as a boy listening to rock radio...THAT BASS knocked me out! "THAT's how bass should sound!!!!" i exclaimed with glee! Dude should be in the RNRHOF...just FOR HIS BASS PLAYING. Still the best in history, IMO.
Chris also had a bad habit of painting and sanding, then repainting his bass more than a few times. He took it to a craftsman to rebuild it, who told him not to mess with it anymore. It's the loss of some of the original wood that contributed to that sound.
From the very first bass note of the first YES album, Chris Squire unleashed a bass tone and style unique to himself and all of bassdom. Changed the roll of the bass and was innovative beyond belief. A great showman, vocalist and composer, He had a pretty incredible run
If you listen to the other prog groups, including groups whose music I really do like, while the music is itself convoluted and baroque in the way that prog should be, the vocals are a major weak point. Camel and Caravan especially come to mind.
It's really cool how at such an early phase in his career Bruford has mastered the I-want-to-be-somewhere-else look. Alan White never quite achieved it.
A fav of mine from the early days. When I saw them in 08' they played it. Sweet! First time I saw Yes was in 73', Nashville. I still love this band. Always will. We miss you Chris...
One of the two songs without the orchestra background...this song is like the precursor to the whole Yes Album. This song really rocks has such a build in the middle part. One of my top songs from the pre Howe albums.....has that classic signature Yes sound.
maybe you know the answer, 2nd album videoclips were arranged from or for a tv special for bbc, that is they had a special occasion as it was for pink floyd for example, and others. consider the tv special was about of 30 minutes. more they had another one passage of material for the succesive album, the yes album, that one opening with yours is no disgrace, maybe not fully recorded
@@bemorebulldog3680 hi, you have to look for on amazon for example or other online stores to get this on dvd, or blueray don't know. consider when you find a remastered file at more than 480p you have an higher quality, i mean dvd often reveals as obsolete
After all these years I've only just noticed that Chris Squire and Tony Kaye have swapped places - presumably to make Steve feel less embarrassed about miming to Pete Bank's guitar. Love it.
To me, if it were a "contest," The Moody Blues were the most stand-out English prog-rock group, the first rock band to collaborate with a symphony orchestra, songs with serious meaning that are always relative, great expressions...then Yes, but sometimes I would put Yes at 1st place. But no "contest," the Moodies, King Crimson, and Yes-men were friends, then and now.
@@johnprior588 he was dismissed, he had several problems with “Time and a World” producer Tony Colton and did not accept the idea of using orchestra on the album very well
@@johnprior588 It was a combination of both. The band wanted a more virtuoso stylist player and Pete wasn't totally on the same page the rest of the band was in the direction they wanted to go musically. It would be great the same thing with Tony Kaye eventually. Once Yes got the Best Overall guitarrist, they wanted a Keyboard man to be able to match Keith Emerson, hence they got Rick Wakeman.
@@jskypercussion There was a problem. Keith Emerson, was a virtuoso that, also, could rock. Rick Wakeman, is only a virtuoso "throwing notes. Half a century after, "Fragile, sounds clearly like a transition album, "Close to The Edge, a Masterpiece, but, "Tales..." and " Going For The One, like Tormato, sounds today pretentiuous and out of time. But, be quiet, Wakeman, in those albums, was throwing as many notes as he could. Rock? What is that? Wakeman, was only an employee.
BILL! l have nothing but utter respect for the dude! Seen him 3x, and he is _FAR AND AWAY_ my favourite drummer!! Whatever he does sounds _GOOD_ MAN!!! And watching him is even more fun!!
I Had all their records in my youth. Being a drummer I kinda focused to much on the drum part. Nowadays - old as medieval cheese, listening in headset i finally discovered the engine of Squire. Truly a motor for eternity.
The bass was the lead! Excellent climb back to the main theme near the end! My favourite Yes song of all time! Gates of Delerium second, other parts from Close to the Edge and Fragile...but this was them at their best i think...
I remember the first time I saw this video. In the 80's, they had Yes conventions annually at the Hyatt hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ. They were hosted by Ed Schiaky of WIOQ & WMMR in Philly. I think that that Yes convention showed Astral Traveller, No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed & Everydays (video with band members being stalked by a nun, eh ?) 😎 It was on actual film, projected onto a screen....if memory serves. Unique & poignant was choice of host. Ed Schiaky- only person to greet Yes at the airport when they'd arrived in America for the 1st time (The Yes Album tour, 1971) Cool stuff, I talked to Alan White & Roger Dean on the phone, that was put through the monitor system for the audience to hear. Great memories, that stuff. And, boy, was I high, too....
I saw the video for that convention and I heard Steve Howe talk about working with Annie Haslam. Wish I could have been there. I fell in love with yes the first time I heard them and I still love to listen to there music. Lots of positive memories. Remain in light.
I'm from Philly. So I grew up listening to WIOQ and WMMR, and DJ Ed Schiaky from 1974 - 1979 in Philly! Your post caught my eye when I read those 4 references.
Mellotronage.........I live in Tenn. now but I used to live in Pa. 50 mi. west of Philly. I saw YES 4 times at the Spectrum. I used to listen to Ed Schiaky on WIOQ. Those were some great times!
Hocus Pocus was released the next year.when I saw Banks’ band Flash play in early 72 (or Kate 71) at the Marquee Club in Soho. , Jan Ackerman joined him onstage. So maybe no confidence there
the production of this video is remarkable! simple scenes of the band in the raw, and the unusual ending when the man turns around as the band plays the last note, how unique and memorable! in 2022 yes still bangs like no other band does.
Great video! Fun to see the clip at the beginning at the airport. Fits the song perfectly! Looking forward to seeing Tony Kaye at the first stop during the 50th anniversary tour in the States next month! Hope they play this song!
Videos as you know them really almost didn't exist then. Nobody ever made them the way they became. They didn't even have the word video in the sense that we use it today. These are archival telly broadcasts or promotional films.
I think I finally get the apple on that guys face at the end. Yes is saying they are, on the face of it, an extension of Beatle music. Or it seems to me. BTW Time and a Word is one of Yes's best albums. :)
@@drewbacsi yeah, Banks is playing on this track, but he departed from the group soon after recording this second album with Yes. He was already gone before all the promotion for this album began.
@@robertobortolo1373 Ahahahah no this is Tony Banks and he plays keyboards for Genesis, here we are talking about Peter Banks and he played guitar for Yes on their first two albums. By the way, if you haven't heard it yet, buy his solo album ''Two sides of Peter Banks'', it's worth it I'll tell you that.
Wow! That was fantastic. I never knew that this footage even existed. A great song with all the early elements in place to create The Yes Album. The long central instrumental section sounded very Genesis-like. So this would be, what, early 1970?
There are a lot of great bass tones and, above them all, there's Chris Squier tone. We bass players miss you so much, Chris....😢😢 What he plays from 4:34 to 4:56 is mind blowing!!!!
+phuckthefcc Steve uses the Gibson only for the earlier songs. He uses mostly his newer Gibson/Fender models. And Chris had a different Rickenbacker made for him. Dunno what happened to this one.
The distinctive Rickenbacker Bass sound Best bassist EVER!!!!! ..John Entwisle from THE WHO a distant 2nd...Steve Howe top 5 guitarists of all time Bill Brueford top 10 drummer
Bravo! Да.....Вдвойне интересно в 2020году, сидя дома на диване в России посмотреть на них молодых. Для меня это лучшая группа в мире! Да. №1. Когда -то я ходил на толкучку и покупал их диски у спекулянтов, отдавая последние деньги. Стипендия была у меня 32рубля50копеек в месяц, а диск стоил 25 рублей. Но я был счастлив! Теперь это заслуженные классики арт-рока, симфо-рока и прогрессив-рока.
