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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: Mon, 24-Jun-85 15:02:26 EDT
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> I suspect that the Howe-Anderson-Wakeman-Squire-Bruford combo was the
> most popular and, in my opinion, the most creative.  They are the one's
> who did "Close to the Edge," "Fragile," "The YES Album," and "The Age
> of Atlantic" (with their incredible rendition of Paul Simon's America on
> it), among others.				Mike Sykora

Slight correction:  Tony Kaye played on the Yes Album, not Rick Wakeman.

I was thinking about my comment about White, and I realized something about
his place in the Topographic album.  Topographic was an album with some
interesting ideas that were not executed in the best manner.  There were
problems with the mix and with Wakeman's integration into the band that
showed in the final mix.   White was hired by Anderson because he felt
Bruford, who had just quit, didn't offer them a rhythmic anchor on solid
ground, which White, a "rock" drummer, might.  Ironically, the Topographic
might have been even more unanchored if Bruford had still been the drummer.
(Or maybe not...)

The story is that "America" was the first thing Wakeman ever recorded with Yes.
-- 
Like a bourbon?  (HIC!)  Drunk for the very first time...
			Rich Rosen   ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr