This has all the hallmarks of Trevor's solo stuff including his very straight-forward lyricism, but with the added element of additional stellar Yes virtuosity...and then Trevor Horn and the later addition of Jon Anderson created a total je ne sais quoi... It's a real drag there's no ARW work forthcoming...
@mattleppard1964Ай бұрын
Fabulous ❤
@SOALNightLive2 ай бұрын
Sounds like something Toto would have done around then.
@dogzallez133 ай бұрын
I sure wish I could get my hands on a recording of this! Awesome!
@richdaley99823 ай бұрын
The opening reminds me of the Asia song Sole Survivor a little. I wonder how much cross pollination these bands had in terms of writing. I mean Alan and Chris had been playing with Steve Howe and some of the other guys. I’m not saying it is copied but there are similarities in where these bands were going. I think it all worked out great. Trevor breathed new life into Yes. Steve Howe went to Asia and that was his way of doing 80s progressive rock which at the time also sounded modern.
@charlesnolan76024 ай бұрын
In 1984, I had been a YES fan for 13 years. So when 90125 was released, I was enthusiastic. You have to accept that the music you have spent time and enjoyment on can change at almost any moment. So that was my thinking. I couldn't do it with Genesis. I think the Talk tour shows were the best because the 90125 era or YES WEST had really jelled despite Jon leaving in 1988, and the Union period- which I also loved. Trevor's recent album, " RIO-" Do you have it? You should!
@jeancarrier65935 ай бұрын
Tout simplement magnifique!🇨🇦
@AggieLonghornMom6 ай бұрын
You must have been standing by me at the fence.
@steveyoung23177 ай бұрын
I can feel no sense of measure
@timalan53768 ай бұрын
Pop Yes was about all this incarnation was, and a shadow of the greatness that came before.
@courtneymagnuson37568 ай бұрын
Absolutely love this song! ❤💯🖤🤘
@garytitone8539 ай бұрын
Loosely quoting history here. Imagine you're a record producer walking into a studio to hear early developments of Cinema, you play Heat Of The Moment by Asia to show that your band can be a prog pop chart band. Cinema/Trevor/Yes is an important time in the evolution of Yes, as much as short form pop Yes is relevant, its great to know the conclusion of their final full album recordings, 3 studio albums sessions between 82'-92' finally had a Classic Epic Long Form piece called Endless Dream. Now Asia may not have ever even recorded or produced that level of Epic Prog. Cinema/Yes, now that's prog coming full circle. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYaelLqug7zLhto.htmlsi=OqB84-HzsUM7tnIk
@rontillman316810 ай бұрын
Great tune… love these guys…Squire played the coolest parts…
@row8017 Жыл бұрын
That became Yes, are you kidding.
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
<blank stare>
@gijsbertbeijer4793 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately not ‘my Yes’ anymore. Can’t stand the voice of the singer and in my opinion the 2 previous replacements of Jon Anderson were a better match. Both David Benoit and Trevor Horn did a better job.
@randalleasley31 Жыл бұрын
1982 I was there at sandstone amphitheater, a Bonner Springs Kansas
@cheesechannel71548 ай бұрын
Me too, but it was September 1984
@SOALNightLive2 ай бұрын
@@cheesechannel7154 Me three, and yeah, 1984. It rained... Didn't matter though. Made the lasers look cool.
@okihinukotog Жыл бұрын
らしい曲だが日の目を見ない。洗練されれば…
@Kimo-gt6vs Жыл бұрын
Very nice. I can also hear a tiny bit of Eddie Van Halen influence.
@randlerobbertson8792 Жыл бұрын
Wow never heard this before.... heavy, classic stufffff
@tainonative4941 Жыл бұрын
Really great!!!!!!!!!!!!
@19del69 Жыл бұрын
Strong
@showefan Жыл бұрын
Trash. 80s pop trash
@sogggyyy Жыл бұрын
I particularly like the first two songs. Repeated listens are required for anything good, and the new material is excellent. Slowly listening to the rest of the album, I found that it is sonically quite rich, with many of well-executed delectable bits. Steve did an excellent job on this.
