― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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 .. .)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Olias of Sunhillow Critical Edition, with commentary track guest starring the 'scientists' from The Future Is Wild
― sharkopath (Jon L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
and yes, there ARE maggots on the dude's eyes.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I found my mint LP copy of Relayer for a dollar in a used bin.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/Moraz30.jpg
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link
damn, and i'm not even close to being drunk tonight!!
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/be70040c-9265-47c2-ab7b-0dc6abe418a.jpg
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm yessed out on poppy pod tea and I just played guitar for an hour. Yes!
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
karaoke, yes-style!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoE9r11a-c
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgH7Oec__s
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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 xpost
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:23 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL cheesy late 70s video effects -- also, it reminds me of the "i want candy" video.
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"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?)
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Squire on "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KQIaHFma4
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:34 (sixteen years ago) link
-- trashthumb, Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:29 AM
OMG I AM YESSED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A COON'S AGE
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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..
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Utterly ridiculous, but Howe really kills it here.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
OMFG. "Awaken" sounding transcendent right now really LOUD after a night of bourbon & Guiness. On headphones, mind.
― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
interesting that they covered "america" -- the beginning of "el condor pasa" sounds a lot like the beginning of "roundabout"
― kamerad, Saturday, 16 January 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
my wife and I were playing Yessongs after we got home from a show last night around 2 A.M. and I was telling her about this thread.
― sleeve, Sunday, 17 January 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I come to revive this and look who posted last.
Really feeling CTTE this last week, listening to "And You And I" atm.
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
to answer the question way up above, yes, tormato is as bad as everyone says, and I can be captain save a yes. but really I think pretty much everything after 90125 (which I love) is awful, except for some things on Magnification, and drama is my third favorite Yes album after the Yes Album and Fragile.
― akm, Thursday, 9 December 2010 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Can never decide between Relayer and The Yes Album as my favourite. Going For The One and CTTE round out my top 4. Have never really liked Fragile; honestly I'd much rather listen to TFTO.
― a lout deeply plugged into the Po (acoleuthic), Thursday, 9 December 2010 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta love Jon!
― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
guy is saintly
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
a samurai sword
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qKboHKPEA
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 25 July 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, Arcade Fire are working with with James Murphy" -anybody else get unnecessarily excited by this pitchfork headline?
― BrianB, Sunday, 9 December 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
i just want to make sure going forward that this is the official jon anderson thread.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 26 August 2024 05:19 (four weeks ago) link
well...now is the time. lets see what you got Jon
― frogbs, Monday, 2 September 2024 03:04 (three weeks ago) link
alright it's pretty good. I thought all the "it's the best Yes album since whatever" talk was kinda lazy, but nah. that's exactly what this album is trying to sound like. Rickenbacker, Hammond, a lot of Howe-style guitar, plus some pretty direct Yes references both musically and lyrically. kind of bitchy when you think about it like the whole point seems he's trying to show the current Yes how it's done. if this was the final Yes album I think it would be considered a major triumph. I know it sounds like damning with faint praise but this is what I was hoping the AWBH album would be
― frogbs, Monday, 2 September 2024 04:01 (three weeks ago) link
This is really good, superior to the last two Yes albums (which I mostly like despite myself but they are fairly boring), more interesting than anything he’s done solo in a very long time.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 8 September 2024 01:37 (two weeks ago) link
did trevor horn really start this thread though
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 8 September 2024 02:00 (two weeks ago) link
Add me to the True Is Good Not Bad list, although you wouldn’t guess it from his daughter’s artwork!
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 8 September 2024 17:14 (two weeks ago) link
really nothing about the cover is promising at all, "The Band Geeks" is a dumb band name, True a totally forgettable album title, and like, all that lens flare...Photoshop doesn't even have that anymore
― frogbs, Monday, 9 September 2024 02:25 (two weeks ago) link
Alright, dammit, you guys convinced me to check it out. The stupid band name and cover art had really kept me away from this stuff.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 September 2024 15:03 (two weeks ago) link
I had the same doubts as jon but am listening now and, yeah, this is pretty great; a combination of mid 70s and early 80s Yes, with some late 80s fusion shred guitar solos thrown in.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 9 September 2024 15:16 (two weeks ago) link
feel like jon is in (probably very friendly) competition with trevor rabin these days. jacaranda, rio and now this band geeks thing hit so much harder than anything steve howe's yes has released since fly from here
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 9 September 2024 18:06 (two weeks ago) link
had a fun moment with this during prog night, played "Once Upon a Dream" until that bit like 4 minutes in where he goes "till we go to the heart of the sunrise" and then bam hard cut into that very song
― frogbs, Monday, 9 September 2024 18:11 (two weeks ago) link
it's too bad ARW or AWR or whatever turned out such a wet fart of a live album and didn't finish any of their studio album, it might have turned out good though I suspect Wakeman was no help
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 9 September 2024 20:00 (two weeks ago) link