why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .

best

Drew

at a booth that sells vocoder software there is a man earnestly saying in a silvery, elven speaking voice reminiscent of Glinda the Good Witch "no, no, NO, you don't understand. I want to make my computer-" and here he erupts into a shivery high melodious flutter "s-i-i-iing!" and it's HIM and he's singing the word "sing" in THAT Yes voice.

What is NAMM, anyway?

I just watched some of that DVD "The Future Is Wild", the cheezy computer animated forecast of what freakish species will dominate this planet in 200 million years. It was very Yessed out too, CGI supercontinent-formation footage and giant global oceans (topographic tales of .. .)

http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg

Olias of Sunhillow Critical Edition, with commentary track guest starring the 'scientists' from The Future Is Wild

maybe a little like the trevor horn yes (or maybe i just wish it sounded more like trevor horn yes).

it's basically arp-heavy metronomic 1978 eurosynth cheese.

I always see a Dean landscape, or some Art Nouveau P. Craig Russell planet landscape whenever I listen to Yes. Except for Yes mach-90125 and onward.

I guess the only interesting thing in them was that apparently Eddie Jobson was in the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" video. They tried to edit him out when he ended up not being in the band, but couldn't do it completely. The edits are one reason why the "plot" is so hard to follow.

and yes, there ARE maggots on the dude's eyes.

BUT! just guess what my classic rock station is playing right now on their so-called DEEP CUT weekedn at this ungodly hour ...

yup, STARSHIP TROOPER!!

good god what a tune.

and i'm out

I found my mint LP copy of Relayer for a dollar in a used bin.

http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/Moraz30.jpg

damn, and i'm not even close to being drunk tonight!!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/be70040c-9265-47c2-ab7b-0dc6abe418a.jpg

I'm yessed out on poppy pod tea and I just played guitar for an hour. Yes!

karaoke, yes-style!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoE9r11a-c

Oh dear...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgH7Oec__s

Nothing succeeds like excess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMF1-OEZYBE

Watching Bruford in that clip makes me think of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the Genesis tour he was on when he'd get bored and start playing different beats just to screw things up.

DIG IT! (the "it" being really bad stock footage, apparently)

as much shit as tormato gets, i do like squire's bass sound on that
and wtf with wakeman's synths? the birotron - cheesy to the max
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LOL cheesy late 70s video effects -- also, it reminds me of the "i want candy" video.

"don't kill the whale" is actually an OK song, maybe the best thing on tormato. and the really painful wakeman synths are in the beginning of "arriving UFO" (maybe the worst yes song of all time?)

The Birotron was an ill-fated tape replay keyboard conceived by Dave Biro of Yalesville, Connecticut, USA, and funded by Rick Wakeman of the progressive-rock group Yes in the late 1970s.

The Birotron was a keyboard instrument that used 8-track cartridge tapes to play sounds whenever a key was pressed on the keyboard. It is similar in concept to the Chamberlin and Mellotron, and was a forerunner of digital sampling. Keyboards like the Mellotron and Birotron were mainly used for strings, choirs, brass, and flutes; sounds not easily reproduced on the synthesizers of that era. The major innovation of the Birotron was that it stored its sounds using 8-track tape loops, which allowed it to play the sounds indefinitely, a great improvement from the 8-second limit of the Mellotron.

History
Dave Biro invented this instrument and showed it to Rick Wakeman, who was so impressed by the idea that he offerred to fund its manufacture. It was developed by Birotronics, Ltd which was one of Wakeman's Complex 7 businesses. The Packhorse road case company was under this umbrella as well. Birotronics apparently made a very limited number of these instruments (David Biro says only 17 were made, including the original and 4 prototypes, while Rick Wakeman claims 35.) 4 of those were owned by Rick Wakeman, who noted in an interview in 1999 that 2 were stolen and 2 were damaged beyond repair. Only 5 or 6 Birotrons are accounted for today.

Two major factors led to the Birotron's demise. The most direct cause was a lack of necessary and consistent funding. The Birotron also suffered from poor timing, being introduced very shortly before the arrival of the digital sampling technology (such as the Fairlight_CMI) which would render it obsolete.

OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.

Squire on "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KQIaHFma4

The world of Yes tribute bands on YouTube is very strange, but I gotta give them points for trying...

The packs of Marlboros in the foreground totally makes this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvjkG5EgFxA

OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.

