Yes, at their best: Wakeman, Howe, Squire, Anderson; Roger Dean's way-cool album covers and his design of their stage setup; Great progressive music, albeit with melodic SONGS in between great instrumental breaks and explorations (they weren't just mindlessly jamming); Oh, yeah - and the CAPE - gotta love Rick's cape, haha.
Please listen the new YES ! a young band from argentina, his name it's "Espias del Umbral" and they are growning, help with a vote!
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What a band!!!! I loved these guys. Listen too Chris Squire on the bass. Amazing!!! Is that Patrick Moraz on keyboards? It certainly doesn't look like Rick Wakeman. ELP, GENESIS and these guys were the best. I loved them all, so, it's hard for me to pick my favorite. I loved this era of music.
Chris Squire makes me sad. Playing all those 16th notes for 3 minutes straight and he doesn't show ANY sort of effort in it whatsoever. I oughta just break all my musical equipment and become a slave to the office.
man mutha fukka.,..steve howe is kicking raw ass in this song...got dayummm mna..this shit is bad as hell..steve is a bad fukka..dayum this intro is bad as hell..steve is playing some sick shit...thanks for this posting..
I saw Yes this summer and Asia, Steve Howe is still amazing! Just hard to look at, It reminds me of how old I'm getting. He's just aging a lot harder.
I now officially love YouTube. I was at this concert! Do you know what it's like to find the best moments of your childhood...on line?!?! I was a teenager then...I remember meeting this guy who had a pound of weed with him...a pound. How am I still breathing is a medical mystery. Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face...
@SteelStringDiva You know what you mean! its like that moment of seaful bliss of solitude' within the only moment makes any sense' right there is the now' or something like that'
@SteelStringDiva Not sure I would call them the Holy Trinity but they are the one of the greats from the late 60s thru the 70s. I saw them in one city and drove 200 miles to see them play the next night.
Amazing video, amazing band. I saw them live at the Liverpool Empire and they were given a standing ovation for many of their tunes; the best live band I've seen for instrumental ability.
Dirty Projectors, a band from NYC, have a very interesting YES influenced sound. Recommend Temecula Sunrise and Useful Chamber. Their use of harmonies and tempo, are something really extraordinaire.
first time I've seen anything that made me think Howe could play the guitar fairly well. He does ok here but he should have stayed electric and away from those twee little acoustic numbers he got into making up, they show up his lack of training. They sound like stuff people used to play down my local folk club when I was 19.
@Ducatisatva well actually I mean his lack of training as a guitarist. A lot of people think he was classically trained and had a lot of lessons etc but he wasn't. He taught himself and can't even read music. I think you can see this in the acoustic pieces which are very basic in structure and have a sort of 'amateur quality' about them.
@khasab jajajajajajajajajaja and more jajajajaja this guy is one more reason to love Steve Howe. Have you heard his work in Tales From Topographic Oceans? Basic work? jajajajajajajajaja and may you think that Steve Hackett is the same case. you're so funny dude really. have a good day.
looking back ...this music and what YES were doing is even more mindblowing than then. Then progressive was part of the culture now generic isd the norm. so sad. this is when was peaking on all cylinders. RELAYER was the last bravest album YES ever did, And this version of CTTE is on FIRE
looking back ...this music and what YES were doing is even more mindblowing than then. Then progressive was part of the culture now generic isd the norm. so sad. this is when was peaking on all cylinders. RELAYER was the last barvaset album YES ever did, And this version of CTTE is on FIRE
You know its crazy less than a year ago i thought this music was crap. How foolish i must have been. Now i cant imagine listening to anything else but progressive rock and Jazz fusion. Nothing else really compares.This genre of music is timeless and hundreds of years from now our descendants will look back in awe and the truly great bands like these guys and many others will be in the realm of ours society's greatest composers such as Bach and Mozart
This is why I cried when the Spectrum got the ball--saw yes 5 times there and they loved Philadelphia! There was no other building for a concert like it.
nO OTHER top guitarist can play those parts with the constant rythm changes attached.the rythm varitaions are incredible. The physical requriements are insurmountable without fatigue.
@uninoculated That makes no sense- where the melody is? Do you mean the beat? I like it- for me the intro has a 6/8 feel, but the shaker is going at 3/4 which creates a nice poly-rhythm sound.
Steve Howe can't cross a street without help. He is an idiot-savant. There is no jazz in crossing a road. Bruford saved Howe's life 3 times by being the athlete he is to protect the erratic jaywalking LSD success Howe. When he went to Crimson he stayed Howes virtual wiser brother. Bruford shared 3 of his 4 whores with me when i was 11 in 1970 and saw Yes in Bristol, TN. He then shot me in the knee with his .38 smith & wesson.
so bad ass! I saw them a dozen times in the 70s. One has to be familiar with the complexity of this song in the studio version to appreciate it live. All the altered and diminished scales he plays are connected with the movements of the song. The same people who don't hear this also are incapable of hearing melodies in jazz solos. Lucky for them there are shows like dancing with the stars to keep them entertained.
