Yes Rehearsal Long Distance Runaround / America
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- Rare video footage of classic Yes band members rehearsing in studio. Jon Anderson (vocals), Chris Squire (bass), Steve Howe (guitar), Rick Wakeman (keyboards) and Alan White (drums) practice in rehearsal room for upcoming performance. Even the world's greatest progressive rock group needs time for musical perfection. Long Distance Runaround is from 1971 Fragile. Yes version of Paul Simon's America is included on 1975 compilation album Yesterdays.
At last, Yes is inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. - Hudba
YES... the decades have rolled on by ! I am now 63, and for 48 of them, I have been listening to YES !
CHARLES NOLAN , my older bro, 4 yrs older than me taught me about prog rock! I usually followed Bowie, Queen, etc.,but discovered You tube 6 months ago, how exciting to see this music performed! Taking up guitar at age 59, because of watching Howe play wonderous stories! So much better to see it performed! I’m revisiting my teen years now, with prog! Greetings from Illinois!
Steve and Rick were/are truly masters of their craft!
i have seen yes over 25 times in my life became friends with chris which has been a high spot in my life because he was my hero and i am also a bass player.i will say this i talked with chris at great lengths on a cruise to the edge and he introduced me to steve and etc i was in the presence of greatness every one of these guys are masters of their instruments and jon with his voice.other musicians can relate to what im saying these guys were briliant you listen to close to the edge album just for instance it was massive,brilliant and unbelievable for its time.musical geniuses hands down. i am also very good friends with billy sherwood he ultimately was the guy that gave me the chance to meet chris and eventually becaome great friends.he was a gentle giant,funny,brilliant and a master i deeply miss him and i am a blessed to have known my bass hero.long live yes!!!!!
illuminated ~ OH! No way! You know ....if you love Yes as much as we do ....and spend as much time dissecting, and putting back together the puzzle that makes these pieces so great, its like you already know them in a sense. Wakeman is the one l cant take my eyes off of! Maybe its because l play piano, and grew up with Oscar Peterson that l find him so intriguing .....or maybe he's just Really funny! Either way l love them, and thank them for giving us so much! That goes for all the other cool prog groups too Genesis, ELP, Zappa, blah blah! l watch those ''Going for the One Sessions''' constantly! lts a natural setting for me l'm happy for you that you were able to hang with 'em. Seeing them 25 times is A LOT!
Holy sh#t! I would've given my right nut to sit and talk to him. I play bass too. I wish I could play his Ric. I would also surrender a testicle to play it!
What fabulous musicians they are you won't see the like of them no more
''Going for the One'' studio sessions are _SOOO GREAT!_ Especially to see how ''Awaken'' was put together! Just a _heart stopping_ piece! Approaching Divinity INDEED!
Chris was so big and the way he played looks like he is playing a four string guitar LOL . He was such a bad ass !
Right man. :)
Well, it *is* called a bass guitar.
He looks pissed off here. I wonder what his real relationships were the other band members?
In this incredible video Jon looks in perfect good shape, he sings amazing!!!
Actually he had a little bit of a « pillow face »
Allan White did a good job ..BUT.... Bill Bruford was One of a Kind.
bill was the master of off beats up beats and his timing signatures couldnt be copied by alan.i liked alan but bill was and is a monster drummer
Absolutely
Alan was better for Yes than bruford point blank. Plus bruford thought he was better than yes, total narcissist back then. Long love Alan White
@@handgunner1911 bills “mastery of time signatures” was simply his experience playing them live and failing. Bill was a live loose canon (Phil Collins and Tony Banks held this opinion), always wanting to improvise and change his playing. Chris would even argue with him abt it. So yea Alan wins in this regard
Always bothered the shit outta me how Alan white, while a solid drummer, never even tried to replicate brufords drums on some songs. H.o.t.s. comes to mind.. drums are my favorite part of that tune and white just plays so bland and straight forward, even in videos from decades ago he never once attempted the drums from the record..
Man Jon is amazing!!!
Have all of Yes' music...well.."earlier" stuff anyway. Been listening to them for 40+ years and America is my favorite tune of theirs. Great seeing this "live" but wish they had continue through to the jam section of this Paul Simon-written tune. IMO it's Yes at their most rocking-est (just straight forward "rock mode") of their career (as oppose to prog style jamming, I guess) and if you haven't checked out the studio version off of Yesterdays you're in for a treat cause it's an absolute throwdown !!
