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  • This song is probably 75% composed by PETER BANKS !! Is that HIM walking away at the Train yard ??!! be cool if it REALLY was Pete !! He deserved to LEAD Yes,maybe that's why they kicked him out,just like Steve Hackett in Genesis !!(obviously,Hackett LEFT,not booted out,but still...)

  • Another one Rhino forgotten to include as an extra on their version of YES' "Greatest Video Hits" DVD!

  • Questi video non li mostrano nelle TV a tema musicale nemmeno a pagarli!!! Sanno bene che se la gente comincia a "vedere" questi video capisce che c'è un altro mondo musicale di livello superiore e questo non va bene perchè devono vendere musichetta da 4 soldi....

  • Great song! You can see the talent here - the precise, intricate musicianship, the tightness of the band as a whole. The original lineup definitely had some magic - what people nowadays would call 'the X Factor '. The driving hammond/bass and guitar really work well here. Too bad the original lineup wasn't able to grow and built on stuff like this. It would have been pretty interesting. Poor Steve Howe. It probably bugged him no end having to mime Bank's guitar part.

  • Wow, they are so young here! You never got to see these videos back in the day!

  • 5:42 lol!

  • The soundtrack to my childhood! I've NEVER seen this video! Thanks you internets!!!!!!!! & @hiroko1007 :)

  • The songs stems from Jon's The Warriors times.

    Also, a slight bit unfair on Peter Banks.

    Apart from that one of the best Yes songs.

  • @ramzahnY It is weird seeing Howe playing Bank's parts! You can hear Banks influence here... the arpeggios sound like Flash.

  • @DavidRavenMoon 'Lifetime' from Flash's 'In The Can' album features Pete Bank's at his best and shows that Banks was more than capable of holding his own against people like Steve Howe, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Paige. Too bad his difficult personality prevented him from scoring major success. He had a nasty habit of abandoning bands/projects one after another until, by 1983, when Yes was scoring with 90125, he was broke and sleeping in a friend's garage. A real pity.

  • @mawel1955 I like Banks, and like Flash and his other solo projects a lot. I like Howe also, but they have very different styles. Howe is more staccato and likes a lot of scalular runs. Banks had a more fluid sound. I got to see Flash back in the late 70s or early 80s, but it was just the bass player and all new people.

  • What a fuckin amazing Hammond and bass sound!Man I like that fat sound.Uriah Heep,Deep Purple,Yes,Atomic Rooster,ELP,Steppenwolf...man their sound was so freakin fat!

    I love it!!!

  • Wow!, me parece surreal, es como un sueño ver estos videos por primera vez :D

  • awesome song, awesome band

  • 1 person needs to leave out the body load.

  • @dreamawaythemiles

    Go to Mandrake Root at 4:29. They also do it again right before the song end. Then compare with what Yes does here at 2:11.

    My using the word "stolen" is probably wrong. It is neat the way these bands influenced each other. In fact the Banks/Kaye era of Yes play much more like early Deep Purple than they do, say, Genesis or King Crimson.

  • what great F.....in musicians!

  • It's tough to compare a act to YES!

  • Always loved this song, but the part which begins at 2:11 was stolen from Deep Purple's "Mandrake Root", 1968. Anyone who knows that Purple song will recognize it instantly.

  • @genesisfan3 Sort of, it's kinda similar, but not a total rip-off. Both bands took on classical influences, and it sounds like an orchestral crescendo.

  • You've lost me there - I can hear no connection whatsoever! They did lift some riffs from the Nice though...

  • @genesisfan3 Uhm, most of "Mandrake Root" is a rip off of jimi hendrix' "foxy lady" anyways. I like deep purple, but don't even try to compare them to YES.

  • @jackoe123 You're absolutely right. In fact, Ritcie Blackmore of Deep Purple routinely used other people's riffs. But, c'mon, early Deep Purple and early Yes had much similarities, as opposed to what Genesis and King Crimson sounded like then.

  • @genesisfan3 Totally different keyboard solos from each other. You're a joke, man.

  • How embarrassing for Steve Howe that he had to mime over Peter Banks' guitar here! BTW there is a 1971 live recording of Steve playing this song for real, on the Yes archival album "The Word Is Live".

  • Amasing!! They're magicians or wizards in the era.

  • 2:31 - 2:54 oh what an amazing tangle, if i were there in 1970 i would have fallen on the ground

  • Michael Douglas & Jon are twins!!

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  • YESの中で一番好きな曲。

    ところでスティーブハウが角度によって

    加藤鷹に見えてしまう。

  • Jon Anderson and Michael J. Fox - separated at birth?

  • Jon Anderson --- Chris Squire --- Bill Bruford --- Steve Howe ---Tony Banks

  • ídoloooooooos!!!!!!!!!

  • thanks i was not sure if it was tony banks or peter kaye

  • That is Peter Banks playing guitar on this recording as it is the studio version.

  • Hú , mennyire idevaló volt az új Steve Howe gitározása. s.howe.yes

  • and what the fuck is the apple face about ?????

  • @a1rf0rce1992

    It's from a painting by Magritte, a Belgian Surrealist artist from the 1930s

  • @soulmark what does it have to do with the song though?

  • @a1rf0rce1992 No real specific connection to the song as far as I can tell. Just an attempt to be surreal. Wiki says Magritte "challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality." Psychedelia in general, and Yes in particular, including on this song, shared that notion, I think.

  • and yeah tony looks blasted XD lol

  • @a1rf0rce1992 Actually Chris looks more out of it. Tony just looks really bored.

  • no offense to steve hes one of the best rock guitarists in history, but y the fuck does he look like a girl in this video. he was fucking scaring me lol.

  • who's on keyboard? it's not wakeman, and that guy looks f***ing stone!

  • @sal1234kolis That my friend is the incomparable Tony Kaye, the original keyboardist, who left shortly before the Fragile album was released partly because he wanted to continue to feature his organ and didn't care much for the new synthesizers. Rick Wakeman replaced him and re-recorded Tony's parts on Heart of the Sunrise and Starship Trooper. The rest is history...although Tony did return to Yes for a brief time in the mid 80's.

  • Ah, that's right. "The Son of Man" from Magritte.....

  • Interesting video. Thanks. WTF is that supposed to mean at 5:43????

  • @JWissemes It's supposed to resemble some painting. I can't remember what the name of the painting was, but I agree, it's pretty random.

  • @JWissemes That the dude had an apple on his face all along

  • @JWissemes It's a painting by surrealist Rene Magritte "The Son of Man"

  • Bill Bruford was the best!!

  • i fucking love this song!!!! it is nice to se something of those days!!!

  • YES

  • That's the Anderson's voice I prefer, not that bad falsetto he begun to use after the earliest Yes album

  • Orgasmic!

  • Whoa! Love these early '70s concept videos! They all look super-HOT too! :)

  • Banks was fired before the album was released.

  • This is sooooooooooooo COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOl!

  • Funny that Howe is in this video.

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for uploading the music video for this song. Let's hope this one won't be taken off.

  • well my favourite, so much sadness and heart in leaving without her... just tears down and down at 18 or so... excellent musical equilibristic

  • Muy Buena, gracias por subirla!!!

  • Great song, but man, what a silly ending! Thanks for posting!

  • Thank you very much for this one!!

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