@Jay_Tee2023 Жыл бұрын
Let me know how people are hearing the whole album so I too can enjoy without any further ado
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
I have a watermarked review copy
@Jay_Tee2023 Жыл бұрын
@@awesomeconcerts8922 I need 1 of those, where's mine?
@SunFellow941 Жыл бұрын
How did you rate the song "Mirror to the Sky"?
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
5 out of 5 stars :)
@Lineageholder Жыл бұрын
This lineup of 'Yes' is not Yes; It's Steve Howe with a backing band. 'All Connected' is a terrible, meandering, directionless piece. However, I haven't heard the album so I can't say if it's any good. I'll suspend judgement for now.
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
How do you rate Open Your Eyes? A masterpiece? It has Anderson Howe Squire White...
@markseifert1155 Жыл бұрын
Sorry, I respectfully and totally disagree with you!
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
We disagree about what...? There are dozens of talking points in the video.
@awrogers3013 Жыл бұрын
New one is always the best since…..come on
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
No one said that about Heaven & Earth. I didn't say that about Fly From Here (I think it's weak)
@SOALNightLive Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review. I agree about Luminosity. Living Out Their Dream is one of the hilights of the album for me though. It's no 2 stars at my house. I'd give it a 4. I'm just glad when it arrives, after nearly 20 minutes of mid tempo tunes. I think a different order for the songs would make the album flow better and seem more balanced. Cut From The Stars One Second Is Enough All Connected Living Out Their Dream Mirror To The Sky Magic Potion Unknown Place Luminosity Circles Of Time
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
Right on! And as I said, some other reviewers dig it!
@mikereiss4216 Жыл бұрын
The first five Yes albums were all separated by a year also.
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
The review says shortest time between albums since Tormato. In fact, The Yes Album and Fragile were released in the same year!
@TheProgCorner Жыл бұрын
Good job!!! I love this one.
@GonzoAmerican Жыл бұрын
Did JA really quit the last time or was he forced out due to illness?
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
Anderson quit after 2004, and sold his share in Yes '97 LLC. The band went on hiatus until 2008. When he then got sick in 2008, Howe Squire White had already been waiting 4 years. They didn't know when if ever he could tour again, so they moved on.
@jamesaka007 Жыл бұрын
@@awesomeconcerts8922 Jon was fired while recovering from a life threatening four-year lung illness in 2008. The relentless touring schedules and musical directives were the main reason for the firing...not so much because he was sick. Needing a break was the best decision for him. So at that time both Steve and Chris mistakenly though that Jon would never return to form, so they decided to replace him with a sound alike...twice... And, carrying on without Jon was mostly Steve rather than Chris, then when Chris passed Steve decided was "unthinkable" to let Jon back in the band. Really...??? Steve wasn't even a founding member. Now as the group tries so hard to be and act and sound like Yes, it's just Steve walking a three-legged-dog toward an ever darkening horizon.. Sadly, Steve thinks it best to throw a bunch of half assed songwriting out there, and keep it as close to sounding like Yes to make money and tour. People tend to view this group with rose colored glasses, and prop them up like they've somehow reached a new pinnacle. To be sure, Jon, Rick, Tony and Bill would never consider ever joining this group for any reason. But when Steve does bite it, all the pieces will be in place for another average tribute band.
@bertbecker7532 Жыл бұрын
Nice review, have been seeing Yes since ‘77, looking forward to quicker, proggier songs from this lineup.
@nintendo64isking Жыл бұрын
great review! The epic sounds like something special, i've been hoping for a standout track like that.
@RKaduri Жыл бұрын
Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@SunFellow941 Жыл бұрын
I'm so used to Yes getting trashed by prog reviewers this is actually a refreshing change. But if you liked The Quest you probably have a more open mind about different styles other than prog. Sounds like if they took the first track on Disc 2 and put it on disc 1 minus a few shorter songs, then you'd have a really strong CD. I can't believe you referenced Yma Sumac-- I haven't heard of her in relation to rock music since 1972 when I first saw Edgar Winter in concert and the reviewer said he had an "Yma Sumac vocal range." I actually bought an album by her once but don't remember being that taken by it. It would be interesting to hear it again to see if my older self would appreciate it more. I thought Geoff was underused on The Quest as well, so I'm sad to hear it's even more so this time around. He helped write "A Living Island," "Subway Walls," and "The Ice Bridge" so I'd be making sure he writes more and more.
