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  • ...There was a lot of good underground music in the '80s. Slave, Talking Heads, Rush, George Duke... Robert Fripp in particular was working his ass off. Grateful Dead was still going strong. Desert rock and metal bands started to form... You just can't say that music went downhill.

  • if anyone has seen the movie "Apollo 18" then you'll remember that an astronaut was listening to a "Yes" song on his little tape recorder. does anyone know the name of that song, he was listening to?? man, it is one of their real good oldies and i had heard it before but i can't recall it to save my life. will someone help me figure this mystery out. thanks

  • @chev202

    It's And You and I. Also one of the astronauts is named "Anderson". 

  • That's just your basic big-assed domestic cat behind Jon at 7:48. And Yes rules. Always has, always will.

  • who got rid of "silly human race" and dubbed some incomprehensible S... , that idiot!

  • Just had another listen to this incredible rendition of Yours is no Disgrace. Howe is absolutely at his best technically in this - especially in the last part doing that amazing 32nd note run down the neck, then he slides up chromatically - in perfect rhythm - and continues with the 32nd notes run as if it had never been broken by the sliding. The timing and phrasing is absolute perfection. Take a listen and see Howe he blows away all of his 70's contemporaries. PURE GENIUS!!!

  • Best band ever... "Intelligent Rock"... ;)

  • From 7:29 to 7:49 i nearly CRIED. This world has had a MASSIVE LETDOWN, and the COMPROMISE STILL HAS'NT COME!

  • @545t3t4t5 Your SO RIGHT. Nobody even knows who YES is anymore. It's sad that the music industry today is such a joke. It's all about the MONEY not the MUSIC!!!!!!

  • @MrSpood5 Exactly. try to name a top10 song that isnt in 4/4, same (always 4-bar) chord sequence throughout; there isnt one!

  • @545t3t4t5 Look underground... If you're interested, I just put a band together with bands like Genesis, Yes, Porcupine Tree, and a multitude of jazz/progressive bands as our influences. If you're interested, keep in touch, I think you'll be surprised! (Our ages are 15, 16, 16 and 17 btw).

  • @Johnpjm any links or sumat?

  • @545t3t4t5 Yeah it's sort of ironic.. Yes was sort of the creative high-point of rock music. But hey the kids these days have done some great stuff with electronic jazz music. :B

  • Why couldn't that solo be on the album! That was fucking INCREDIBLE.

  • I don't think Steve has any problem finding the notes..LOL

  • Howe's solo here is absolutely transcendant.

  • @ADugas661

    I felt he kinda dropped the ball for a minute there in the middle. Still, didn't stop me from sitting here in my office and tearing up at the beauty of it...

  • Someone has to explain to me why the sound systems, the mix from 1971 -1979 were wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than post 1979. Forget the fact that the musicianship here is beyond comprehension. As technology got better, the sound systems got worse! Here the music sounds so thick and full. IE: 2002 they sounded like they were playing through a cotton ball.

  • @yesshows100 ...I think thats when they went from "Tube type" amps to printed circuits...Just a guess..

  • @yesshows100 The reason is less amp distortion (in the low mids) everything sounds clearer for the price of 'warmth'.

  • @ZapperJet silly human race

  • Four people make the like bar look like a lit joint.

  • Jon's question of "what music will be in 15 years".... 1971+15=1985 "We are the world". not great

  • Howe is just a cool player...the solo is ass kicking

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  • GREAT VIDEO. TOO BAD JON IS NOT SINGING WITH THE BAND ANYMORE.

    AFTER ALL, HE IS THE BAND, SINCE HE WROTE MOST OF THE SONGS.

    WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME AND SEE THEM. GULU@TAMPABAY.RR.COM

  • @Jacktard well, then, if 'he is the band' you could go and tell him 'hey jon, why dont you take ANY bandmates and start touring' ? you're as square as the screen of your computer. that's why is called a BAND. for the matter you say there are solo artists.

  • love how the audience is all quiet and reverant and deatched for most of the show then go apeshit at the end this number...

  • This is a great version. The version that appears on Yessongs the album is from a 1972 concert at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens,Georgia. The version on the Yessongs concert video is different and not nearly as good musically. It there any video footage in existence from the 1972 concert in Athens,Georgia? The camera angles as with most of these earlier video version are fairly lame, it's as if these camera persons had no clue as to what they were filming. Thanks for posting!

