― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― NO!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Other way around, chief. Being that Fragile was recorded in 1971, I'd say it's Sting who sounds like Jon Anderson.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
If Yes wants to be searched, THEN THEY CAN CHANGE. NOT US.
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― NO!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― retroboy, Friday, 16 December 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 16 December 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― prince rupert, Friday, 16 December 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― NO!!!!!!!, Friday, 16 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!!, Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― NO!!!!, Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― prince rupert, Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
THE SYN (WITH CHRIS SQUIRE AND ALAN WHITE OF YES) WITH STEVE NARDELLISunday January 87:00 PMhttp://www.synmusic.netBefore 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!
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Apparently, Richard Branson isn't totally insane.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.peterbanks.net/
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― prince rupert, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
RIP Virgil Howe :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link