YES - The Gates Of Delirium - Live at QPR 

I remember walking through a mall, and hearing THIS coming out of the record store from about 100 feet away. I recognized Jon's voice right away; I didn't know they had a new album out. I didn't have the money for it. So I sat in front of the store while the guy at the register just let the whole thing play. When I got my paycheck that week, this was the first thing I bought. Early YES; the best music I ever heard. Just magic.

Wakeman is one of the best keyboard players on earth. But the way Moraz played in this vinyl. HE MADE A MASTERPIECE!!

RIP Alan White and Chris Squire, one of the coolest rhythm sections in progressive rock.

Probably the most insane bass lines I've ever heard. RIP Chris.

Despite the poor sound feed, this is an outstanding performance.

I was trying to impress my new girl, and I took her into a record shop and asked them to play Floyd's "Wish you were here" which had just come out. After a couple of minutes she said, "Sounds a bit like Gates of Delirium." wha'? Of course at the time I'd never heard any Yes, but she of course had a big brother, and when it came to prog rock she'd heard *everything*.

Rarely had they rocked that hard. The album was a real revelation for longtime fans.

This is real musicianship, i heard it as 11 years old and i still loves it as 50 yrs old 😁

As a nurse working with Covid-19 patients, listening to videos like this while I do my charting is how I keep my sanity. I've been a Yes fan since '77, seen them so many times, never get tired of the music. Pure genius and emotion!

Alan White killing it as usual. His drumming on Relayer and Tales might not be what Bruford would have played, but it's perfect in my book. He also made Drama unique.

I got the Relayer album in 1975. I was just 15 years old at that time and still deeply disappointed and sad that Rick Wakeman left the band. It took me a while to get used to Relayer and until I realized the beauty. But after a while "Gates of Delirium" was next to Awaken and some others my favorite piece of Yes. Such a sound, beauty and purity, still fascinating today! I am now 59 years and saw the Band the first time at the tender age of 16! That was my first concert at all! April 16th, 1974 in Dortmund / Germany Westfalenhalle. Tour: "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Unforgettable!

How anyone could actually play this incredibly complex masterpiece LIVE and pull it off will remain a mystery. I saw YES play "Gates" on the "Masterworks" tour. It was ...magnificent.

Yes holds such a special place in my heart. Their music has elevated me at my lowest points and each member's craft is nothing short of mad genius. I'm only 24 and I envy people who got to see Yes play during their prime like this.

There was enough energy being generated by the musicians to power solar energy for the next three hundred years!! My gosh, how could Alan White maintain the level of intensity he demonstrated throughout this lengthy masterpiece ! All the musicians and singers were just excellent.

My, my, my....Squire is just flawless; every movement, every note is majestic. Sheer brilliance! Wow! Just wow!!!

What a great band! What a great recording! I'm 57 now and still get the same buzz from this as i did at 16 when i was a space cadet! How can YES not be in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame????

Yes is outstanding. Saw them 19 times. Close to the Edge is the best ever.

This was my first Yes gig. I was totally blown away.

i really like jons voice here

The ending is one of the most beautiful moments in rock music.

This is too good to be real. I love this band. In July of 75' they came to Nashville. If I could only go back in time...

Yes was one a few bands that was able to replicate the same studio sound, in the live performances. Amazing, given the fact of the complexity of the progressive rock. The Gates of Delirium is together with Close to the Edge the best progressive songs of all of the symphonic rock.

“Soon” is one of their very best moments

Why Steve is so under rated? I' ve never seen him mentioned as a great guitar player. He is a genius!

I can't believe I'm seeing this song live! It's one of the hardest songs I've ever heard and to see this amazing band play this song live just PERFECT is unbelievable!! crazy!

This is the most progressive, impeccable music YES has ever produced! Especially at 1330 Patrick Moraz and Steve Howe really make it happen. Of course one has to also mention the best bassist ever Chris Squire - RIP my friend.

This album made me look at 9 minute songs as short songs.

I get so much shite because I've loved this band since I was seven, this performance is wonderful, they're such an important influence on how my life went, the abstraction of words , the emotions in the movements of the songs , I got my first bass guitar when I was eight, thank you so much Chris Squire

Gates of Delirium was the first song I heard from Yes. It completely redirected my musical taste. At the time all I knew about Progressive Rock was Pink Floyd and something about Genesis. Yes introduced me to such a rich musical world, with so many options. It was like opening Pandora's box for me. Relayer will always be my most beloved album.

Memo from 1975 As you can see we still put out the best music

RELAYER is a miracle, a complete masterpiece from the first note to the last sigh ... These three songs "redeem" the whole story of Psychodelic Rock ... "A Word we utter , a Word..."

Yes, Floyd, Zep. They didn't just create the most magical music, they stamped moments in time in such a way, the people fortunate enough to experience it have memories they will retain to the grave. And even the odd note from such classics flood the mind and fuel emotion with such enchanting memories. Music like this just doesn't exist anymore.