1969 - 1979 were Yes's best years. I saw them as a school kid and their freshness and originality are unmatched. From this one can see why Howe was consistently voted best guitarist year after year in the Melody Maker. A joy to watch this
@charvelguy Yeah, no jest, guy.. kind of defies genre - complex like jazz, but really energetic, and also accessible, & "howe" does any human play like that (OK Flash THAT's enough)
I like the fact that his guitar is so prominent in this video but I like his playing better on CTTE from Yessongs. Its almost too chaotic here (even though the beginning of this song, to me, represents chaos).
Jimmy invented some great rock guitar music, but only Steve could invent things like Close to the Edge. To me this is real Yes music. In the 70s their music was aggressive as well as creative. Not boring at all.
@benblues45 Ok, 'preciate the honesty,& won't bore u w/more rock trash talk..the thing is, Yes really IS an acquired taste, so if you give CTTE another listen or 3 (don't worry, we won't tell anybody), &/or check out other tunes (off the top of my head, Heart of the Sunrise, or Roundabout) & come back to CTTE, you may just hear what, in the minds of many others, makes this a masterpiece. & hey, it's not the only one - what's the best rock in your book?
@flash522gp Yeah, I'm more into Blues - Delta, Chicago, a bit of Zappa as well - that kind of stuff, although I can appreciate the technical skill and musicianship in this clip, and Yes in general. But it just doesn't hit me the way more stripped down blues and rock does. Still, I'll give it another go.
@benblues45 Listen to the studio version. As much as this clip is pretty cool, it doesn't quite have the same feel as the studio version, which is pure perfection.
It is a really odd intro solo, but once you've listened to it 10 times, it gets stuck in your head!
thank yu tommygun for posting this video were else can I find all the tunes I once listen to but on YOUTUBE, thanks to everyone that uploads clips for everyone to hear. The streaming on this video is kind of hard but let is stream and the replay for a good listening experience
I saw Yes in 1972 at William and Mary Hall. They opened for Ten Years After and blew Alvin Lee off the stage. I remember the ticket cost six dollars apiece for me and my girl of the week. We were in a very psychedelic state...ahh the good old days.
does anyone else think that steve howe's guitar work... while brilliant... seems like self-indulgent/self-absorbed masturbation???... not really pleasant to listen to honestly ... just an opinion...
@tedstryker1980 it sounds pretty melodic to me. and the time it must have took to come up with a solo that sucks you into a song like that must have been immense. so masturbation is the wrong word for mr. steve howes solo's my friend.
I saw them inside in Chicago back in the 70's and from what I remember it was a lot better. But I'm not complaining I love their music, just wish there was some Chicago footage from back then with Wakeman, Anderson, Bruford, Howe and Squire were the line up, they kicked.
If only..... I was only 6 yrs old and I so missed out on a lot of incredible live music at the time. Luckily I have seen them since and I've been blown away each time.
@wigginsdesign@wigginsdesign I WAS THERE TOO! I believe the line up was The Nitty Gritty Dirt band, Gary Wright, Peter Frampton, and Yes. I think I was about 15 or 16 myself.
I remember they turned the power of when there was about 10 seconds left in Roundabout to go. A GREAT CONCERT! I saw them a little later, and they had the most amazing laser light show.
this was on my birthday, albeit 20 years earlier... I love this song, I just spent about 5 hours learning the first half of it on bass all by ear, and I just have to stand back right now and say: these men are geniuses.
im so mad at all of you....this guy is a god summoning his angels to earth with chops that are not only precise but emotive, he shreds with a fury of a million steads yet cries to the softest babe a melody after melody of beauty, angst, terror...how dare you people insult this church of steve howe with this nonsense...of course it is fucking music!
Steve Howe is truely INCREDIBLE.! He runs up and down that Gibson neck like WILD Fire..!
I saw Yes last night at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, FL.. An Excellent show..!
Benoit David did a great job belting out some very high notes... I envisioned Jon Anderson many times..!! Wakeman JR did a fine job on the keyboards..!
It's amazing that music with actual musicianship was popular in the 1970s.. What happened to the 2000 era... Atleast we still have the re-emergence of prog metal like Dream Theater, Tool, Mars Volta.
cool deal tubejmmer - I also hitchiked to see Yes in 1976 at Cleveland Stadium. I agree with your comments. This music definitely saved me from total self-destruction in my youth. Was my vision of heaven on earth.....inspirational.
I hitch-hiked to a Yes concert in 1977, in Hartford, CT- it was amazing! One thing to remember is that at the time, nobody did anything even remotely close to this. These guys are musicians- not b.s. artists! This was a great time for music!
I gotta learn to stop reading comments, where do ya find these peeps Tommy?..how do they find you? and why would they check this out if they didn't already know it was one of the most awsome album sides in all of time? Thanks for posting this TG1028
I gotta learn to stop reading comments, where do ya find these peeps Tommy?..how do they find you? and why would they check this out if they didn't already know it was one of the most awsome album sides in all of time? Thanks for posting this TG1028
it's free style,it's not suppose to make since in relation to the total song.enjoy it don't try to tantalize it ,just let it carry you yo another place!!
Insanely unique and a totally great jam. Probably sounds like a cacophony of sound to most, but listen to original recording on Close to the Edge and it will become crystal clear how melodically beautiful and special this song is. This version a little psychotic, but it is live and they are just jamming.
To all the naysayers... Steve Howes guitar is about as dry and non-effected as you can get. It is normal that we hear some "imperfections" in the playing. There is nothing at all to soften the blows so to speak. On top of that, I doubt any of you could do better, and if you could lets hear it.
Seems to me that it should be common knowledge that a show is a moment in time and it is almost never perfect. That is what gives certain shows flavor. There is time in life to savor many different feels.
Steve. Howe. rocks. I love him so much. He makes me cry like a little girl running from a bumble bee as I run from his genius for I know I will never attain it.
this song was written in the early 70's and themes were big. Still a bit psychedelic and jazz-oriented, as were the times. Look at The Who's Tommy and Quadraphenia, big theme albums.
OMG...the intro is one of THE BEST Rock intro EVER MADE!!!
If you can't here the urgency, the dynamics, melodic and drama not to mention appreciating the imagination and technical polyrhythmic virtuosity that it took to create it then you will NEVER understand YES. Some of usa have the YES gene and some don't. sorry to say. Luckily I do. It's pure genuis and brilliant and such a pleasure on a deep level
Don't get me wrong, I know that album inside out and listened to it like crazy back in the day -I don't know why- but when I hear it again after so many years now, I think they could have binned the garbage in the first 3:50 and got straight to the effin point... You could cut this song in pieces and make a double album full of individual songs out of it.
They are the most successful prog rock band ever, simply because they are the best. This clip does not do the music justice, buy the studio album, with Rick Wakeman on keys.
Proooof that you do not to be a heady intellectual to anticipate the next of many notes in a passage. Why? Because we are wired to handle far far more information than we might have resisted in our schooling. The notes of Steve Howe take us somewhere. We anticipate, rest, run, and finally arrive. I love the language Yes spoke with. In these times we could use another group like them, but it could take another 40 year if we're lucky.
@paulj0557 I have been a long time fan of the band Tool. I only found Yes two years ago and have been in awe ever since. I personally think Tool and Yes have many things in common, including the high caliber of the musicians. Do you find any Joy in the band Tool. They too pick me up then let me crash to the ground in a musical journey.
@gq4101 Absolutely! There's that mystery ambiance in both bands' music. Tool members are hardcore Yes fans. But at difference of Tool, Yes music could be also very uplifting. And just for the record (this for flamincow12), Page and Clapton would never play like Howe, BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT STYLES!! I thought we Yes fans had passed that stage of comparing other great musicians with our music heroes. We know they are one of the best on their instruments, but there are some others as well.
People rag on Yes because they were successful. If they'd been perrenial opening acts like Soft Machine they be hailed as geniuses. The truth is somewhere in between. But they could really play.
@23VonKurtis "The sound crew really screwed up on this gig. It's a huge shame that Yes don"t have a pristine sound record of their prime years." I wish Yes had taken a multitrack recorder on tour and recorded every night, budgeted for that and left off a bit of the light show.
Yes, at their best: Wakeman, Howe, Squire, Anderson; Roger Dean's way-cool album covers and his design of their stage setup; Great progressive music, albeit with melodic SONGS in between great instrumental breaks and explorations (they weren't just mindlessly jamming); Oh, yeah - and the CAPE - gotta love Rick's cape, haha.
philipatoz 1 week ago
Smoke a joint, put on the headphones and kick back!!! Love it
CSDJK1 1 week ago
cool early guitar shredding yes were ahead of their time very under mentioned band
shredmaster100 1 month ago
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Copy and past that link !
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Vamos a ayudar a esta nueva banda argentina que esta fuertisimamente influenciada por los maestros YES con un voto para que puedan lograr mostrar su arte tan valioso en estos tiempos, son PIBES de 16,17 años
Auguespia 1 month ago
butbutbutbutbutbut... it was just getting to good!
Gilmourisgreat 2 months ago
is this the one with patrick moraz destroying the song???
juandhaltrich 2 months ago
on theie own level!
1surfrider4life 2 months ago
What a band!!!! I loved these guys. Listen too Chris Squire on the bass. Amazing!!! Is that Patrick Moraz on keyboards? It certainly doesn't look like Rick Wakeman. ELP, GENESIS and these guys were the best. I loved them all, so, it's hard for me to pick my favorite. I loved this era of music.
lismclis51 2 months ago
Chris Squire makes me sad. Playing all those 16th notes for 3 minutes straight and he doesn't show ANY sort of effort in it whatsoever. I oughta just break all my musical equipment and become a slave to the office.
FriedGold8942 2 months ago
Really love this piece but damned keyboard sucks...
uptocom 2 months ago
Freaky and delicious.
JRCrowley 2 months ago
Howe rules, Anderson is the best singer ever
Siticmon 3 months ago
Yes sempre será Yes!!!!! Mto foda!!!!
TheDonalro 3 months ago
nice and progiest prog :D
Pentrace 3 months ago
good god did people used to queue up to hear this stuff!?
I'm so glad they did.... this rules
visog 4 months ago
BEST - INTRO - EVER!!!!!
thesubstitutes01 4 months ago
I came here for the video evidence george w bush is a reptilian hahhahahaha XD
kalitoj 4 months ago
man mutha fukka.,..steve howe is kicking raw ass in this song...got dayummm mna..this shit is bad as hell..steve is a bad fukka..dayum this intro is bad as hell..steve is playing some sick shit...thanks for this posting..
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Sim2428 5 months ago
Hey, that's Patrick Moraz on keys. I almost forgot he was in the band a couple years.
pimpb0tt 5 months ago
I saw them again last year- They NEVER GET OLD!!!
KDWUTTKE 5 months ago
I saw Yes this summer and Asia, Steve Howe is still amazing! Just hard to look at, It reminds me of how old I'm getting. He's just aging a lot harder.
Joshsidiotbox 6 months ago
I now officially love YouTube. I was at this concert! Do you know what it's like to find the best moments of your childhood...on line?!?! I was a teenager then...I remember meeting this guy who had a pound of weed with him...a pound. How am I still breathing is a medical mystery. Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face...
Yes - Genesis - Pink Floyd = The Holy Trinity
SteelStringDiva 7 months ago 19
@SteelStringDiva You know what you mean! its like that moment of seaful bliss of solitude' within the only moment makes any sense' right there is the now' or something like that'
DrFruedienslip 4 months ago
@SteelStringDiva Not sure I would call them the Holy Trinity but they are the one of the greats from the late 60s thru the 70s. I saw them in one city and drove 200 miles to see them play the next night.
rsaathoff 3 months ago
Steve Howe = Beast, Yes = SUPRA NATURAL MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, Listening to Yes = God talking
BigBizzle27 7 months ago
Steve Howe = Beast, Yes = SUPRA NATURAL Musical Experience
BigBizzle27 7 months ago
...Theydon Bois on guitar, Sid Bellamy on drums and Clam on bass, playing the haunting Buddy Freak melody 'Desolate Shore'
jaxxstraw 8 months ago
@jaxxstraw Great!
polbecca 7 months ago
divine YES!!!
katachi1 8 months ago
I'm looking for the organ part (chords) from 3:46 to 4:40! Can anybody help me?? Thank you!
alink90 10 months ago
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more maraca!
Kenny151 10 months ago 8
Amazing video, amazing band. I saw them live at the Liverpool Empire and they were given a standing ovation for many of their tunes; the best live band I've seen for instrumental ability.
lynes38 10 months ago
MASTERPIECE!
JTLocke815 10 months ago
Este tema sobrepasa los limites del buen rock,... lo mejor sin duda..!
cantoII 10 months ago 2
Does anybody know which guitar steve howe uses here? i can see its a ES, but what model?
Vantage94 10 months ago
@Vantage94 Gibson 355 I think
optimusdime 10 months ago
nope, it's a 345
flamincow12 10 months ago
Dirty Projectors, a band from NYC, have a very interesting YES influenced sound. Recommend Temecula Sunrise and Useful Chamber. Their use of harmonies and tempo, are something really extraordinaire.
vivelavidarocka 11 months ago
first time I've seen anything that made me think Howe could play the guitar fairly well. He does ok here but he should have stayed electric and away from those twee little acoustic numbers he got into making up, they show up his lack of training. They sound like stuff people used to play down my local folk club when I was 19.
khasab 11 months ago
@khasab You mean by training, playing like everyone else and not innovating. I agree. steve Howe was/is not the status quo.
Ducatisatva 9 months ago
@Ducatisatva well actually I mean his lack of training as a guitarist. A lot of people think he was classically trained and had a lot of lessons etc but he wasn't. He taught himself and can't even read music. I think you can see this in the acoustic pieces which are very basic in structure and have a sort of 'amateur quality' about them.
khasab 9 months ago
@khasab jajajajajajajajajaja and more jajajajaja this guy is one more reason to love Steve Howe. Have you heard his work in Tales From Topographic Oceans? Basic work? jajajajajajajajaja and may you think that Steve Hackett is the same case. you're so funny dude really. have a good day.
Satiaraha 7 months ago
21 ballbags
YoshimizRobots 11 months ago
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Eso es un grupo!!!
Shobobarrett 11 months ago
Eso es un grupo!!!
Shobobarrett 11 months ago
Amazing, that's all I can say. I am lucky to have seen them once in the early '70's.
schizzie345 11 months ago
Breathtaking! There will never be anything like these guys in our lifetime! The ultimate.
thebeastlacey 11 months ago
21 piece of shit assholes are brainless!!
MrDodstink 1 year ago
I imagine even Howe these days must look at a performance like this and be surprised /impressed.
What he does here makes the Yessong performance seem like just a run-thru.
