Talk is a magnificent accomplishment by Yes. This is a fabulous album explanation. Love these folks and their dedication and devotion to their powerful music. Eternal.🎵🎶🎵🎶🎤
I have to admit, I had listened to Yes so much that I had gotten tired of them but this album has endured in my playlist. I had heard in an interview that the album was much more a collaboration of Rabin and Anderson than the previous "new" (Rabin) lineup and it is a real shame it was the only one. I also think there is a significant influence of the older Yes members from the Union tour in Rabin's writing too. It is the first album with Rabin in which he sounds like he really is thinking of himself of a member of Yes.
This is my favorite yes album all time it always sounds so good around spring time like April May for some reason ! That’s when it actually came out spring of 94 . Such a bright positive album 💿 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
David McCain it is my favorite album of all time no matter what the genre. Every instrumental note, voice, riff, and melody are sheer genius. Nothing else compares . It is the epitome of the greatest musicians creating a masterpiece for all time. So under rated and if you disagree you have no musical soul
Talk is probably my favorite album of all time. Saw the Talk tour in Dayton as well, what a memory! Just found out about the Active CD today, can't believe the video portion was just a click away! Thank you Cessna 208 driver!
Where did they play in Dayton? I l’m too young to have seen the Talk tour, unfortunately. But I saw Yes ft. ARW at the Rose Music Center in Huber Heights, just north of Dayton, a few years back. It was an amazing show! They even played I Am Waiting! I was surprised to hear anything from Talk! I enjoyed that show much more than when I saw the official Yes with Steve Howe a few years after. Anderson, Rabin, and Wakeman had so much more energy! And while I do believe that every member of a band is important, whether they’re a new member or a founding member, Anderson’s vocals are paramount to the Yes sound.
Was at the Talk tour at Jones Beach. Loved the tour and thats when the album really grew on me. It was a great concert by a great group, and bought the cd for my car as well. PS, still have the concert tee designed by Peter Max. Cool stuff!
Saw this tour on my birthday with my family at an outdoor theater. Thunderstorms all day. The sun broke through at sunset just as they came on stage. It all seemed part of the show. YES is THAT special
Similar situation at Blockbuster Amphitheater in SoCal. Same tour. Sunset just as the band came out on stage a shooting star went Parallel over the stage. Freaking AWESOME!!!!! Those who don’t “know” YES, well, they just don’t know.
As time as gone by, I've come to see Talk as my favorite Yes album. It was ignored at the time because of Seattle grunge. It is a masterpiece, desert island.
When Talk came out I really enjoyed it & even saw them live on that tour. The only alternative bands I liked at the time were Jane’s Addiction and the Chili Peppers because their wildness was very positive though I could do without the drug aspect of it. All the other stuff was wallowing in macho posturing and ideological misery. Not a great idea when you look back at the trail of dead heroin-addicted grunge rockers it left back there - except for Jane’s Addiction whose positivity seems to have carried them through it all relatively intact to this day. I have great memories of bringing home the Talk CD, listening to it by myself in headphones, and being enthralled by Trevor’s great guitar melodies. Yes were for me at the time a kind of musical lifeboat in a time of drug-induced conjuring of negativity for negativity’s sake. To this day I still often play 90125, Big Generator, and Talk, as well as everything else by yes - and I still don’t even know the names of any Pearl Jam songs.
@@Bikewithlove You mention the later Yes albums, I tend to listen to them more because the 70s prog sound is getting dated. Sometimes I just want music that is a little tighter rather than a big epic journey. But Talk is pretty epic, which suits it considering the depth of the lyrics. About Pearl Jam, I guess they were ok but too many grunge bands were trying to make a statement against the polished corporate sounds of the 80s. It's a bad way to be an artist because the art should be of value unto itself, not just as a contrast next to non-musical issues. Notice how many grunge songs have feedback on the recordings. Yeah, I'm sure that Sony or Warner who is paying for you at Bearsville or Record Plant has no way to control extraneous noise! Right? Haha! Yes though was a genius band and this album is so beautiful it gives me tears, especially when he sings victoriously "It's The Last Time...". Just amazing!
