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Courtesy of Matt Williamson, host of the Pop Goes the 60's YT channel. Enjoy. ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI2rAOofUdw

...and no, it's not 'Top of the Pops', sorry. It's apparently an Atlantic Records promo film featuring Yes and Steven Stills. Atlantic hired director Steven Turner (credited here as Steven T. Clive)...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/movies/four-beatles-biopics-sam-mendes.html

So Sam Mendes has been given the green light to make biopics about the Fab Four. But he's going to do something...

This is the list I came up with for that YT thread. Yeah, some aren't true "bass only intros", but neither are several of his own picks.

CS bass intros:
- "Beyond and Before"
- "Harold Land"
-...

I almost despaired this would be yet another "East coast and Canada only, suckers!" tour, and then I see this...



Awesome. Clearly DC has looked at the crowds Steve Hackett regularly pulls for...

IQ at Progfest '93 was pretty jaw dropping.

Most who were there remember Kevin Gilbert band's performance of The Lamb at Progfest '94.

Rick has been posting some awesome interviews recently, and IMO that's one of his main contributions to the interwebs. But for every great interview he also throws up a list video that's as bad as...

And "Ride Easy", another gem from that first batch of songs that puts most of Alpha to shame. I can forgive Asia the power pop direction since it was the early 80s and that was a huge thing back...

What kills me is that within 24 hours of the song's release there were already dozens of reactions and analyses with the bass part extracted and isolated on YouTube. :lol

Probably better pay and benefits than being a prog musician! :D

But I have to admit I have a soft spot for their first two albums, and still play them from time to time. I remember hanging out at...

So glad I was able to catch the latest incarnation of Soft Machine a few years back. John was a legend. RIP.

I like it. Really nice harmonic nuances in the piano (which makes sense with Adam H involved.) I do wonder, though, if this is going to be Steven Wilson's "Trevor Horn album". Which wouldn't be the...

OK, you're doing *something* right when Gibson creates a special edition guitar with your name on it. Not even Tim Pierce can make that claim! :lol

They're impact back in the day was huge. I do think they took on too many assignments by the late 70's, which led to a watering down of their work. But there's no denying the importance of their most...

Which is justified. About a month ago we hosted friends who had just come off a 10 day cruise to Alaska. They gave us both Covid. They then gave it to their son when he picked them up from the...

I'd put the Moodies into the proto-prog bucket, along with Procol Harum. Some bands like The Nice or Pink Floyd veered from proto prog or psych into prog depending on the song, but IMO the Moodies...

So is Roger going to have a canvas and easel set up on stage and do a little painting demo before Yes comes on, sort of like Bob Ross? :D

GTR 2?

Nice obit in the NYT.

I had a girlfriend in the early 90's in Santa Cruz, CA who was a big George Winston fan. She was a hard core folkie and besides him introduced me to people like Leo Kottke...

I agree, there's a few that I feel earn whatever money they make but for the most part reaction videos are a pretty blatant scam, and I have a hard time feeling sorry for them when some label or band...

Alright, since nobody else will do it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/arts/music/tina-turner-dead.html



Yeah, I'm sure her kidneys saw a fair amount of abuse over the years.

Great...

I came looking for the Tina Turner news, and saw this instead.

RIP to one of the most important "behind the scenes" British artists of the 60's and 70's. 82 isn't a bad run.

"Shy Boy. The Warriors (W/JonAnderson)" --> Um, that's a Tomorrow track.

"Three Jolly Little Dwarfs Winston's Fumbs (W/TonyKaye)" --> Same deal.

"Claramount Lake Yes" --> ??? Another Tomorrow...

"Classic"? No. I was a loyal Jon fan through the mid-90's, but I got off at The Promise Ring, which seemed too half-assed to get behind. Plus I was getting cheesed off at Jon's habit of recycling...

Bugger (Pt 2). RIP, and thanks for all the fantastic music.

Bugger. RIP.

Replace "Classical" with "Jazz" and you've captured my situation.

Thanks Henry for reminding me that there were some good songs on that album. What Yes in the 70's could have done with this... *sigh*.

Pretty amazing. They've done a great job maximizing portability and efficiency while still being faithful to the original sounds. The only drawback to their approach seems to be that the FOH engineer...

Backtracking on playing Relayer is a problem for me. It's not like 40 minutes of Relayer prevents them from fitting 3-4 new songs into the remaining 80. And I'm sorry if the idea of playing Relayer...