Submit this to the R&RHoF voting committee... before they vote in another Dave Clark Five... or Ramones etc.
marmas58ink 1 year ago
looking back ...this music and what YES were doing is even more mindblowing than then. Then progressive was part of the culture now generic isd the norm. so sad. this is when was peaking on all cylinders. RELAYER was the last bravest album YES ever did, And this version of CTTE is on FIRE
wigginsdesign 1 year ago
looking back ...this music and what YES were doing is even more mindblowing than then. Then progressive was part of the culture now generic isd the norm. so sad. this is when was peaking on all cylinders. RELAYER was the last barvaset album YES ever did, And this version of CTTE is on FIRE
wigginsdesign 1 year ago
Holy crap! Steve Howe is a freaking beast! That's way too awesome!
ElChanchoOscuro69 1 year ago
You know its crazy less than a year ago i thought this music was crap. How foolish i must have been. Now i cant imagine listening to anything else but progressive rock and Jazz fusion. Nothing else really compares.This genre of music is timeless and hundreds of years from now our descendants will look back in awe and the truly great bands like these guys and many others will be in the realm of ours society's greatest composers such as Bach and Mozart
andoman121 1 year ago
20 people very far from the edge ^^
konrid22 1 year ago
Close to the Edge, Muito explendido!!!! The Yes, é e sempre será "Vanguarda" O som de muitas gerações!!!! Damibassist, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
DAMIBASSIST 1 year ago
i think the Yessongs version is the best
louis34997 1 year ago
good times, real songs , making for musics perfects
papinhabandit 1 year ago
This is why I cried when the Spectrum got the ball--saw yes 5 times there and they loved Philadelphia! There was no other building for a concert like it.
4uchuck 1 year ago
This is why I cried when the Spectrum got the ball--saw yes 5 times there and they loved Philadelphia
4uchuck 1 year ago
nO OTHER top guitarist can play those parts with the constant rythm changes attached.the rythm varitaions are incredible. The physical requriements are insurmountable without fatigue.
Samshile 1 year ago
I hate when Jon does that with the shaker. The shaker isn't where the melody is. He's been doing that for 40 years.
uninoculated 1 year ago
@uninoculated That makes no sense- where the melody is? Do you mean the beat? I like it- for me the intro has a 6/8 feel, but the shaker is going at 3/4 which creates a nice poly-rhythm sound.
jamma246 1 year ago
Steve Howe can't cross a street without help. He is an idiot-savant. There is no jazz in crossing a road. Bruford saved Howe's life 3 times by being the athlete he is to protect the erratic jaywalking LSD success Howe. When he went to Crimson he stayed Howes virtual wiser brother. Bruford shared 3 of his 4 whores with me when i was 11 in 1970 and saw Yes in Bristol, TN. He then shot me in the knee with his .38 smith & wesson.
birdhaldol 1 year ago
so bad ass! I saw them a dozen times in the 70s. One has to be familiar with the complexity of this song in the studio version to appreciate it live. All the altered and diminished scales he plays are connected with the movements of the song. The same people who don't hear this also are incapable of hearing melodies in jazz solos. Lucky for them there are shows like dancing with the stars to keep them entertained.
pete99ish 1 year ago
1969 - 1979 were Yes's best years. I saw them as a school kid and their freshness and originality are unmatched. From this one can see why Howe was consistently voted best guitarist year after year in the Melody Maker. A joy to watch this
andrewnorris2 1 year ago
this is of course the best yes performance...
ir's just incredible!
keo774 1 year ago
Sounds like Focus with a really bad jazz experiment. Course, I jest. The musicianship of these guys was pretty high..setting the bar.
charvelguy 1 year ago
@charvelguy Yeah, no jest, guy.. kind of defies genre - complex like jazz, but really energetic, and also accessible, & "howe" does any human play like that (OK Flash THAT's enough)
flash522gp 1 year ago
YES at their peak.! which saying an incredible amount! They were on fire!!!!! What amazing group. Best band of my life time!
wigginsdesign 1 year ago
they mastered all the musical movemants, a great fusion solo in a strange beggining of an outstanding hard rock song
Joeltaa347 1 year ago
saw this show twice in 1975 jersey city Roosevelt stadium ,kick ass
drmilo08260 1 year ago
probably not the best clip or track of CTTE.... but Howe is bringin it
alfyg3 1 year ago
I like the fact that his guitar is so prominent in this video but I like his playing better on CTTE from Yessongs. Its almost too chaotic here (even though the beginning of this song, to me, represents chaos).
SiberianMan2u 1 year ago
well, of course their best performance.
GREAT
keo774 1 year ago
big time bad ass !!!
charlieblues68 1 year ago
Jimmy invented some great rock guitar music, but only Steve could invent things like Close to the Edge. To me this is real Yes music. In the 70s their music was aggressive as well as creative. Not boring at all.
Lifeseeker45 1 year ago
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Boring, boring, boring prog rock....
benblues45 1 year ago
@benblues45 Maybe you dont understand this music.
kkakaroto9 1 year ago 21
@benblues45 yeah mabey you dont understand it, or mabey your just an asshole.
