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

"you don't understand, I want to make the microphone SIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGG" was the gist of the post, as "some elfin-looking guy" interrogated a microphone salesperson

yeah hoping the whole album is like those two songs - what I really wanted is for the Band Geeks to be involved, because Jon on his own is fine but when he pairs up with talented prog dudes it's already great. even Roine Stolt (who I'm generally not a huge fan of) made a pretty great LP with him.

That Roine Stolt record (Invention of Knowledge, from 2016) is great, but I've been afraid to check out anything else he's been involved with.

Kaipa is not all golden but totally worth diving into if you have time to kill, especially the original '70s run. let's say Flower Kings though depends on how much patience you have for the vocals on Allan Holdsworth solo albums. Transatlantic is even more so about tolerance for Neal Morse's prog/pop-punk nasal vocals

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.

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 liked The Tangent's In Earnest but that's the only song of theirs that's stuck with me

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.

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)

Drew posted this:
here's [Wobbly's] story of spotting Jon Anderson at NAMM

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.

THANK YOU

This AI generated "Yes" album is pretty fun.

I take that back. It's awful sludge. Scary. too.

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

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

she would coil her said amazement asking only interest could be laid upon the children of her domain

Do Yesheads rate "City of Love" from the 90125 album? I'm quite into that tune lately

Love that one, my 90125 shame is behind me nowadays

I liked that one back in the day. I don't think I've heard it in 25 years.

no woman, don't cry

we'll be waiting for the night
we'll be waiting for the night to come

hell yeah Jon!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn-kFz5ibGA

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Nice! I hope there's a squiggly, 10 min + epic on this new record

16 minutes actually

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.

gotta share a cool moment, about a year ago I went to visit some family including a cousin who is about my age. he's way cooler than I am, kind of a guy's guy but in a good way. anyway I stayed at his house overnight and was surprised to find out that he too has a record collection and mentions one of his "favorite guys" is Jon Anderson! I was like "oh shit you're a Yes fan? what's your favorite song?" I admit I said this in kind of a gatekeepy way but I really wanted to know if he was a bona fide Yeshead or if he just really liked one of their hits. he says immediately "Perpetual Change". my man. turns out he absolutely loves them and has a bunch of their records. which was kinda wild because there were no other prog records in his collection, it was mostly metal and shit like Billy Joel

anyway, for his birthday I gave him a copy of Relayer. signed too. by me :)

aww

when i was a kid my buying choices were highly influenced by quantity of music per dollar. which is how i ended up with stuff like the woodstock soundtrack and the song remains the same, etc

i will never deny yessongs, however. i know exactly when, as we move into 'the teacher the preacher', someone will whistle. and when, at the beginning of 'yours is no disgrace' a woman yells 'yay!'

it rules (also it rocks a little harder than most of the studio versions do, which was cool with both teen and elderly me)

it rules (also it rocks a little harder than most of the studio versions do, which was cool with both teen and elderly me)

It was the first record of theirs I bought (the early 2000s 2CD version) and I'm really glad, because it rocked so hard that I was immediately won over. The studio albums might have taken longer to get their hooks in me.

my first as well, the triple LP, probably 1980

and yah it is undeniable

highly recommend Progeny then, it's also from the '72 band and the sound quality is better

I mean the version of Yours is No Disgrace on there is so insane. I guess the Yessongs one is too but here you can hear Bruford better

That's impressive, since Alan White plays the drums on all of Progeny

lmao was gonna say "even though he plays a more straightforward basher style here he's really ace at it", I thought he was on some of these tracks oops

lol thank you but i don't really need 14 discs of the '72 tour when yessongs is right there

there's a condensed version that's about 100 minutes long and just contains the best stuff (as selected by them), sort of an alternate version Yessongs

oic

ty

gtfo with putting 'the six wives' on that and no 'starship trooper' tho

fucking wakeman

otm

I thought he was on some of these tracks oops

I was imagining the new mix featuring Bruford being simultaneously recorded watching TV back home in England

gtfo with putting 'the six wives' on that

Every time Yes releases "Excerpts from 'Six Wives of Henry VIII'" they're actually saving you a half-hour of listening to the rest of Wakeman's album

they didn't do Starship Trooper during that run of shows, it doesn't appear on any of them

I like the Six Wives excerpt fine, though I must say the QPR show where Pat Moraz plays excerpts from the Refugee album is a lot more fun

now i wanna hear moraz play six wives, see if it's salvageable as music

I was wondering if Jon was ever going to do an autobiography and he talked about writing it recently

A Jon Anderson memoir sure to be a model of lucidity

found a pretty clean copy of Yessongs recently for $7, now if you'll excuse me

god they pull off some wild shit at the end of Perpetual Change

hell yes

no wonder the jacket's always beat to shit, the gatefold works pretty much the opposite way you think it will

omg this is yr first time?!?

I have super vivid memories of this 3LP from the early high school pre-punk years, I own a different copy today sadly but it's still VG+