  • brilliant solo. too many solos don't have a point, but this is one of the rare ones that does.

  • I was just watching the version of this from Yessongs, and this version is superior. The reason? BRUFORD. Nothing against Alan White, but Bruford simply rules. 

  • Now THAT is rock and roll, vintage early 1970s

  • This band always sounds better to me when they play live. They just sound more organic.

  • Rick's piano teacher must have had his hands full ;-)

  • Did anyone else see the panther-thing at 7:46?

  • @kickerofelves123 i was just about to type that myself..HOLY SHIT!!! that really freaked me out, i was showing this video to a mate saying how its weird that you have jon saying "in 12, 14 yrs time there should be really good things happening music-wise" i was just saying how sorry i felt for him (not knowing how music would really turn out!) then my mate says "WTF is that behind him?"

  • @DodgyJusByName Lol I don't see how it could be anything other than a panther.  There are no house cats that large. It's just like Jon Anderson to have a pet panther- always trying to be one with the world and one with nature hahaha

  • @kickerofelves123 AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

  • @DodgyJusByName Yeah, there's SOMETHING going on there. It's too big to be a cat, but not the right proportions for a panther. That Jon... always having to have something otherwordly about him.... XD

  • I wish Bill Bruford had stayed in Yes.

    Not that Alan White isn't any good.

  • @SamuelLJacksonsFish I think Bil is awesome but I like Alan anyway they are really diferents drummers, Bill did amazing things in King Crimson I think he had more space there, King Crimson had the drum more furtherforward than Yes that maybe explain his out( don´t get me wrong I would have like a Yes with Bill Bruford post 1972 It would have been interesting a Relayer with him)

  • rick looks like a hot chick,

    omg back in the 70's people lived inside a dream

  • @KillingLies1 Hahaha! I was thinking the same thing!! He was ... um... curvaceous, wasn't he? XD

  • Oh John, how wrong you were...

  • I'm looking for the button to press that says "I Love it" But I can't find it anywhere! So I guess I just have to press "Like" and make do with that one, instead! One of the best performances of this classic classic track there is.

  • that is a great live performance of yours is no disgrace

    they are so magical

  • .....and the reason these guys aren't in the R&R hall of fame is, ... ???

  • @DonTerhune1200cc

    Because the rock and roll hall of fame is fucking stupid, and there are hardly any good bands in it.

  • Four people seem to have accidentally pressed the dislike button.

  • actually in those 12 years i thing music contracted, since you the band YES had expanded it to much of it's most wild limber lyrical limits.

    what would music be like in 2010? hmmm let me rub my chin and travel time...

  • Steve Howe looking like Angus Young at 1:18

  • whoever disliked this is a major troll.

  • this is the magic of YES !

  • They were so great! Love this. Thanks for posting.

  • is that a cat or a panther walking behind anderson's window at the 7:48 point in the show?

  • I remember watching this at the time. I was 15, had seen Yes at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, Bill Brufords sneering (but accurate) comments about the audience at 7:10 made my mum say: ' Well they've got you sussed out!'

  • Steve really shines on this one

  • @7:49 Wow how about owner of a lonely heart lol.

  • YES!

  • that's "SHITTY human race" they cut up at 5:40 folks. the original lyric is "SILLY human race" though i understand why jon might have changed it.

  • @Putaspellonyou He does say silly human race at 5:40, but the producers must have thought he said shitty, and that is why they cut it.

  • that was amazing, great fricken job on the solo steve

  • I finally heard this version of this song again. I'll sleep better tonight. Yes is trully a great band. Nobody plays or will ever play like Yes. Trully phenonimal.

  • Did anyone else notice that they edited "silly human race" when Jon said it at 5:44.

  • steve howe owns

  • I loved Yes in concert for the fact they never played their songs exactly the same. They always came up with a different twists to their live songs.

    Featuring Yes' earliest line-up, this version sounds great! Thank you for sharing!

  • @john1000003 Actually, this is not Yes' earliest lineup. If you notice, that is Wakeman playing keyboards and he didn't join the band until the Fragile album was being recorded. The original Yes lineup didn't have Howe nor Wakeman, the band had Peter Banks and Tony Kaye. This is actually the third Yes lineup as Tony Kaye played on the Yes Album where this song was originally released.

