Yes

Just been revisiting my youth.
Bought most of their stuff at "yanks" as a kid
Remembering it all being three quid,yes £3 an album,sold them all for nowt alas.
I bought Close to the Edge probably 1979 and thought it was amazing,my first Yes album mind was "the yes album".
What a band,if you dont like them fare enough,but by christ,what a bunch of seriously top musicians.

I get up,I get down.
 
Anderson without reservation, has to be one of the greatest vocalists of all time and all he ever does is keep on giving. The man is now in his eightieth year, and it's like listening in as if it was still 1975 all over again. Non too shabby for a man that nearly died of accute respitary failure back in 2008. Would dearly love to see him play again before his demise or mine.

Great guitar work. Lets here it for the Geeks!

Soon .. kicking in at the 16.30 mark.

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I can’t think of many bands who transformed themselves so utterly. If I think about the 3 of their albums I love the most it would be The Yes Album 70, GFTO 77 and 90125 83.
The difference between the first and third of those is incredible. What they have in common though is amazing musicianship, first class vocals and arrangements to die for.

I appreciate they were a bit leftfield for some mainstream rock fans, and to be fair some of their output was very, very easy to parody and mock. I don’t like everything they did by any means. But their high points were so very high.

High vibration go on.
Gentle Mass Touch.
 
I have a problem with Yes, and I dont know why....each one of the band is/was a genius in his own right and together they are brilliant, here's the rub...I just cant ' get into them ' no matter how I try. Sure I've got a few of their later albums and some of the earlier singles where great but that's where it ends.
 
Tuearts right boot said:
I have a problem with Yes, and I dont know why....each one of the band is/was a genius in his own right and together they are brilliant, here's the rub...I just cant ' get into them ' no matter how I try. Sure I've got a few of their later albums and some of the earlier singles were great but that's where it ends.
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Fair comment pal.
Just out of interest what years/era do you mean when you say ‘later albums’?
 
Not sure of the year (1990?) but I saw them on the Union tour at the NEC. They had two musicians per instrument and performed on a revolving stage. Considering the number of musicians in the stage the sound was impeccable as was the performance. Probably the most perfect gig I’ve ever seen
 
TueartsOHK said:
Not sure of the year (1990?) but I saw them on the Union tour at the NEC. They had two musicians per instrument and performed on a revolving stage. Considering the number of musicians in the stage the sound was impeccable as was the performance. Probably the most perfect gig I’ve ever seen
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Yep, was at that one at NEC too, Union, or Onion as Wakeman called it.
They filmed a couple of shows from it.
Here’s one from the USA leg 91
 
TueartsOHK said:
Cheers mate will give that a watch
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You’ll need 3 hours spare though ;-)

I do remember that NEC in the round show being fabulous though. It was my first time seeing them all together. I’d missed out on 9012Live, and Big Generator tour never came to Europe, though I think I saw ABWH at the NEC a year or two before this. That was decent, but not as good as seeing all of them together playing the new and the classic material.
 
chesterbells said:
You’ll need 3 hours spare though ;-)

I do remember that NEC in the round show being fabulous though. It was my first time seeing them all together. I’d missed out on 9012Live, and Big Generator tour never came to Europe, though I think I saw ABWH at the NEC a year or two before this. That was decent, but not as good as seeing all of them together playing the new and the classic material.
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Although I love Yes I’ve always preferred Genesis as my prog band of choice (though not for musicianship). Having seen Genesis a few times however they never came close to the Yes gig. The show, the sound and how they got that many musicians to play as a tight unit was amazing.
 
TueartsOHK said:
Although I love Yes I’ve always preferred Genesis as my prog band of choice (though not for musicianship). Having seen Genesis a few times however they never came close to the Yes gig. The show, the sound and how they got that many musicians to play as a tight unit was amazing.
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Was at Steve Hackett last Wednesday! Probably the best gig I’ve seen … since I last saw him ;-)
 
chesterbells said:
Was at Steve Hackett last Wednesday! Probably the best gig I’ve seen … since I last saw him ;-)
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I was watching 10cc the same night in Wolverhampton. They had a slide show at the start showing their history and up popped a City team photo (obviously the link with the Boys in Blue recording). It was a great show but I would have traded places for the Hackett gig
 
chesterbells said:
Was at Steve Hackett last Wednesday! Probably the best gig I’ve seen … since I last saw him ;-)
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My favourites gig was Yes at Kings Hall Bellevue in 1972, at the time I was playing in a Prog style band at the time and we all went to the gig ...after we watched them we felt like giving up, the standard of musicianship was off the scale.
Every member was a virtuoso of their instrument.
 
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