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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: "YES" or great concerts.
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 18:40:03 EDT
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>>(The Ancient---the best side on the album and the one that best provides a
>>solid continuing framework for an extended composition). [ROSEN]

> I think you are just being perverse!  I always thought "The Ancient" was
> something they stuck on there so that they would have 4 sides to the album;
> I never did understand that mess Steve Howe does with the steel guitar
> through the majority of that side.  (Although "Along Without You" is
> really great.) [ROSKOS]

I don't know what you mean by "understanding" it, but I'm quite serious:
The Ancient, to me, was the only side of the album that worked as a single
continuous composition, harking back to the quality of "Close to the Edge"
and at times exceeding it.  It is a vastly underrated and underlistened-to
piece.  It is by far the most interesting and innovative of the four sides,
and the most exciting to listen to (though the very end of side four, *after*
the vocals end, beginning with the alternating thirds in the tritonic scale---
b minor, g minor, Db major, a minor, Eb major, b minor, F minor, C# minor,
g minor, Eb major, b minor, ending on that exquisite f# minor chord and fading
away---comes pretty close as a high point in and of itself).

As for my being perverse, well...
-- 
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			Rich Rosen   ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr