you can't fret about the Chapman Stick here! This is a prog thread!

don't shoot the stick messenger!

For years, I swore Tony Levin was a stage name meant as a brag about his bass sound ("Tone Eleven"). Then i learned that he primarily played something resembling an electric cribbage board, and "Tony Levin" is his real name.

But the serious question: when will Yes give us their "Honkin' on Bobo"?

I think they may be warming up to their Honkin' on Bobo. The most recent live album (I think, they may have squeezed another one out since I heard it) inexplicably included a cover of "Imagine" and a Richie Havens song.

They covered Richie Havens on their second album.

So they've been honkin' on bobo for a long, long time, it seems.

down at the honk
round by the bobo

loooooose one
onn too the honk of the bobo

Honks From Bobographic Oceans