@@kpec3 - That’s a good observation about the cynical / hubristic aspect of grunge. Music is at its best when among other things it’s rebellious, but there’s a fine line between being rebellious for music’s sake and being flat-out nihilistic. Grunge did have some beauty here and there - listen to “Glide” by Stone Temple Pilots, for example. That song caught me completely off-guard one day when I stopped in for a coffee at Ferenbacher Hof in Portland in 2018. Never liked Stone Temple pilots, and still haven’t looked into their catalog, but I often return to that song. It proves that there’s more beauty in music when shame gets out of the way of it.
@@Bikewithlove I guess what I'm trying to say is that most of the conventions in rock are dumb. A well-written song should transcend that. If I strip a rock song down to the basic acoustic level, does it still have the emotional energy? When music relies too much on conventions, usually the writing suffers. Can Stone Temple play a Spandau Ballet song and make it jam just as much? Or vice versa? In the 80s, the fans left Duran Duran because of conventions like the synths they used, but I've noticed that their songs have very good writing, probably they'd still have hit big without the conventions. And those very conventions are the reasons that bands get obsoleted when styles change. See the dumb garbage I think about?
@@kpec3 - Yes. I saw A-Ha in NYC on their farewell tour, and they sang “And You Tell Me” a capella together into one microphone while Magne played a toy xylophone and Päl played ukelele, and I’ll never forget how good the song is in its simplest form. It was a treat to be there and to see that. I couldn’t agree with you more.
I saw them here in Chicago in 94. Got my Trevor Rabin signature design guitar autographed at a band meet & greet. One of my most cherished pieces of Trevor memorabilia.
I remember seeing this back in the day ... on a Mac probably cause that's all i used in the 90's ... Talk was the best of the Yes/Rabin years. Thanks for posting!
I bought this CD ROM at Virgin Mega Store in Hollywood back in the day...my brother said to me "I can't believe you bought that'. HAHAHA..thanks for posting, I haven't seen in ages!
I'm really struck by how 'state of the art' filming looks so pixelated now. My sister in law sent me Talk while in Australia. A great album; lots of sentimental value there
Endless Dream is the worst casualty of too many Yes fans ignoring this album. I think Endless Dream is worthy of being alongside their other long form pieces.
Haha! I used to have this, and always regret losing it. Favorite part: "Hello. How are you there? You are a user. This is a computer. Do you know where computer comes from?" (19:25)
AKA "When you need to fill time and you've smoked some really good weed." Also, it reminds me incredibly much of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4. ("In this digital world, there's over 3 things you can do!")
I LOVE the YES album, TALK! ❤️🎵🥰 Sadly, I lost my CD, "with extended dynamic range," when I took I'll six (6) years ago and lost everything that I owned. The ONLY used copy that I could find was $64.00!☹️
Andrew, do you remember they had to take down the surround sound speakers BC we had one of our famous almost monsoons right b4 the show?....still, the HEARTS and ENDLESS DREAM songs were just soooo awesome. This was my last time seeing Trevor play live, I had no idea it was to be the last....too sad...loved that entire era
I've bought the CD when it was released only for that Alan White big drum sound of 'The Miracle'. Then I fell in love with the rest of the album - I am a Yes fan since "Fragile" -. Well, it sounds more like a Trevor Rabin solo album with Yes members collaborations. The song "The Calling" had reminiscences of Roger Hogdson (who also participated in the album). All in all, I find that the band had practically not a bad album. They share in this aspect the podium with Rush.
12:25 "For every count in for every song, I have a click right here... it gives me the timing for every song." Steve Howe, asked about the slowness of some tempos live, expressing a bit of frustration, mentioned Alan having something like this in a recent interview, that Alan has such a device even now... but said he doesn't /doesn't often use it. - Jon struck me as a little subdued or 'phased' here.
Interesting in the opening that Trevor takes count of himself for a song he wrote, then attributes the idea to Chris, and then to Jon. I've never seen so many diatribes accounting for single work. Then we have Jon... EITHER on medication OR high... and then we see Kaye showing us how he presses a button to play his keyboard solos. Whitey comes in showing... ooops... guessed it.. his drums are also pre-progged. As much as I adore YES......... this is an eye-opener.. What you saw, and even such wonderful concerts, at cost, was not what you got......... apart from the love of their music, of course..... ---- which is wonderful.
