― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .
best
Drew
― Drew Daniel, Friday, 27 August 2004 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Drew Daniel, Friday, 27 August 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
What is NAMM, anyway?
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― ___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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 .. .)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Olias of Sunhillow Critical Edition, with commentary track guest starring the 'scientists' from The Future Is Wild
― sharkopath (Jon L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
and yes, there ARE maggots on the dude's eyes.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I found my mint LP copy of Relayer for a dollar in a used bin.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/Moraz30.jpg
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link
damn, and i'm not even close to being drunk tonight!!
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/be70040c-9265-47c2-ab7b-0dc6abe418a.jpg
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm yessed out on poppy pod tea and I just played guitar for an hour. Yes!
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
karaoke, yes-style!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoE9r11a-c
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgH7Oec__s
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:23 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL cheesy late 70s video effects -- also, it reminds me of the "i want candy" video.
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"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?)
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Squire on "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KQIaHFma4
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:34 (sixteen years ago) link
-- trashthumb, Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:29 AM
OMG I AM YESSED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A COON'S AGE
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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..
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Utterly ridiculous, but Howe really kills it here.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
OMFG. "Awaken" sounding transcendent right now really LOUD after a night of bourbon & Guiness. On headphones, mind.
― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
interesting that they covered "america" -- the beginning of "el condor pasa" sounds a lot like the beginning of "roundabout"
― kamerad, Saturday, 16 January 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
every Flower Kings record has like 2-5 minutes of stuff I really like but overall they're just boring. maybe one day they'll click with me. I feel like you can only really have room for one weirdly-prolific prog revival band in your life. for me it used to be Glass Hammer but now it's The Tangent.
― frogbs, Friday, 31 May 2024 20:32 (two weeks ago) link
all of that stuff glass hammer, tangent, transatlantic, flower kings, is so incredibly dull and boring to me. I just can't listen to any of it. Or I can, it just makes zero impression when it's over.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 31 May 2024 21:15 (two weeks ago) link
I liked The Tangent's In Earnest but that's the only song of theirs that's stuck with me
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 31 May 2024 21:46 (two weeks ago) link
that's def true of the latter two in my view
Glass Hammer are so over the top sometimes that I can't help but dig them, also I think the Jon Davison albums really do sound like something Yes could've cranked out post-GFTO. those aren't necessarily my favorite though. I haven't really liked their recent ones though. also hard to deal with overtly religious bands these days
The Tangent definitely have their dull spots and every album they do is way too long but they always grow on me. if nothing else Andy Tillison is probably the one prog dude who should be allowed to write political lyrics.
― frogbs, Friday, 31 May 2024 21:51 (two weeks ago) link
can one of you please find the post where an ilxor saw Anderson at a gear show and watched him burst into song? anyone remember that? I can paraphrase more if needed― I painted my teeth (sleeve)
― I painted my teeth (sleeve)
Drew posted this:here's [Wobbly's] story of spotting Jon Anderson at NAMM
― jvc, Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:08 (two weeks ago) link
THANK YOU
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:21 (two weeks ago) link
This AI generated "Yes" album is pretty fun.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:34 (two weeks ago) link
I take that back. It's awful sludge. Scary. too.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:47 (two weeks ago) link
lol my exact reaction, after 2 or 3 minutes it started making me uncomfortable but I listened to the whole album anyway just to see if any part of it would stick with me. nothing really did except for that weird Sega Genesis style bass noise
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:44 (two weeks ago) link
I love Squire's weird clipped accent he sings in on the first section, I wonder what that was all about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUI1GHuT1jk
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:31 (one week ago) link
she would coil her said amazement asking only interest could be laid upon the children of her domain
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 19:03 (one week ago) link
Do Yesheads rate "City of Love" from the 90125 album? I'm quite into that tune lately
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 19:21 (one week ago) link
Love that one, my 90125 shame is behind me nowadays
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 19:31 (one week ago) link
I liked that one back in the day. I don't think I've heard it in 25 years.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 19:38 (one week ago) link
no woman, don't cry
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:04 (one week ago) link
we'll be waiting for the nightwe'll be waiting for the night to come
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:07 (one week ago) link
hell yeah Jon!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn-kFz5ibGA
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:51 (one week ago) link
\m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:56 (one week ago) link
Nice! I hope there's a squiggly, 10 min + epic on this new record
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:35 (one week ago) link
16 minutes actually
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:47 (one week ago) link
I am predicting an 'Awaken' style structure, vague eastern influence, goes hard for about 7 mins, long ambient bit with harps and whatnot, then a huge, ascending reprise/end.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:50 (one week ago) link