Excellent band in original lineup! ❤♡♤○●□
Jon perfect voice, Chris rock bass, Howe is master, & Rick is wizard of keyboard! ❤♤♡□♧◇♡♤°•
his voice sounds so great!
It’s amazes me when I see different drummers sitting with Yes that are very good in their own right, but can’t follow the original arrangements due to the fact it was Bill Bruford. All time great...
November, 2018
I'm a bit bewildered at the comments, Responding to critical views on the band - Referring to it as ''sloppy playing ''..... I think that I can safely assume that most of those watching this video, Were around during the '70's; when the Yes were at their apex..... We all are aware of what went into what was one of the most tightest groups at the time, the complexity of their sound and music !! The apples cut to make the pie - and the mess that was made; to create what we then enjoyed..... So, We know that Roundabout ( for example ) did not just ''come to be '', in a day.
And, yes; it was unusual, interesting - a little ( painful, lol ) - to see them playing less than the perfect vessel we know them to be. I heard chords not yet perfected, and Jon's voice was a bit out of sorts..... Yet, it was fascinating to see and hear what we all recognize to be a unified wall of sound !! My thinking, the negative comments about ''their playing '', is not negative at all; Rather a recognition of the creation, and what we would later hear in concert.
It was practice for Christ sake. Everybody screws around and some people play clams. But when the lights go on, that's when you really do it.
thanks a lot for uploading this!!!
All I can say is i years to come..this is history in the making. Trust me.. kids in the future will analyse every not Chris plays... the scales, roots etc... and Steve and wonder how over 50 even 60 years ago the developed Progressive Rock and yet it died so quickly... I suppose it was it was to to complicated to replicate or if by chance better... It cant be ..
Theory: the record companies were more open to letting their artists develop, explore & generally be adventurous in the late 60s - to mid 70s. Somewhere in the mid to late 70s, the 'bean counters' began to have more say, complaining about expensive tours, 'excessive' albums that had no hits, etc. Plus the stress of maintaining that level of musicianship night after night took its toll. And, of course, ego..I was in a 'progressive rock' group from 1986 - 1994 (though we admittedly had nowhere near the level of talent & musicianship of our idols - King Crimson, Yes, and others), and though we began with great enthusiasm, and even developed a decent following, it became more & more difficult to keep moving forward or even maintain what we had already achieved. From questionable managerial advise to simple equipment maintenance to basic cash flow issues.. and we were fortunate in many respects. But eventually the personal demands on various band members (marriage, jobs, etc.) and other pressures took too much from the group.Our manager used to manage Kansas in their earliest days, and, still friends with drummer Phil Ehart, he would send demo tapes and relay Ehart's opinions. Two unfortunate consequences of that dynamic were that,: 1) after Ehart criticized our singer's abilities, he lost a lot of his confidence and 2) we did not make the debut album we should have made - a loose analogy would be instead of making the debut ELP album, we went straight to 'Love Beach'; a desperate and futile attempt to make a record with broad appeal instead of recording the songs our fans loved. Naturally this only alienated our fans, and attracted very few new people to our sound (not all the songs were bad or fluff, but enough to make a negative impact). I only relate this so up-and-coming groups who aspire to 'high art' will (hopefully) stick to their guns and 'do their thing'; the music industry is not what it used to be, but all the more reason to be uncompromising with your music - people are hungry for real artistry; if you can connect, they will be yours & you will be theirs as long as you ignore the idiots who try to convince you to sound like .. (the flavor of the day in the dying top 40 music-business world)..
@@GeorgePiazza great comment ! And sympathize with your predicament. Who was your band and when and where did it "exist" ?
Gezza strongly agree with you !! IMO it's the sole reason for the rise of Punk. As I have often said...the up and coming music fan/musician (at the time..around what, late 60's/mid-70's?) SIMPLY COULDN'T PLAY THIS MUSIC. Most prog musicians had their musical heroes (many of'em outta jazz) and studied them, put in the hours to play "like" them AND then took the music to another level (not necessarily better). The "successors" of prog music neither took the time or effort to achieve that level of musicianship. Social norm/mores changes ? Drugs use too embedded in the culture (ie too stoned to learn)? Don't know. None of this would be too detrimental...except for the fact that, not only did they not bother to learn, but they adopted an attitude of "oh that's elitist BS and pretentious" ! That attitude toward prog wouldn't have been damaging if it had only been agreed upon among those musicians. But it didn't, it spread like wild fire to average music lovers and had them believing that it was voodoo to listen to prog. What would've happened if that attitude had spread to other fields? Say mathematics or medicine...I guess it did...it was called the Dark Ages and as far as I'm concerned the late 70's and 80's were JUST THAT. Was all music through the 80's/90's bad, of course not ! Could it have been better if that "attitude" had never existed ? Yeah probably.