TheConnord12 1 year ago
@TheConnord12 Thanks for that....
benblues45 1 year ago
@benblues45 haha i just had to do it =)
TheConnord12 1 year ago
@benblues45 I bet you have two left feet ...because you don't know great music when you hear it., Your ears must be on the blink..
zorozornes 1 year ago
@zorozornes OK, OK, it's not so bad, but not really my cup of tea.
benblues45 1 year ago
@benblues45 Ok, 'preciate the honesty,& won't bore u w/more rock trash talk..the thing is, Yes really IS an acquired taste, so if you give CTTE another listen or 3 (don't worry, we won't tell anybody), &/or check out other tunes (off the top of my head, Heart of the Sunrise, or Roundabout) & come back to CTTE, you may just hear what, in the minds of many others, makes this a masterpiece. & hey, it's not the only one - what's the best rock in your book?
flash522gp 1 year ago
@flash522gp Yeah, I'm more into Blues - Delta, Chicago, a bit of Zappa as well - that kind of stuff, although I can appreciate the technical skill and musicianship in this clip, and Yes in general. But it just doesn't hit me the way more stripped down blues and rock does. Still, I'll give it another go.
benblues45 1 year ago
@benblues45 Listen to the studio version. As much as this clip is pretty cool, it doesn't quite have the same feel as the studio version, which is pure perfection.
It is a really odd intro solo, but once you've listened to it 10 times, it gets stuck in your head!
jamma246 1 year ago
@benblues45 Retarded, retarded, retarded, benblue45
ShaneGuitar13 4 months ago
@ Tommygun1028 rock in fantastic! thanks mate! Gawd A ave missed this!!
shieldwolf49 1 year ago
This is a great show but sound is a little off guitar sounds too loud in the mix IMHO..
This needs to be remastered, remixed and put on BLU RAY!!
cpinto72 1 year ago 2
thank yu tommygun for posting this video were else can I find all the tunes I once listen to but on YOUTUBE, thanks to everyone that uploads clips for everyone to hear. The streaming on this video is kind of hard but let is stream and the replay for a good listening experience
ITISNOTTHESAME 1 year ago
I wanna see Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton play like that. Howe is the best.
flamincow12 1 year ago 2
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worst music ever
murphytoonz 1 year ago
oh man, howes playing sounds like one of those "shreds" videos. hilarious!
Metallikakka 1 year ago
What's up with the title of the video? I know its a long song but did it really take 10 years to play?
DerangedRanger1 1 year ago
I saw Yes in 1972 at William and Mary Hall. They opened for Ten Years After and blew Alvin Lee off the stage. I remember the ticket cost six dollars apiece for me and my girl of the week. We were in a very psychedelic state...ahh the good old days.
stewfike 1 year ago
one of my favorites, love the instrumentals and of course Jon's voice, beautiful!
jeannelovesjon1 1 year ago
Incredible Yes...Close to the edge, I remember when I was 15 and discovered them with this album
jowcolt 1 year ago
sti qui me fait triper ce groupe
chantal86ify 1 year ago
Excuse my ignorance but what is the proper name of the top Howe is wearing? I really want it :)
SomethingWild9608 1 year ago
Siempre la mejor banda !!!!!
mdqjuan 1 year ago
does anyone else think that steve howe's guitar work... while brilliant... seems like self-indulgent/self-absorbed masturbation???... not really pleasant to listen to honestly ... just an opinion...
tedstryker1980 1 year ago
@tedstryker1980 it sounds pretty melodic to me. and the time it must have took to come up with a solo that sucks you into a song like that must have been immense. so masturbation is the wrong word for mr. steve howes solo's my friend.
TheConnord12 1 year ago
This is godlike... stewe howe is a god on the guitar!! The Good Steve howe!
flowerlower005 1 year ago
I saw them inside in Chicago back in the 70's and from what I remember it was a lot better. But I'm not complaining I love their music, just wish there was some Chicago footage from back then with Wakeman, Anderson, Bruford, Howe and Squire were the line up, they kicked.
djsparkyful 1 year ago
Really good video quality. For 70s YES. Really good. Thanks!
LammerGyer 1 year ago
Steve Howe guitar lead is just out of this world!!!
topthickproducer 1 year ago
YES IS A TOTAL MINDBLOWING EXPERIENCE... THEY @ TIMES SURPASS EVEN ... THEMSELVES!
SACREDPASSION1 1 year ago
why always seems than jon anderson wants to pee?
Akron162 1 year ago
@Akron162 ...maybe he does
soulflower666 1 year ago
If only..... I was only 6 yrs old and I so missed out on a lot of incredible live music at the time. Luckily I have seen them since and I've been blown away each time.
tlou101563 1 year ago
el close to the edge es mi cancion faborita de los yes . son lo mejor
enric702 1 year ago
I am 19 right now and whish I could have been there at the time!
SLQWERTY 1 year ago
Ohhh buenisimo
gennyychris 1 year ago
that's not rick wakeman. He has left by that moment?