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed the Yma Sumac reference ;) which is more about the exotic chants and tribal drums, rather than anyone matching her 5 octave range :)
@SunFellow941 Жыл бұрын
@@awesomeconcerts8922 Is there exotica influences on any song on Mirror to the Sky? I didn't really enjoy the Yma Sumac album back in the 1970s. But I just popped it up on youtube -- Legend of the Sun-- and enjoyed it enough that I ordered it on CD!
@PM-ez3lr Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for your very compremised review, I like The two singles, Cut From The Stars and All Connected, after hearing your review I'm looking very much for the whole album, especially for the Titel track!
@johnbeagley1195 Жыл бұрын
Nice review.! Ive only heard the two releases so far but ithey are an improvement over the Quest, which wasnt bad at all. Im glad Billy is doing more of the vocals as opposed to Steve, no offence to Steve, but Billy has a stronger voice and is more of a Chris Squire vocals wise with Jon D. Steve as an extra layer in the hamronies with Jon and Billy is the right more. Jay Schellen sounds really good and I think is sounding like a younger Alan White....and thats what the music needed. More pace and power which has been a bit lacking ever since Fly from Here. Shame Downes isnt on it as much. I do love his own key work. He isnt Wakeman or Moraz....not so flash, but I do like the sounds he gets and I was a big Buggles Fan.
@davidwendel620 Жыл бұрын
A few of the songs have co-vocals with JD, which I really like, especially the bonus tracks written by Steve.
@progrockerNZ Жыл бұрын
Thanks. Looking forward to this album and yeah, heard that Geoff, sadly, isn't prominent as much, but what he does is more often his signature on many of the Yes albums he's been on. Rick is in a race with Steve with lead instruments as far as Yes firepower goes. Geoff not so much, but his layering of keyboards from Drama onwards is amazing, and you can still pick up stuff 40 or so years later within that album, IMO. Well said, mate.
@bobkosturko1848 Жыл бұрын
This isn't a Demo. This is a live rehearsal caught on a cassette tape recorder. The band working out an unrecorded song. "Demo" should be deleted from the title. This is probably from the Cinema days, i.e. before Anderson was bought onboard.
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
You're exactly correct: live rehearsal caught on cassette. And I'm leaving the title exactly as is, because most people are not that picky and just happy to hear a kick-ass rare track.
@billmutschler63593 ай бұрын
Anderson was brought in last minute and had about a month to record parts & change a few words. "Change a word, get a third" as the songwriter's joke goes
@paulbennett772 Жыл бұрын
Barely adequate. Trevor is trying to sing too high. Sounds like someone other than Yes.
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
It's a demo. Duh.
@harmono8766 Жыл бұрын
It's not Yes.
@renula Жыл бұрын
Its Cinema
@santiagosanchezblanco9430 Жыл бұрын
Este hombre tiene 72 años y sigue en plena forma.Increible S.Hackett.
@user-tk3pd2yb9l Жыл бұрын
中々いい曲ですね、リフがカッコイイ！
@GabrielGarcia-ip2hs2 жыл бұрын
Fresh air / summer 2022
@marcohantayo1932 жыл бұрын
ONESTAMENTE MEDIOCRI....
@mauro6676 Жыл бұрын
L ' audio che trovo scadente e certamente non all' altezza di Peter Grabriel è il nuovo cantante Nad Sylvan che però con la sua voce mantiene la linea dei GENESIS , non precipitiamo le valutazioni che questo è un grande gruppo !!
@marcohantayo193 Жыл бұрын
@@mauro6676 SONO MEDIOCRI ONESTAMENTE...SALVO IL NUOVO BATTERISTA E IL BASSISTA....TUTTO QUI`..🖒
@ikkenhisatsu71702 жыл бұрын
I wish they had continued on as Cinema. I think the Yes fans would have supported it more. And as much as love Jon Anderson, Rabin and Squire could have carried it.
@DrTomoculus Жыл бұрын
They could have. I agree.
@Mattomega Жыл бұрын
Agree. And it would have defanged the whole "no Jon, no Yes" thing. They should've become a different band -- it would have helped build upon their identity as a new band, too.
@davidwatkinson1226 Жыл бұрын
To be very successful they needed Jon to give it that extra something. It worked, but it's not to say that Cinema wasn't hugely powerful, they smashed it and some. Turn it up and be in the room. 🙂👍
@harmono8766 Жыл бұрын
The story goes that Trevor Horn was pressured to put out a hit single, and he didn't think Trevor Rabin had pop hit quality. So Trevor Horn being a huge Yes fan, and former singer asked Chris to send a demo to Jon to see what he thought and if he would sing. Jon said "Then it would be Yes wouldn't it." Chris said "Yeah I guess so." But I agree Cinema was a great band and could have put out million selling albums. But they probably would not have a series of MTV hits like that on 90125.
@loricooper8845 Жыл бұрын
steve howe does itt for me ///still admire the whole thingggg.....
@bastidface2 жыл бұрын
If this were polished up with Jon on lead vocals, it would have made a great track on "90125." They should have carried it over to "Big Generator."
@awesomeconcerts8922 Жыл бұрын
I'm in touch with Rabin, and suggested they add this song to the ARW album, which sadly never happened.
@timfletcher7572 Жыл бұрын
Give trevor R another nod. I recently saw a picture with him withn jason bonham
@JohnEaganMedia2 жыл бұрын
Calling this a "demo" is enough of a stretch to actually be pretty funny. Let's be real, musicians operating at this level, especially, setting out to record a demo of a tune, would have taken care to do a well recorded, if plain and simple, recording. These guys, if they wanted a real demo to play for serious people (management/label/et al), would have knocked out a pretty good recording that many would consider good enough to release as-is. More than likely by spending an afternoon or evening at some humble, cheap, but decent little 8 track (in those days) "demo" studio in SoCal, running through maybe a few takes playing live together in the room, a quick simple mix, and out. What we have here is something that will be very familiar to loads of musicians, at least of a certain age range... the sound of a little sketch documentary recording from a cheesy little portable cassette machine sitting in the rehearsal room there to grab a rough recording for review and discussion, catch little improvised bits and variations so they don't forget, all that stuff. Given the way KZread commentary goes nuts with people getting their panties in a bunch, understand that isn't a criticism. (Watch somebody go nuts anyway.) That's just the realistic perspective of what this actually is. I think this is a pretty good piece that I think should have been recorded in earnest, even if they decided to leave it off 90125 in the end. (We know how that can go, it might have then ended up on some later compilation or "expanded deluxe version" re-release of 90125 or something. ) It's cool to be able to hear it, even in such rough form.
@DrTomoculus Жыл бұрын
Depends on where the source of this recording comes from. For all you know, there is a full stereo version in the vaults. Because this isn't a "cassette recording", there's an obvious mix to it, the song has definitely been worked on, everyone knows their parts. Obviously a song that was rehearsed a number of times before this recording. So I'd question the source of this audio, rather than the musicians who did it. Maybe this is the best someone could get, who has no true access to the vaults. "the sound of a little sketch documentary recording from a cheesy little portable cassette machine sitting in the rehearsal room there to grab a rough recording for review and discussion" That's not what this is. And i doubt Chris, Alan, Trevor or Tony said, hey get out that cheesy little portable cassette machine we all love, and lets nail this version of the song. All in one take. This is the best version the public has access to. There's no doubt in my mind this exists as a full stereo version.
@JohnEaganMedia Жыл бұрын
@@DrTomoculus I don't know where you get any notions about questioning the musicians who did this. So never mind that. It is pretty obvious that the band had the parts and arrangement pretty much worked out, and had, no doubt, played it a few times. We are talking about people who were top notch musicians with high standards and ability and well known for the amount of work they put in. There very possibly might be a proper recorded version of this on tape tucked away somewhere. This would not be that. You can imagine whatever you might, but don't be silly. This is, very clearly, exactly what I had said; a rehearsal recording captured simply with no particular fuss with whatever they had in the room. This is something recognizable in the first few seconds to any musician familiar with capturing rough recordings of rehearsals... if not yer basic boombox in a corner, then, at best, maybe whatever basic cheap mic was laying around plugged into some home stereo cassette deck. The "obvious mix" idea is hilarious. I don't think you understand, what you have is just the sound made by good musicians playing in a room together who are not going to proceed very far into rehearsals without getting a general decent balance among the elements involved. i.e., balancing themselves in the room... and then captured for working purposes in some simple and fairly cheesy manner. Believe this, or not; this is just something captured in rough form by the band for purposes of musical review (and/or even simply documenting as a memory backup reminder of parts and arrangement) and not particularly caring about the recording quality. To put it simply, for musicians of this caliber at their level of professionalism, something as sonically bad as this could not be anything other than what I describe. It's that simple.