Props to Andy Graziano who does a creditable job making his Strat sound like the pedal steel. Jon was pretty shaky on the lyrics in places, but for a first night -- and considering his age -- it was...

I'm of two minds about the tracking of this album. On the one hand I totally understand dropping the more twee tracks like "Auntie Mary's Dress Shop" and "Shy Boy", but why not just keep them to give...

The Times has a piece up about the upcoming Buggles (just Trevor) short stint opening for Seal. It includes a rare photo of Trevor fronting Yes in 1980.

I know the name from Jon's Song of Seven. He provided some really nice, clear and melodic guitar lines to that rekkid. RIP.

I've been watching the full opening night show, and it occurred to me that any edge the Steve Howe band has *should be* in the writing department. Jon's band are man-for-man better musicians, but...

And we all know he's kind of right. The current Band Geeks outfit more or less puts Steve's band to shame, although in some ways they're almost TOO good. I get the sense from some of the new live...

The videos I've watched are a revelation in terms of Jon's voice. Who knew it would get better as he got older. :O

I detect the hand of Brian Lane. ;)

That said, I gather Steve is OK with Jon doing this kind of thing. I mean, if it leads to audients going out and buying old Yes albums that's more money in...

Yup. I'll be the first to acknowledge that Jon Anderson was Yes' biggest "X-factor" and disruptive creative force in the group. That led to amazing songs and albums for about 30 years. Unfortunately,...

Great idea for a thread, because my music collection is about 30% prog, 30% rock, and 20% jazz and classical. The rock ranges from The Beatles to U2. I haven't heard anything since the 90's that got...

Trevor (and his glass of wine) entertains and instructs. Lots of great anecdotes going back to his days in The Buggles. He also gives a shout out to Chris Squire as "the best harmony singer on stage...

There was definitely some journalistic bias at work, but nothing offensive. I can still remember the good 'ol days when city newspapers would send some random junior flunkie to interview Yes and it...

I'm not sure what Jon did to piss Steve off so much (maybe Henry can elaborate), but he must have REALLY burned that bridge. It's a shame, because I do think there's creative gas still in their...

That was very cool, and great quality (despite the 8mm slice and dice job.) For a second I thought that was Mel Collins on saxes, but he and Dick Parry just had the same '1975' look. And yeah,...

Woah. It's been a few years, eh? :O

For many this might not be too much of a surprise, given his long battle with cancer. But it's still a very sad day when you hear about the passing of a great composer and musician. RIP.

IMO Ray was the "sekret sauce" that made GG great. Talk about a versatile musician, and a monumental loss to music.

RIP :(

Thanks, Henry. Since Jon lives out west I'm going to gamble that they'll bring the tour this way. I don't care when, just as long I can see a show without having to fly across the country!

There's sort of another thread about this, but I thought I'd re-start it under a more specific title that will hopefully serve as a clearing house for info and reviews.

Official info here:...

Really? I thought it was his "This stool is giving me a wedgie!" look. :lol

I saw an interview with Geddy Lee where he talked about how Rush were never an improvising group. He said something to the effect of "Jazz guys can improvise because usually it works, and when...

Well how awesome is that (even if they're the super-duper short versions of the songs)?

Geoff, did you contribute this comment?



:lol

This is the part that got my attention:


Is there something about how Yes tours that is different than other bands? Is this all because Steve Howe is nervous about packing himself and the ES-175...

There used to be a music video program called Night Flight. They had more prog content than MTV, and it's where I saw the video for "Turn It Over", which was actually getting FM radio airplay. The...

Where Jobson shines for me as a composer is the Green Album. It's an enjoyable listen from start to finish.

Unless you're sitting in a basketball arena right next to a massive steel support beam that was resonating at the exact same frequency as Tony's bass (which happened to me at the show for the Up...

The Bay Area had an FM station that exposed me to fuzak in the late 80's/early 90's. Early on their playlists ranged from Vangelis to Acoustic Alchemy to Michael Franks. It was great "have something...

I remember the frenzy when the video of "Blue Jean" came out -- "OOO, David Bowie is wearing makeup again. HUZZAAAHHH!!!"

New album :up

New Dean cover (even if it doesn't really break new ground) :up

A cosmical wonderment conceptual theme :up

Long songs! :up :up :up This is the part I'm most excited about. Even...