I bought the Tales from Topageaphic Oceans album when I was 14. 40 tears later, I realize what an impact this music made on me as a person. A positve, thought provoking impact.
Full marks to Steve for giving such an immaculate performance and holding it together so professionally in front of a total rabble of an audience. If I had been there I would have come away ashamed
Steve Howe!!! - still playing so well despite an American audience so full of themselves they have forgotten how to listen and respect others. It says much more about themselves than they'll ever know I suspect...
@@BenjWarrant Always remember, HILLARY GOT MORE VOTES! We're also 300 million people largely cut off from the rest of the world and somewhat spread out from each other. That can cause a sort of bubble effect, but of course to the American right wing it's the rest of the world that's the "bubble" and wherever they are is "the real world".
Yeah, there was always that element in the audience who wanted to be the show. A favorite memory is when I saw Stephen Stills play at the old Boston Garden and he got to the acoustic set part, and yahoos would scream the obligatory, “LOUDER!!” And Stephen just yelled right back, “Hey you dorks up in the back, Shutup!” So Steve Howe at this stage has seen and heard it all and just continues to be the class act he’s always been.
I have never seen so much disrespect from an audience, I am surprised the ones filming didnt leave the show. Cause obviously its cause they wanted to be there to film the experience I gotta say Steve has hella patience for his age. Acoustic time is quiet time
Disrespect, yes and no. The audience cheers in adulation and affection for the artist, maybe even in resp9nse to a musical passage or a phrase? In the 1800's the French audiences attending piano recitals used to do the same.
I nearly got into a fight in the early 2000s with someone who wouldn't stop screaming during his solo. Cretins. Fortunately, he stopped, before I ended up in jail. Steve Howe is a master of the guitar.
Watching and hearing Steve Howe, I want to give up the guitar, yet feel inspired to play more at the same time. The audience reminds me of when I had MY first beer!
Sorry Steve? We always knew how great you were... and still do; thanks to this film? You will be remembered... I'll never forget, the first time I heard The Yes Album! I've help everything to that standard ever since...
Why must people be rude like that? They're about to witness some of the most beautiful guitar pieces written performed live and they have to scream like idiots?
The only time I went to United States was in the summer and I went to a concert of Dave Matthews band and the people were speaking about baseball or their new house or new car and me: WTF? It's a concert! Very disrespect public there!
I guess as a society we’ve forgotten how to sit back and listen and appreciate, regardless of whether it’s music or scenery or nature as a whole. Loud and obnoxious is the norm sadly!
When I saw a Yes Concert in the '80s there was this drunk guy sitting near me trying to sing along. I alerted one of the ushers but the guy wasn't removed till the concert was almost over. Should of got our money back....
A part of the audience just cannot interpret guitar music. They probably haven't heard of baroque or likes, and have never listened to Yes. When the singer appears, the balance of the world seems to recover for them: they more likely accept a duet than 'a mere' guitarist...
Always huge on Steve and of course Yes at least 15 live shows and that's without seeing a show over a apx 15yr. span, anyways, I don't recall ever audience that respected Steve during his solo as they should have, sad.
Tales...actually starts at around 4:27. I saw them on this tour and couldn't help but think how it must really irk the hell outta Jon Anderson to see this guy come up and essentially do a cover band version of his stuff with HIS group ! It's different when 70's rock bands regroup and are missing band members (either through attrition or death) and whose music is largely based on Blues music and the Blues singing is it's own style. But any Yes fan knows that Yes' music and particularly it's singing is so incredibly distinctive. Anderson is almost a literally one-in-a-million kind of singer. I know this could start another avalanche of replys that's found on countless pages about "leave the new guy alone". But Davison (?) is just too damn close to the real thing (clothes, attitude, voice). Lol He can't be taken seriously ! I like the guy, he certainly seems nice enough and I don't have any animosity toward him. It's the original band members that I can't understand. Why don't they just get a heavy-set dude in white leather with swept back hair and mutton chops and break into Hound Dog ! It's just preposterous !
The etiquette was lacking. But the artist could say "shut the heck up, I'm playing softly right now" in not so many words, and that would be efficient I'm sure.
Why people there act drunk and disrespectful - even carrying on a conversation throughout. He should have pulled his cord out and walked off. His playing on Tales is my favorite guitar of all time.
Steve is a well oiled machine! So I guess I am suppose to ignore the singer so that I can accept this rendition as a great work of art! NOT! Love you Steve but Jon A was your equal, Jon D is not
People have paid to see a show. Howe is not Julian Bream and should have enough flexibility to realize that this is not the appropriate thing to do at this point. He is telling the audience to shut up and marvel at his playing which quite honestly is not good enough to hold the audience's attention. Some of you may tell me that he is the greatest guitarist in the world, he isn't even vaguely close and you should broaden your musical horizons.
I think you might be overstating a little. I don't think he's telling them to "marvel at his playing ". He is definitely asking for all that obnoxious yelling to cease. That wasn't exactly cheering they were doing. They were being assholes, clearly. If they had been playing "The Gates..." or "Close to the Edge", it would not have mattered so much. And just because you paid to see a show does not mean that you get to come in and act like damn fool. People do it! But paying to see a show doesn't justify it.
The whole world has turned into a mass of rude jerks that act like great musicians are like sports stars that appreciate their inappropriate loud expressions of enthusiasm. They are incapable of listening quietly. Also, the post millennials have extremely short attention spans. You need twerking semi-clad young women or explosions in your show to hold their attention. If I were Steve or Jon, I would put the guitar down and leave the stage.
So there's Bach's "Wachet auf" first, then what? And then what? Anyway, in a crowded theater it only takes a few dozen people whooping it up to make something like this happen. Surely Steve must be used to it by now. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised to find that those people know Steve's attitude and are essentially goading him. Kind of an odd attitude to have for your own musical heroes, but hey, *rock'n'roll*.
Frankly, I couldn't finish this because of all ill-mannered and disgraceful screams and whistles from the audience. Such disrespect. At one point, Steve even looked up and shook his head as if to say shut up. You seem to get this particularly with American audiences. Why can't they just keep quiet, appreciate the performance, and save their applause for the end of each piece?
Why would you watch this? I mean, howE can you stand it? Wrong Jon. It might as well be ME stinging -- ok, me, age 12, singing. So painful to watch. For me it's Steve perpetrating the ultimate sell-out, as he cheapens his legacy and desecrates Tales.