@DrTomoculus Жыл бұрын
@@JohnEaganMedia I'm still waiting for the obvious tape drop outs and warbles that you'd hear on an over 40 year old boom box recorded cassette. Just stop.
@DrTomoculus Жыл бұрын
@@JohnEaganMedia How about try straight into a mixing board to 2 track reel to reel. Because if you think theyre going to go KACHUNK (which every boom box recorded performance is preceded by) , and then the shaky start all tape cassettes have as they pass over the spools, and then the drop outs and noise reduction working its ass off trying to handle the amount of sound hitting its small little microphone, and then listen back to audio this quality (as you're stating) and say this was worth going through the entire song to listen back to this, you must be kidding. This is something that escaped the vaults, probably without their knowledge. Huddled around a boom box listening back to this while theyre possibly spending money already putting this stuff together. For real?
@JohnEaganMedia Жыл бұрын
@@DrTomoculus Dude. You really are funny. A few things are apparent. You're not a musician (at least not a serious professional or semi-pro, maybe you mess around on something now and then and maybe even take part in a garage Dad Band for fun on weekends... if so, cool, have fun), or a recording engineer, and have evidently never been in a rehearsal room with musicians doing serious work. You're not really listening, a bad start to making public comments on the topic. Just for a start- the comments about what funky noises and glitches you expect at the start. Listen and pay attention. Notice that the item we're talking about here is a recorded piece that starts immediately right on bar 1, beat 1 of the song. (If we really want to be exact about this, it isn't absolutely crisp... I checked this out, bar 1 beat 1 comes in 300 ms in.) This is a big clue. It tells you the obvious, that somebody who put this into a video to upload to KZread, or perhaps someone before them, took the original source recording and extracted this in an edit for the kind of thing we have here that we're all listening to (whatever failures in listening some might have going). To spell this out a little more and belabor the point; if the band only wanted to grab a recording of this one song at the time, the tape was probably rolling for some time before they went into it. But, for that matter, this was probably somewhere in the middle of a tape that was just rolling continuously (cassettes were cheap)as people would do in rehearsals when people were capturing rehearsals on cassettes. Did you notice you didn't hear a count in? Again... what band ever just launches right into it without a count to set the tempo and sync up? (But then you might keep at this and say something silly like "you almost never hear bands count it off on songs on records"... Yes. Because professional recording edits.) Moving on; try to pay attention to the sound quality, quite apart from whatever warbles of wow and flutter and expected dropouts you think would be there. There is massive distortion throughout, frequent hard clipping, and just overall, we have the sound of some cheesy cassette machine with AGC circuitry just extremely overloaded at all times dealing with what's pumping into probably a small room from a loud rock band and reducing everything to "full squash" of dynamic range at all times. Also, notice in particular how the low end and low midrange is just crushed and mangled in the frequencies where there is the most energy (and with monumental amounts of that from a loud rock band in a small room). Stepping aside from the sound quality a moment, while it's a decent performance, again, actually try to listen, and notice Rabin goofing around... the silly Tarzan yell, the maniacal laughter hamming in the middle. Probably trying to crack each other up getting a little loopy after a few hours in the practice room. Seriously, do you really think this was supposed to be an even remotely serious recording? Repeating the fairly obvious to people who understand what we have here- it a band grabbing a rough working sketch for reference and critique in a practice room.
@pschroeter12 жыл бұрын
I think one of the oddest, if not oddest, moments in all the decades of going to see YES in all their incarnations, hearing this band do Awaken tops the list.
@mikearchibald7442 жыл бұрын
Well, you can definitely tell why they needed Trevor Horn and Jon Anderson. 90125 doesn't sound dated NOW, but this sounds pretty dated.
@mariomessina6389 Жыл бұрын
It sounds like a jazz fusion / prog rock mix . Trevor's album before yes was called wolf and it was a rock masterpiece with a heavy sound
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This has all the hallmarks of Trevor's solo stuff including his very straight-forward lyricism, but with the added element of additional stellar Yes virtuosity...and then Trevor Horn and the later addition of Jon Anderson created a total je ne sais quoi... It's a real drag there's no ARW work forthcoming...
Fabulous ❤
Sounds like something Toto would have done around then.
I sure wish I could get my hands on a recording of this! Awesome!
The opening reminds me of the Asia song Sole Survivor a little. I wonder how much cross pollination these bands had in terms of writing. I mean Alan and Chris had been playing with Steve Howe and some of the other guys. I’m not saying it is copied but there are similarities in where these bands were going. I think it all worked out great. Trevor breathed new life into Yes. Steve Howe went to Asia and that was his way of doing 80s progressive rock which at the time also sounded modern.
In 1984, I had been a YES fan for 13 years. So when 90125 was released, I was enthusiastic. You have to accept that the music you have spent time and enjoyment on can change at almost any moment. So that was my thinking. I couldn't do it with Genesis. I think the Talk tour shows were the best because the 90125 era or YES WEST had really jelled despite Jon leaving in 1988, and the Union period- which I also loved. Trevor's recent album, " RIO-" Do you have it? You should!
Tout simplement magnifique!🇨🇦
You must have been standing by me at the fence.
I can feel no sense of measure
Pop Yes was about all this incarnation was, and a shadow of the greatness that came before.
Absolutely love this song! ❤💯🖤🤘
Loosely quoting history here. Imagine you're a record producer walking into a studio to hear early developments of Cinema, you play Heat Of The Moment by Asia to show that your band can be a prog pop chart band. Cinema/Trevor/Yes is an important time in the evolution of Yes, as much as short form pop Yes is relevant, its great to know the conclusion of their final full album recordings, 3 studio albums sessions between 82'-92' finally had a Classic Epic Long Form piece called Endless Dream. Now Asia may not have ever even recorded or produced that level of Epic Prog. Cinema/Yes, now that's prog coming full circle. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYaelLqug7zLhto.htmlsi=OqB84-HzsUM7tnIk
Great tune… love these guys…Squire played the coolest parts…
That became Yes, are you kidding.
<blank stare>
Unfortunately not ‘my Yes’ anymore. Can’t stand the voice of the singer and in my opinion the 2 previous replacements of Jon Anderson were a better match. Both David Benoit and Trevor Horn did a better job.
1982 I was there at sandstone amphitheater, a Bonner Springs Kansas
Me too, but it was September 1984
@@cheesechannel7154 Me three, and yeah, 1984. It rained... Didn't matter though. Made the lasers look cool.
らしい曲だが日の目を見ない。洗練されれば…
Very nice. I can also hear a tiny bit of Eddie Van Halen influence.
Wow never heard this before.... heavy, classic stufffff
Really great!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strong
Trash. 80s pop trash
I particularly like the first two songs. Repeated listens are required for anything good, and the new material is excellent. Slowly listening to the rest of the album, I found that it is sonically quite rich, with many of well-executed delectable bits. Steve did an excellent job on this.
Let me know how people are hearing the whole album so I too can enjoy without any further ado
I have a watermarked review copy
@@awesomeconcerts8922 I need 1 of those, where's mine?
How did you rate the song "Mirror to the Sky"?
5 out of 5 stars :)
This lineup of 'Yes' is not Yes; It's Steve Howe with a backing band. 'All Connected' is a terrible, meandering, directionless piece. However, I haven't heard the album so I can't say if it's any good. I'll suspend judgement for now.
How do you rate Open Your Eyes? A masterpiece? It has Anderson Howe Squire White...
Sorry, I respectfully and totally disagree with you!
We disagree about what...? There are dozens of talking points in the video.
New one is always the best since…..come on
No one said that about Heaven & Earth. I didn't say that about Fly From Here (I think it's weak)
Thanks for the review. I agree about Luminosity. Living Out Their Dream is one of the hilights of the album for me though. It's no 2 stars at my house. I'd give it a 4. I'm just glad when it arrives, after nearly 20 minutes of mid tempo tunes. I think a different order for the songs would make the album flow better and seem more balanced. Cut From The Stars One Second Is Enough All Connected Living Out Their Dream Mirror To The Sky Magic Potion Unknown Place Luminosity Circles Of Time
Right on! And as I said, some other reviewers dig it!
