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FULL CONCERT FILM: Yes - Yessongs (Patreon)

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2022-02-09 06:37:30
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2026-01-07 12:59:07
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As a member of La Familia, you're seeing this before anyone else! Shhh!

The day has arrived!! We finally watched Yes live.

Watch as our socks get blown off!

Love, 

Nick, Lex & Marley

Link to video:

https://vimeo.com/674252039/d4ff43e309

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B Mac

Finally got to see this! I wasn't in La Familia until October or November of '22. This was a lot of fun!

Patrick Nicolucci

I saw this as a Midnight release at my local theater on the big screen Amazing show! I've seen Yes live many times form 1976-2011

rob whitmer

Thank you for this. I am glad you got to see YES live actually playing their instruments. That is what it is like back in the day!

Gary Lewis

I saw this tour, the show at Nassau Coliseum which was my second time seeing the band, and while it is indeed the Close to the Edge tour, Close to the Edge hadn't been released yet. So imagine being young (I was 15 at the time) and hearing all this amazing music, some of which was the Yes Album and Fragile which I had and knew well, but also all of Close to the Edge album for the very first time and not being able to wait until it came out and then when it finally did finding out it was as mind-blowing as I'd remembered!

Doug Fenske

You mentioned at the beginning the concept of liking Genesis or Yes more, and how hard it is to pick one. That made me think about how during the late '70s and '80s I was like "breathing" Genesis' and Yes' music and I didn't have a favorite between the two. But around the time of the late '90s or '00s I realized that Yes is my favorite. There's probably a few reasons, but one reason is basically that Genesis has 11 studio albums and 5 solo albums that I think are awesome, and Yes has 17 band albums and 17 solo albums that I love. That's twice as much music as Genesis.

Doug Fenske

I think this is a fantastic album. I also love his "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table."

Michele

Wow! Just discovered this reaction - isn’t it great?!! You are killing it, content-wise. So happy you found it. Their ability to recreate that luscious studio sound was incredible. Thank you ... I’m still listening ... one 1 song in! ✨🤪 Bravo 👏🏼

Michele

I’m so glad that we, as a community, chose the songs you needed to hear before experiencing this event. Loving it ! ☺️

come together

I'm so excited for you to see this and to see it with you! Your content is on fire! This is my first time viewing this as well. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on your upcoming night with Alan Parsons and Snarky Puppy.

come together

Jon's vocals just cut straight through to my soul. Breathtaking.

MrMojoRisin

It would do everyone a great favor if musicians of today listened to bands like Rush, Yes, Genesis, ELP and the like just to understand how irrelevant their sound truly is! Nobody can match these bands in talent, breath and scope of musicianship but they could learn so much by just taking this music in. It's sad to think of bands today that can't even play their instruments but think they are so "progressive". They have no clue as to what they are missing out on. Even less of these bands will even try to understand their own craft. This is why 60's, 70's and 80's LP's are so in-demand these days.

JRCortez

Hola from the great state of Texas y'all! Until today (02/09) I NEVER knew this was on video, and I bought the triple album when it was first released in 1973! I wore out the grooves on the LP after more than a decade then I eventually bought the CD. Thank you so much for the reaction. I'll be watching it later today.

Mark Alexander

Finally, the stars are aligned and the universe is in balance. ✨⚖️

Patrick Nicolucci

I've seen Yes live from 1976 to 2015 until Chris's passing. they were always amazing shows ! Saw Yessongs is the movies midnight show double feature with Monty Python and the Holy grail in 1975. great musical memories thanks guys. I bought a Ric 4001 because of Chris. Now you know why Chris was the GOAT of prog bass players.

Mark Alexander

Chris influenced virtually all of bass players after him. Too bad he passed before Yes’s induction into the R&R Hall of Fame. Rush got in first, and introduced them. It’s a must-see especially for Rick Wakeman’s (or is that Alan Rickman’s?) comedic performance. Check it out. https://youtu.be/Ta0wI4W4XA4

Great Scott

OK N&L, you've just heard Rick Wakeman do a solo excerpts from his early masterpiece, The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth. You now need to start down that rabbit hole (or is it a wormhole thru time and space?) that is Rick Wakeman solo albums. I believe we've been suggesting Journey to the Center of the Earth, but now that you've heard just a tiny bit of 6WoH8, I recommend you soon do an album play of that instead. A reaction to it would be great, but if you have to just listen to it by yourselves, then so be it. Six songs, one for each of the wives. Don't wait too long, please.

Ad Tiegelaar

I saw this concert in rotterdam in the seventies. Delicious. It started much too late as they were held up at the German border. When it was announced that the support act was cancelled, there was a cheer. Now at the age of 68 I still enjoy it. But luckily there are still good bands these days. Eg Nightwish with The Poet & the Pendulum. I also enjoy your responses. Thank you!

