Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: "YES" or great concerts. Message-ID: <1237@peora.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 15:12:11 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1237 Posted: Wed Jul 3 15:12:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 12:16:25 EDT References: <1104@pyuxd.UUCP> <1150041@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 34 > As for my being perverse, well... Actually I was just giving you a hard time. I know Howe recently claimed in an interview in _Guitar_Player_ that he felt "The Ancient" was his best piece. I just hoped you would say something like ... > 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). ... which, being personally relatively ignorant of music theory, I would like to see lots of in here! I've never much been a fan of blissful ignorance. That ending to Topographic Oceans is (gratefully!) one of the few really interesting parts of that album that is actually written out in full, in the "Yes Complete" books. However, I think (if I remember right) that the "Chick Corea Ripoff" you mentioned is also all in the guitar version in the back of the "Sound Chaser" book. For some reason, nothing much by Howe ever appears in those though... is there anyplace one can get the, you know, uh, sheet music for that stuff? (I know Yes supposedly never writes it down... I hoped someone would, though.) > I don't know what you mean by "understanding" it ... That's what I meant. When one quits learning, s/he might as well give up and go sit in a corner somewhere and waste away... -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Cvpgherf unatvat va n unyyjnl ba gur sentzragf bs n fbat"