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

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