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The product of a very special combination of ingredients in time: first - incredible talents, who found each other at the end of the English art school experiments: back when there was funding, and people had the time to listen to music like this.
I'd give so much to be able to go back in time and watch a live performance when they were young and you could actually get tickets and go see them! Well you can now, but they're winding down, being in the closing of their lives. :(
@tiredhead false! Bruford left Yes to join King Crimson, which had just as many tempo changes if not more. Bruford is an extremely skilled drummer, arguably the best prog rock drummer.
I always prefered Brufords dum style 'cause it's so distinctive - although one of my fav songs is Lennon's Instant Karma featuring Alan White on drums.
Anderson uses his vocals as another instrument, providing texture and emotion to the composition. His lyrics are definatly original and imaginative, if meaningless.
Amazing band.... complex arrangements and, as you can see/hear.. they pulled this stuff off "note for note" live! Brilliant.. thanks to all members of all versions of YES!
great memories, saw them ,,live.. at the Ahoy centre Rotterdam the netherlands 1974,with the ,,Roger Dean,, stage, and later in 1978, Yes,, and with Rick.
lol @ 5:10... remember in the uk record with the unbroken john wetton drone that literally goes for a couple of minutes, bill? can't you taste the savory irony???
thank god for this video! not only cos it's rare bruford yes footage, but especially because jon settles the score here. He writes lyrics "more for the sound of the words." done :)
One could argue that "everything happens for a reason" and the particular words "came to him for a reason"... making it all the more compelling in some ways....
I think he is making reference to word CHOICE. This does not mean that the overall lyrical landscape of a YES song does not have meaning and is not intended to have meaning. This dangerously dangles into the idea that says lyrics in progressive rock songs are meaningless. I tend to stay away from such dangerous thinking. In fact I believe that lyrics and music are of equal importance in a progressive rock song.
lol, you're gonna read too far into his NON-LYRICAL words too? He makes it pretty clear what he's talking about.
What does this mean to you? "I think I work a bit backwards, because I write a tune, and then I write the lyrics, not so much for the idea behind the lyrics but for the sound of the words. After you've written a song, and put it together, and recorded it, I start to look at the thing as a whole, and realize 'there is a meaning to it...'" etc.
Well you are certainly set in your ways and far be it for me to try and persuade you otherwise, and I must tell you your dismissive tone was an added little treat. Once again let me restate that I think he is referring to word choice. Certainly when you are dealing with songs like Relayer which is based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Close to the Edge based on Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, there is certainly meaning in the overall lyrical landscape.
......And I was merely stating that it is better to stay clear of such thinking that renders lyrics in Progressive Rock songs as useless and meaningless. Try telling Ian Anderson, Peter Gabriel, and Peter Hammill that their lyrics mean nothing. I think it's a misconception. The whole idea of prog rock is to present a conglomerate, a cosmopolitan of ALL art, not just music. A totality of poetry, literature, the visual arts and of course music. That is the cogitation behind prog rock.
I don't know if he left because of the schedule... he has said he left because YES was becomming his own preson cell where he had no other choice but repeating himself, in other words YES was to commercial and easy. If you take a look at what he did with YES and then with Crimson you'll see he was right. However, YES music was amazing until 1996 where their creativity died for good.
I saw yes in 2005 for the first time after listening to them for 33 years! jon Anderson was 60 years old. Ive seen a lot of the "older" rockers and many of them are shells of what they used to be. Not Yes. Yes put on an absolutely incredible show. Anderson sounded like he did in the early
70's, Howe was f***ing amazing, Chris squire, RW, both great. Even Alan White was good, though it was a huge step off in talent for yes to replace bruford with White.
Alan White was a damn good drummer. more solid than Bruford and funkier. listen to Relayer, sound chaser, how can you say that is a huge drop off in talent from Bruford?
You kidding man? Are you a drummer? Doubt it from that comment. Check out "Roundabout" studio version from Fragile; then compare that to Alan White's live version. Ive seen a million drummers, (though not Bruford, too bad for me), and I can tell you that Alan White is very middle of the pack, average for the drummers Ive seen. Bruford was a technically top notch drummer; light years ahead of White.
I first came to know Yes' material through yessongs. when I subsequently heard the studio recordings I found Bruford's drumming to be very rigid and seemed to "lag" at times. Yes accomplished their most complicated work with White and it's in no small part due to his playing ability. Bruford may be a technically better drummer but I think White was better for the band and his kit sounded better imo. Yes I do play the drums.
Well, then there are two possibilities: Either White was good enough for the members of Yes to recruit him as aggressively as they did, or the guys in Yes have horrible judgment in picking members.
Ironically, Alan experimented with electronic percussion 7 or 8 years before Bruford, Mr. Electronic drums, so he was ahead of that curve. (For that matter, so did Carl Palmer.)
Fact is that Yes made their name with Bruford behind the drum kit. I agree with one poster that they are definitely different styles. But still Bruford was technically a much better drummer, with a distinctive style. White was more mainstream, with a very ubiquitous drumming style; still good enough obviously to play for Yes, but still a dime a dozen.
PART 1: Bruford wasn't that distinctive, when you think hard and critically about it. He was a young jazz player in a rock group, & played a hell of a lot of notes & off-beat things, which made it sound like he had more "technique" than he really had; being young, he also hadn't learned yet what works & what doesn't. White was a young but seasoned session drummer with great time and an obvious (if you pay attention which most Bruford devotees don't) composer/arranger's sensibilities.
Part 2: the first place so they get a generic replacement. Look at the Who with Keith Moon, who was one of best drummers of his era, and was replaced after his death by Kenny Jones, who quite frankly I think I play better than. What happened to the Who? They still had success but the sound of that band changed dramatically. Same with Yes who remain famous but mostly for their early work with Bruford, unless you consider drivel like "Owner of a Lonely Heart" to be a classic Yes song.
Dismissing White as "generic" absolutely proves that you're not paying attention; you're turning a blind eye both to White's playing and his writing contributions, and every bit of music they put out since Bruford left, which many, MANY yes fans consider their favorite (as evidenced by a lot of commentary on this web site).
"Owner" has nothing to do with this discussion at all. We're talking about two drummers' styles and validity.
We'll have to agree to disagree, I guess. It's all opinion.
PART 2: Bruford left, out of his sense of boredom & his admitted inability to enjoy being in a band that he wasn't leading. He was with Yes for only 4 years, roughly, & for 5 albums. White has been Yes' drummer for 36 years, & how many albums?
Bottom line is that I love BOTH their playing and BOTH their styles, & I only wish people could enjoy ALL the incarnations of Yes, because they all have had great things to offer, instead of all this "he sucks/he's a god" stuff I see here all the time.
I. I dont do the "her sucks" stuff as you call it. But I can tell you that Bruford was very distinctive. Not my opinion only, but the opinion of millions of drummers. It doesnt really matter how long White has been the drummer. White is a basic 4/4 drummer, while Bruford was trechnically perfect, playing difficult early Yes arrangements in odd time signatures with ease and flair. Sometimes non drummer band mates dont have the appreciation for the talent that drove the band tt its success
White a basic 4/4 drummer? What about all the stuff he did and still does in 5/8 (Sound Chaser, for example) 6/8 (too many to list), 7/8, 9/8, 11/8 ... it goes on and on. I'm absolutely convinced that you just haven't given him a fair listen out of an inability to see beyond Bruford.
While of course it's all opinion - The main difference between the 2 drummers is one of them has achieved legendary status while the other is just a very good drummer.
The fragile/ctte lineup is the "classic" lineup when the band was at it's creative peak. Much like a great many other bands once a prominent member of that lineup leaves it still may be good/great but it will never be AS good.
I couldn't agree more. Bruford makes such a difference in their sound. What a loss. Wish he could bury the hatchet with Chris Squire. Chris should make more of an effort since it was his fault mostly why Bruford left.
He said Chris Squire kept him waiting for really long periods of time while he tuned up. And that " that is the the ultimate disrespect for a fellow muscician".. in his words. If you watch the Union Tour/ Heart of the Sunrise, Chris intentionally makes an exagerated pause while lookig at Bruford as if to say, "Gotcha again!" I don't get it, I just wish they'd get him back in the band once more before it's too late.
IDK about the tuning problem. But, listen to Starship Trooper on TYA (BB), then Starship Trooper on Yessongs (AW). Two different songs. And Perpetual Change on Yessongs? Amazing. Bruford just gets it.
I agree. I cringed whe I herd yessongs, he ruins the tempo on rounabout too. But in all fairness later on, AW did a prety good job on Going for the One,on the Union Tour AW is constantly looking over as BB and I think he learned a thing or two. AW improved but will never be a BB.
Bill Bruford is intellegent. But I ask "why NOT use a tape loop of your OWN music in a composition?" Mission of Burma is famous for it-both "spontaneous" and "prepared".
The Funniest thing to know is that Bill tought to came back at university (but he doesn't making that) and the first drummer who yes calls is.........Phil Collins. But Genesis Call him to but the audition to Genesis and Yes was at the same day, same moment, Phil goes to Yes but when he arrives at Yes's Studio he change idea and goes to Genesis
I am not sure he says 'a' instead of 'the'. Anyway, the fact is that Jon iuxtaposes 'we as a group' and 'me as a/the songwriter' who 'are finding out about each other'. As if musicianship is another entity than the songwriting entity that is supposedly Jon. But the Yes repertoire up to 1972 shows that *all* bandmembers wrote the songs. Jon wrote lyrics rather than songs. To separate the 'songwriter' from 'the group' misses the hit (the GREAT interplay that is Yes). An act of sheer Napoleonism.
Oh, geez, I'm misty-eyed. I lived in New York back then and went with my college buddies to see every one of their concerts (and ELP, King Crimson and Pink Floyd among others). We practically lived in Madison Square Garden. Never took videos, but I still have some great slides. That's another thing I miss. No one got bent out of shape in those days if you brought your camera.
MY GOD! They sounded friggin' fantastic live! Incredible performaces! I'm enjoying the interview segments, but I wish I could hear the songs without interuption. So much better than "Yessongs" when they were trying to break in Alan White on the fly.
Over the years, Jon seems to have blended his native Accrington accent with the American accent, which now sounds very strange. It almosts sounds like he's putting it on, but it's too consistent for that. It must be from years of living in the U.S.
I wish I'd seen this 30 years ago when I was a fanatic. I still remember the dream there...still the best band I've ever heard (the last days with Bruford) I haven't heard such beautiful improvisational rock(live w/Bruford on Yessongs) since.....sad to say.
Absolutely wonderful
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yes' best lineup by far.
545t3t4t5 1 year ago
yes' best lineup by far.
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Tommygun1028 1 year ago
The product of a very special combination of ingredients in time: first - incredible talents, who found each other at the end of the English art school experiments: back when there was funding, and people had the time to listen to music like this.
ChazOMac 1 year ago
I'd give so much to be able to go back in time and watch a live performance when they were young and you could actually get tickets and go see them! Well you can now, but they're winding down, being in the closing of their lives. :(
guidenredhawk 1 year ago 4
yes music is( not at all) based on rythmic elements
so bruford or white it doesn t matter! this is why bruford leave the band in 72...
suratof 2 years ago
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bruford couldnt keep up with the tempo changes.
tiredhead 2 years ago
:-o
youboobhippocritic 1 year ago
@tiredhead false! Bruford left Yes to join King Crimson, which had just as many tempo changes if not more. Bruford is an extremely skilled drummer, arguably the best prog rock drummer.
JoshMan4492 1 year ago 11
@JoshMan4492 Bravo
gibsg62 1 year ago
@JoshMan4492 study up on your hero. he admitted it himself.
tiredhead 1 year ago
@tiredhead
What a silly boy.
andreasegde 1 year ago
Bill Bruford for president
PrisonTorture34 2 years ago 3
It is a Portuguese guitar. Mandolins are smaller.
lifeseeker5 2 years ago
whats that instrument the guitar player is playing at 1:35?
mustangsr2fun 2 years ago
Looks and sounds like a mandolin to me.
ladydrew1957 2 years ago
It's a Portugese 12-string.
SurroundaSound 2 years ago
I always prefered Brufords dum style 'cause it's so distinctive - although one of my fav songs is Lennon's Instant Karma featuring Alan White on drums.
royism 2 years ago
Frodo has been quoted as saying "Yes is my favorite band of all time."
tata4noww 2 years ago 9
I find Bruford's style more interesting that White's.
4insomniac20 2 years ago
yea, i misspelled which. that rum, vodka thing .
waystedkiss 2 years ago
This Bruford X White argument is senseless, both great . It's like arguing witch is better rum or vodka .
Bruford was made for Crimson though !
waystedkiss 2 years ago
whats the drummers name again?
studio600monkey 2 years ago
Bill Bruford
royism 2 years ago
nice one thanks for info
studio600monkey 2 years ago
Anderson uses his vocals as another instrument, providing texture and emotion to the composition. His lyrics are definatly original and imaginative, if meaningless.
macaxe 3 years ago
bruford's ideas .... very similar to robert fripp's.
orchestron 3 years ago
Amazing band.... complex arrangements and, as you can see/hear.. they pulled this stuff off "note for note" live! Brilliant.. thanks to all members of all versions of YES!
Philtertip 3 years ago
great memories, saw them ,,live.. at the Ahoy centre Rotterdam the netherlands 1974,with the ,,Roger Dean,, stage, and later in 1978, Yes,, and with Rick.
budelke 3 years ago
lol @ 5:10... remember in the uk record with the unbroken john wetton drone that literally goes for a couple of minutes, bill? can't you taste the savory irony???
jazzpsalti 3 years ago
thank god for this video! not only cos it's rare bruford yes footage, but especially because jon settles the score here. He writes lyrics "more for the sound of the words." done :)
jazzpsalti 3 years ago
One could argue that "everything happens for a reason" and the particular words "came to him for a reason"... making it all the more compelling in some ways....
Philtertip 3 years ago
yes... but the responsibility for the lyrical work, in your case phil, is no longer on jon's shoulders.
jazzpsalti 3 years ago
I think he is making reference to word CHOICE. This does not mean that the overall lyrical landscape of a YES song does not have meaning and is not intended to have meaning. This dangerously dangles into the idea that says lyrics in progressive rock songs are meaningless. I tend to stay away from such dangerous thinking. In fact I believe that lyrics and music are of equal importance in a progressive rock song.
NiceVideos11 3 years ago
lol, you're gonna read too far into his NON-LYRICAL words too? He makes it pretty clear what he's talking about.
What does this mean to you? "I think I work a bit backwards, because I write a tune, and then I write the lyrics, not so much for the idea behind the lyrics but for the sound of the words. After you've written a song, and put it together, and recorded it, I start to look at the thing as a whole, and realize 'there is a meaning to it...'" etc.
jazzpsalti 3 years ago
Well you are certainly set in your ways and far be it for me to try and persuade you otherwise, and I must tell you your dismissive tone was an added little treat. Once again let me restate that I think he is referring to word choice. Certainly when you are dealing with songs like Relayer which is based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Close to the Edge based on Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, there is certainly meaning in the overall lyrical landscape.
NiceVideos11 3 years ago
......And I was merely stating that it is better to stay clear of such thinking that renders lyrics in Progressive Rock songs as useless and meaningless. Try telling Ian Anderson, Peter Gabriel, and Peter Hammill that their lyrics mean nothing. I think it's a misconception. The whole idea of prog rock is to present a conglomerate, a cosmopolitan of ALL art, not just music. A totality of poetry, literature, the visual arts and of course music. That is the cogitation behind prog rock.