Eastman D thanks buddy. Have you found Band Geek on YT. They are amazing and their Yes covers are superb. The bass player is from blue oyster cult I believe cheers
I miss Chris :'( RIP
thanks, Chris
OMG they are just like us
lol right.. how many masterpieces did you compose?
I know what you mean. Listening to Wakeman going over the main melodic riff in LDR over and over again trying to get it right. He is just as mortal as the rest of us.
Very cool thank you , and Merry Christmas cal ✌️
These are the San Luis Obispo Keys To Ascensión 1996 rehearsals.
So is this post SLO, then?
Yes, Jon hasn't worn his hair that long since 1996
But Steve looks a lot older and Chris somewhat younger, so it's rather disorienting to see this version of the band
What was your favorite tour of YES? Mine is the Tornato Tour in 1979 where they performed on the center rotating round stage. I've been a loyal fan since 1974 when I was 12 years old.
Yea was great all of them
The full circle tour in 2002
The UNION tour was astonishing: we got to see Bruford and White.........DUET!!!!
We got to see Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe......solo.......during "OWNER" and other 80s tunes they NEVER PLAYED ON!!
YES is one of my fave bands......but UNION was revolutionary then..........and STILL revolutionary!
So many unprecedented surprises!
WHO ELSE in history did anything like it? A: No one!
I am the same, I saw the tour before Tormato, but that one I went to MSG - NYC… I may have been one or two years older, but that will leave an impression on you….
My fondest memories are of The Ladder Tour 1999. Because they played smaller halls and there was standing room in front and I was right in front directly about five feet from Steve Howe with an unobstructed view. I could hear the floor squeak between songs when he walked around. You meant Tormato Tour (like tomato). I saw that too, but I"m not a fan of theater in the round.
I think it was before the concert in San Luis Obispo during keys to ascension
I am sort of thinking that this could be a rehearsal for the Fox After Breakfast TV show which was October 29, 1996 in New York City. They probably rented a rehearsal space for one day. It's definitely not rehearsal for SLO even on the stage in the Fremont Theatre. I was at all soundchecks/rehearsals in the Fremont and they were still finishing construction up to the last minute and decorating props on stage by the first soundcheck.
It definitely seems like October 1996 as Chris was asking about The Howard Stern Show at the end, which they went on that month.
If I am not mistaken, this was taped at SIR Studios in NYC...
I would agree, only time I ever heard the edit version of America.
Hahaha ce studio doit se trouver au pôle nord pour que Rick W ait éprouvé le besoin de revêtir une parka à moumoute par dessus sa robe de chambre :D . D ailleurs depuis qu à la sortie d un concert,je faisais ma groupie gaga et qu il s est extrait de la limousine qui emmenait Yes sous d autres cieux,pour me signer un autographe à plat ventre sur le toit du véhicule,je me prends à rêver qu il se souviendra de moi pour me laisser sur son testament,sa garde robe complète de robes de chambre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes I love Yes :)
When was this recorded? obviously can't be the date posted RIP Chris
Looks like 2002 when Rick came back (again).
This is from October 1996 as Chris at the end was asking about The Howard Stern Show, which they appeared that month.
Yea come to think of it, that looks like the K2A era.
This looks like from 1996.
Rick Wakeman looks an awful lot like Kiefer Sutherland in this vid!
It was mind blowing to see YES playing so sloppy. It was like a bunch of guys in a garage band.
Lol... you've obviously never played.
Well it is a rehearsal. Judging by "Runaround" they were concerned only with certain part parts.
What garage band sounds like that? Link please? Lol
Ms A yes 2019
This was for keys to ascension wasnt it?
Yep. 1996
What year was this please
1996
@@nordvegfigg7746 that looks about right, thanks.
Chris sporting nice tatas
I love anything on Chris.
Just missing BRUFORD ANDERSON is god
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It’s amazes me when I see different drummers sitting with Yes that are very good in their own right, but can’t follow the original arrangements due to the fact it was Bill Bruford. All time great...