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

I like Starcastle, and long for a world where I can start a band that sort of sounds like Yes and score a record deal

as hard as it is to believe, such a world once existed

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/ashratom/usa-midwest-ontario-progressive-rock-1970s_early-80s/

where's happy the man on that list? i guess virginia isn't midwest. i saw happy the man once in college.

ashratom is pretty topographically strict in that list

there's no reason not to mention finch for instance besides land mass restrictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hglwpSuRDo

xxp amazing list tyvm

was thinking about this when I put on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway yesterday, like back in 1974 there must've been a very real feeling of "hey, the people want rock operas"

i first heard "lamb" in the room of a friend who went on to be a super big honcho at universal music group, so i guess he knew what the people wanted.

https://eventcalendar.adelphi.edu/live/image/gid/2/width/609/height/406/263_Mike_Sammis_Headshot.jpg

I now realize I get Starcastle and Fireballet confused.

Such beauty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWH7xd5ZS8

wha-haaaa???

Wow

once again reminded that the middle section of Gates of Delirium is the most thrilling passage in prog history

have often wondered what the world might be like if yes had kept patrick moraz on for a couple more records, not that I mind wakeman but moraz brought a certain flavor, and was fresh and excited, then again if that had worked out we probably wouldn't have drama and I love drama

also just watched an interview with keith emerson and in addition to trying to poach chris squire and then steve howe at various points, was asked to join yes circa relayer, to which he replied "lol no why would I do that" could have been interesting though

a Moraz-led Yes album in 1975 would've really been something. he cranked out some really exciting music with Refugee despite his band being the not-particularly-skilled other two guys from The Nice. can only imagine what he would have been able to do with guys like Squire and Howe. they'd never let it happen though

yeah god those poor two dudes from nice/refugee, they're really pretty great players but just massively overshadowed by these incredible writers/keyboardists that they couldn't get to stick around, really like that one refugee album though

in that interview emerson says he wanted squire for a nascent elp but squire wasn't comfortable singing lead vocals, but had a singer in mind, emerson wasn't into it, wanted to keep it a three piece

singer in question was not named, who could it be? this is after yes was already a thing so presumably squire was prepared to leave yes and start this other band with emerson and a mystery singer

will never not be fascinated by these old school music biz stories where all of these desperately talented people all somehow lived in the same area and knew of one another, how exciting

i mind wakeman, for sucking

time to crowbar the hallelujah chorus into my "solo" so the oaves can hoot and holler

Ranking the keyboardists from the three times I've seen Yes live:
1. Geoff Downes (2022 - superb)
2. Oliver Wakeman (2001 - solid)
3. Rick Wakeman (2003 - clunky, corny, overly florid in a way that didn't mesh with the other performers)

singer in question was not named, who could it be?

okay I vaguely remember this story and think it might actually have been Randy Bachman?

will never not be fascinated by these old school music biz stories where all of these desperately talented people all somehow lived in the same area and knew of one another, how exciting

yeah I love this shit, super cool to see all those 70s German records with appearances by Klaus Schulze or Roedelius or Harold Grosskopf. and of course Connie Plank being the go-to guy to produce all of it (was Eddy Offord that sort of figure in the prog scene?). and of course the entire YEN Records scene in Japan where seemingly every single LP would have an appearance by a YMO member (or a songwriting credit!). nothing like that currently I think, though I think vaporwave is sort of an online version of this

Emerson Squire Bachman Palmer would have been very interesting, though I've read that Mitch Mitchell was in talks at some point and that would have been even more interestinger, also wonder why weird combos of established musicians don't happen much anymore, probably something to do with money

this is why I like boygenius, it harkens, harkens back, way back, back into time

and I understand the wakeman hate but the clips I've seen of ARW are pretty great, shame they never tried a record

though they did record a single and it is not very good

Again I think Wakeman was incredible in the 70s based on his Yes album and several great solo albums and no amount of folly since then is going to wipe that away, but I haven't heard much from later and its hard to take other's opinions seriously about his later music when even Yes fans are frequently wrong about his 70s work.

