Chris Squire (1995) : "I pretty much wrote the instrumental sections. The middle Eclipse part and the Apocalypse part at the end, I brought those pieces of music to it".Originally Posted by thos
Surely Bruford must have contributed something, or he wouldn't have been credited, but the bulk of these instrumental sections seems to have originated from Squire.
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Someone ought to tell Alan White - this from a Q&A posted March 30:
Q: Will you be playing at the induction? Will Geddy?
Alan White: Yes, we will be performing and I do believe Geddy has agreed to play bass for the band. We’ll be playing 2 songs that everybody knows. I’m going to New York with a very positive sense of playing together again. It will be a bit of an adventure for everybody but when you put us all in the same room, we all know the songs, so it shouldn’t take too long to rehearse them.
It's a Yesterclusterf*ck
The ceremony is next Friday night. HBO will broadcast their edited version on April 29.
Look, I've been thinking about this for months now and I really think it would be best if Rick Wakeman didn't attend.
No, no...attending would not be a problem. Playing would probably be OK.
But if he was allowed to speak all bets would be off.
They should have only the following:
Benoit David
Trevor Rabin
Igor Koroshev
Billy Sherwood
Jay Schellen
Sounds about right, the period between "Meet the Beatles" and "Abbey Road" was only a few months longer.
Without Trevor Rabin and Trevor Horn, Yes would have been finished in 1981.
Of course, Steve Howe carried the flame with progressive hits like the classic "The Heat of the Moment." Asia sounds like Relayer if you listen carefully.
(I don't mean to imply that $teve was a $ellout.)
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Asia was still much better than 80s "Yes", which was just pop dreck. Asia at least rocked.
Obviously. Because no band has ever re-united after a lengthy hiatus. There is absolutely no way that, absent 90125, the classic band could have re-united in, say, 1991. Bands just don't do that sort of thing. The very idea of picking some huge band from the seventies and getting them back together has never been tried.
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"Thank you for this honour. It's taken a long time but not as long as it's going to take the plumber to unblock your toilet after the curry I had last night. Wow... this is more awkward than being on stage with my ex-wives. Hey Jon, I just saw Vangelis outside - he was asking for you! [clutches stomach] Hang on, I think I need the khazi again..." etc
I agree - it's always been, or become, a problem when he's involved in anything Yes
Why did it take months for you to come to this realization?
Genesis was still huge in the 80s in part because they never broke up then but look what happened in 1997 when they needed a new singer on a solid album - the tour disintegrated. Kansas did well in the 90s as long as your standards drop a bit by thinking playing in bars is success. Styx reunited in the mid 90s with an album that didn't sell well and then an album in 2003 that had to be given away. The same pattern held with Journey and Foreigner as well. Most of the rock world doesn't know that Asia made more than two or possibly three albums.
Classic Yes reunited as ABWH in 1989, put out a halfway decent but often boring album then the stuff on Union followed by the 70 minutes of song samples that sound Yesish on Keys 1 and 2. They finally got going with The Ladder only to fall again with Magnification.
It's my nature to carefully consider all the aspects of a given situation before reaching an unmistakably correct decision.
Fall? What do you mean? Magnification is much much stronger album than very uneven The Ladder.
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Lots of bands have reunited after hiatuses and been successful, to varying degrees: e.g. King Crimson, Deep Purple and Gong, for prog(ish) examples. Most bands which were reasonably big have at least tried reuniting after hiatuses, for something whether big or small: Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, The Nice, The Police, Cream, The Beatles, etc.
Had Yes not reappeared for 90125, it seems almost inevitable that they would have reappeared in some form sooner or later. What, when, we can never know, but there would have been more Yes.
Who knows what paths Yes would have taken had 90125 not have happened. It's a great album, and the 2 Trevors great musicians, but I think it a mistake to write Yes off in some alternate history where they didn't do 90125.
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Agreed. Magnification is one of the strongest post-Drama albums IMO. Certainly my favourite post-Keys To Ascension (2), anyway.
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So, only a few days until the RRHOF gig and it doesn't seem clear as to who will play bass. What is the prevailing expectation/opinion?
The classic line up, or one of them, did get back together in 1989 with what I'd say was a half successful album, which at the time I appreciated the positives of ABWH and happy to have over 30 minutes of good Yesish music. But I'd say the Howe side of Yes didn't do so well on Union, most of Keys 1 and 2 (listened a lot when they came out but soon shelved both), OYE or Magnification - 30 minutes good on those even if OYE is sort of a weird pretty good.
The two Trevors of course helped to greatly expanded the fan base but maybe it was still large enough for an ABWH in the late 80s to work anyway.
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If things were different, things would be different. ABWH was Anderson's reaction against YesWest. If there had been no YesWest, a Yes reunion in the late '80s would have been different. For a start, it would have had the Yes name and sold better!
In this alternate history, has Cinema happened? Been a success, or been more modest? Are Squire/White available? Without YesWest, a Yes reunion in the late '80s probably would have included Squire/White. None of Bruford's electronic drums. If there's no YesWest, do we get songs like "It Can Happen" and "I'm Running" mixed in with "Brother of Mine" and "Quartet"? Do we get a Yes reunion then at all? Why not earlier, or later?
If Cinema stays Cinema, does that make it more likely that Kaye doesn't come back, so the touring line-up for 90125 is Rabin/Squire/White/Jobson? Or is there no YesWest or Cinema because Rabin joined Asia instead? If Rabin is in Asia, do they weather the first split from Wetton differently? Do we see Asia going forwards with Downes/Howe/Palmer/Rabin/random bass player, with "Owner of a Lonely Heart" being the big hit from Alpha? Or is Rabin off working with Keith Emerson and Jack Bruce?
If Anderson isn't back in Yes, what does he do instead? Put more effort into Jon & Vangelis? Oh, and if Cinema isn't happening, then White never shows Trevor Horn the video of Frankie Goes to Hollywood performing on "The Tube", so Horn never produces Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Nor does Art of Noise happen without the Cinema sessions. So, what is Horn doing in this alternate history? Does he get back together with Downes, Squire, Howe and White?
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I would've thought that Sherwood is the sensible choice, but it's unclear.
That said, it doesn't really matter. This isn't going to be a particularly good performance, is it? It's symbolically important, but I doubt this will ever be anyone's go-to live version of "Roundabout" or "Owner". What matters more is that the whole process puts the inductees in a room together and they have to talk to each other. What happens then?
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I just hope it doesn't end up like The Hollies one, with an uninvited Terry Sylvester having a microphone taken off him by Allan Clarke. Cringeworthy.
I kind of do hope they 'talk to each other' and work something out. I wish all this 'Yes featuring...' business hadn't made that more difficult.
In a way, nothing will be a surprise. We've seen Yes shuffle and re-shuffle the pack so many times before, we've seen long periods of hostility and then reconciliations based on notes on napkins, we've been through one cycle of rival bands before. And Yes are far from the only band with similar tensions, as numerous past Hall induction stories show, so you don't have to look far for comparisons. Every likely outcome has been predicted! From frosty silence through to a new union.
My best guess would be that we still see continuity Yes and ARW touring the US this summer separately. But making predictions about Yes is a mug's game.
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