Akron162 1 year ago
@Akron162 Yes, that's Patrick Moraz from Relayer!
mikedrud 1 year ago
@Akron162 left in '73, came back in '77. Left again in early '79, came back in '89, and so on...
flowTVY 1 year ago
The maraca is easy at least haha
buffalosabres1972 1 year ago
I was 18 and the RFK concert in DC looked and souinded just like this ....it was incredible!!! magical
wigginsdesign 1 year ago 6
@wigginsdesign Thank you for all your comments, I appreciate the work that you do as well.
Tommygun1028 1 year ago
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mybadtexas 1 year ago
@wigginsdesign @wigginsdesign I WAS THERE TOO! I believe the line up was The Nitty Gritty Dirt band, Gary Wright, Peter Frampton, and Yes. I think I was about 15 or 16 myself.
I remember they turned the power of when there was about 10 seconds left in Roundabout to go. A GREAT CONCERT! I saw them a little later, and they had the most amazing laser light show.
mybadtexas 1 year ago
@wigginsdesign i've seen yes a bizillion times and this is the best close to the edge i've ever seen
DoU12Rock 1 year ago
Bravi!
e bravo Tommygun !
LUCAVIRT 1 year ago
From the 1:10 mark, Steve Howe is playing some of the best fusion guitar I have ever heard!
undercoverjoe1 1 year ago
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From the 1:10 mark, Steve Howe is playing some of the best fusion guitar I have ever heard!
undercoverjoe1 1 year ago
From the 1:10 mark, Steve Howe is playing some of the best fusion guitar I have ever heard!
undercoverjoe1 1 year ago
WOOOOOOWWWWWW
Pigione 1 year ago
just bought new Bose speakers!WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
geoac 1 year ago
this was on my birthday, albeit 20 years earlier... I love this song, I just spent about 5 hours learning the first half of it on bass all by ear, and I just have to stand back right now and say: these men are geniuses.
forkv 1 year ago
Wow. I sure wish I could create a solo like that. Howe is a genius!
Kdragon32 1 year ago
im so mad at all of you....this guy is a god summoning his angels to earth with chops that are not only precise but emotive, he shreds with a fury of a million steads yet cries to the softest babe a melody after melody of beauty, angst, terror...how dare you people insult this church of steve howe with this nonsense...of course it is fucking music!
nuclearxkpjumpoff 1 year ago
Thank you again Tommygun.!! Super Video..!!
Steve Howe is truely INCREDIBLE.! He runs up and down that Gibson neck like WILD Fire..!
I saw Yes last night at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, FL.. An Excellent show..!
Benoit David did a great job belting out some very high notes... I envisioned Jon Anderson many times..!! Wakeman JR did a fine job on the keyboards..!
mrprogjazzgto 1 year ago
It's amazing that music with actual musicianship was popular in the 1970s.. What happened to the 2000 era... Atleast we still have the re-emergence of prog metal like Dream Theater, Tool, Mars Volta.
cjgone2 1 year ago
Ok , when hendrix do stg as good as this in semihollow (non-sloppy noisy guitar)
we can talk
KillingLies1 1 year ago
cool deal tubejmmer - I also hitchiked to see Yes in 1976 at Cleveland Stadium. I agree with your comments. This music definitely saved me from total self-destruction in my youth. Was my vision of heaven on earth.....inspirational.
larrypopiel 1 year ago
Wow......smokin version !!! Howe is over the edge incredible.....
larrypopiel 1 year ago
I hitch-hiked to a Yes concert in 1977, in Hartford, CT- it was amazing! One thing to remember is that at the time, nobody did anything even remotely close to this. These guys are musicians- not b.s. artists! This was a great time for music!
tubejmmer 1 year ago
I gotta learn to stop reading comments, where do ya find these peeps Tommy?..how do they find you? and why would they check this out if they didn't already know it was one of the most awsome album sides in all of time? Thanks for posting this TG1028
Ragemous 1 year ago
I gotta learn to stop reading comments, where do ya find these peeps Tommy?..how do they find you? and why would they check this out if they didn't already know it was one of the most awsome album sides in all of time? Thanks for posting this TG1028
Ragemous 1 year ago
the acid was good back then
meeknote364 1 year ago
the acid was good back then man
meeknote364 1 year ago
it makes perfect sense now! i can see their influence on minus the bear.
ant1ph0n 1 year ago
it's free style,it's not suppose to make since in relation to the total song.enjoy it don't try to tantalize it ,just let it carry you yo another place!!
MrBilldagg 1 year ago
Insanely unique and a totally great jam. Probably sounds like a cacophony of sound to most, but listen to original recording on Close to the Edge and it will become crystal clear how melodically beautiful and special this song is. This version a little psychotic, but it is live and they are just jamming.
hpmtenaja 1 year ago
the intro is awesome man!
887690 1 year ago
To all the naysayers... Steve Howes guitar is about as dry and non-effected as you can get. It is normal that we hear some "imperfections" in the playing. There is nothing at all to soften the blows so to speak. On top of that, I doubt any of you could do better, and if you could lets hear it.