With Yes on record: great. Live with Yes in 2003: wrong-sounding outlier who just didn’t gel with the rest of the Topgraphic-era line-up.

with yes on record and on-stage in all eras: didn't gel and also sucked

In 1970, days out of the Guess Who, Randy Bachman met an "orchestrator from Britain" who had done some arrangement work on an album by the Nice (presumably Joseph Eger). He had heard Bachman's instrumental solo album Axe and offered to put in a good word with Emerson, who was looking for a guitarist for his new group. Bachman "didn't want to join another band" at that point and so declined, but Emerson may never have known about this offer.
Also I don't believe he had even recorded a single lead vocal by that point, so I doubt he would have wound up singing.

me requesting songs at prog night yesterday

https://media.tenor.com/AhE2BNYK_8YAAAAC/yes-danielbryan.gif

i had no idea this had ever been condensed and released as a single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Kqt0XznuI

holy shit I need that, it has a GoD edit on the A-side

https://www.discogs.com/release/3884063-Yes-Soon-from-The-Gates-Of-Delirium

I can understand sometimes only wanting to hear "Soon", but who would want it to fade in the middle of the guitar solo? Before that epochal E♭ min 6 to C 7 closing cadence?!?

speaking of, this looks kind of interesting:

https://www.discogs.com/release/28552702-Yes-Yessingles

I don't think I've actually heard any of the 'single' versions, are they just straight edits? sounds like it might be pretty awkward but I'm intrigued nevertheless

A wonderful single ruined by a lousy shortened edit. Roundabout is a gutted nightmare, being reduced from its original 8:36 length to 3:27, and suffering from excessive cutting-down, the sudden jump cut from the first chorus to the organ solo is especially jarring. Long Distance Runaround on the other hand isn't too horrible of an edit, though the omission of the ending solo is irritating, in favor of a generic fadeout.

https://www.discogs.com/master/157793-Yes-Roundabout

very weirdly, there are no youtube videos of these edits

I had the Soon and America single edits on a Yes box set I got in the early-90s.

I own the "Roundabout" 45, it's about as intelligent an edit as one could hope for, although it omits the iconic E minor harmonics at the beginning, charging straight into the D major acoustic bit before the band comes in (so you also lose the contrast of ending the song on the E major).
You have to imagine this would have been the first Yes recording that a lot of people heard, even those who became die-hard LP-only fans.

downloaded the Yessingles release, and yeah it's pretty awkward and strange

I’m sorry but I absolutely love this, like a prog house track based on “owner of a lonely heart”

https://djprotein.bandcamp.com/album/be-yourself

I'm 100% putting this in my DJ sets

high five

did this one ever get posted?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlceOSjU6XU
Alex Kassian - Leave Your Life

that’s super lovely

inside out, outside in, inside out, outside in, all of the way

downloaded the Yessingles release, and yeah it's pretty awkward and strange

― frogbs, Tuesday, October 17, 2023 2:06 PM (one month ago)

The "Sound Chaser" edit is especially strange, as it has none of the vocal verses, just the instrumental solos and the "cha-cha-cha" part, like the label was intentionally trolling the band!

the idea of people wanting to listen to, let alone pay money for, singles edits of fucking *yes* is absolutely beyond me

don't surround yourself with yourself
go big or go home

Sharp
Distance
How
Can
The wind
With its arms
All around me

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

not that there's an answer for this, or anyone would try to take a stab at one, but still
― trevor horn, Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:24 PM (nineteen years ago)

"yessed out"?
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:25 PM (nineteen years ago)

you know, in and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there. I'd like to know.
― trevor horn, Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:26 PM (nineteen years ago)

aye, lads. now this was how we started a thread, in them days of yore.

trevor otm

particularly since i had not realized this thread preceded 'chessed out'

where is dave q tho

zzz

I see a man in a white car
Move like a ghost on the skyline
Take all your dreams, and you drive them away
Man in a white caaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

SCHIND

?

So many people don't get what it means to be yessed out. Like, if you're not a dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you, what are you even doing?