Maybe it should have been called "Saving My Fart For You". The weakest song Rabin ever contributed to Yes. It would have worked far better on a Rabin album than a Yes album.
Bill
Maybe it should have been called "Saving My Fart For You". The weakest song Rabin ever contributed to Yes. It would have worked far better on a Rabin album than a Yes album.
Bill
She'll be standing on the bar soon
With a fish head and a harpoon
and a fake beard plastered on her brow.
IIRC, Rabin didn't want it on the album but Anderson insisted.
Bill
She'll be standing on the bar soon
With a fish head and a harpoon
and a fake beard plastered on her brow.
That's nowhere near as bad as the ARW cover.
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The fakeness of LIve at the Apollo still doesn't come close to KISS' Alive album. They could never capturing the energy of their live shows on tape, so Alive is actually a studio with audience noise added in. Ironically, "Alive" was what put KISS on the map, and saved Casablanca Records from going under.
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They should have added a bunch of Wilhelm Screams.
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Gotta chime in that the awkward audience cheering was the first thing I noticed when listening to the CD. I've been to many a Yes show (20+) and while one can expect rapturous applause at the end of an epic performance, this is clearly overblown and fabricated overdubbing. It's an embarrassment and distracts from the listening experience.
It's sad that the ARW line-up either instigated or approved this. Coupled with the uninspired artwork, this reeks of 'amateur hour' for what is otherwise a fantastic set of performances worthy of the Yes legacy.
Thankfully, the unique arrangement of 'Awaken' isn't as marred by the awkward audience overdubs as the other tracks. This track alone makes the CD/LP package a worthwhile investment.
My cousin was at this gig with a mate and he would like to apologise for the noise, they both got a bit excited at Trevors hair apparently.
I've come to a conclusion on this whole audience noise debate thing.
I suspect the audience noise is more noticeable when just listening to the audio.
If you are watching the blu-ray as in my case, you are watching the performance as well as listening and so it's not as noticeable.
Yes, there is crowd noise, and yes, much of it is added after the fact, but it's been my opinion it's not bad in the video and easy to overlook if you're enjoying watching the guys play and Jon sing.
I would suggest to anyone who is bothered by the noise to get the DVD and use that as your primary Yes-ARW thing, cause it's a damn good concert!
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^ I thought some have said that during the cheering audio parts, the camera pans to a pensive audience. How is that not quite noticeable?
That happens maybe twice in the two hour DVD and it isn't when cheering is going on, it's when someone was playing a solo and she's thinking, "Lay off the hair dye, Trevor".
^^ Indeed. The comment was "not AS noticeable." That was not an absolute statement.
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I relented and picked up the triple vinyl, I was clearly mesmerised by the beautiful artwork and couldn't resist
It's a really fabulously well played set (I saw the gig at Hammersmith on the same leg of the tour and I enjoyed it a lot), Jon sounds absolutely fantastic again, and there is a timbre to his voice that nobody can replicate. Lee Pomeroy is a star, such a nice bloke too, very pleased to hear him playing these Squire lines with his own stamp.
The audience track is bonkers though. It doesn't totally detract but on certain songs, And You And I and Heart Of The Sunrise, where they cheer every crescendo, they started to seriously piss me off. It is just so totally unnecessary, don't the band have to approve final mixes, can't they hear how silly it sounds? We are taking about an audience of mostly 50/60 year old geezers sitting in reverence, teeny-bop it definitely isn't
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