  • @quipfan: Indeed, however, this is the the lineup that most fans consider the classic, or ultimate, lineup of the band.

  • ThatS why my nickname is s.howe.yes in every forum.

  • @showeyes I thought it was show.eyes at first.

  • @stalrunner

    Well. in Hungary nobody can solve my nickname

  • GO STEVE!!!!!

  • steve is fucking boss

  • Awesome seeing anything yes did with Bruford in the band. Great upload!!!

  • THIS PART OF THE SONG IS MISSING ON THE YESSONGS VIDEO. IT'S ON THE ALBUM Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth,Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals,their morals disappear.Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.Caesar's palace, morning glory,silly human,silly human race,On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place, If the summer change to winter,yours is no,Yours is no disgrace.Yours is no disgrace.Yours is no disgrace.THEY GO FROM THE MIDDLE INTO THE ENDING JAM.

  • in 15 years time, you were making Big Generator, jon. it wasn't "incredible". :(

  • great stuff here

    real nice find

    thanks for posting

    tim

  • yes is the best band ever! i love them! thanks for all good songs

  • si perro ctm! es terible wena

  • On the YES album tour Steve's solo in Yours is no disgrace is amazing, but more like the studio version. Starting with the Fragile tour he went off on these amazing tangents. I have 2 bootlegs of the fragile tour. Woverhampton 10/11/71 and Winterland 3/10/72. Steve's solo on both are beyond amazing. Not to be believed. The most amazing thing is that they are alittle different from each other. The version from Yesongs is from the Clsoe to the edge tour. That could be the best of all!!!!!!!!

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  • Cool vid, love his ES175. Funny how nobody in the audience knew the song yet it was so new.

  • sure is with a ES-175. is not a ES-137???

  • Yes. his favorite guitar. Gibson produced a Steve Howe Signature ES-175 in 2002

  • what planet is steve howe from again?

  • Steve Howe is amazing in this. He does so much that rock guitarists don't think about.

  • People PLEASE...

    Link me more videos and footage with this line up...with Wakeman and Buford on it.

  • Hope Yes pulls this one out of the vault on their 2010 tour.

  • Cripes, Steve Howe!!!!!!!!

  • Superb, with the inimitable Bruford working his magic.

  • 7:49

    AAAHHHH A TIGER!!!

  • ES .175 Rulez!

  • Great rendition. Too bad someone tried to tamper with the sound at about 5:45 trying to make it into "shitty" human race. Not a very successful attempt.

  • @JackBlair2  You must have seen Avavtar..

  • A great video this my first time seeing it .

    Thank you for uploading this.

    Incredible.

  • 1:51

  • Thanks for uploading this. Saw Yes (with new vocals and key boards) this summer and they still packed a punch.

  • 12 years? je, 5 years later punk was at the door. i guess that wasn`t what jon thougt...

  • C`est vraiment bon!!!

  • Play it Steve!

  • Man, is there a version of the original Yessongs "Yours is no disgrace" on video, with that dum ass videographer holding his lense on the man Steve out there. I mean Steve Howe is one of my ALLTIME heroes, but shit!!, what did he do to that solo?? Don't get me wrong, I don't

    t think the man could hit a wrong note, but that's NOTHING (say it like Deniro)... NOTHING like his solo of "Yours is no disgrace" on Yessongs

  • That's why it's called improvisation.

  • You can find it on dailymotion - my upload.

  • Well, this was recorded... what, 2-3 years before the Yessongs version? Think about it... he had all that time to perfect the solo so that it sounds just right like it does on Yessongs.... But seriously, I think this solo is just as good, not better, but definitely excellent! They're very different, too, and I think he does some greatttt some stuff on this one.

  • Saw them in '73 in Boston. The Eagles opened for them. What a concert!

  • long live steve howe and chris squire

  • It sounds like they dubbed "silly human race" into "filthy human race." that's stupid.

    I wish they had the footage from the whole concert. I really want to hear a classic version of "Heart of the Sunrise" live with Bruford.

  • YES!!! my god. why is there no HotS with Bruford around? I know that they never played Close to the Edge with Bruford live but come on.. where is the Heart with BB?!

  • Bruford played CTTE with ABWH, everyone here except Squire. That live DVD is still available. Heluva show, really.

    Interesting comment by Jon about future bands. He would have been right, except the record companies took power back, away from the bands, in the late 70s. Music like Yes, Tull, Gentle Giant, Genesis... the bands were in control then, and the record companies let them go because they were making $.