Mark Alexander

Okay, so here's what is actually on the Yessongs triple-album (2 CDs) that is not in this concert. First, for many years the opening overture was Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite. Lights down, they would come on stage and, as the Suite finishes, lights up, they would launch into the first song. More than an hour of concert material is on the album, including, Siberian Khatru, Heart of the Sunrise, Perpetual Change (with Bill Bruford), Long Distance Runaround/The Fish (also with Bill Bruford), and Starship Trooper. BTW, after this tour, Roger Dean designed the Yes sets and they were amazing. As you read up on them, you'll see why the movie Spinal Tap made fun of these kinds of sets with Stonehenge, etc.

Ad Tiegelaar

Rick Wakeman's Six wifes of Henry the eight.

Ad Tiegelaar

End of the film was bad but the music very good. And that is what counts.

Debra Brabenec

Wow! What I wouldn't give to see this on the big screen! I saw them live twice in the 70's, but there were no projection screens and we were very far away. I love seeing them up close as they created their magic and showed their energy and joy of their craft! Thank you for this wonderful gift! I would still live to see a reaction to the last cut on Close To The Edge- Siberian Khatru!

Michele

Thanks for mentioning Jon’s Patreon. I joined to see what surprises come our way. And thanks for calling attention to the influence of avant-garde artists (Cage, Glass, Ligeti, etc.). The world always seems better when there are artists who are willing to push boundaries. Thanks, David. ✨🤪

Doug Grant

Great stuff. I love watching your full concert reactions. One tiny criticism is that, on my setup anyway, the volume when the two of you are talking is way quieter than the concert film, so I need to keep tweaking the volume up and down. Thanks so much for covering this wonderful music, though. All the best. D

T. Bone

The camera work for this show was great, seeing the playing in real time is a real treat.

norm

great concert, remember seeing them in toronto in 73 on this tour as a teenager, really brings it back

Phil Plasma

Like Mark Alexander said already, the video you picked out for the great sound quality (which I agree, is great sound quality) is only about half of what Yessongs was. I definitely think of Yes music as being music that I stop whatever else I am doing and be still to listen. I owned Yessongs on VHS back in the 80s and would watch it regularly.

j3ffc

Others have noted how enjoyable Yes were live. They were my friends’ favorite bands during the early/mid 70s and we were legally bound to see them live every time they came around. One concert stuck out to me because the opening act was Donovan, which sounded weird at the time but really worked (and I see it now). Fun opening act story that keys into your observation about how different Yes was from many other bands in that era: Yes was the opening act at Cream’s farewell concert!

j3ffc

Oh (still don’t know how to make parargraphs on this thing), I think it’s awesome that Steve Howe plays five different instruments in the course of the first three songs (including what I’m pretty sure is a lute on “I’ve Seen…”). “Clap” is such a pastiche of styles but so fun to listen to. I’ve always considered the main theme of the song to have a ragtime guitar feel, which is one of my favorite guitar genres, as opposed to bluegrass, which is much less syncopated and a lot more propulsive. Thanks for the reactions as always (and an excuse to check out this concert again).

Vic Weatherford, soundofflute

At the age of 14 I was laying in my bed one night in 1972 and turned on my radio, tuned to WMMR in Philly, and the guitar riffs of All Good People from Yessongs was playing. Already an infatuated Yes fan - I owned all 5 of their albums by then and listened to them almost exclusively - it took me a few bars to realize what I was listening to. Yes music was so different and complex I hadn't even imagined them playing it live. It was a really thrilling moment, and I certainly wasn't let down when they swung back through Philly to do an unscheduled show at the Spectrum, giving me the chance to see the on the Close to the Edge tour.

bazeye

The end of the Yessongs concert you watched has been changed from the original. The last half of Yours is no Discrace that plays over the slow motion film of the band playing a different song, is not the version played at that gig. It comes from the Yessongs LP version recorded on the US leg of the tour (according to wiki). You can see the whole of the song played at the gig here: https://youtu.be/wd40IJrdX3Y?t=3874 I have started it at the guitar improv section, you will hear further into the solo that it's different from the version you watched, and there is no slow motion footage from a differnt song. Also notable is how bad the actual solo is, especially compared to the Yessongs LP version, thus proving Steve Howe is indeed human :)

j3ffc

That’s even cooler. Thanks!

Rudi Becker

Wow, that was sooo good, finally found the time to watch the whole concert. Only bad thing is, what's all missing. If you check out your Yessongs live CD, you will see, the first 4 songs are missing, Long Distance Rundaround + The Fish and StarshipTrooper. As you already reacted to the Fish studio, I highly recommend to listen to the live version of the CD ... as I wrote on my sticker, you haven't heard anything like that before. And you and I and Roundabout are already grade A songs in the studio version, but the live versions deserve a A+ with Roundabout being my alltime favourite from the very first listen. Steve Howe is my "hero" in this song, as he is in Yours is no disgrace.

