YES Rock of the 70s's - Excerpts

[saarnoldbhm]

Chris wishes he could go back to so he could be lean.

[pigeonapocalypse]

Chris is a funny dude

[Wazabooz]

Great! Never heard early interviews and certainly no off-the-cuff remarks like that.

LOVE YOU CHRIS!! Wish I could go back in time as a single young lady in London and pursue your tall lean wonderfulness.

[marmas58ink]

Seems the contents of this = 4 songs performed live on Belgian TV in Sept of 1970: 'Astral Traveller', 'Everydays', 'Then', and 'No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed', (+ this 'interview' segment ? / I guess). Length: 25mins.

What about the _videos_ Yes made for TaaW? There are at least 4, I think. A couple are kind of well known (at least in excerpts) but a couple others I've only seen in very low-gen. versions. Have these been released in some form?

[rickfan1964]

i think the Geico gecko would sound cooler if it had Chris's voice! ha!! ;)

[rotterdarned]

@ PERRYFILM ... yep! lol .. It's funny, but I wrote just that before posting but decided to erase it at last moment, discretion being the better part of valor ... -R || :)

[PERRYFILM]

00:52 ahh u got me

[rotterdarned]

@ yesmuseum. Right you are - thanks for the correction.

Re: Comments about how few video's seem to be circulating from the 1970's. Many are in corporate vaults, but I suspect that most that are of a useful quality remain in personal hands. There was a flurry of internet posting of the latter catagory about five years ago, but it dried up when the labels and others began issuing wholesale take downs on YouTube and other sites.

[deconstructionist67]

Young Steve, before he turned into Gollum.

[GaryNull]

something else he would rather not show . . . . weed?

[rotterdarned]

@GaryNull

Knowing Chris, I doubt it.:-)

[GaryNull]

@rotterdarned you know Chris?

I'm sure Steve Howe gets high, . . how else could someone think up what he plays. I've experienced it too, . . I play wild shit stoned.

[rotterdarned]

@GaryNull

Ha! Yes, I do, as mentioned earlier. This video was of earlier days before Steve joined the group. And that earlier line-up of guys was the one I had the delight to work with on a few occasions. The guys I got to know best were the two in this vid and Bruford. Never met Steve Howe though I respect his playing greatly.

Was a stage manager at Fillmore for awhile so worked with many musicians. Never witnessed anyone taking anything aside from medicine prescribed by their MD's.

[yesmuseum]

@rotterdarned (Steve Howe is in this video product) I'm saddened how few video recordings were made of these great performers of the 70s. From what I've read, many of the BBC video tapes were wiped for re-use. Very sad to imagine what might have been available. Still, I've been impressed recently with some of the video recordings that have surfaced recently, including some Yes videos (Voiceprint's YES, The Lost Broadcasts)

[neil73]

@GaryNull It cuts both ways though: Not everybody is the same. Last time I got stoned and had a jam I just wanted to hide in a corner and got all paranoid!

[GaryNull]

@neil73  But once you get past the paranoid it gets good.

[yesmuseum]

Wonderful! Now, let's get BBC: Sounding Out on DVD.

[drkam6]

@yesmuseum Wholeheartedly agreed! When is Sounding Out on DVD coming out?

[julyvalls]

@yesmuseum with all the complete songs of that gig

[CurtisMateer]

Yes yes but when is the Asher Quinn dvd being released?