Yes is unsearchable

So, How Many Rick Wakeman Solo Albums Have You Actually Heard (All the Way Through) Anyway?

YES: Classic or Dud?

The Most UN-"Punk Rock" album ever..

Actually it sounds more like what Grateful Dead sound like on acid than what they sound like sober. The first few times I heard it, I thought it was the Grateful Dead. Once I finally got a really good listen, I tracked down the band and album and it is the reason I ever began liking Yes. I swear when I hear it for a moment the world turns tie-dye.

Nobody I knew ever spoke about them and for some reason I had them pegged as sounding like the Byrds or the Yardbirds or some 70s birds that were poor-fidelitily recorded hippy shit like Moby Grape. Moby Grape is pretty cool and all, but nothing I'd want to spend more money on. There's 5 Yes albums I would buy all over again.

oh my god, the dead never could have played that song. they would have fallen over. even in the 60's. maybe if they slowed it down to a death march a la red house painters.

Other way around, chief. Being that Fragile was recorded in 1971, I'd say it's Sting who sounds like Jon Anderson.

If Yes wants to be searched, THEN THEY CAN CHANGE. NOT US.

When I was refferring to Jerry's "tone" I was talking about was his guitar tone. I've never heard anyone else with a guitar tone like Jerry's until I heard Long Distance Runaround. That's what I was trying to say. It's real bright and almost sounds like steel drums or something. Can't explain it.

Well, simply put, it's disrespectful to Jon Anderson. It's like saying Joe Strummer sounds like Billy Joe Armstrong or that Geddy Lee sounds like that hirsute clown in Coheed & Cambria. Give the elders their due, ya whippersnapper.

i'm quite familiar with the dead, actually. And you don't remember correctly. Well, I am a metal fan, but I'm a dead fan too. I just like making fun of anyone who isn't jerry. I'm not a "deadhead" which means that i feel no obligation to love every member of the band. I am a Hunter/Garcia fan all the way. Any chance I get to make fun of bob weir or mickey hart i will take.

As did I. The title track is so uncontrollably overstuffed it's fantastic. There's a serious battle on that album going on between the Trevors — with Rabin's slick arena rock moves intermittently interrupted by Horn's choral arrangements, jumpy-ass panning and orchestra blasts.

xpost- Big Generator? You guys must be shittin' me. I thought that was the major fall of just horrid and dated 80s rock. I think someone described it as "Def Leppard meets Queen by way of Foreigner," which sounds very bad to me!

I remember Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin going on MTV to promote Big Generator's release, and Mark Goodman(maybe?) asked Trevor what it was like to have worked with Trevor Horn. Anderson reached over and covered Rabin's mouth in a 'Censored!' gesture, and Rabin ran with it, raising his voice in exaggerated, angry wordless gurgles. I guess they made up, though, when Rabin played on the Seal album.

My favorite part of Big Generator is the climax/end of "I'm Running"
("There in the heart of millions etc..."). I think that just might be the best that Rabin-era Yes ever pulled off musically.

Both groups came up with perfect albums toward the end of the career, and then tried to build on the formula, but stumbled with key collaborators (Trevor Horn, Todd Rundgren).

Oranges is probaly better than Big Generator, but only marginally.

THE SYN (WITH CHRIS SQUIRE AND ALAN WHITE OF YES) WITH STEVE NARDELLI
Sunday January 8
7:00 PM
http://www.synmusic.net
Before there was YES, there was The Syn. Their New York Debut concert, this promises to be a very special CD release party for their new album, Syndestructible. According to Scope Magazine, former Virgin Records U.K. head Jon Webster describes Syndestructible as "the album that will bring people rushing back to prog-rock. Brilliant!" Effectively describing themselves as Prog Modernists, The Syn in their new incarnation are comprised of original members Chris Squire on bass and Stephen Nardelli on vocals, the band is rounded out by classically trained keyboardist Gerard Johnson and twin brothers Paul Stacey (Oasis) and Jeremy Stacey (Sheryl Crow, the Finn Brothers) on guitar and drums, respectively. Coming together after 40 years, and bringing their unique alt-rock, prog-rock sound and plenty of new material to New York for the very first time (indeed this is the band’s first North American performance), this is a show that can’t be missed!

Apparently, Richard Branson isn't totally insane.

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RIP Virgil Howe :(