Yes - Sounding Out BBC '72 

That;s for sure! Glad I lived through it too.

Golden age of rock -- '68-'73 (with outliers).

That's for certain. Straightforward, uncomplicated times with the best music ever made.

It’s happening right now!

I agree the blessed run of albums extended as far as Going for the One.

Ha !! I was just thinking they were truly the gods of prog in the years you named. I know Tormato fell a bit short but still, live in 78’ they were fire.

@@ER-me1ii I would give Tormato honorary inclusion into the classic period.

@@nandopelusi7699 i think the first album was amazing accessible music that showed the signs of what was to come.....brilliant rockin

That’s an understatement

Agreed !!!

Yes, I have always looked at groups/bands in terms of how many 'geniuses' made them up. In my view there were three in the Beatles, all the members of Yes, both Simon and Garfunkel, two in Floyd (erstwhile three), and so on. That is why I always return to Yes, never fails to deliver satisfaction for me. Still haven't decided if Fragile or Close to the Edge is best. This video is a complement to the music they created with their collective genius.

The best Yes concert I ever attended was in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Theater in the mid 1970s. Renaissance (my second favorite band to Yes) opened and -- I thought of this because of Jon mentioning the Beatles song "I'm Down," after they encored with Roundabout and people started getting up to leave, they came back out on stage and did "I'm Down." It was easily the most awesome version of that song I've ever heard.

@@williamsporing1500 Oh, I dunno: 'one of the greatest groups of musicians ever put together' sounds fairly sweeping to me.

Same with me!!

Tull for me!

Agree, but for me perhaps Genesis Live 1973 is "the bible of progressive". Wonderful bands all those you named!!!!

Yep. The crowned jewel of prog is CTTE. I always come back to it. It’s definitive.

I think The Flaming Lips took a lot from Yes, especially the vocals.

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Spot on dude!

Not stupid at all. The impact they had on my life is profound. Esp as a teen.

Agreed !!

Christian Vander y su grupo Magma fueron quienes realmente revolucionaron al Rock Progresivo. Su álbum "Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh" es música "fuera de este mundo".

Aún así, todos mis respetos y admiración para Yes.

Bruford admits he should of been a jazz musician, I think that’s why KC fascinated him back then because they were a bit more of a band in the jazz spirit rather than a rock band.

Jon Anderson as performed with School of Rock kids several times in various workshops.

I love all kinds of music from underground noise, to avant-disco, to metal, to prog, to punk, to old country and western to funk and jazz and classical.... ....and THE MUSICIAN who hit me the most? Chris Squire! (And I'm a guitarist who loves Howe and Banks!)

Yes even though I’m a guitarist Chris Squire was the magic ingredient in yes. His background vocals moved me like no other and shaped the way I sing today.

Not really. .. they just were a great combo. If you look up morbid man covers close to the edge on SoundCloud, u will see a fool like me can record it alone, it in his bedroom.

@@morbidmanmusic who asked lmao

​@@morbidmanmusic I bet it sounds like ear cancer

@@morbidmanmusic covering and creating are not the same thing

@@morbidmanmusic , you may have a high level of technical prowess and be able to "play that fast". Now, "play really fast" and still come up with great melodies and catchy hooks. As @gorskiy1 said, covering and creating are not the same thing.

What about Jonh, Paul, George and Ringo ?

@@progrunner3094 they were not that good musicians, in my opinion. just great pioneers.

Jonh????@@progrunner3094

Rush is the only other band I can think of where EVERYONE was a virtuoso on their instrument.

@@user-zt2wc3uh1l I would say Gentle Giant is also in this league and Jethro Tull first 2-3- versions.

😂🤣😂🤣

If this was filmed in 1971 then jon Anderson was talking about what music would be like in 1986. Erm......yep.

Madonna.. And Genesis going down the tubes with Invisible Touch..

Marillion. Smiths. Stone roses.

Creativity like Yes had from The Yes Album to Relayer is like lightning in a bottle. You're lucky if you capture it once. They were in the zone for five years.

