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  1. #76
    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    Interesting. The Union tour was obviously bigger. Union charted much better.

    Henry
    Yeah # 15 Billboard I think.

  2. #77
    Quote Originally Posted by jrw View Post
    Concerning "The More We Live-Let Go" (which also one of my faves from Union)-after listening to the Conspiracy version and Union version back to back, I wondered how many people in YesWest are on the track. I hear Jon, Chris, and Billy singing. The instruments could be all Billy. I asked Billy on MySpace few years ago, and he said the others (YesWest) just used his track as a guide and recorded over them. Whether that is true or not, I'm not sure. Maybe, Billy was being nice or sworn to secrecy about his involvement. Additionally, Billy is not credited with playing on Union though many other people are, at least on the ABWH tracks.
    It's unclear who played on "TMWL-LG". Squire says Sherwood played the bass, expecting him to replace it, but he liked Sherwood's playing and told him to leave it. I presume Sherwood played the keys. He probably played drums and guitar originally: whether White and Rabin overdubbed parts, I don't know.

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  3. #78
    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    It's unclear who played on "TMWL-LG". Squire says Sherwood played the bass, expecting him to replace it, but he liked Sherwood's playing and told him to leave it. I presume Sherwood played the keys. He probably played drums and guitar originally: whether White and Rabin overdubbed parts, I don't know.
    From my interview with Sherwood (http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/iv/bsinterview.htm) :

    BS: By the time that Chris and I were working, although I was a bass player in my band, I play a lot of instruments, so it was like, well, fine, you play bass, I’ll play guitar, no problem. And I’d cover the keys... And so, it was never really a problem. There were a few tracks where Chris came in and said, ‘That bass sounds great, don’t change it!’, and I said, ‘Wait, you’re the bass player’, and he said, ‘That sounds really good, I don’t want to change it,’ so we left it. But that’s a very rare case, I think that’s maybe one or two songs on the record like that, "The More We Live", and maybe another one, I can’t remember which one now.

    AL: Do you think Chris, at the time, intended Yes to resurrect, one day or another, and planned to use these songs for Yes?

    BS: I don’t know. It was really just working as songwriters. I was in Los Angeles, he was in Los Angeles... I’d written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. There was a song I wrote with David Paich for the Toto album Kingdom of Desire. I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs. And that’s what I think he was approaching it as. Neither one of us ever said, ‘Wow, this is geared for Yes, this is gonna be Yes music!’ But as the Union record came up, and Jon came back, I stepped back out, and that song managed to hold its own and have a place on the Union album, and Jon sang it, very nicely...

    AL: And you played everything on it but weren’t credited. Must have been a bit of a shock...

    BS: Well, I’m a nice guy... [laughs]

    AL: You swallowed your pride...

    BS: I didn’t really want the image of that song to be that I did everything.

    AL: If they didn't want to credit you then they should have least erased your vocal parts, since they're so prominent.

    BS: Yeah... I know. At least on the new Conspiracy album you actually hear what it was, which isn’t far from what it ended up being, but with me playing everything and... Trevor’s not on there, and Jon’s not on there obviously, neither is Tony Kaye... so I think you get more of a feel to where the original thing really came from. The truth.
    Make of that what you will... He seems to imply Rabin and Kaye added stuff that wasn't on the original.
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