Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: "YES" or great concerts. Message-ID: <1150@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 18:40:03 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1150 Posted: Tue Jul 2 18:40:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:31:53 EDT References: <1104@pyuxd.UUCP> <1150041@acf4.UUCP> <1122@pyuxd.UUCP> <1176@peora.UUCP> <1142@pyuxd.UUCP> <1211@peora.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 24 >>(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... -- Like a bourbon? (HIC!) Drunk for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr