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

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
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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.

Gotta love Jon!

guy is saintly

a samurai sword

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qKboHKPEA

Yes, Arcade Fire are working with with James Murphy" -anybody else get unnecessarily excited by this pitchfork headline?

yestival quadrophronic prog festival

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-yestival/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEOK0En6Pk

yes i said i will. yes

"beyond and before" is one of the all-time debut album opening songs. like an overture to everything that would be awesome (and lame) about them as they keep on stargazing along

http://www.list.co.uk/article/59949-yes-bassist-chris-squire-writing-autobiography/

second response hall of fame

gonna listen to some Yes right now in honor of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96d5spC3tQg

Is there a specific thread about post-Bruford Yes records? I don't feel like wading through pages of threads with the word "yes" in the title

it is a thread called no

this is a post called hmm

I'm listening to Relayer for p much the first time right now and it's honestly much better than I expected in spite of seeming to miss something that the older records had. I guess I'm just one step further into old dude lameness now.

i've been pretty yessed out the past few years, got into other parts of the bruford era i had been cool to before, but once i hit relayer it's just like, cmon, this is not the same band

yeah but there's only a pretty small amount of bruford era, and an even smaller amount of anderson-bruford-wakeman-howe.

it's a good thing them some long-ass songs then

These days, post-Yes Bruford records get more of my attention than post-Bruford Yes records. Well, up until that Earthworks stuff.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MICP-30060

Relayer is actually my second-favourite after Close to the Edge. They went further 'out' than usual on it and I think Howe might have been at his peak there.

Yeah, Relayer is great.

The last time I listened, I actually wondered whether it could be my favourite.

Yes without Anderson or Howe definitely doesn't seem like the same 'classic' band to me but tbh I guess I'm a little surprised that the drummer would make so much of a difference to some listeners. I never really feel like there's a rhythmic weakness on Relayer. The ensemble playing on Relayer seems dazzlingly tight to me. I like Bruford but I mostly just appreciate the way he worked as part of the ensemble. If anything, I notice his playing much more in King Crimson. I never really thought of him as a star drummer like Bonham or Peart or Moon, though.

The ensemble playing on Relayer seems dazzlingly tight to me

"... [O]n 'Sound Chaser'" was what I meant.

Hm, now I'm thinking about the drums on side 2 of Fragile and reconsidering that...

side 1 of the yes album too ("clap" excepted obv.)