NiceVideos11 3 years ago
i do believe bruford left because of the vigorus schedule Yes followed while recording CTTE.
astraltravellerr 3 years ago
I don't know if he left because of the schedule... he has said he left because YES was becomming his own preson cell where he had no other choice but repeating himself, in other words YES was to commercial and easy. If you take a look at what he did with YES and then with Crimson you'll see he was right. However, YES music was amazing until 1996 where their creativity died for good.
jljimenezs 3 years ago
YES!
astraltravellerr 3 years ago
Damn, I was only 12 in 1972. It's amazing how Yes has become such a part of my life. I could not imagine being without them.
mskears 3 years ago
I saw yes in 2005 for the first time after listening to them for 33 years! jon Anderson was 60 years old. Ive seen a lot of the "older" rockers and many of them are shells of what they used to be. Not Yes. Yes put on an absolutely incredible show. Anderson sounded like he did in the early
70's, Howe was f***ing amazing, Chris squire, RW, both great. Even Alan White was good, though it was a huge step off in talent for yes to replace bruford with White.
sbw999 4 years ago
Alan White was a damn good drummer. more solid than Bruford and funkier. listen to Relayer, sound chaser, how can you say that is a huge drop off in talent from Bruford?
sidbolero 3 years ago
You kidding man? Are you a drummer? Doubt it from that comment. Check out "Roundabout" studio version from Fragile; then compare that to Alan White's live version. Ive seen a million drummers, (though not Bruford, too bad for me), and I can tell you that Alan White is very middle of the pack, average for the drummers Ive seen. Bruford was a technically top notch drummer; light years ahead of White.
sbw999 3 years ago
I first came to know Yes' material through yessongs. when I subsequently heard the studio recordings I found Bruford's drumming to be very rigid and seemed to "lag" at times. Yes accomplished their most complicated work with White and it's in no small part due to his playing ability. Bruford may be a technically better drummer but I think White was better for the band and his kit sounded better imo. Yes I do play the drums.
sidbolero 3 years ago
Well, then there are two possibilities: Either White was good enough for the members of Yes to recruit him as aggressively as they did, or the guys in Yes have horrible judgment in picking members.
Ironically, Alan experimented with electronic percussion 7 or 8 years before Bruford, Mr. Electronic drums, so he was ahead of that curve. (For that matter, so did Carl Palmer.)
bergerdrum 2 years ago
Fact is that Yes made their name with Bruford behind the drum kit. I agree with one poster that they are definitely different styles. But still Bruford was technically a much better drummer, with a distinctive style. White was more mainstream, with a very ubiquitous drumming style; still good enough obviously to play for Yes, but still a dime a dozen.
sbw999 2 years ago
PART 1: Bruford wasn't that distinctive, when you think hard and critically about it. He was a young jazz player in a rock group, & played a hell of a lot of notes & off-beat things, which made it sound like he had more "technique" than he really had; being young, he also hadn't learned yet what works & what doesn't. White was a young but seasoned session drummer with great time and an obvious (if you pay attention which most Bruford devotees don't) composer/arranger's sensibilities.
bergerdrum 2 years ago
Part 2: the first place so they get a generic replacement. Look at the Who with Keith Moon, who was one of best drummers of his era, and was replaced after his death by Kenny Jones, who quite frankly I think I play better than. What happened to the Who? They still had success but the sound of that band changed dramatically. Same with Yes who remain famous but mostly for their early work with Bruford, unless you consider drivel like "Owner of a Lonely Heart" to be a classic Yes song.
sbw999 2 years ago
Dismissing White as "generic" absolutely proves that you're not paying attention; you're turning a blind eye both to White's playing and his writing contributions, and every bit of music they put out since Bruford left, which many, MANY yes fans consider their favorite (as evidenced by a lot of commentary on this web site).
"Owner" has nothing to do with this discussion at all. We're talking about two drummers' styles and validity.
We'll have to agree to disagree, I guess. It's all opinion.
bergerdrum 2 years ago
PART 2: Bruford left, out of his sense of boredom & his admitted inability to enjoy being in a band that he wasn't leading. He was with Yes for only 4 years, roughly, & for 5 albums. White has been Yes' drummer for 36 years, & how many albums?