    As Steve said in YesYears, Viva the 70s!

    -

  • wow this is better than the album version. poor john little did he know the 80's would start the de evolution of rock music and we are still de evolving to this day. we suck.

  • @zepman360 I'd recommend the Yessongs live version of this song to you, very likable and there's some interesting and particularly emotional guitar work from beginning to end.

  • @JACKIFIEDCRACK I agree, YESSONGS was released in Dec' of 73, To me it has the best live versions of their earlier songs , especially Close to the edge , and Heart of the Sunrise,,,, I saw them in concert in 72 and 75 both were amazing !

  • @zorozornes Haha well I'm afraid you're talking to a 15 year old fanatic haha. Close to the edge.. Now that song... There aren't any words for it, it stands on its own, oh and about 4 and half minutes before the end there's that crazy discordant riff that just hits you in the face again and again until mit resolves into one of Rick's crazy Mozart solos, just love it! I don't know If I'll ever get to see them live :/ They played in my city on my birthday recently but it was for over 21's.

  • @zepman360 You said it m friend. hopefully there will be a rock and roll messiah. Im a musican and i am 20. I'll try my best hehe

  • Bloody hell, Rick used to be skinny too, just like I was!

  • @zepman360 His statement "in about 15 years music will be more sophisticated" in 1986 all we got shitty Madonna and Wang Chung and Wham and Huey Lewis & The News and goddamn Amy Grant and not to mention 700 club Paul Crouch on TV

  • @n64wilbert Tell me about it ... That was about the time my friends and I plastered the records in the stores with warning labels: "CAUTION! This music is antimatter. The shear lack of style, intelligence and invention may be detrimental to your health."

    We never got caught.... :)

  • Lol, a giant cat walked by the window when Jon was talking. Chris rocks!

  • I was reading through the comments after listening 2 Jon's prophecy about future music. Let me just say that I agree with u folks that the music didn't get better. However there's excellent music & guitar players out there. Check out Steve Morse, Alan Holdsworth. Robert Fripp is still doing stuff that's impossible 2 do on guitar, except 4 Robert Fripp. I'd like 2 have the Jonas brothers over and play some Yes, King Crimson, & U.K. 4 them & then say 'let me know when u can play like that'

  • I love his 'choppy' guitar playing. That's how I describe it anyway. Choppy, yet fluid. A true original.

  • I LOVE YES!!!!!!!

  • Why is the line "Silly Human Race" censored? Did some idiot censor think that he was saying "shitty" or something?

  • Good point. I looked at a lesser quality bootleg version and i thought he was saying "shitty". When i replayed it, he in fact was saying "silly".

    So i think you're right - this version is from VH1 so somebody over there must have thought he was saying "shitty" lol

  • silly human race, indeed!

  • Steve is the best , amazing , I see this video again and again .....

  • gots ta get yer prog rock on

  • I saw Yes at the Rickfield Coliseum in 1974. I don't really remember it, but I do remember Roundabout!

  • Sorry for the mis type...it's Richfield Colliseum, home of the Cavs in the 1970's

  • Thanks for posting this

  • Genius

  • now the music sucks... think how is jon anderson feeling right now looking the horrible music that people play today

    long live proressive rock

  • Little could Jon have known how perversely backward his prophesy would turn out to be.

  • Spacey, cosmic, enlightening. The music of YES (no?) is all that and much more! Makes me feel like I'm floating in the astral, again. There are few artists that can make me feel that way- Moody Blues is another...

  • That piano player shore does have a purty mouth.

  • What's music gonna be like in 15 years from then Jon? 

    I EAT AT CHEZ NOUS!

    Progress, I must say.

  • @MrUpshotKnothole ROFL!!!!

  • There is a band that has really changed music but only in there own circle. They are called My Morning Jacket. A new sort of prog. Check them out. Steam engine, the bear, some of there earlier stuff.

  • Love this band. Steve Howe rules still

  • Truly inspiring!

  • "I start to think about the young kids that start watching us and pick up a guitar. And what is their music gonna be like, in say, ten, twelve, fourteen years... it's gonna be really incredible isn't it."

    ... If only he knew.

