Yesshows "Gates..." What's up with the mix?

[chalkpie]

The lead vocal on that track is astonishingly good too. Really strong and cuts right through all the noisy stuff going on.

BD
www.bdrak.com

Absolutely. Jon's voice always projected wonderfully in that upper register. I think your voice projects really well too...you sing in a similar register at times too...big compliment

Are you hip to all of the olde Yes albums? Do you have any specific favorites? I'm guessing that you must dig Howe's (at times) jazzy unique guitar style.

[Bob Drake]

Are you hip to all of the olde Yes albums?

Surely you jest my friend. I wouldn't have bought a bass guitar back in 1972 had I not heard Fragile and The Yes Album!

Absolutely. Jon's voice always projected wonderfully in that upper register. I think your voice projects really well too...you sing in a similar register at times too...big compliment

My highest practical range is about Jon's lowest! But yeah he was one of my biggest inspirations along with John and Paul and about every rock 'n roll singer.

Do you have any specific favorites?

Quick and rough answer: the albums from Yes Album through Relayer.

I'm guessing that you must dig Howe's (at times) jazzy unique guitar style.

He was great, as they all were, but it was the overall result I like best about their stuff.

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BD
www.bdrak.com

[chalkpie]

^ I don't ever recall ever talking about Yes with you, so all of this was fairly new to me! The Rick/Squire influence does make total sense. Agreed - my fav Yes albums are basically the same but I'll throw in Going/One.

[GuitarGeek]

Yesshows pulled a bit of sequencing chicanery with 'Going For The One'. 'Time For The Word' actually segued into 'Long Distance Runaround' (as part of 'The Big Medley'), and not 'Going For The One' as happens on the album. In fact, these two songs were not even recorded in the same year! But it works quite well nevertheless.

Yeah, I noticed the discrepancy back in the 80's. I remember noting the two songs weren't from the same tour, never mind the same show. Then years later, when I heard a bootleg that had the whole medley on it, every time I listened to it, I kept expecting Time And A Word to segue into Going For The One, and it always seemed weird when I instead heard Long Distance Runaround instead, which somehow "didn't sound right", even though I knew that's how it actually happened on the night. But you've got to hand it to Squire for pulling off that edit, because if you'd never looked at the credits, you'd never know you were hearing a segue that didn't actually happen in real time.

[Bob Drake]

my fav Yes albums are basically the same but I'll throw in Going/One.

Oops I forgot to add that one, and we were just talking about the title track!

BD

[Bob Drake]

I'm guessing that you must dig Howe's (at times) jazzy unique guitar style.

What I liked best about his playing are his melodic bits, such as the guitar melodies in Close to the Edge, To Be Over, the snakey melodies on The Ancient. Etc etc. I also appreciated the country and rock 'n roll influences, he wasn't so much coming (directly) from blues, as were so many of his peers.

BD
www.bdrak.com

[Dan Roth]

Here is something I never knew until today. According to a Facebook post by Roger Dean, "The album was originally called "Yes Indeed" hence the other name on the sketch."

[dregsfan]

And it was originally intended for a December 1979 release, which would've made more sense than the December 1980 release. I suppose we can blame Chris' typical slow pace. : )

[Fracktured]

Here is something I never knew until today. According to a Facebook post by Roger Dean, "The album was originally called "Yes Indeed" hence the other name on the sketch."

?? That would have been a strange title. Yesshows is much better. I heard this was going to be 3 albums like Yessongs at first. I kinda wish they would have made it 3 albums as a great companion to Yessongs. They had enough good live material to do it.


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[JJ88]

I guess The Clash got away with a triple album around then. I think Yesshows is a bit compromised- the Moraz tracks are by far the highlights IMHO. The Word Is Live fills in some of the gaps.