"90125" 1983 / Single 1983 00:00 Drums and Fairlight CMI 04:49 Bass 09:16 Keys, Sound Effects and Piano 13:38 Guitars, Tambourine and Cowbell 18:16 Vocals Personnel Drums (Ludwig Super Classic Drum Set, Yamaha DTX Multi 12 Drum Pad or Fairlight CMI): Allan White Cowbell and Tambourine: Jon Anderson Bass (Mouradian CS-74 Bass Guitar or Rickenbacker 4001): Chris Squire Guitar (1962 Fender Stratocaster with rosewood fretboard, DiMarzio FS-1 pickup): Trevor Rabin Keys (Fairlight CMI and Hammond B3 Electric Organ): Tony Kaye, Trevor Rabin and Allan White Piano (Kawai EP-308 Electric Baby Grand): Tony Kaye Vocals: Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Chris Squire ___________________________________________________ Patreon: www.patreon.com/dld2music Instagram: instagram.com/dld2.music/ Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/DLD2Music
This was recorded around 1982. To tape. With limited tracks, with no time warping for pocketing performances, no pitch correction to get vocals in tune, limited "takes" of parts(see limited tracks), and only the most primitive editing ability at the edge of a razor blade to physical tape. In short, this video is a perfect illustration of how profoundly gifted these guys were, and how on top of their game they all were. I wish more average listeners noticed or cared about such things in music, rather than regarding modern music as a disposable commodity. Same for the music execs who treat the music industry as nothing more than a marketing/toilet paper manufacturing business. Having grown up listening to this, police synchronicity, Rush, Boston, and so many other great groups in the late 70's into the 80's, I was inspired to become a musician that grew into a producer engineer as a career. I try to pass on this level of integrity and goal of this proficiency to all of my clients. Thanks for the upload!
True, but the use of the Fairlight opened a world of possibilities for them to experiment with whatever samples they wanted to add all over the track. It was almost like a proto-DAW.
@@WheezyLiam None of that gets a drummer to play that stuff in the pocket, or the bassist to lock in with the drummer, or the whole band's tempo to not drift over a 7/8, 10/8 section in a song. All the sampling stuff was bells and whistles, but the humans on the floor in the live room playing were creating and executing at an extraordinary level. Listening to Trevor Rabin playing an instrument for 30 seconds alone will strongly suggest where a big part of that came from. If only my parents were classically trained musicians! 😉
I've heard of lightly dragging a thumb on the capstan to slow a tape a little, just to keep things synced, but that only works if parts are on separate decks. And you need a lot of thumbs. Of course, that also brought down the pitch a little. Having edited audio on open reel decks, I wonder how much the source tape would be cut into separate sections, just so they had a "reset" in syncronization every 8 or 16 bars. Of course, if everyone played with the previous parts in their headphones, and the decks had crystal speed control so varying speed wouldn't be an issue, then sync hopefully wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
One of my favorite songs. I have easily heard it 10,000 times. Never caught these intricacies before! The trumpets really surprised me! So many others as well. The vocals were fascinating perfection!
I'm pleased after all these years to finally learn that the "YOW!"s at 20:18 were actually performed by a human and not a keyboard, as I had always believed them to be.
I was 12 when Owner Of A Lonely Heart was released, and when I played the record for the first time, I stuck on this part and was totally blown away of this guitar sound so I played it like 100 times in a row :)
I've listened to this song hundreds of times, and I've never picked out that little piano riff under the chorus. So neat to hear the isolated tracks! Thanks for this.
Same here @Egg I’ve never heard the piano riff either. It’s very beautiful. I’ll have to go back and take a listen to the whole song to see if I can pick it up
I made a 15 min loop of the clean guitar riff after the solo. Love that part. These isolated tracks are so much fun to play with on my computer. Thank you so much for posting!!!