-- trashthumb, Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:29 AM

OMG I AM YESSED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A COON'S AGE

A raccoon killed my pet rabbit. It grabbed the thing through the cage, and smashed it again and again through the rails, and a lot of its body that the raccoon couldn't get dropped down into the plastic tub that captured its feces. So be careful what you say BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, or you might totally ruin my yes sesh..

Utterly ridiculous, but Howe really kills it here.

OMFG. "Awaken" sounding transcendent right now really LOUD after a night of bourbon & Guiness. On headphones, mind.

interesting that they covered "america" -- the beginning of "el condor pasa" sounds a lot like the beginning of "roundabout"

Go Jon

someone made an entire AI-generated Yes album (not my dropbox, but it was pulled off YouTube)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tkmxohq87hrfrtagwi8au/AKw0cOzBz6eZk9FsVEBPTsQ?dl=0&e=1&preview=To+The+Future++-+Yes.mp4&rlkey=7x83koqr5pobqvdxo2ahufkgm

it does sound incredibly shitty but I find it kinda impressive anyway. maybe there was a ton of specific prompting but it's neat how many individual pieces of their sound it gets right. on the other hand it really sucks, there's not a single memorable part here, and it kind of makes me feel like I'm going crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahKn84JaGiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4R5k8l6KOw

that's really good! better than anything out of this current Yes incarnation

can one of you please find the post where an ilxor saw Anderson at a gear show and watched him burst into song? anyone remember that? I can paraphrase more if needed

whoa! those songs sound really promising -- best YES since fly from here and jon music since the ladder?

There was another song played but it was a kinda limp sounding ballad, maybe it'll be better on the rekkid

"you don't understand, I want to make the microphone SIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGG" was the gist of the post, as "some elfin-looking guy" interrogated a microphone salesperson

yeah hoping the whole album is like those two songs - what I really wanted is for the Band Geeks to be involved, because Jon on his own is fine but when he pairs up with talented prog dudes it's already great. even Roine Stolt (who I'm generally not a huge fan of) made a pretty great LP with him.

That Roine Stolt record (Invention of Knowledge, from 2016) is great, but I've been afraid to check out anything else he's been involved with.

Kaipa is not all golden but totally worth diving into if you have time to kill, especially the original '70s run. let's say Flower Kings though depends on how much patience you have for the vocals on Allan Holdsworth solo albums. Transatlantic is even more so about tolerance for Neal Morse's prog/pop-punk nasal vocals

every Flower Kings record has like 2-5 minutes of stuff I really like but overall they're just boring. maybe one day they'll click with me. I feel like you can only really have room for one weirdly-prolific prog revival band in your life. for me it used to be Glass Hammer but now it's The Tangent.

all of that stuff glass hammer, tangent, transatlantic, flower kings, is so incredibly dull and boring to me. I just can't listen to any of it. Or I can, it just makes zero impression when it's over.

I liked The Tangent's In Earnest but that's the only song of theirs that's stuck with me

that's def true of the latter two in my view

Glass Hammer are so over the top sometimes that I can't help but dig them, also I think the Jon Davison albums really do sound like something Yes could've cranked out post-GFTO. those aren't necessarily my favorite though. I haven't really liked their recent ones though. also hard to deal with overtly religious bands these days

The Tangent definitely have their dull spots and every album they do is way too long but they always grow on me. if nothing else Andy Tillison is probably the one prog dude who should be allowed to write political lyrics.

can one of you please find the post where an ilxor saw Anderson at a gear show and watched him burst into song? anyone remember that? I can paraphrase more if needed

― I painted my teeth (sleeve)

Drew posted this:
here's [Wobbly's] story of spotting Jon Anderson at NAMM

at a booth that sells vocoder software there is a man earnestly saying in a silvery, elven speaking voice reminiscent of Glinda the Good Witch "no, no, NO, you don't understand. I want to make my computer-" and here he erupts into a shivery high melodious flutter "s-i-i-iing!" and it's HIM and he's singing the word "sing" in THAT Yes voice.

THANK YOU

This AI generated "Yes" album is pretty fun.

I take that back. It's awful sludge. Scary. too.

lol my exact reaction, after 2 or 3 minutes it started making me uncomfortable but I listened to the whole album anyway just to see if any part of it would stick with me. nothing really did except for that weird Sega Genesis style bass noise