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  • this is brilliant, am a long time fan and this is a song that stands out above everything.

    what other group could offer anything live like this - they show they're experts

  • I don't have a favorite live performance of this song, but it was fun to be there in SLO when this one was recorded. The energy around the 3-day event was beyond any other YES experience I'd ever known, and perhaps will ever see again.

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  • Uber super duper.

    A very finely done piece of music.

  • this song takes us back to what music was like before our generation made it all about sex and drugs... i hate what we've done to it.

  • Does anyone know when/what concert Yes played the live version of "And You and I" that appears on Disk 4 of the box set (YesYears)? That's (so far) my favorite version...

  • @mulgamutt I think it was Houston, 87....not sure....I agree...Trevor sounded great!

  • The version from the ABWH tour is awesome also.

  • PERFECT MUSIC MADE BY GODS

  • I agree with the person who posted this - While _ALL_ live versions of 'And You And I' are truly a rewarding listening experience, this live version from "Keys To Ascesion" (with minor overdubs) is my absolute favorite rendition of this Yes Classic. Especially at the end of the song: Listen to Jon's final words "valleys of endless seas" and the combination of Rick's synths, that ending takes you to a place only YES music can. Wonderful Stuff.

  • Great apart from Wakeman's strange sound choices.

  • If other think this the best version, good for them, but the unequalled standard for me is from Yessongs. Listening each time a new version would surface over the decades, I search for the perfect example (as Jon said he does). I think it's maybe the sound of Wakeman's keys on the Yessong version. I prefer that level of power and that arrangement. Can't blame him, but Maestro Steve just quieted down over time.

  • I was disappointed when I first heard the studio version of this song. I came to know it from some live bootleg.

  • 75 people reached over the sun for the river and 1 person listened hard but could not see.

  • beautiful version...timeless...this song is YES at it's most creative and vibrant musically.

  • Tripping to Yes 2 or 3 times(can't remember) at the Mississippi River Festival on the campus of Southern Illinois University 1970something...........thank you Yes !!! :)

  • Is Very good, but, THE BEST is on YESSONGS!

  • I saw these geat guys at "The BACKYARD" in Austin Texas I was on front row stage right,I was 10 feet from Rick Wakeman and even had a short conversation with him during the show! What a night ! They did the Entire "oceans" album and Steve did a 25 minute solo.Rick was wearing a Long rattlesnake coat down to his silver Nike shoes...Best concert I ever saw I watch the stars by this stuff now...Later!

  • @RG4242421 Color me Green with envy.

  • where does this music come from? it's so unearthly. beautiful.

  • @FHD59 Yes fostered my musical consciousness at the age of 13, when I first heard Tormato. I then worked my way back through the catalogue, album by album, compared to Yes, other music seems not quite there. Where it comes from? The weirdest theories seem to be right in this case.

  • I saw Yes for the 4th Time in my life this last March 2011 in Houston ... The first time was after the Yes Songs Album was released so I got to hear songs from the Yes Album , Fragile and Close to the Edge .... the second time I saw them was right after the realease of Tales from Topographic Oceans (1972 - 1974 Denver) I did not hear them again, the third time until (1982) Chicago. These extremely talented musicians always amaze me when they can reproduce live exactly what is produced in studio

  • I'm really looking for the '76 tour ? version of this where in the background they had clouds going by all the way across the back of the stage on a screen during the middle part. Any help ?

    And also vids of the "vertebrae" tour ....where the lights looked like they were on "spines" and they rose up and down.

    Maybe '78-ish that tour ?

    Seattle here.

  • @TacomaPaul

    They didn't do this in 1976. They opened with a small part of The Apocalypse From And you And I. You must mean 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977 or 1979. The lights were on hanging spines In The Round 1978 and 1979, but no And You and I in 1978. but the clouds going by might be 1977. The vertebrae tour is 1974 and 1975.

  • hey the best is on yessongs

    

  • I first caught them in '69 just as they came over...Blessed Ever Since.

  • This was in my truck for a year....love these CD's! The studio tracks are solid as well! Last really good YES CD,in my opinion.

  • you are so right. this IS the best live version i've ever heard.

    and i've been seeing them live since 72'. just the best in concert.

    after the dead of course

  • Keys to Ascension was an awesome recording. It is one to keep! Much better than the early recordings of yessongs and yesshows.

    I wish Jon was with the band right now. They've been around our area a few times, but I refuse to go if Jon isn't lead vocalist. Where are the days of ABWH. Throw in Squire and you'd have an amazing group again!!!!

    ABWH : An evening of yes music plus was also a very good recording/concert!

  • Keys to Ascension was an awesome recording. It is one to keep! Much better than the early recordings of yessongs and yesshows.

    I wish Jon was with the band right now. They've been around our area a few times, but I refuse to go if Jon isn't lead vocalist. Where are the days of ABWH. Throw in Squire and you'd have an amazing group again!!!!

