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Yes, a short background and analysis - Roundabout (Patreon)

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2026-07-26 15:00:18
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🔺NOTE: Uploading this video took more work than it was to edit it. When I went to export it, it said that it would take 4 hours! I should've re-edited the video, but if you know how many steps it can take to edit something...anyway, I'm glad it got uploaded!

There is so much more to Yes than I thought. I am going to keep this short only because this was uploaded late this morning, but this band is proof that a band can go through changes and still create good music!

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Bill Whitaker

You like bass. You have just heard one of the best bassist ever, Chris Squire. I saw them live in 1973. The concert was produced in quadraphonic audio. Parts of songs sounded like they were revolving around the arena. It was wonderful.

Bill W

Guitarist (multi-instrumentalist) Trevor Rabin became a film score composer: Armageddon Gone in 60 Seconds Remember the Titans Rock Star National Treasure 1 & 2 Coach Carter, etc...

Jonas

I think this is a Youtube worthy video, you're doing yourself a disservice by keeping in Patreon lol, first time reactions from a musician to these pioneer progressive bands like Yes and Rush get hundreds of thousands of views, this would be a big hit if it hits the right algorithm

Vlad the Maidiac

Hmmm... Essential albums... For me, "Fragile" and "Close to the Edge" are the essential ones. That was Yes's contribution to music, in my opinion. "90125" and "Big Generator" are very poppy, but they are so catchy, they are just mega hits without question. Nothing new, in my opinion, not really a new word in music, but these two albums are so good that I don't care what style they are in. If pop, then pop. The rest are either too childish (the ones before "Fragile"), or so convoluted that they get enormously boring. I listen to the early albums a few times, there are some really inspirational lyrics there in some songs. But "Tales from Topographic Ocean" and "Relayer" are unlistenable, at least to me. I tried to get into them a few times, but it's absolutely hopeless for me. My small brain can't handle it. Now you should do the same deep dive into Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson. The main band in prog rock is anyway King Crimson, I always thought it's more or less a consensus. Van der Graaf Generator gets little love, usually, but Peter Hammill, in my opinion, is the most amazing male voice of the 20th century. And VDGG managed to contribute to music all the way throughout, starting from "Aerosol and Grey Machine" in 1968, and all the way through 1970s. I mean "contribute" in the sense that the particular album is a completely new word in music, something foundational and unheard-of, which will remain in the history of mankind forever and ever. Peter Hammill did a few albums which are, formally, his solo albums, but VDGG musicians played with him there, and I think those albums can be considered Van der Graaf Generator albums as well. Also, Peter Hammill collaborated with Robbert Fripp, the guitarist in and founder of King Crimson. Fripp provided some guitars on the early songs by Peter Hammill, notably on his first album "Fools Mate" (check the amazing song "Birds"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_qygD9hS8 and on VDGG's masterpiece "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tpDv6M6Nz4 Peter Hammill, in return, sang on Robert Fripp's first solo album "Exposure." I have never heard anyone singing like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZvVubAcLQ But it was all big melting pot of British rock back then. Jon Anderson sang on King Crimson's "Lizard" album. And then Bill Bruford left Yes and joined King Crimson on the permanent basis.

Luis Arispe

The dream team of Yes!. Rick Wakeman is a beast!. This is my shit and I love it!.

Juan San

Big band here!. Probably their best lineup, Anderson, Squire, How, Wakeman & Bruford.

Gary Ellis

The first time I heard them do this live was 1976. Donovan opened.

LoneStar Avenger

Back in the day, YES was the band that your favorite band listened to.

David Cousins

I first heard this song on FM radio, when radio was IMO still great, in 1977. The only time I saw Yes was 1978, it was in the round, and for a 14-year-old it was mind blowing. Back when concert tickets were $6-8. I have never tired of listening to this song as it is one of the tracks that shaped my musical tastes, and they are varied. Besides, I love longer songs.

Glenner7

I was around 17 when this came out. I played the shit out of Fragile and Close to the Edge.

NittPicc Reacts

I can always do a different song on YouTube as well. It’s funny because what I sometimes think will do great on YouTube, doesn’t and when I don’t think something will do well, it does. But you’re right it probably would’ve done great on YouTube!