  • i am agree with you music nowadays is only rubbish, since the 60s and mid 70s decades, music have not experienced a big change, now the only things that you need to be an "artist" is a pretty face and a hot body and everything is done, the media has a lot of fault that this happens, but i have a hope that some group will revolutionize the music like the Beatles did it once.

  • You are just not hip to any new good music. You will not find any on the radio or TV. LOOK HARDER.

  • Best Rock Band In the Entire Galaxy.

  • Steve in Yours is no Disgrace in any and every concert I've seen is ABSOLUTELY amazing and this concert really captured it! Thanks for the post of a great time before the band took off to the stars. BTW, check out the cat walking behind Jon at around 7:36, it looks like some kind of panther skulking around a Roger Dean landscape.

  • Yes at there best and most creative! I wonder how extrodinary Tales and the following records would have been if the restless and awesome drummer Bartly Buttford hadn't split

  • Best rock band ever!

  • This is a perfect example of why small venue concerts are always better.

    If you saw them perform a few years later, it would be synced up to some big pyrotechnics and video display,and the band would be hampered by elf costumes.

  • Wow that's Steve at his best. Always had a little difficulties with Steve Howe's style, but this solo really rocks.

  • I'd be interested to know what guitar styles you prefer. Steve's technique is definitely idiosyncratic, but always masterful. I agree that he is in fine form here. Fragile is where he won be over for life.

  • I prefer a kind of bluesy style with a certain swing feeling, like Mick Taylor or Tommy Bolin used to pursue, Jimmy Page on some studio recordings and Jeff Beck of course

  • Check out a guy named Joe Bonamassa.  You would probably like him a lot...

  • I wish there was a DVD of this whole concert, start to finish.

  • would be a dream come true !

  • what a super rich period it was for music in the 70s. yes,elp,genesis,pink floyd,jethro tull. super stars then, and for all time.

  • FASCINATING !!

  • oh jon, yall wouldve never imagined

    a band like morbid angel back in 1971

    or death metal period for that matter

    the de-evolution of music started by the punk scene in the 80s? they never saw THAT coming i`d bet

  • it´s funny. 15 years later ther where playing owner of a lonly heart and stuff like that.

    kind of a dis-evolution thing

  • yes , is more sad than funny :( Steve Howe is The BEST!

  • They didn't realize that they WERE the apex of rock music. In 15 years time, 90125 and shoulder pads.

  • 7:44

    "I don't think we can start to think what the music's going to be like in 15 years."

    Hmm, let see that would put us in th e mid 80s. Arguably, the worst musical decade in history.

  • The 80s had some crap, but I'd vote our current decade as the worst ever. We've now entered the era of "disposable" music - give it a quick listen and then discard. No lasting value whatsoever, don't dare push any boundaries or demand a patient audience. All the ideas seem to be recycled from something that's already been done in the past. I don't think I can list more than a couple of memorable tunes that will be played 10 years from now.

  • well its a shame, but i think there is a way to solve tihs problem XD I meen for instance, i play in a band with styles based on yes and gentle giant and some more funk influences too, but its not our fault that we wont be famous (unless were rubbish!), its the producers and label owners themselves who are too scared to risk some money on making great albums, and pushing the rigid boundaries that are inplace at the moment hell if i had money id produce bands like this for the sake of music XD

  • Jon didn't realize how hard the puppet strings would be pulled by the corporate machine.

  • It's "Finnish human race". We are the fins!

  • they reversed the footage during that word, i think they thought he said "shitty human race" :P

  • kainindustries - Yup, that's exactly what happened and to prove it, I recorded it and played it backwards (easy to do with MS sound recorder). It really does sound like sh*tty, but I doubt that Yes changed the lyric. Ha, intentional backmasking!

  • ASeasoned Witch, my reply to your comment doesn't seem to be posting...derekhogue15 has a video of this minus the edit...'silly human race' is the lyric.

  • markydkiehl - that IS very strange at 5:42. I know the words and whatever got dubbed in there doesn't even match his mouth. Need a lip reader to tell us what got taped over.

  • YES!

    This is awesome. Thanks for posting.

  • Is that weed on Jon's book while he's talking!? That'd be killer

  • well hes got an ash tray and a glass of water next to him and he already looks stoned so it could be very possible.

  • Thank you God for Yes. They helped me know life can be beautiful.

  • Thanks Steve For all and happy Birthday!

  • man steve howe fuckin destroyed that guitar =P