Yes - Sounding Out 1972 (3 of 4)

[nimrodery]

Who's the hot blonde playing keys?

[gigsing]

Apparently. if you sidle up to Steve Howe and whisper into his ear, the saying: "Less is more", he throws a wobbler.

[ververgaert]

yours is no disgrace kicks ass there. too bad tor the recording quality but thanks for posting nontheless

[sfrossty]

Possibly the best Howe soloing I have ever heard on Yours is No Disgrace. Sometimes he adds little off and quirky pauses and inflection. Trying too hard. This one is perfect. Perfect and intense.

[MrChubbleyWarner]

i play guitar so I can really appreciate just good Steve Howe is

[KresauntKid]

I dont think that the stoners of the day realllllly got the music!

Yes was huge, Larger than life for thier time!

Very deep!

[prry45]

Thank you for putting this out for us Yes fans to enjoy, they just keep getting better over time, like the old blues musicians, just get more and more seasoned! Thanks!

[prry45]

Really fantastic to see them in their young, super creative days, and to still see them now, so seasoned, like the ole blues musicians that just keep getting better with time! Thank you for putting this out there for us Yes lovers to enjoy. Thank you!

[notnowjon]

Incredible improvvisation!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

[lessmosquito]

Yes were superb at Hammersmith Apollo recently & I hope to catch em elsewhere on the tour as they are still so much better than recent bands

[dockaiser]

This is the best Steve Howe I've ever heard, and I#m not exactly a fan of his playing

[jsilence418]

Thank you my lady, the pleasure was mine .

[jsilence418]

What a couple of 'tards lol ! Yes are the best prog band to me period! and I would say from your comments , you both grew up ON Kansas back to sleep boys let the grown ups listen to the nice music o k ??

[ladydrew1957]

Agree, absolutely! Yes interchangeable with Genesis. . . please! Is genesis still performing? No. Is Yes? Oh, yea and they sound better than ever!

[Sunjammer10]

Wow, sure is interesting to read comments from people affected by other prog bands then Yes. I, myself, was into Yes alone. When someone gave me early Genisis records I nearly had a nice nap with warm milk. Huh? They sucked. Believe, there are some things to which there is no cleverness but alot is attributed.

[whalestail1955]

idiot

[jsilence418]

You sound like you missed your nice nap, and glass of warm milk?

[jsilence418]

Howe was voted into GuitarPlayer magazines' gallery of the greats, because he won best guitarist so often they had to give someone else a chance great post !

[jsilence418]

Interchangeable with Genesis? lay off the crack! no one sounds like YES at any period! great posts !

[themi90]

Early Genesis will bust over allover Yes, they''l fuck up anybody

[whalestail1955]

Maybe you just didn't quite understand it. It's ok some people just never get there. It's not your fault you grew up in Kansas.

[scannersinfrance]

Totally interchangeable with the Genesis sound in the early 70s - what a guitarist, with that Spanish guitar sound. Utterly brilliant.

[roylek]

elp and yes in one night

[bds1167]

Damn.... my sister, who is 20 years older than me, saw Yes in '72 when they opened up for Emerson Lake and Palmer.... she actually left the show after Yes played:)

[wonkavella]

i probably would have been ok to die after that concert all that talent in one night

[moonrendelle]

Steve Howe Muy Bueno!

[lessmosquito]

YES, what a supergroup! I had the pleasure to view a load of Roger Dean originals in SF recently which brought it all back to me. When are they going to play again, so many other groups are reforming why not Yes?

[threeby8887]

They're still together, although Anderson didn't tour with them this year because he's recovering from an illness, and Wakeman also can't tour any longer for health reasons, so his son Oliver his playing in his place (and doing a good job of it IMHO).

[aarfeld]

I'm very sorry to read of their health concerns, though they have attained that age where these aches and pains do arise. May they both have speedy recoveries and return to active work.

[bundr]

thank you so much for sharing this. Its really hard to find this kind of stuff were i live (specially if it has happened 30 years ago). I'm 23, and a huge yes fan... practicing hard to play like them someday.

[micki001]

Steve Howe was the guitarist who captured my imagination when I started playing 29 years ago. Yes were/are an incredible gift and a musical example to aspire to. Thank you Yes!

[julyvalls]

yes Steve is the best!

[pmills48]

Steve Howe is so awesome! I like that he's has a taste for the older archtop Gibson guitars like the ES 175. He has a very extensive collection of unusual and vintage guitars.

[cliverich]

ES 175 - the true jazzer's guitar.

[eennymo]

EVERYONE in this band are incredible musicians! Steve still amazes me to this day. The last concert I saw in '04 just blew me away. Steve was so awesome to watch!

[howedelamitri]

Steve Howe looks a lot like Heath Ledger back then. Anybody else see this?

[scyen]

Seems to me that their overall sound was really polished and refined after CTTE. The sound is a bit rawer on this tour (I'm assuming it's a tour) than on Yessongs.

[grogcaveman]

wow, that gtr solo was absolutely insane!! great stuff, thx

[julyvalls]

Steve is Amazing!

[LUDWIGPARIS]

Easily one of the best guitar solos ever put to tape.

[jasmincar]

that's debatable.

[LUDWIGPARIS]

Easily one of the best guitar solos ever put to tape.

[Singingbear]

Steve Howe: 'That's nice...because I play a really long solo in it!'

[LUDWIGPARIS]

hahahaha

[Mijmark]

I saw Yes on their 35th anniversary tour some years back. Steve impressed me no end when he played 'To Be Over' from Relayer, the whole song on classical guitar, all the parts solo. That was a goosebump moment.

[yesman90125]

Steve Howe is still one of the most innovative and powerfull guitar players of all time

FUCK rolling stone he's in the top 3

[dfyband]

damn straight!!