Andrew Hellebrand

Yes are simultaneous examples of both the best and worst elements of classic prog, at their best they were exciting & using their technical/theoretical facilities pushing music in new directions, blending styles in different ways to what had come before. At their worst they became bloated and self-indulgent by the late 70s in a way that became detached from reality & the general public with egos & infighting to match. The prog scene going in this direction was one of the factors that led to the creation of punk & new wave almost as a reaction to said self-indulgence. You were right in hearing harmonics being played over the first bit of the verse, IIRC they're playing in standard tuning & are all natural harmonics, so you should be able to figure them all out using my cheat sheet notes without too much difficulty. What you were briefly thinking was a plagal cadence in the outro is just Steve Howe resolving to an E major rather than the E minor of the intro. He plays a mixture of acoustic and electric on the track, but the electrics he used in this era are hollowbody jazz guitars so have a more open sound than you might be used to. On this album it was typically a mixture of three Gibsons, an ES-5 Switchmaster, an ES-150 and the ES-175 model he is most known for using extensively throughout his career. In the final verse bassist Chris Squire also overdubbed the bass line with a parallel unison line on the ES-150 guitar. Squire's bass tone having that growl and attack is down to a mixture of factors, he's known for primarily playing with a pick, this era was using a Rickenbacker 4001 which has quite a forward mid focused tone, he'd split his signal into two separate parallel paths allowing him to retain low end punch whilst having the top end more distorted and bright. It's an approach that's since been replicated and evolved to an extent by both Geddy Lee of Rush and Billy Sheehan. Parallel blending of clean and dirty signals on bass is a lot of fun and far easier/practical now than it was back in the 70s. The 'To be continued' meme is derived from the first season of the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure released in 2012, which used this song as it's ending theme (the series has a lot of musical pop culture references in names, some less subtle than others). Most Gen-Z who know the song will be more from this than the original source material.

Andrew Hellebrand

As for your comments regarding musical education, whilst it's true that this lineup didn't have as much formal qualifications this was more down to their clashes with authority figures and the era they grew up in, outside of Jon Anderson who had more of a folk music background they all had pretty extensive trained theoretical knowledge. Bill Bruford and Steve Howe already had extensive jazz chops, Chris Squire spent most of his childhood singing in choirs to a pretty high standard, only picking up bass in his teens and Rick Wakeman started formal piano & theory training at seven and eventually attended the Royal College of Music for a year on a concert pianist scholarship, before dropping out to become a session musician. Jon Anderson's vocal harmonies were partly inspired by his shared love with Squire of groups such as Simon & Garfunkel.

Wayne B

Musicality on steroids!

Bill W

Check out the 7 minute "I've Seen All Good People" from The Yes Album (1971). It's another multi- movement/layered/genre composition. "Long Distance Runaround" was a rare 3 minute radio single, but when played it waz usually paired with the following album track "The Fish". Other popular songs from their early period are "And You And I", "Starship Trooper" and "Yours Is No Disgrace". Those are lengthier 8-10 minute pieces, but when issued for radio play, there were edited/shortened versions, or they would only play the 1St movement.

Spadeas

I didn't had time to watch it yesterday, so I do it now and I can finally say it, it's funny that you had this and the Aoi Yuki song in the same week end, since that made two anime ending theme. Because yes (no pun intended), THIS song was used as an ending for the anime Jojo's bizarre adventure back in 2012, with the famous "to be continued" arrow used with the first note of the song that is the origine of the meme, that how I first discovered the song since i'm a Jojo fan and watched it in 2012 until now. Since you made your research about Yes, let me gave you some info about Jojo and why a 70's british rock song was used for an anime of the 2010's. Jojo is originally a manga by Hirohiko Araki, started in the shonen jump, the same magazine that had Dragon Ball, Naruto or One Piece, in 1987 (fun fact, that's the year I was born, I was born to be a jojo fan lol). Araki is a big fan of western culture, especially cinema and music, that why when he started his manga, he named his first antagonist "Dio Brando", a reference to Dio the singer and the actor Marlon Brando. And since then, he never stopped to reference western music, in the first part of the manga, the 5 first volumes, you had chracters named Zeppeli (for Led Zep), Robert E.O Speedwagon, Dire and Straizo (Dire Straits), Tonpetty (Tom Petty) or even a quatuor of monsters named after the band members of Led Zeppelin. Add to that that the story start about a young british gentleman in the victorian era (we met Jack the ripper for exemple), and you have a manga that made such an impact, that you can take day to count all the thing that reference it and took inspiration from it, Persona, Street Fighter, Yu Gi Ho to name a few, all have some Jojo in it. Now, the influence of Jojo isn't finished, the manga is still ongoing, since it work on "part", each one telling the story of a Jojo, each from the same family and having a "Jo" in their first and last name, like JOnathan Joestar, the first protagonist, JOlyne KuJO ect ect, which make that each "part" in anime, had their own reference for the ending theme, here is a list : Jojo part 1 and two : Roundabout (Yes) Jojo part 3 : Walk Like an Egyptian (the Bangles) and Last Train Home (Pat Metheny Group) Jojo part 4 : I Want You (Savage Garden) Jojo part 5 : Freek'n You (Jodeci) and Modern Crusaders (Enigma) Jojo part 6 : Distant Dreamer (Duffy) And we still wait to discover the opening and ending theme song for part 7, that will come soon on Netflix. Also, the opening theme, all writen for the anime if I remember, are also true banger, Drum Roll Tony can confirm it for you, since it's his reaction to the opening of Jojo that made me discover his chanel before I discover yours.

Kevin (WhirlwindMediaStudio)

My top 5 Yes albums: -Drama (this makes me a heretic in some fan circles) -The Yes Album -Fragile -90125 -Going For The One