Seems to me that it should be common knowledge that a show is a moment in time and it is almost never perfect. That is what gives certain shows flavor. There is time in life to savor many different feels.
Cortisol 1 year ago
I expect this would have ben considered good before tunes were invented:-(
LindaGeorge 1 year ago
I expect this would have been considered good before tunes were invented :-(
LindaGeorge 1 year ago
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Sick leads, Howe one of the VERY BEST " My fingers are bloody bleading"
Love the quote from wideawakeinotown if there is a guitar god school, this solo would be the final exam... so true,
Cheers,DD
Goju4u2 1 year ago
Sick Leads "My fingers are bloody bleeding"
Goju4u2 1 year ago
PROG !! At it's finest !!
TheJetfighter666 1 year ago
Oh my god god what a gret solo and song
Incredible!!!!
keo774 1 year ago
puro avionetas wawawawawawa
AleDlaGza 1 year ago
christ howe is a fucking genius. the pictures he can paint with his music. i blame half of the successs on him
connord12 1 year ago
to all u negative posters R U KIDDING ME LOL
skyline076 1 year ago
Steve. Howe. rocks. I love him so much. He makes me cry like a little girl running from a bumble bee as I run from his genius for I know I will never attain it.
Did I say I liked this clip? ;)
BreakingOgilvy 1 year ago
this song was written in the early 70's and themes were big. Still a bit psychedelic and jazz-oriented, as were the times. Look at The Who's Tommy and Quadraphenia, big theme albums.
BubbaLew50 1 year ago
OMG...the intro is one of THE BEST Rock intro EVER MADE!!!
If you can't here the urgency, the dynamics, melodic and drama not to mention appreciating the imagination and technical polyrhythmic virtuosity that it took to create it then you will NEVER understand YES. Some of usa have the YES gene and some don't. sorry to say. Luckily I do. It's pure genuis and brilliant and such a pleasure on a deep level
wigginsdesign 1 year ago
Don't get me wrong, I know that album inside out and listened to it like crazy back in the day -I don't know why- but when I hear it again after so many years now, I think they could have binned the garbage in the first 3:50 and got straight to the effin point... You could cut this song in pieces and make a double album full of individual songs out of it.
barishman 1 year ago
@barishman That's what the whole point of prog is. Lengthy instrumental passages.
NintendoJohnWii 1 year ago
HAhaha
pawlosss6663 1 year ago 2
if there is a guitar god school, this solo would be the final exam...holy shit! every time i watch this
wideawakeinotown 1 year ago 2
totally agree!!!!
KillingLies1 1 year ago
sounds like crap
radinkins 1 year ago
They are the most successful prog rock band ever, simply because they are the best. This clip does not do the music justice, buy the studio album, with Rick Wakeman on keys.
Topographer 1 year ago
Proooof that you do not to be a heady intellectual to anticipate the next of many notes in a passage. Why? Because we are wired to handle far far more information than we might have resisted in our schooling. The notes of Steve Howe take us somewhere. We anticipate, rest, run, and finally arrive. I love the language Yes spoke with. In these times we could use another group like them, but it could take another 40 year if we're lucky.
paulj0557 1 year ago 6
@paulj0557 I have been a long time fan of the band Tool. I only found Yes two years ago and have been in awe ever since. I personally think Tool and Yes have many things in common, including the high caliber of the musicians. Do you find any Joy in the band Tool. They too pick me up then let me crash to the ground in a musical journey.
gq4101 1 year ago
@gq4101 Absolutely! There's that mystery ambiance in both bands' music. Tool members are hardcore Yes fans. But at difference of Tool, Yes music could be also very uplifting. And just for the record (this for flamincow12), Page and Clapton would never play like Howe, BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT STYLES!! I thought we Yes fans had passed that stage of comparing other great musicians with our music heroes. We know they are one of the best on their instruments, but there are some others as well.
vivelavidarocka 1 year ago
i love YES.
MrKidder37 1 year ago
They sound great, but was this show a festival? They're playing ion the day, with no stage show... that's not the way to see YES.
JackBlair2 1 year ago
People rag on Yes because they were successful. If they'd been perrenial opening acts like Soft Machine they be hailed as geniuses. The truth is somewhere in between. But they could really play.
petespencer51 1 year ago
Yeah or if they were VanDerGraaf.
JackBlair2 1 year ago
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Meh, King Crimson wannabes.
awesomewelles90 1 year ago
steve howe = genius
s0n0fc0d 1 year ago
So talented
BonzoForLyfe 1 year ago 2
The sound crew really screwed up on this gig. It's a huge shame that Yes don"t have a pristine sound record of their prime years.
23VonKurtis 1 year ago 2
@23VonKurtis "The sound crew really screwed up on this gig. It's a huge shame that Yes don"t have a pristine sound record of their prime years." I wish Yes had taken a multitrack recorder on tour and recorded every night, budgeted for that and left off a bit of the light show.
marmas58ink 1 year ago
The bass, keyboards, and drums are too low. They need to be louder so they can anchor the song during Howe's crazy, awesome solo.
Herreken 1 year ago 6