Bottom line is that I love BOTH their playing and BOTH their styles, & I only wish people could enjoy ALL the incarnations of Yes, because they all have had great things to offer, instead of all this "he sucks/he's a god" stuff I see here all the time.
bergerdrum 2 years ago
I. I dont do the "her sucks" stuff as you call it. But I can tell you that Bruford was very distinctive. Not my opinion only, but the opinion of millions of drummers. It doesnt really matter how long White has been the drummer. White is a basic 4/4 drummer, while Bruford was trechnically perfect, playing difficult early Yes arrangements in odd time signatures with ease and flair. Sometimes non drummer band mates dont have the appreciation for the talent that drove the band tt its success
sbw999 2 years ago
White a basic 4/4 drummer? What about all the stuff he did and still does in 5/8 (Sound Chaser, for example) 6/8 (too many to list), 7/8, 9/8, 11/8 ... it goes on and on. I'm absolutely convinced that you just haven't given him a fair listen out of an inability to see beyond Bruford.
bergerdrum 2 years ago
While of course it's all opinion - The main difference between the 2 drummers is one of them has achieved legendary status while the other is just a very good drummer.
The fragile/ctte lineup is the "classic" lineup when the band was at it's creative peak. Much like a great many other bands once a prominent member of that lineup leaves it still may be good/great but it will never be AS good.
Bruford is a giant. Period.
ocajinoj 2 years ago
I agree totally with you. It is not against Alan, but I think that it is the most talented line up.
Yesshows01 2 years ago 3
Brufford and White cannot be compared, they are both totally different KINDS of drummers. Brufford is jazz, White is more rock. Both are GREAT!
eennymo 3 years ago 2
I couldn't agree more. Bruford makes such a difference in their sound. What a loss. Wish he could bury the hatchet with Chris Squire. Chris should make more of an effort since it was his fault mostly why Bruford left.
jrtek98 3 years ago
Never knew that was why Bruford left. What happened between him and Squire?
sbw999 3 years ago
He said Chris Squire kept him waiting for really long periods of time while he tuned up. And that " that is the the ultimate disrespect for a fellow muscician".. in his words. If you watch the Union Tour/ Heart of the Sunrise, Chris intentionally makes an exagerated pause while lookig at Bruford as if to say, "Gotcha again!" I don't get it, I just wish they'd get him back in the band once more before it's too late.
jrtek98 3 years ago
IDK about the tuning problem. But, listen to Starship Trooper on TYA (BB), then Starship Trooper on Yessongs (AW). Two different songs. And Perpetual Change on Yessongs? Amazing. Bruford just gets it.
scyen 3 years ago
I agree. I cringed whe I herd yessongs, he ruins the tempo on rounabout too. But in all fairness later on, AW did a prety good job on Going for the One,on the Union Tour AW is constantly looking over as BB and I think he learned a thing or two. AW improved but will never be a BB.
jrtek98 3 years ago
Bill Bruford is intellegent. But I ask "why NOT use a tape loop of your OWN music in a composition?" Mission of Burma is famous for it-both "spontaneous" and "prepared".
NilezII 4 years ago
Here they sounded like a real group, not like hired musicians
acoronab 4 years ago
This is interesting to watch. It shows Yes at both their commercial peak and playing peak as a band. One long trip (smile)!
Beadbud5000 4 years ago
John Anderson would've made a great Frodo
jonathan401 4 years ago
Wow...thanks so much for making this available! I didn't even know it existed!
AwakeningComics 4 years ago
YES __ this video scheduled for __ RockVideo.TV___
kentuckyfriedfretboa 4 years ago
My cat looks up to you Bill!!
amore101 4 years ago
Listening to Bruford makes me feel like I'm attending a musical lecture at Harvard.
I like his technicality.
eurotard 4 years ago 2
The Funniest thing to know is that Bill tought to came back at university (but he doesn't making that) and the first drummer who yes calls is.........Phil Collins. But Genesis Call him to but the audition to Genesis and Yes was at the same day, same moment, Phil goes to Yes but when he arrives at Yes's Studio he change idea and goes to Genesis
DaedalusWolf 4 years ago
Do you understand yourself?
goramark 4 years ago
retard
Smitty489 4 years ago
Jon kinda reminds of Sean Penn in "Fast Times...".
I'm waiting for him to pound a sneaker into his head and saying "I'm sssoooo wasted!"
CrunchyCatMix 4 years ago 2
OMG! LOL! That was hysterical!!!
