― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Macrobiotic, dude. Macrobiotic.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't fucking believe the shit that the keyboardist on the glorious Yes Album is taking. Joe v OTM - what he played was perfect for those songs, whereas Wakeman could sometimes be really intrusive and overbearing. The organs and the jam on "Good People"! The organ riff on "Starship Trooper"! Also Moraz deserves major props.
Despite Wakeman's flaws, mind you, no one who played "South Side of the Sky" and "Siberian Khatru" is anything close to indefensible. He did get some classic sounds out of the keyboard - I love his bits on "And You and I" and nick is right about the synth float on "Heart of the Sunrise". And I'm surprised Ned doesn't even like "Long Distance Runaround".
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 18 November 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
(which nonetheless has an amazing first couple of minutes....as if Propaganda/ZTT had appeared 10 yrs earlier as mid-70's south american prog-rockers !)
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link
That's three chords — and Kaye didn't even write them.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
this along with Wives, and King Arthur are 3 wonderfully OTT albums for when your 14>16 and haven't discovered Foetus/ON-U Sound yet
.. then to be hidden deep in the archive forever after.
he was also one of the first Rock stars to ever respond to a sad fanboy letter ..
i'm revealing wayyyy too much here .. but hey ..
and live in 1984 Braford St Georges hall - he was quality (again, i was still within the predefined 14-16 years of age)
but damn - when the dude is bad he is seriously bad .. 'rock-n-roll prophet' album .. WTF ..
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
and while Tony Kaye was sort of neutral, I like that Hammond sound he got on "Yes Album," and "Yours is No Disgrace" does utilize the I-IV-VII progression (I think it's B-flat pedal tone with B-flat/E-flat-B-flat 7 sus 4 there) well.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
It's sorta goofy.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
A MONKEY, eh. Apparently you've never heard Kaye on 9012Live: The Solos.
― savetherobot, Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Give it up for the white-haired wonder!
http://www.dhc.net/~krobert/yes/a_rick_2.jpg
― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I admit I haven't heard Rick's solo LPs, but only because I don't want to.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I have nothing against Tony Kaye. I do, however, find the notion of praising his abilities to be patently ludicrous on its face. The guy stayed out of the way — that's it, folks.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I should note, however, that Robert Fripp once gave Bill Bruford a writing credit for choosing not to interrupt an improvisation by playing. Perhaps he learned such restraint from his time spent in Yes with The Indomitable Tony Kaye!
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Listen to 90125. The man added practically nada to the situation.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 18 November 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki in charge (chaki), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Back to the album cover,I particularly like the Snoopy doll hanging from the coat rack.
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I fear to ask, but what does the 'plus' mean?
it's like the "32" on every bottle of rolling rock beer!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 December 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charles Dexter (Holey), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
What kind of drunk are you? It's 33
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
(But quite why I like Jon Lord a lot, say, is a mystery.)-- Ned Raggett (Ned), teisipäev, 16. November 2004 11:50 (3 years ago)
Oi, man. Had we met in, say, '75 or samthung, I woulda been ready & willing to talk away on JonLord-iana for days on end. :)
― t**t, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
er, lol?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHVdG3rKqE
― gershy, Monday, 26 May 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is pretty great, especially the "save me!" and "praise god!" bits. Quite a departure from Six Wives.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 27 March 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
ooh yes.and to think its a live album.the logistics/planning before the recording.
― mark e, Saturday, 27 March 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
Some of the songlike parts are quite sweet too. "Forests from far gone time, no living man has seen, A private pre-historic world, for you and I a dream".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 28 March 2021 01:33 (three years ago) link
I heard this a couple of times more than 30 years ago, almost all I remember is "an embryo at birth". He's fine in Yes, but Wakeman is probably the one "big name" of 70s prog whose solo work does nothing for me.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 28 March 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link
So far I love his first two albums, I've got the next three at least.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 28 March 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
I'd bail before the new age period if I were you
― brutalism is a piss-stained multistory car park in stockport (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 March 2021 10:20 (three years ago) link
When asked about his personal favorites, he said the first 3 and A Suite Of Gods. So I feel I should at least try the latter.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 28 March 2021 12:06 (three years ago) link