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!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: <1209@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 19:00:36 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1209 Posted: Mon Jul 1 19:00:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:39:23 EDT References: <1104@pyuxd.UUCP> <1150041@acf4.UUCP> <1235@uwmacc.UUCP> <1175@peora.UUCP> <731@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 48 > In article <1175@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes: > > Just for the record, I feel that the current album sounds very fresh, > > yet still very much Yes. I said no such thing!! That isn't even my style of writing. However, I did say everything else you commented on. > I think that you are missing a lot of their music then. I think that most > Yes fans would agree with me that Anderson has an excellent voice and it is > finely tailored for their type of music. At this time, having listened to Yes for years, I tend to feel Jon Anderson's voice goes well with the music. However, my initial impression was considerably opposite that, and I tend to still feel that a stronger but otherwise equivalent voice would have been better. Anderson's voice just does not hold up well; in fact, at one point in _Close_to_the_Edge_ (which incidentally Anderson considered his best vocal performance) his voice actually breaks completely, although it is drowned out by Wakeman's loud pipe-organ playing, so that you have to listen closely for it. (I believe it is where he sings "I get up, I get down" the last time at the end of the cavern-scene ("In her white lace...").) > >Howe left the group out of dissatisfaction with the type of music Yes had > >been producing. > > How do you know that? I seen Howe play in concert... I know that very definitely! First of all, during all the time _Tales_From_Topographic_Oceans_ was being recorded, Howe kept complaining that they should be producing an album of short songs. (Despite the fact that he wrote, and did so very well, a good part of that album.) Furthermore, however, in a recent (last year) interview Howe stated this explicitly; that he felt that Yes had drifted more and more from the sort of music he wanted to make, and felt they weren't allowing him to express himself adequately from a musical standpoint. He also commented, however, that "maybe no one band can encompass all my music," or something along those lines. (I still have the interview in a file somewhere, I could look it up, but it is at home.) > Maybe he'll look up Squire, Anderson, Bruford, and Wakeman.... I hope so; Wakeman's latest albums are not much good. However, I think he runs an antique car dealership now, so maybe he is too busy to perform? -- 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