Yes - Astral Traveller (Original Video Clip)

Original video clip of "Astral Traveller" from the album "Time and a Word.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Yes
• Astral
• Traveller
• Time
• And
• Word
• Jon
• Anderson
• Chris
• Squire
• Peter
• Banks
• Tony
• Kaye
• Bill
• Bruford

[malawri67]

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!!!

[JWissemes]

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

[SuperDataboy]

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

[ksjoyjespeace]

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...)

[SamBAss42]

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

[mrmjb1960]

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

[18165paolo]

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....

[DavidRavenMoon]

@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.

[mawel1955]

@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]

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.

[DavidRavenMoon]

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

[DavidRavenMoon]

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