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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:06 (eighteen 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 (twelve years ago) link
guy is saintly
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
a samurai sword
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qKboHKPEA
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 25 July 2011 16:16 (twelve 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
yestival quadrophronic prog festival
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-yestival/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEOK0En6Pk
― the strange and important sound of the synthesizer (Treeship), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
yes i said i will. yes
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
"beyond and before" is one of the all-time debut album opening songs. like an overture to everything that would be awesome (and lame) about them as they keep on stargazing along
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.list.co.uk/article/59949-yes-bassist-chris-squire-writing-autobiography/
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
second response hall of fame
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
gonna listen to some Yes right now in honor of this thread
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96d5spC3tQg
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 12 April 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
Is there a specific thread about post-Bruford Yes records? I don't feel like wading through pages of threads with the word "yes" in the title
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
it is a thread called no
― j., Friday, 2 May 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
this is a post called hmm
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link
I'm listening to Relayer for p much the first time right now and it's honestly much better than I expected in spite of seeming to miss something that the older records had. I guess I'm just one step further into old dude lameness now.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link