Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Answers to your YES questions Message-ID: <466@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 10:17:26 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.466 Posted: Tue Jun 25 10:17:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:07:15 EDT References: <1104@pyuxd.UUCP> <1150041@acf4.UUCP> <1235@uwmacc.UUCP> <658@lll-crg.ARPA> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 30 Summary: > (1) What was "The Age of Atlantic"? I have "Yesterdays", which has the song >"America" on it. However, since I've never seen the "Age of Atlantic" album, >I just assumed it was some obscure compendium of songs by Atlantic recording >artists. You make it sound like yet another Yes album. What is it? It's the former. I don't own a copy, but I recall that it followed the format of the Warner Brothers' samplers of that era: lots of stuff by new artists plus a few obscure tracks by established acts. The obscurities were the aforementioned "America" (previously available only in a shortened single version) and Led Zeppelin's "Hey Hey What Am I Gonna Do" (B-side of "Over The Hills And Far Away"). > (2) What are you referring to by "Yes meets the Buggles"? After Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman/Patrick Moraz/whoever packed it in, the remaining Yes-men teamed up with Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, a two-man team of studio wizards who, as the Buggles, had had a major U.K. hit with "Video Killed The Radio Star". (Someone even more forgettable had the U.S. hit version.) After the Yes/Buggles breakup, Horn went back to studioland (he produced "90125") and Downes joined Steve Howe in the vastly overrated Asia. > (3) I believe Bill Bruford played on "Close To The Edge". Yes, he did. He plays on about half of "Yessongs", too. "And you can believe me, because I never lie and I'm always right." Andrew W. Rogers