  • This KTA version is incredible, and so is the one on Yessongs. I have to say though, after hearing this live by virtually every incarnation of the band, that my favorite is from the Talk tour with Trevor Rabin. I know. I'm weird.

  • beautiful!

  • one of my 5 greatest bands ever and ones the beatles tough criteria!

  • This is very good

  • This is a very good version! Thanks for the post!

  • This is an amazing version but personally I prefer Wakeman with his original synth/'tron sounds :)

  • I prefer the solo with the lap steel guitar.

  • when aliens visit thousands of years from now, the only thing we need in our collective time capsule is the music of yes...

  • @gettyz A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165

    This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.

  • @gettyz ETs have already been here for thousands and thousands of years....in fact....we all have ET origin.....we are all from other worlds..........or at least have DNA from other brothers and sisters from the stars........<3 <3 <3 <3............

  • @gettyz they are already here

  • @gettyz But aliens are only us from the future...

  • Those happy 5 guys gave us licence to explore.

  • But we all know that.Sorry beatles.

  • It's easy math Yes is best.

  • this is a good version! excellentebravo, musicolongalosto!

  • this is a good version!

  • Does analyzing it make you all feel better about YOU....Enjoy, and listen to what they've Blessed us with...all I hear from You is words...Get your ass'es on stage and in the studio and DO BETTER..You Can't

  • Got news for you. the version on KTA has studio over dubs by howe wakeman and anderson. Nothing touches the studio version

  • @skinboneybud

    Its true. KTA is overdubbed to correct and strengthen what was a --not all that great recording of the band getting to know each other again. I was there.

  • I saw them when they did their masterwork tour in 2000. That was one Mark 1 Mod 0 mindblowingly wonderous concert. They dug stuff out that they hadn't played in 25 years (two songs off the Tales of a Topographic Ocean album for starters). I could have stopped going to concerts then as it was the most wonderous thing I'd ever seen first hand. I've been to many concerts since (Rosfest 2009 came close (Officer! These 5 Swedish kids traipsed in here and stole the show!), but not quite).

  • Jon is Yes, saw them 13 times through-out the years once with Benoit (he was ok) but not the man. Olias of Sunhillow

  • NIce that Chris doesn't play the harmonica anymore on this song. Benoit told him it sucked

  • @skinboneybud

    I saw them at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. on April 4 and I was impressed how Benoit sounded just like Jon Anderson...they didn't play And You And I, but did a great Close To The Edge.

  • @skinboneybud how do you know that?

  • Best live version?...hard to say... but the original studio version is hard to beat. - Howe's petal steel beg. around 3:40 is less than ideal for ex., (but it prob IS live!) -- Mid 70s he use to use a good deal more reverb and delay. Here it seems too dry!

    -- His steel gtr on GftO (the song) seems similar/opposite in a way... if the studio version has a bit too much reverb he did pentience for that original sin by playing it too dry on tour in 03/04 (on versions I've heard at least).

  • I have always loved this live version from KTA. Especially the last line, "called over valleys of endless seas......" What I like particularly about this version is Jon's vocalising on the word "seas" @ 9:46, you hear the combination of Squire's bass, Howe's guitar and RIck's keys all taking us off into the sunset as the song ends. Brilliant!

  • Yes Sir, this is what I call MUSIC.

  • Po prostu zaje**ste!

    Thats is amazing! Beutiful!

  • We were there,at the Freemont, an old style art deco type theater.I saw them in '74 on the "Tale From Topographic Oceans" tour...but they outdid themselves on this show. Jon lives around here now, and they had all of their old equipment (no cheating here). Every moment was MAGICAL! Best show EVER! Cried at the beauty.

  • Hold onto your bowels! I lost mine when Chris' bass pedals kicked in at 03:38!

  • Yes rocks! I love Jesus.

  • I think the harmonica really works. It helps establish the folksy sound of "The Preacher The Teacher" section.

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  • Much as I once loved Yes in the late 1970's (and even bought a copy of FISH OUT OF WATER to add to my collection) there has been this undertone of things, following the release of DRAMA, that Yes has been kept alive to keep Squire in the style to which he's become accustomed to. The injection of his harmonica into this classic is his jab at us, that "this my gig. If you don't like it, go home" ...which is what many of us have done. You should have seen the packed house for Jon's solo show....

  • @studentjohn36

    Ha Ha! I even have "Olias of Sunhillow" by Jon and "Beginnings" by Steve, as well as a multitude of Ricks work. Check out Jon's vocals on King Crimson's "Circus" album...phenomenal!

  • Whole Keys To Ascension 1 and 2 are great albums

  • Excellent version... I agree...

  • Damn, there's Chris Squire with his damn harmonica again, trying to "improve" on a structure that was already great.

  • @studentjohn36 yeah Im not a fan of the harmonica either...

  • Great version!

  • Thanks for posting this beautiful song. A very good version indeed!

  • Wow! Ommmmmmm......

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