TasmiaMallor 4 years ago
What do you think of Jon's statement about "We as a group... and me as the songwriter"? It raised my eyebrow.
mcouzijn 4 years ago
He says "Me as A songwriter".
arundelo 4 years ago
I am not sure he says 'a' instead of 'the'. Anyway, the fact is that Jon iuxtaposes 'we as a group' and 'me as a/the songwriter' who 'are finding out about each other'. As if musicianship is another entity than the songwriting entity that is supposedly Jon. But the Yes repertoire up to 1972 shows that *all* bandmembers wrote the songs. Jon wrote lyrics rather than songs. To separate the 'songwriter' from 'the group' misses the hit (the GREAT interplay that is Yes). An act of sheer Napoleonism.
mcouzijn 4 years ago
Soooo nice!
ZeBokinha 4 years ago
My goodness... Steve and Chris actually *jamming* together in Perpetual Change? Shocking.
In all seriousness this was Yes at the height of their powers and everything before or since is a lesser (though still pretty amazing) version.
yeshead 4 years ago
steve howe is god, jon anderson is flawless, squires is damn good, wakeman is incredible, and bruford is insane
progamerror111 4 years ago
Interesting video clip. Thanks.
Gabriele007 4 years ago
I'm guessing Yessongs was recorded very soon after this was made.
GaryNull 5 years ago
Jon voice is incredible, his singing is just natural, no sign of strain on whatever the pitch is
rhye999 5 years ago
Me 3!!!
jrtek98 4 years ago
Cool vid. Thanks for uping.
RustySacks 5 years ago
I miss Bruford
Scanlanian 5 years ago
ME, too.
RustySacks 5 years ago
Thanks for the vintage footage.
Katia675 5 years ago
I am always interested in the old films of Yes. This is great. Thanks!
eennymo 5 years ago
Chris "Squires"? Like there's more than one.
soremongs 5 years ago
when howe and squire interact in perpetual it's mind blowing steve howe is so differen't now
mikeh69 5 years ago
this yes is really thee yes band it's immaculate
mikeh69 5 years ago
they never sounded better than at this time, coming up with Bruford, who is clearly the most serious musician of the bunch
alternit 5 years ago
Oh, geez, I'm misty-eyed. I lived in New York back then and went with my college buddies to see every one of their concerts (and ELP, King Crimson and Pink Floyd among others). We practically lived in Madison Square Garden. Never took videos, but I still have some great slides. That's another thing I miss. No one got bent out of shape in those days if you brought your camera.
SRayCon 5 years ago
as one the many ones
wheel seed perpetual
ePhilosopher 5 years ago
unity in diversity
ePhilosopher 5 years ago
Yes at their finest...gotta love it !. It was back when the boys still had their "original" hair color too. ;)
shadowsfromthesun 5 years ago
MY GOD! They sounded friggin' fantastic live! Incredible performaces! I'm enjoying the interview segments, but I wish I could hear the songs without interuption. So much better than "Yessongs" when they were trying to break in Alan White on the fly.
gestalt242 5 years ago
I cam remember Yes being on Granada's Magpie what must have been around 1970. I wonder if there is any footage of that?
chipmonk2006 5 years ago
Over the years, Jon seems to have blended his native Accrington accent with the American accent, which now sounds very strange. It almosts sounds like he's putting it on, but it's too consistent for that. It must be from years of living in the U.S.
AnthonyArundel 5 years ago
that's cause for some reason, most yanks can't understand accents - despite the fact that everybody else goes to the trouble to make an effort!!
AdrianKArchive 5 years ago
I wish I'd seen this 30 years ago when I was a fanatic. I still remember the dream there...still the best band I've ever heard (the last days with Bruford) I haven't heard such beautiful improvisational rock(live w/Bruford on Yessongs) since.....sad to say.
kenrayboy 5 years ago
Did JON`s Accent Change?
theEnglishbeat 5 years ago
Oh yes you can hear that broad "Lancastrian accent" on this..
prsfrank 5 years ago
Thank you SOOOO much, yesmuseum, but posting this series!!!!
greger1 5 years ago
nice to hear Jon's original accent!
bountybar 5 years ago
cool :)
Patrickillian 5 years ago
I've always wanted to see this show. Thanks so much!!!
randallcraig 5 years ago