This concert deserves a new audio mix.

Wow, never seem Anderson go as crazy as that! What a tune! Would have liked to see Moraz on one more album at least....

What a rockin' band! Too complex for a lot of folks, but mind blowing for those who get it. Glad they finally let the guitar out. lol. Damn. I still can't get used to Chris being gone. That man was a master.

Alan White looks like a metal drummer here - particularly Chris Adler from Lamb of God. I'm even seeing similarities in their playing style. Both great drummers!

12:39 - A closeup on that mad bass line Chris is playing would have been nice around that point!

Chris, Jon and Steve, What a wonderful sight.

What a Gem. I am 54 and at the tender age of 17 I bought (scalped) tickets to my first Yes concert having never heard them before in a little place in the middle of nowhere (Regina Saskatchewan Canada). The next day i bought the entire discography off some unfortunate radio listener who had won them in a contest the week before the show. When the band rolled into Siberian Khatru after the Firebird Intro... OMG! IT CHANGED MY LIFE. This Album (Especially Steve and Chris during Steve's Slide work is like nothing anyone has ever done before. not Tull,ELP, or even my other favourite Genesis has ever done before. Rest in Peace Chris. Long Live YES

My favorite alltime Yes recording.

favorite yes album, favorite record of all time.. a true experience GET IT KIDS SOON THE LIGHT.. WE ALL MAKE IT TO THE LIGHT SOMEDAY

One of the most beautiful and chaotic compositions I’ve ever laid ears on. A most stellar message as well. Many thanks to the Yes fellas.

I wonder once we go through the "gates of delirium" does it bring us closer to God - the initials of the title of the song

The ending is so gorgeous! Fantastic live version!

Seeing Yes on relayer was like going to another world..... I have never seen anyone with as much stage presence as Chris Squire..a lot of people will disagree with me...but Patrick Moraz was unbelieveable.....The finest show i ever saw........

Steve Howe at his best!.

Amazing to see again, I was there that Saturday afternoon all those years ago, magic days. Thanks for this.

A truly masterpiece. I really love this band and his music. RIP Chris.

Makes me sad that this kind of music will never be produced again.

I was a little kid when I fell in love with this entire record, which I had on a pink plastic 8 track tape!!!...

18:50 I was almost sure this recording was overdubbed until Jons mistake. Their musicianship was insane. It all sound so tight

Relayer is the greatest progressive rock album of all time. I liked other configurations of the band but Patrick Moraz was my favorite on keys and Alan White was spot on for this album which never could have been produced with Wakeman or Bruford, both of whom I entirely respect. Steve Howe? Well, there was never, will never be another progressive rock guitarist quite like him. Chris Squire was in a class all of his own. No bassist played like him. RIP Chris. All now have come and gone from the band to do their own music except Jon. His voice was and still is from heaven. I heard him say in an interview that he was going to produce Olias II. We'll see and I hope so.

I'm 16, and just fell in love with that song and the whole album...

I was there! I was a student as Manchester Uni, and had followed Yes from their first album, travelling home to London to see them. This was my first chance to see them live, and I was sat near the right hand corner of the penalty area. I recall they also played in Manchester, I think at Man City, but it was hard to get tickets for there. The sound was incredible... I next saw them in 2004/5(?) for their 35th anniversary tour at Wembley Arena, or whatever it was called then. Equally fabulous. Incredible music, the like of which will never be repeated.

I saw this Relayer tour. I was standing about 30 feet to the right of Chris. Still the best concert I’ve ever been to and my ears are still ringing.

The best YES album. Wish they’d shown more of Chris Squire though. Been listening to them since 1972. Still one of the best bands ever. Love the boots.

Un-frickin' real!!! I've been a Steve Howe fan since the age of 10. But I've never seen this live performance. He can play anything. I won't talk about the rest of the band, because they're all incredible.

Relayer I think is my answer to the proverbial question: you're stranded on a desert island and can take 1 album only: what do you take? Sure this footage has some tech problems; good lord, it was recorded aeons ago. But the performance is incredible; I'm speechless at the conclusion, and in love with You Tube for being a repository of this stuff!

Awesome... Great to see this performance... One of my all time fave YES songs... Yes, the sound is what it is, but just sit back and watch real musicians playing together, in the moment... Freaking excellent, thanks for posting.

Partick Moraz is a wizard. I wish we had more music from this line up.

I saw the Relayer tour before the album was released and it was amazing! I have been a fan since 71. I will be 65 this year and still love listening to Yes!

There will never be music as beautiful as Yes'.

so good!!! ( Anderson should be revered as a rock God)... this is prog genius .

Gates of Delirium coming out in 1974 is important. What an incredible protest song.