@@andyharman3022 Yup, I guess so. No artist has ever overcome aging or the fact that "lightening in a bottle" is a completely uncontrollable thing.

Ahahah

Wonderful! I am so smiling. 🌺

I still am amazed at there music after all this time It is a true testament to the music to stand up all this time

Yeah, I get that. In a way, we are not ageing at all. Nice.

In D.C. 1972, we never disparaged women. We respected and admired women, unless they were jerks like some of the men.

Their BEST lineup by far.

At least all of Perpetual Change & the attendant drum solo, eh ?....🚬😎

King Crimson

@@Jimbowlcoach Damn it! U Beat me to it.

Gentle Giant, also a modern band would be Wobbler

Too bad Howe was such a wanker. No wonder Wakeman and Bruford left. It was never the same after that.

@@Jimbowlcoach nope. there are a hundred reasons YES trumps KING CRIMSON, as cultural force etc. ex: YES were the band that BLEW a billion young minds, cuz they RADICALLY changed Rock Music On The RADIO. (KC didn't.) It was a billion ppl's FIRST exposure to "experimentalism" in music, for example. They broke EVERY rule in the book! ex: YES are the band that made Band Logos ICONIC. ex: all metal bands with their fantasy LP covers were inspired by YES, not KC's LP covers. (ITCOCK might have the BEST lp cover ever, however!) ex: I'd argue Chris Squire ALONE was more important to the history of music than ALL of KC's members combined, as far as Cultural Impact. It's also ironic that BB left YES for KC.....considering how LITTLE of KC is improvisation! (All my bands are 99% improv, cuz it's structured improv and killer all the time!) I didn't see the last version of KC, but i was VERY disappointed to see they went the Elton John route: Let's play all the CLASSICS instead of doing daring new music or mostly improv! (Even Led Zep would RE-COMPOSE "21st Century" rather than keep playing the original version! Shame on Fripp! Cripes! Listen to the NEW Riff Page inserts into "Whole Lotta Love" on the 1979 Knebworth set!) I'd rather see Fripp do a NEW KC every 12 months, recruiting different dazzling musicians and singers each YEAR, to do a bunch of improv recordings and maybe tour or not. The point is the DANGER and thrill of Fripp + innovative musicians, and to surprise us constantly. That Adrian Belew (who I love) sang on more than a couple KC records is counter to KC's value, sigh.

As far as the lyrics go, I heard Jon in an interview fairly recently that there was a lot of weed around at the time.

Yes, many dismiss Alan. But he was incredible in his own right.

Are you implying that most drummers just say “I hit things and go boom!”?

He's a MUSICIAN❣

He earned a Ph.D.-late in life, in music. Yes: He’s intelligent-& articulate.

@@michael-davidarrkerns4799 I thought drummers got drool on their IQ tests?

@@mattmarkus4868 Ha :)

I'm guessing that at times he's been a bit too human. . .you might ask one of his wives to sum it up!

really is. . what youtube should be about.

Bruford's channel is great. But Fripp dressing up like a fool, and his old wife showing her tits on RU-vid? His is not no disgrace.

@@davel7791 Fripp sold to the satanists

Oh that Bill,. Hi From the El Macombo!

My introduction was the QPR concert, I also went out the next day. I bought Close to the Edge at Ingleston Market.

Age 16 for me to see them. They were my escape to another realm with the help of other things. Middle Earth I think. Their tempo changes and chord transitions matched perfectly my mixed up teenage years. And it’s something parents couldn’t control and had no access to.

I’ve been saying that for years ….😩

I think its because he's so low-key and unobtrusive. Not showy or glam. He's a true musician. And unfortunately we've been trained and dumbed down as a generation to think glitter and flash make an entertainer.

@@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 Especially now. We think that looks and clothes make an entertainer, but it’s really the ability to play.

I still can’t comprehend his talent level. Off the charts. And how he plays on that oversized monstrouosity of a guitar is mind blowing! Lol His fingers must be eight inches long. One of my favourite guitarists. Side note. The other faves of mine are all named Steve too. Coincidence? Steve stevens Steve Lukather Stevie Ray Vaughan And of course….the best of them all. Stephen Stills.

@@Golfstar17 agree ! ESP Stills !!!

r u sure you know the music?

Rick's dance.. 💜

Pretentious? Maybe. But they were quite aware that they need a visual show to match the scale of American venues, which seated tens of thousands, just to give people their money’s worth. What we see in this video didn’t do that in their minds. Is it really that much different than Garth Brooks playing while suspended over the stadium audience in a cable? The similarity to Spinal Tap was that the stage design was more visualized than executed, and it so often went wrong. Rick’s dancing was part of that-a mix of natural physical reaction and staged rocking out that sometimes didn’t fit. Steve and Chris also threw in the occasional high kicks in the concerts that always seemed to me an afterthought for visual effect.

Should have added-great musicians often surprise me by their amazing musical wisdom, far outstripping their maturity in other aspects of their lives. I think most older musicians would agree with that-certainly Wakeman would.

@@rickdenney5772 The guy at 10:00 is talking in a drug trance.

shame to see JA saying how incredible the music their FANS would be making 20 years later. that never came true. (every prog band I saw influence by YES were not 1% as great as yes, sigh.)

This is great music. Yes’ influence is evident in so much of the music that followed them including a lot of music today. I love listening to Yes but won’t allow myself to believe there’s no brilliant being composed today. I try to stay open-minded and willing to give new music a chance. Just recently saw Transatlantic and Porcupine Tree. Those are just 2 of many ‘newer’ bands carrying the torch for this type of masterful music…

@@caug I find all the modern "prog" bands to be radically the OPPOSITE of the Classic Art Rock bands (from ELP to Floyd to the rest): lifeless. predictable. bloodless. (Show me where Steven Wilson or the Morse guy RIDES THEIR ORGAN LIKE A BUCKING BRONCO!) The only stuff today that compares to the 1970s proggers are avant-musicians in the "noise-rock" underground scene. (The rule in noise rock is you gotta be ORIGINAL and ya gotta be experimental. No copycatting!) And the Stoner-Prog genre. (Sloppy prog! So you get all the rich harmonic content etc of prog, but it's WILD AND MESSY and sloppy, as rock should be!) This week I discovered "WILLZYX" from NH, who are noise-art-rock and wild and fun and crazy. Took a few listens cuz it was so dense! Stoner-Prog bands like Jerusalem Witch and The Schizophrenic Hum and the rest, are a lot more artsy and strange than any of the modern "prog" bands. (Prog is almost a dirty word IMO, now. I use Art-Rock.)

Yes, they were so young and the complexity of the music is pure genius! Really I still get blown away by them, after all these years.

That is so not true. You obviously don't listen to much music of today to be so blatantly ignorant of reality. And YES is my fave

The BBC didn't list this as a crown jewel. That was series VH1 did where they showed old BBC recordings. BBC forgot about Yes before the 80s. I was a teenager in England in the late 80s when I discovered Yes and they were a totally forgotten band. It was like finding some lost treasure. I had never heard of them and I had been heavily into music for years. In England in the 80s and 90s it was like they didn't exist. I remember seeing how American guitarists my age would rave about them in American guitar mags bit nobody in britain did.

The drums are buried in the mix.

You mean the 1800s ? That's when it had real feeling... don't be silly. There is lots of amazing music today" I love yes, and cover them in exacting detail. I get it.. but you're way wrong. You sound like a lost fan who grew,old.m

And especially to hear him jamming on the Howe solo of Yours Is No Disgrace! Due to his early departure from Yes (I know, there is a song or two of him on Yes Songs if I recall correctly) this is great to listen to. I wish he would have stayed a couple of more years.

I wanted to say the same about Chris Squires bass sound

@@glynnp42 king crimson came a calling, he thought that’s where he belonged, he was frippnotized. 😂

Absolutely. ❤️

Bill Bruford is the greatest jazz fusion ever.

Right there with ya

They’re even tighter on Fish Out Of Water