Rudi Becker

...continued: when you talked about favourite bands I had the funny thought: "just like you have a spot in your heart for each person you once loved and love now, there is also a "little chamber" for each of your favourite bands over the years. And as you said, you cannot compare Yes and Led Zeppelin: the music is different, the texts are very different ... I remember, when I actually started to listen to what Robert Plant sang, it was for sure different from most of the other bands. Do you remember, what you thought, when he sang in Black Dog "when honey drips, can't keep away" or even more "clear" what he meant, singing in Lemon Song "Squeeze me babe, 'til the juice runs down my legs" ? At that time I was glad my parents didn't understand it :-) I also wonder, how big the intersection of Yes and Led Zeppelin concerts was. I'm glad to present at least one missing piece of Yessongs, filmed at the same concert, but not being in the concert, we just saw : Heart of the sunrise - according to my sticker " a song like a roller coaster" - maybe you'll present it like Red Barchetta as some kind of encore : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq-YjWBIgY0

Kenn Sisson

Hi, Nick and Lex! I'm a brand new patron - when I saw that you had found and reacted to a full version of this, I had to sign up! I first saw this in the theater in either '75 or '76, and hadn't seen it since. I never saw Yes live; by the time they toured and I had a chance, Steve Howe had left the band, and I didn't care as much for their albums without him. (I did see Rick Wakeman lead a band of his own when he was still into the capes and dry ice smoke and all that stuff, it was fun!) By the way, they also performed a terrific full version of "Starship Trooper" at these shows, and it's available as a standalone on YouTube as "Starship Trooper 1973"; it was posted way back in 2008 and is only a 480p upload, but it's well worth checking out. Keep up the good work, love you guys!

Vic Weatherford, soundofflute

From two days ago, a brief interview with Rick Wakeman. It seems he is as much in awe of Close to the Edge as we all are. :D

Ian Dent

Hi guys. I’ve been a YES fan since 70. Just watched your ‘Roundabout’ reaction. I know it’s from a while ago, and you probably know everything about them by now, but as a passionate fan, I’ll tell you the things I know. Lead guitarist :Steve Howe. Favourite guitar- 1964 Gibson ES175D bought from new Bass: Chris Squire. Main bass, 1965 Rickenbacker 4001, bought from new Vocals: Jon Anderson. Jon was a massive part of the musical arrangement as well as the vocalist and lyricist. The lyrics didn’t always have a storyline meaning. Jon thought of (and still does) his voice as an instrument. To that end he sometimes used lyrics for their sounds when strung together. He’s mentioned it once in an interview, that the sound of the lyrics came before the meaning, but it somehow all seems to make a sort of sense. Lol Drums: Bill Bruford. Bill went on to King Crimson, Genesis for a year when Phil Collins took over vocal duties, and an incredible solo career Keyboards: the incomparable Rick Wakeman. Rick started so many trends as a keyboard player it’s difficult to know where to start. Favourite instrument ………the mini moog probably gave him a lead instrument slot that he wanted. In later years, he threw a lot of YES sounds into his beloved KORG KRONOS’s. Still kept a couple of mini moogs in his rig though. You want to try and set up an interview with him, he’s fun and knowledgeable and likes people. As far as accolades go, wow, where to start. Howe, Wakeman and Squire pretty much wiped the floor with the worlds best in the 70’s. Steve Howe: I think he’s the only guitarist ever to win worlds best guitar player more than 3 times on the run in a global guitar magazine with votes from pro guitarists. I know he was voted worlds best, 5 times on the run. I think Squire was voted best bassist 4-5 times and I think it was similar for Wakeman. They hold the attendance record for Philadelphia JFK Stadium in a concert with YES as headliners and Peter Frampton as first on. 110000. If you plug it into Google there’s some incredible aerial shots of the crowd. In the 90125 era they broke the world record with attendances over several nights at Rock in Rio. Strangely enough, prog was pushed as not trendy by the British music press, that they only mentioned QUEEN’s much smaller audiences. Still big audiences but only pulling in a fraction of what YES did over the festival dates.

Ian Dent

Hi guys. The concert that was filmed for this actually took place on 15th December 1972 at the Rainbow theatre in London. The film wasn’t released until 1975.

Patrick Nicolucci

Guys I 've seen Yes live from 1976 -2011 a few times a decade. Chris is my Musical Muse I learned bass and bought a 4001 Rickenbacker. I wish i can play like Chris. When he passed in 2015 it was a sad day for me. been a fane since 1971 Roundabout never looked back . My second favorite band behind the Beatles. YES what a band to see live. Amazing!!

JeffY

Great reaction guys. I saw that you did Yessong on utube and joined patreon … a first for me. Have seen Yes live 19 times (I’m 66) in almost all of there personnel variations and this classic lineup was the best…imho. Chris was was an unbelievable bassist, Steve and Rick are consummate musicians. And Jon’s voice is an instrument in itself. While personally I preferred Bill Brufords’ jazz style of drumming (Fragile, Yes Album, & Close to the Edge)…Alan White (RIP) was an excellent rock drummer. Continue through the Yes catalog…Relayer, Tales, and Going For The One are the next ones.