Quick Backstory of ABWH: Are they Yes? 

Yh all I've heard is that Levin was really sick and couldn't be at this amd some other shows,Hence why J Berlin is there performing..I LOVE THE ACOUSTIC INTRO!!Where they play Time & A Word,merging into Owner(rare acoustic version)and yes,I still very much dislike Teakbois lmao!!I just can't get into that,everything else,great!!😁✌️🥃 Also;I thought John and Rick talked and agreed about leaving in 79?after the Paris sessions didn't work out??I've never heard them leaving in 78 or 80,I've always known about them leaving after Paris sessions and tomato talked about them leaving in 79..of course Idk FACTS lol,just what I've read or heard yrs back..✌️

@@steve-0493 Anderson and Wakeman indeed left after the Paris sessions of 1979, which were recorded as demo and released on the remastered and expanded Drama cd.

@@steve-0493You are absolutely right, Jon and Rick quit Yes in 1979.

Jon and Rick, quit Yes in 1979. Tony Levin, was on stage at the Wembley shows in London, October 1989.

@@ericodijk yup I've got drama expanded edition, it's weird to hear those last songs the classic lineup did make lol,u could tell it really wasn't going anywhere.they needed an infection...luckily drama gave them that,despitefans not liking it much etc...I THINK ITS GREAT!😁✌️🥃.

I love this story!❤

was there too. Legendary performance even with Berlin

Bruford was also very optimistic about the future of the band. Pity the record companies had to ruin it all.

Yes, ABWH was much more Yes than this Howe shit show.

@@5qob 😂 That`s a really good answer my friend!

ABHW waren viel mehr YES als die aktuelle, peinliche Band, die leider YES nennen darf.

I saw Yes and AWR in one year (believe it was 2018). I left the Yes concert after 30 minutes. It did not have the magic and emotion.. AWR had it for me. The voice of Anderson which in my opinion can't be replaced. And the keyboards of Wakeman. The maestro. That was the magic and emotion for me.

P.S. Todays Yes is nothing even close to the real thing.

It wasn't Wakeman.

I agree. I've been listening to ABWH since it came out 35 years ago, and while I still don't understand Teakbois, it's more Yes than anything on the last 3 albums.

@johnhoran9840 Teakbois is one of those quirky un-Yes tracks like Arriving U.F.O. / Circus Of Heaven / Man In A White Car.... ....I love it....

Anything else not good ?

@@stanjohnson7849 oh, so you'd like some more? ABWH was an attempt at getting even with Squire orchestrated by Brian Lane, who was fired by Yes for not doing his job, and Anderson, who had to leave in '80 because the band were sick of his shenanigans. JA only contacted Howe directly (because he needed his songs) but Wakeman was contacted by Lane (why don't you call Jon?) and Bruford didn't know W and H were involved until he got off the plane in Monserrat (he thought he'd be playing in a JA solo project, which is funny because that's what it actually was). The backing tracks were ready, which means the "band" had no input in arranging the songs (but all got contractually credited as cowriters in every track!). Arista, hoping for 90125 scale sales, put a lot of money into the recording, which spanned studios in three different countries, but sales were disappointing, only a fraction of BG, which had already been considered a disappointment. The album didn't include the name Yes, nor were the hordes that bought 90125 much impressed by Dean's cover or the names of three people who'd not been involved in the two most successful sellers (Yes never sold that great during the 70's, JA's biggest frustration was that they weren't Pink Floyd and thought he could get some of their sales by sacking Dean and hiring Hipgnosis for their covers). The tour sold well but the "band" were forced into the studio immediately afterwards by the new label and the 1980 funk Howe had conveniently forgotten about set in again. Howe was angry at JA because he'd promised him they'd get the name Yes for the album. Wakeman, who went on to blame it all on the producer, didn't want to attend the sessions because these conflicted with watching the world cup! As usual, Rick's commitment to the band was zero. And Bruford's only concern was that the new album came on budget. They had no new material. Howe's useable songs had been exhausted with the first and the vilified producer was forced to build songs around riffs from Howe's demos for his solo album, in case you're wondering why the same riffs appear in Turbulence or why Jonathan Elias gets more writing credits than the "band" members. JA was forced to approach Rabin with the tail between his legs asking for a hit single and Squire made the colossal mistake of allowing a JA album to be released under the name Yes, abandoning Atlantic in the process. Without the support of Atlantic, Yes dropped off the charts for good. ABWH essentially killed Yes but to this day, whenever some youtuber interviews JA (he's never interviewed by mainstream media anymore) he'll blame it all on Owner of a Lonely Heart. Sod JA, he killed Yes all by himself

Ok BUT. What do you think the best song they did 🤷🏽‍♂️ And album for that matter…. And just as important WHy 🤷🏽‍♂️

Ok BUT. What do you think the best song they did 🤷🏽‍♂️ And album for that matter…. And just as important WHy 🤷🏽‍♂️

@@stanjohnson7849 I like "I wanna Learn" a lot. It sounds like a true Yes song and it isn't terribly overproduced. Generally, the best tracks in the album are originally Howe's compositions and that's why JA contacted him first, he needed his songs. But the songs were not arranged by the band and even Howe didn't get to play in them till they were almost finished. The entire album reeks of desperately trying to make it sound like a 70's Yes album but if JA had honestly wanted that and not a quickly produced forgery (it was ready in less than a year from the moment he contacted SH), he would have got the four guys together with a session bassist only to work on the tracks as a true band and he would have called Eddy Offord to produce it. Anderson is an egomaniac who thinks he IS Yes and anything he does qualifies as Yes music. Songs such as Birthright or Brother of Mine had the potential to be true Yes songs but they're made in a production line. Note how BOM is 10 minutes long and it didn't need to be that long. Pts 1 and 2 are exactly the same melody, lyrics with zero changes other than a Wakeman interlude, which happens to be the first time he's bothered to play anything in the track. 3 minutes plus into the song and all keys have been courtesy of an anonymous session man. Bruford complained that Arista killed the album's chances by editing the singles but the truth is that the strongest tracks were too long to be released as singles. I Wanna Learn should have been recorded as a separate song and not forced into an epic track. Parts 2 and 3 of Quartet are uninspired copies of Howe's idea. He doesn't even play in the remainder of the track. Anderson contributes cheesy ethnic (tropical) compositions that have nothing to do with the Yes sound (themes, teakbois) and Wakeman cheesy romantic AOR (the meeting). When AWH were back in Yes a decade later, they were capable or writing and recording together a true Yes album (KTA), which proves the guiding force in Yes was always Chris. Anderson was just the frontman

sorry for the silly mistake as it shouldn't have happened. I will put more work on the script work for future video, thank you for your comment.

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On the other hand, the oficial Yes band had only one original member. Sorry, Tony Kaye was Just a name