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.
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