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

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.

I just wanna yell at him FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU DO like he's the Chunky

Circus of Heaven is awesome. This is my kinda pop song

happy 35th to UNION, an album that had its own subsection at the used cd store i frequented in college

Benoit was great. I don't know why they felt that Horn needed to re-do the vocals on Fly from Here.

I saw them twice on that tour in case anyone was mistaken that I was cool or something.

Xp

I think Horn felt like he wanted to redo the vocals so they let him. I think both versions are good.

There are also some good things on From A Page, the album that got aborted in favor of Fly From Here, including a different take on Into the Storm.

watched some old Yes footage late at night (of course), including some from the Drama tour. I don't think I'd ever seen any live footage of that, Horn and Downes just do not appear comfortable on any of the classic material, but they're basically fine. then they hit "Tempus Fugit" and it's totally killer. watching Horn mug for the camera is so odd, I mean you almost forget the fact that they just took in the Buggles wholesale like that. cool era for them, wish it had lasted.

after that watched some 2003 stuff...basically the classic lineup, and they are still very good, but you can kinda tell by their stage demeanor that they aren't really enjoying themselves. outside of Jon, who always is I suppose. amusingly in a few of these Jon would just come out in a t-shirt and hoodie which I think made Wakeman/Howe/Squire's outfits look even sillier. anyway at the end of "Siberian Khatru" they launched into a long jam session like they always did and it's pretty apparent none of them want to have a thing to do with what the other members were doing, Howe's just off in space, Wakeman waiting for it to be over, Squire's scowling at everybody, and Jon's just dutifully slapping the tambourine...weird times. but still a good performance overall.

This was very much the vibe I got from the Union tour, they were bored and didn't like playing together, very little enthusiasm, just dutifully cranking out the hits. Hard to overstate how much more lively and entertaining Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks were.

Does that weird crustacean-looking stage set from the Relayer tour give anyone else the ick?

xpost I dunno I saw them in NYC on that 2003 tour and they were on fire.

Good piece on ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/yes-owner-of-a-lonely-heart/

Just found out there's a Steve Howe + Jon Anderson cover of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. Not enough overdubbed-Anderson-choir on the verses, and too much soulless turn-of-the-century major-label-rock sheen everywhere, but still, it's pretty neat.

all complete in the sight of seeds of life with you

bear season 5 teaser episode makes the best use of "heart of the sunrise" i've heard since buffalo '66

the two songs out for the new album have to be the most unnecessary Yes songs ever. Just terrible

seeing this album in the record store is the real "Turnaround Situation"

so more like No