Mike L I agree somewhat. But even Rush uses sequencers in their live acts as some things are almost impossible to play live. I have played Keyboards for 30+ years. Bands like Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, The Who use those type things. I will give you credit on Tony Kaye. Let's keep in mind a lot of the material was written by Trevor who is classically trained and Tony is not a great keyboard player, and cannot possibly play some of it live. In fact I'd say 60% of all Tony's parts starting from 90125 is a one button sequence. I myself after all these years have been asked to play parts from prior keyboard players that I simply don't have the skills for. Not every guitar player can play flight of the bumblebee. You have two choices. Play a simpler version that you can play or sample it and play 1 note while playing over top of the other. I have some studio songs that had 4-5 layers of keyboards and given two hands, I can't do them all. Mostly, my background parts were triggered by me, stage hand, pedal, other player and I played the main parts. Once in a while a back ground keyboard player you never saw. Eddie Van Halen can't play Jump on keyboard and guitar at the same time, can he. A great example is "Leave It". There were something like 90+ vocal overdubs on it, including from Trevor Horn. If you ever heard the live version of that, while not bad is no where close to the album version. Even with keyboard sample vocals triggered. So, don't knock what you see. Think about AC/DC, you think the guitar guy can do rhythm and lead at the same time with one guitar player, uh, no...
+buminbeer2 Never saw Rush use sequencers live. Then again, I've only seen them play a three hour show. They used pedal boards when their hands were busy.
+nimrodery Well what is your version of a sequencer? Trigger samples or small sequences? Your call as I was on the Presto tour. 99% of things triggered were by the band. Ever noticed Alex's one keyboard by him, or the Taurus 3 Bass under his feet, boom, triggers/MIDI. Ever notice the same pedals under Geddys, boom triggers, not to mention his one sample shots on his current Fantom Roland X6, and the sequencers on that for live/MIDI. Ever notice the electronic pads to Neil's left hand, boom triggers, guess again MIDI. They use sequencers and live samples all concert long. The very rare occasion, it is triggered from Stage. You Are incorrect, they use them live, always have.
buminbeer2 Well that explains it. Midi controls can be used to trigger sequencers, but they're used by Rush to trigger pre-recorded samples, or play midi-controllable instruments. Sequencers play midi notes or commands based on a master tempo track. Just because it's midi, doesn't mean it's sequenced.
+nimrodery I guess you missed the part of, and I quote myself " I was on the Presto tour". I worked with the synthesizer tech known as Jack Secret. I 100% will in God's name, say they use sequences. Middletown dreams, Big money, New World Man, and there are quite a few others. Yes, most of the triggers are "one shot", some are Geds backing vocals and so on. The Synth era albums of Moving Pictures/Signals/Grace/Power Windows and Hold Your Fire, played live a lot of sequences happened, as well as one shots "also known as samples". Even Presto had a lot of sequences live. Scars was all samples on Bass. Four parts. Now you say, "Sequencers play midi notes or commands based on a master tempo track. Just because it's midi, doesn't mean it's sequenced."Is that not a little of saying the same thing? Midi DOES not play sound. If it is a sample, Midi only triggers the sample as well as a 200 note sequence if desired. So back to the fact, YES Rush uses samples and sequences. Did you know Midi can also trigger lights and other things :)
I like Talk, and it is amazing music, but in some places it is too repetitious and mechanical, takes the soul out of the music. But compared to whatever else was out there this was great.
the one that say he remembers the tour because it was first learn how spell canceled but that your i ' q dude wake up dude they don't care what you think a wasted mind what s shame
As far as I know , it was Alvarez that took on the Westone line of guitars at some point in the 90s. I don't remember if Alvarez was the same company in the first place or not. But I know Westone was taken over as Alvarez. I used to own a Westone in the 80s. I wish i still had it now. Didn't realize how well it played compared to a lot of other guitars in it's price range.