The last 6 minutes of this piece send me to the sky, outside our planet, to the infinite space. At the same time, it send me back on the time, wen I was young, listening this for the first time with a group of friends from high school, almost on the bush, as far as we can go from my bedroom with the turning table, plugged with the cables and extension cord that everyone brought...❤

Not as pretty or ornate as Close to The Edge but it has a rawness and honesty that for me makes it the best side of vinyl recorded by Yes.

Conhecer essa musica aos 21 anos, no Brasil, eu me sinto tão feliz por ter escutado isso antes de morrer. Obrigado!

Yes were the most diverse and musically talented band of their or any other time, I saw them live back in the day and still listen to them to this day.

This has replaced every other Yes song as my favorite starting around 2010. Relayer was panned but it's so good!

Song gives me chills. Absolute favorite song 🎵 1975 was my first concert, love love love Jon's voice!!!!

When the album came out they would play it later on in the night after 10p.m.on WMMR 93.3 in Philadelphia Pa and I didn't know if I liked it or not at first because it was such a radical departure from all the other YES albums in the past. That was until I went over a friends house and he help me better understand the album and told me in time that it would become my favorite YES album. He was right and now all these years later I still think it's their best album! I know that people will say that close to the Edge is better I will not argue but when I go for walks on the boardwalk now this is still one of my go to songs to pump me up! It's truly amazing to see Steve Howe play guitar it's hard not to turn away from the creativity and concentration for so long is just incredible.. I have never seen Jon play percussion before and he really Kick-Ass or what? I seen Jon live by himself awhile ago and he didn't play as well as he did here. Thanks to YES for all the great music over all these years. And my sympathy goes out to Chris Squire family always remember that he will always be in our hearts forever and ever. RIP Chris! Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey U S A!

Patrick Moraz: Keyboards

If I could time travel this concert would be one of my first stops..

About "Gates of Delirium" and the other 2 tracks in the "mysterious" "RELAYER" Album : But if you really do understand these lyrics , then you'll agree... that they are terrifying and bewildering indeed, their deep meaning carries the weight of the entire Middle-Age's VIOLENCE ... ; And at the same time they're quite REALISTIC , for Europe and its today's dwellers ("we Europeans" if I might say so) are "shaped" by the "giant casting Shadows" whose roots are to be found in our medieval wars & battles (and XXth Century A.C. has not been an exception by the way)

To me Relayer is the best album.

The musical talent this group had has never been matched.

I truly can't Believe that I would hear this live. Today I happened to be listening to this Beautiful recording that my Brother Freddie asked me to listen to this. That was 40 years ago. This is a Masterpiece on every level. Lyrics are universal if one should close their mine to everything else, and only listen to this Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful..and ride the Wave.

This album blew away more of my friends, than any other LP I owned...and I owned close to a 1000 lp's.

21:06 You can see Jon say "dammit!" there. It is pretty damn noticeable, but hey, when you're playing a 23 minute song I ain't expecting every part to be played perfectly.

Just image being at this show. Earth shattering.

If everyone else's channel was turned up as high as Jon's guitar, the mix would be fantastic.

Never heard Jon scream out the lyrics like parts of this.

When "Soon" starts it's quite beautiful, a heartfelt song...the longing for peace.

I'm 60 years old. I heard the gates of delirium first time when I was 14. And still is wonderful.

One of my favorite songs. Love Chris' work on this. This one has it all. It rocks, grooves and has a beautiful touching end.

Yes without Jon Anderson is not YES salutes fron Perú

I was so lucky to have been witnessed to 6 tours of YES, and I caught this Tour in Vancouver BC supporting this album, RIP Chris caught one of his last performances

“Soon, oh soon, the light Pass within and soothe this endless night And wait here for you Our reason to be here”

I Was There too! !!!!! :O)))) The sound was very wishy-washy with the wind and the keyboards kept dropping out of the mix, but what a day ! Still got some photographs (my old instamatic!).

I was actually there!

I have loved Yes since I was 14. 46 years later the music still moves me.

The ability to change time signatures with such perfection is unequaled outside of bands such as gentle giant

Moraz was always amazing, almost too much with Steve Howe. Two strong leads at the same time.

So beautiful.... at 15:49. Silence... with just a few chords. Saw them many times since '75... captivating.

The Patrick Moraz era is often overlooked. And Chris Squire with his wonderful bass playing and awesome support vocals always.

It is amazing to see and think that YES had crowds that huge size before. Although their music is timeless, their popularity and box office draw now is far from what it was then.

Gracias. Hermoso momento de la historia de la música lleno de inspiración. Geniales

Patrick Moraz is such a talented keyboardist! When I (try) play this song, I always find myself playing the keyboard lines in the guitar!

From a musicianship standpoint, take a moment to ponder the talent required to pull off the battlefield sequence, night after night, to such perfection as this. Given today's (2022) landscape, this feat is unthinkable.

This is one of the few bands that actually gets even better with the years