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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: YES ("Yesterdays" & early albums)
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Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 23:41:35 EDT
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> It's interesting to see how each of the great "progressive rock" groups of
> the 70's had very different influences, but most people lump them all
> together under the same banner.

This is true.  Jon Anderson claims that Vanilla Fudge was one of the major
influences on Yes during their early development.  It certainly is hard to
see how this can be (although Vanilla Fudge is a very interesting group;
and their version of "Windmills of Your Mind" has a good bit of stylistic
similarity to Yes's "America").

Regarding Yesterdays not being the best of the early Yes... who said it was
supposed to be?  I have always thought it was supposed to be like all those
variously-named repackagings of Genesis's "From Genesis to Revelation," i.e.,
to give some insight into what a soon-to-be-famous rock group sounded like
before they attained their heights of success...
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