What's with the keyboards? No accents, half of the parts are missing. The parts that are played sound like a shoddy wedding band keyboardist's crappy presets. Terrible.
The new/temp lead singer does ok on this song, but the performance is not anything compared to when Jon was younger and singing during the 90125 tour. Also this performance is missing Trevor Rabin's vocals. Trevor is a much better singer than Steve Howe. Also, as Howe is on stage, they should have got Geoff Downes to take Wakemans spot. Geoff would do a far better job of covering the spectrum of Yes material, and he is a capable singer as well.
Steve Howe stunk this one up bad. His tone is not good, no emotion,he does not add any thing to the original parts, and both of his attemps at solos in this song are half hearted at best. Steve is a master guitar player for certain, but he is just going through the motions on this song. When Trevor played Roundabout and other old Yes material, he either stuck pretty close to the signature parts/solos or he did his own interpretation with Steve Howe inspired prhases throughout the song.
Benoit is struggling to sing this song, and he is much younger than Jon, and so Benoits voice is in better overall shape. When Jon was 20 yrs younger and singig this song, he would have blew Beniot right off the stage. Jon would be a very tough person to replace, but they could have found a better replacement/temp fill in than Beniot.
IT is not the 1st time they used a pre-recorded drum opening ..in the Union tour they did the same...I didn't like either Howe' solo guitar here..though in the vids of Yes in Lugano Steve solo this part better.
Alan White is triggering the intro drum sample as well as other samples throught the song. Watch his right hand as he hits a trigger pad above his tom tom. These are the same samples that were used on the original recording. To pull of the 90125 material without triggering samples would be very difficult, and the Trevor Horn flavored samples are a key part of the character of the songs from 90125.
The opening drum drum roll and the similar drum fill before the solo are almost fully pre-recorded, and much of the solo (that Steve refuses to do) doens't seem like it was beign reproduced live. Really sounded awful.
Shouldn't have bothered without Rick to do the solo on piano(!) like one clip I've seen here on YT. That "unplugged" version was far better than this.
I don't see why people are bitching, sure would love to see Jon with them cause he is my favorite, but he does s great job singing Yes.
Annonymus121 1 year ago
horror.
Dannymusic1999 1 year ago
Great quality vid, real good job. As far as the lineup and performance.....
jjp4mma 2 years ago
What's with the keyboards? No accents, half of the parts are missing. The parts that are played sound like a shoddy wedding band keyboardist's crappy presets. Terrible.
4001XBASS 2 years ago
yuk yuk yuk!
SnowyOwl1959 2 years ago
The new/temp lead singer does ok on this song, but the performance is not anything compared to when Jon was younger and singing during the 90125 tour. Also this performance is missing Trevor Rabin's vocals. Trevor is a much better singer than Steve Howe. Also, as Howe is on stage, they should have got Geoff Downes to take Wakemans spot. Geoff would do a far better job of covering the spectrum of Yes material, and he is a capable singer as well.
neechee5150 2 years ago
Steve Howe stunk this one up bad. His tone is not good, no emotion,he does not add any thing to the original parts, and both of his attemps at solos in this song are half hearted at best. Steve is a master guitar player for certain, but he is just going through the motions on this song. When Trevor played Roundabout and other old Yes material, he either stuck pretty close to the signature parts/solos or he did his own interpretation with Steve Howe inspired prhases throughout the song.
neechee5150 2 years ago
Oh no, no, no, no, no
Kornfogel 2 years ago
That stage looks very small and confining...
rshcry24 2 years ago
@rshcry24 it's a small, rotating stage.all shows there are theater in the round (like the good old days)
jjp4mma 2 years ago
I like this version benoit sounds good
DannyKisawesome 2 years ago
Benoit is struggling to sing this song, and he is much younger than Jon, and so Benoits voice is in better overall shape. When Jon was 20 yrs younger and singig this song, he would have blew Beniot right off the stage. Jon would be a very tough person to replace, but they could have found a better replacement/temp fill in than Beniot.
neechee5150 2 years ago
It really was Steve playing the solo live actually, no doubt about that !!
ariokanario 2 years ago
I can't believe Steve Howe played this...!!!
TOPmusicman8 2 years ago
Oliver Wakeman is a capable but boring looking player, nowhere like his super father.
kdlaiusa 2 years ago
IT is not the 1st time they used a pre-recorded drum opening ..in the Union tour they did the same...I didn't like either Howe' solo guitar here..though in the vids of Yes in Lugano Steve solo this part better.
trekie01 2 years ago
Alan White is triggering the intro drum sample as well as other samples throught the song. Watch his right hand as he hits a trigger pad above his tom tom. These are the same samples that were used on the original recording. To pull of the 90125 material without triggering samples would be very difficult, and the Trevor Horn flavored samples are a key part of the character of the songs from 90125.
neechee5150 2 years ago
The opening drum drum roll and the similar drum fill before the solo are almost fully pre-recorded, and much of the solo (that Steve refuses to do) doens't seem like it was beign reproduced live. Really sounded awful.
Shouldn't have bothered without Rick to do the solo on piano(!) like one clip I've seen here on YT. That "unplugged" version was far better than this.
glowacks 3 years ago
what a bad news. it's better not to play than playing with this pre recorded part... absurd!
baddog255 3 years ago