[bonham2112]

Steve Howe won the melody maker guitarist of the year for i believe four or five years on the trot at the back end of the seventies. I think they just gave it to him in the end!!!.....seriously.

[jasmincar]

well this is a shitty prize that has no meaning whatsoever

[KingOfTheZulus]

what a great band, what a great guitar player!

[NilezII]

I like Wakeman dancing to Howe's guitar solo!

[acoronab]

Those were the best years for Howe

[progfusion]

In my Top 20, alongside: Steve Hackett, Allan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa, Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Jeff Beck, Jan Akkerman, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai, Ted Turner, Larry Coryell, Ronnie Montrose, Martin Barre, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Pat Martino, and Paco De Lucia.

[ludovert]

when you are in at 69, usually you suck... but it all depends on the numbers involved.Based on versatility and style, steve is amoungst the best of all time and i think that rolling stone sucks!

[ygraff]

Rolling Stone magazine stuck Howe at #69, of best guitarists of all time, on a list of 100. Thoughts?

[MoGreensEye]

What the fuck does Rolling Stone know about any goddam thing?

[PowerDrums]

Hahahaha, THE ABOVE! +!!!!!1111!!!!

[vicprod2112]

Yes Yes Steve Howe my teacher.

[lee5458]

I agree also! I wanna go BACK to THEN!!!!!!!!

[lee5458]

Steve the BEST!

[darklord8603]

Steve Howe for me is the best guitarrist ever existed

[Phillaaron]

ya, and if he isnt, then he is sure as hell one of the best.

[prodical666]

yes is shit hot

[johnshipe]

Wow, I forgot what Howe sounded like when his chops were clean and spot on. Unique Wes Montgomery/JimmyPage kind of thing. Love it.

[kentuckyfriedfretboa]

YES __ this video scheduled for __ RockVideo.TV___

[Brilliantbeing]

Yes is awesome!

Steve Howe's "edge" is that his primary influence was not the blues.  Most rock guitarists come from a blues foundation in phrasing and attitude. Howe has admitted that his influences are more varied. Hendrix was the blues/rock standard and most rock guitarist follow that template.

At any rate it Howe's approach makes for an interesting and different rock guitar sound.

[taurussongs]

this is the best yes line up ever, with bill on drums, steve, chris, jon and rick....unbeatable...and although i love alan...bill just adds so much more to the drumming. why hasn't this been released on dvd??? i've hoped to find SOMETHING video wise of the bruford era with rick.

[Miquitzli]

i totally agree, man i really hope this comes out on DVD

[jackeminor]

Steve's Yours solo here is the best I've ever seen or heard. Too fucking cool and thanks so much for posting. More Yes on Youtube than I know what to do with.

[ePhilosopher]

you said it best

[kirk193]

this is how music is supposed to be.

[torjansons]

ah pre cape wakeman you just dont get capes in music any more right guys

[scarro007]

Who knows?How is the name of the music at 055" to 2'35", the guitar solo?

[johncp1962]

Song: Mood for a Day

Album: Fragile

[scarro007]

Thank's johncp1962.

[johncp1962]

You're very welcome! ;o)

[siskokidd]

So well spoken that young Steve Howe! I loved his sound during those years. He wasn't afraid to turn up the amp to get that signature sustain out of that hollowbody. And look at pre-cape Rick Wakeman grooving along to Howe's soloing.

[jetsrush]

Fantastic !!!! I thought I saw all of Yes material but this was a great suprise. Now to find some Drama tour video footage.

[rhaibrazil]

and Tormato too!!

[crissis76]

indeed, fantastic solo by steve. what a disgrace that this is not on dvd. where was this version of YIND recorded?

[U2RULZ]

the planets were definately aligned when they came together

[GBJPhotoWorks]

It seems second nature now, record the band's mix. Back then, 1/3 of the entire history of recorded music ago, that wouldn't have been the way. These casual little comments about tech, and tape looping, etc. are historic in their own right.

[kirk193]

3 minutes 30 seconds: that's the way a guitar is supposed to sound.

[spikerooney011]

Steve Howe's best YIND solo, and I've heard 30 or so versions before this.  Thank you for posting this series.

[yeshead]

I'd rate the solo in Yessongs above this one, but this is very cool as well.

And it's funny how Steve disses the BBC guy for not taking the live source from the mixing board when a year later Yes themselves would allow arguably *worse* sources to be used for much of Yessongs.

[sonnenberg]

Silly me... I always assumed Steve played that on a nylon string guitar...

[mongolianluv]

steve is a phenomenal musician!

[spiritswitchboard]

Yeah, the BBc should have taken the sound from the mixer (as howe said) rather than open mic the loud PA speakers! Wonder howe much better it would have sounded?

[soremongs]

I can't help but being reminded of Spinal Tap during the interviews.

[beaverliqour]

Wakeman used to mimic Steve's head jerking for a jokes you can see it in other videos he gets a real kick out of it

[ePhilosopher]

Go not to men, but stay in the forest! Go rather to the animals! Whynot be like me- a bear amongst bears, a bird amongst birds?" "And what doeth the saint in the forest?" asked Zarathustra.

[prognosysrock]

Where can I get the DVD at? :)

[HaroldMD]

aging?

[thecool9]

how the heck did they all get so ugly?

[olivedrag]

it's all ahead of you buddy (voice of experience)

[mongolianluv]

I am sure they became more beautiful as their inside matured.

[olivedrag]

yes!yes!yes!

[ePhilosopher]

to transcend time omg

[sober8]

How can you not love YES!!

[whiterobin5151]

Oh man, this is great stuff. Thanks!!!

[greger1]

This is a goldmine! Hard to find your tempo (right after the solo section) with the audience clapping their own tempo.

[Patrickillian]

very good :)