Back in the 1980s I made a cassette of KC's Discipline,Beat and Three of a perfect pair where I edited out all the vocals. Much more enjoyable.
This is real "to each his own " territory here. I've done edits on some Yes tracks both old and new. I even made an extended version of Time Is Time. But that's the beauty of editing software in the digital age.
I did a "chronologically correct" version of Cygnus X-1 Books I and II. Starts with Book II, then at about the 12 minute mark, morphs into Book I. That runs beginning to end, then goes back to Book II through to its end. I really like it!
I know some people edited Saga's first four albums to arrange the eight chapters in the right order
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I made my own Duke Suite; one track with the appropriate fades.
I do this all the time. Many Yes edits and extensions where I often combine different versions.
I took a long time with Tales... and it's still over 70 minutes.
The Ancient starts with Leaves of Green and I blended in some of the studio run through from the Rhino remaster. Works well.
Recently made a pretty cool 28 minute ELP Instrumental suite out of mostly bonus tracks.
Last thing was a Mood For A Day Suite (Mood for a Weekend?). I used the original. the LAGQ flamenco version, the Howe trio jazz version and the orchestral version. Runs 9 min.
EDITING YES ALBUMS IS VERBOTEN BY COSMIC LAW!!!
After listening to Tales, as originally presented in 1973, for 46 years - isn't any edited version going to sound "wrong" to my ears in 2019 and reduce my pleasure in listening now?
I edited More fool of me out of Selling England and suddenly the record became amazing. I also have a nice edit of Passion Play without the bespectacled Hare. It's 100% Prog now. Before that it was only 98% which is not enough for me.
I linked It's Yourself and Los Endos in my naive younger days.
I had a tape with the last 5 minutes of Ritual on it. That being said, I love the parts everyone else hates from Tales. The Remembering is underrated. If that song and To Be Over were the only Yes songs I heard for the rest of my days, I'd be fine.
My crowning moment, though was the tape where I chopped off the first 28 seconds of Schizoid Man and the thumb piano intro to Larks 1.
heh... it depends on whether or not you kept listening to try to force yourself to like it or not
if you played it 5 times back in the day and gave up (like I did), then a new edit could breath new life into it!
does this link work for playing my edit?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/180g...ew?usp=sharing
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Thank you sir. This is my own remastering from pristine vinyl source. I have a state of the art home studio with protools and a host of other equipment.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
^ The syrupy string arrangements matched Jon's sappy lyrics.
The whole point of the album was to have the orchestra replace the keyboards, partly because they were between keyboardists at the time. Since the best composer in a prog band is typically the keyboardist, that explains why the composition and orchestration on Magnification is a little weak.
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