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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: "YES" or great concerts.
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 19:00:36 EDT
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> In article <1175@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
> >    Just for the record, I feel that the current album sounds very fresh,
> > yet still very much Yes.

I said no such thing!!  That isn't even my style of writing.  However, I
did say everything else you commented on.

> I think that you are missing a lot of their music then.  I think that most
> Yes fans would agree with me that Anderson has an excellent voice and it is
> finely tailored for their type of music.

At this time, having listened to Yes for years, I tend to feel Jon Anderson's
voice goes well with the music.  However, my initial impression was
considerably opposite that, and I tend to still feel that a stronger but
otherwise equivalent voice would have been better.  Anderson's voice
just does not hold up well; in fact, at one point in _Close_to_the_Edge_
(which incidentally Anderson considered his best vocal performance) his
voice actually breaks completely, although it is drowned out by Wakeman's
loud pipe-organ playing, so that you have to listen closely for it. (I
believe it is where he sings "I get up, I get down" the last time at the
end of the cavern-scene ("In her white lace...").)

> >Howe left the group out of dissatisfaction with the type of music Yes had
> >been producing.
>
> How do you know that?  I seen Howe play in concert...

I know that very definitely!  First of all, during all the time
_Tales_From_Topographic_Oceans_ was being recorded, Howe kept complaining
that they should be producing an album of short songs. (Despite the fact
that he wrote, and did so very well, a good part of that album.)
Furthermore, however, in a recent (last year) interview Howe stated this
explicitly; that he felt that Yes had drifted more and more from the sort
of music he wanted to make, and felt they weren't allowing him to express
himself adequately from a musical standpoint.  He also commented, however,
that "maybe no one band can encompass all my music," or something along
those lines. (I still have the interview in a file somewhere, I could look
it up, but it is at home.)

> Maybe he'll look up Squire, Anderson, Bruford, and Wakeman....

I hope so; Wakeman's latest albums are not much good.  However, I think he
runs an antique car dealership now, so maybe he is too busy to perform?
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