Nobody's talking about the vocals, which makes sense because not to many are trying to learn to copy them, but I belive the vocals are the most impressive part of the song | ya ya ya yeow
@@krishdutta5466 Trevor Horn... sure, Rabin was a co-writer and guitarist, but Trevor Horn was the producer and this is definitely his masterpiece. Just listen to the original "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" demo and you'll realize how Trevor Horn transformed it into what it became. The original/demo (Trevor Rabin's solo project) was just plain awful.
@@krishdutta5466 Yea only the chorus from Trevor Rabin's original demo was used. The rest was pretty bad and it was Trevor Horn who transformed this into a masterpiece.
@@ricomajestic Yeah, I'm going 50/50. Rabin brought the groundwork and Horn put his absolute producing wizardly to the task. They are both co-fathers of this song.
@@cowetascore8476 I still wonder how much of that song Horn wrote though. He has a song writing credit but most likely the members of yes wrote 99% of the new verse and the bridge as well.
Tony Banks?. Since you posted a pic of him, I'd love some 70s Genesis isolated tracks. Supper's Ready, Musical Box, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, Watcher of The Skies, etc. =)
really dig hearing the fx and the vocal stuff (the drum part is a little more elaborate than I thought and it's point of emphasis/accent is on the snare hits, not the bass drum, which isn't how it feels in the mix).. this iteration of Yes, while maybe not as musically profound as the earlier group, had a few strengths that the older heads ignore- at the top of the list is how good Trevor, Chris and Jon sounded together singing.
5:00 I've never heard the isolated bass like that before. I think that's Chris' MPC Electra Outlaw bass, since he liked the built-in effects such as the Octaver we hear there.
Though Chris is shown with the Mouradian in the music video, the bass used on the main riff for the track is his Electra MPC with the low octave FX blended in.
It's important to note that the reverb you're hearing here on the drums is not the reverb used on the mix of the original record, but was added to the 'stems' after they were created. If you listen carefully to the original record there is a distinct 1/16th pre-delay on the snare reverb that in and of itself contributes greatly to the groove.
That goes *double* for the vocal reverb - just awful.. the original record has a very long predelay into a fairly static plate reverb and no repeat echos...
The difference between the line played by the guitar and the one on the piano during the chorus finally showed me that what the 2nd keyboard player (not Downes) was playing during the Prince's Trust Concert in 2004 was kinda incorrect: he was playing the guitar line, not the piano line
Not to forget engineer Gary Langan's recording of Owner. You can push the faders up on the multitrack of this, add a bit of top end and reverb and you've got the record - which is is exactly what he did! The record was a rough mix for the band to take home and listen to over the holidays. They tried a few times to mix it "properly", but it didn't have the same energy.
Regarding the guitars used for the recording which has a miss on the above personnel; According to Trevor Horn's youtube reimagined version video of this song, the arpeggio guitar bits in the verse used a Rickenbacker 12 string.
On vocals can someone tell me the chord at 20:20? “After my own indecision may confuse me so. My love said never question your will at all. In the end you gotta go, look before you leap (owner of a Lonely HEART) right at “heart”their voices split and it sounds so cool. Trying to pick it out by ear but I can’t.
Hello, good video, I want to know what software I need to separate the voices from the choruses of a song, if you can tell me what software to search for it on the web. good video 10 likes for the video
Chris, I believe. It is easiest for me to pick them apart at 18:47. Trevor comes in singing, "Owner of a...", then Chris joins in with "...lonely heart."
@@elirosen1391 Ack! Sorry, I was not paying attention to what I was typing. Yes, that is Jon singing "Owner of a lonely heart." Chris joins in with a high harmony at "lonely heart." Then Trevor signs the low "Much better than a..."
@@7piecebucket no sweat. It is Yes after all.. No matter the incarnation, the band has always had such a cohesive blend vocal-wise, it's hard to differentiate between the three singers.
@@7piecebucket No. It's Trevor on "owner of a lonely heart" with a falsetto voice ; Chris joins in with a high harmony at "lonely heart. (also falsetto)" Then Trevor signs the low "Much better than a..." (normal voice). There is no Jon on the 1st chorus. On the second and following choruses Trevor has the high part and Chris the low. Jon sings the replies "After my own indecision..."
