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    Quote Originally Posted by Jubal View Post
    ...and also for the same reason that some people consistently spell musicians' names wrong (example: David Gilmore).
    No its correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIp_cy_fg4
    but they got the bassplayer and drummer wrong: Trilok Gurku (Drums, tabla, Percussion), Daniel Goyone (Keyboards), David Gilmore (Guitar), Chris Minh Darky (Bass) - Should be Doky and Gurku should be Gurtu !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    No its correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIp_cy_fg4
    but they got the bassplayer wrong: Trilok Gurku (Drums, tabla, Percussion), Daniel Goyone (Keyboards), David Gilmore (Guitar), Chris Minh Darky (Bass) - Should be Doky
    David Gilmore is awesome. I highly recommend to jazzers. In a word, YES!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poisoned Youth View Post
    David Gilmore is awesome. I highly recommend to jazzers. In a word, YES!
    you are having way to much fun with this thread

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    For a while I was spelling it like YES because I didn't want people to get confused with the word yes as in the affimative or think I was answering a question and not referring to the band. Context is key though and if I am talking to a prog fan they can usually figure out I am referring to the band. Someone recently pointed out to me that it was kind of unnecessary to write it as YES and so I decided to reconsider.
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    Quote Originally Posted by malgeo View Post
    It's one of those tiny things that bugs me. Yes is not an acronym. It's just a proper noun that should be capitalized but not spelled in ALL CAPS. Yet many people (even "professional reviewers") insist on spelling it YES.

    WHO DOES THAT WITH THE yes NAME,??
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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Now on to something else: why is the German band NEU! often spelled in lowercase without the exclamation mark?
    Look, this thread isn't about some ultramega-obscure, stupidly non-AngloAmerican nazihippy band who never ever influenced anybody except that tiddlydiddly doowop-combo in your neighbour's garage, man. Ha-ha, I mean, go out there on the net with some thread about some silly German [haw-haw-haw!] topic and see how many responses you get. Stick to the important subject here.
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    I have to say YES to the band Yes!
    To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Look, this thread isn't about some ultramega-obscure, stupidly non-AngloAmerican nazihippy band who never ever influenced anybody except that tiddlydiddly doowop-combo in your neighbour's garage, man. Ha-ha, I mean, go out there on the net with some thread about some silly German [haw-haw-haw!] topic and see how many responses you get. Stick to the important subject here.
    WHO?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    WHO?
    No, they are British.


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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    WHO?
    Mikal PropNeu! and his effervescent thoughts on the brand new Inspector Morse 17-DVD concept TV series.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    For a while I was spelling it like YES because I didn't want people to get confused with the word yes as in the affimative or think I was answering a question and not referring to the band.
    I remember a female co-worker asking me who did the song "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" (she just heard it on the radio and I was the guy to ask about music). I told her "Yes." She looked at me weird. "The name of the band is Yes." She still had a weird look on her face.
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    ^ I had a similar experience just the other day when hotty big-bosomed suckly-Amanda from accounting came over and asked who'd made that "Five Percent for Nothing". Turned out she knew already, she'd just sorta blanked out for a second or two.
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    Back in the day, many computers didn't have lower case letters. EVERYTHING WAS ALL CAPS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zravkapt View Post
    I remember a female co-worker asking me who did the song "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" (she just heard it on the radio and I was the guy to ask about music). I told her "Yes." She looked at me weird. "The name of the band is Yes." She still had a weird look on her face.

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    Because JON said so!

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    ...actually the proper way to spell it is-

    YES!

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    I always type it as YES and will continue to do so.

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    Because they can
    “Pleasure and pain can be experienced simultaneously,” she said, gently massaging my back as we listened to her Coldplay CD.

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    Because they wanted to get to the other side

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    FINALLY a thread with some substance!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chain View Post
    Because they can
    Wait, is it can or CAN?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fracktured View Post
    FINALLY a thread with some substance!
    YES

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poisoned Youth View Post
    Wait, is it can or CAN?
    can.

    CAN is the German Band
    “Pleasure and pain can be experienced simultaneously,” she said, gently massaging my back as we listened to her Coldplay CD.

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    Because as Trevor Horn said, "The Answer is YESSSS!"

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