The first five Yes albums were all separated by a year also.
The review says shortest time between albums since Tormato. In fact, The Yes Album and Fragile were released in the same year!
Good job!!! I love this one.
Did JA really quit the last time or was he forced out due to illness?
Anderson quit after 2004, and sold his share in Yes '97 LLC. The band went on hiatus until 2008. When he then got sick in 2008, Howe Squire White had already been waiting 4 years. They didn't know when if ever he could tour again, so they moved on.
@@awesomeconcerts8922 Jon was fired while recovering from a life threatening four-year lung illness in 2008. The relentless touring schedules and musical directives were the main reason for the firing...not so much because he was sick. Needing a break was the best decision for him. So at that time both Steve and Chris mistakenly though that Jon would never return to form, so they decided to replace him with a sound alike...twice... And, carrying on without Jon was mostly Steve rather than Chris, then when Chris passed Steve decided was "unthinkable" to let Jon back in the band. Really...??? Steve wasn't even a founding member. Now as the group tries so hard to be and act and sound like Yes, it's just Steve walking a three-legged-dog toward an ever darkening horizon.. Sadly, Steve thinks it best to throw a bunch of half assed songwriting out there, and keep it as close to sounding like Yes to make money and tour. People tend to view this group with rose colored glasses, and prop them up like they've somehow reached a new pinnacle. To be sure, Jon, Rick, Tony and Bill would never consider ever joining this group for any reason. But when Steve does bite it, all the pieces will be in place for another average tribute band.
Nice review, have been seeing Yes since ‘77, looking forward to quicker, proggier songs from this lineup.
great review! The epic sounds like something special, i've been hoping for a standout track like that.
Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so used to Yes getting trashed by prog reviewers this is actually a refreshing change. But if you liked The Quest you probably have a more open mind about different styles other than prog. Sounds like if they took the first track on Disc 2 and put it on disc 1 minus a few shorter songs, then you'd have a really strong CD. I can't believe you referenced Yma Sumac-- I haven't heard of her in relation to rock music since 1972 when I first saw Edgar Winter in concert and the reviewer said he had an "Yma Sumac vocal range." I actually bought an album by her once but don't remember being that taken by it. It would be interesting to hear it again to see if my older self would appreciate it more. I thought Geoff was underused on The Quest as well, so I'm sad to hear it's even more so this time around. He helped write "A Living Island," "Subway Walls," and "The Ice Bridge" so I'd be making sure he writes more and more.
I'm glad you enjoyed the Yma Sumac reference ;) which is more about the exotic chants and tribal drums, rather than anyone matching her 5 octave range :)
@@awesomeconcerts8922 Is there exotica influences on any song on Mirror to the Sky? I didn't really enjoy the Yma Sumac album back in the 1970s. But I just popped it up on youtube -- Legend of the Sun-- and enjoyed it enough that I ordered it on CD!
Thanks a lot for your very compremised review, I like The two singles, Cut From The Stars and All Connected, after hearing your review I'm looking very much for the whole album, especially for the Titel track!
Nice review.! Ive only heard the two releases so far but ithey are an improvement over the Quest, which wasnt bad at all. Im glad Billy is doing more of the vocals as opposed to Steve, no offence to Steve, but Billy has a stronger voice and is more of a Chris Squire vocals wise with Jon D. Steve as an extra layer in the hamronies with Jon and Billy is the right more. Jay Schellen sounds really good and I think is sounding like a younger Alan White....and thats what the music needed. More pace and power which has been a bit lacking ever since Fly from Here. Shame Downes isnt on it as much. I do love his own key work. He isnt Wakeman or Moraz....not so flash, but I do like the sounds he gets and I was a big Buggles Fan.
A few of the songs have co-vocals with JD, which I really like, especially the bonus tracks written by Steve.
Thanks. Looking forward to this album and yeah, heard that Geoff, sadly, isn't prominent as much, but what he does is more often his signature on many of the Yes albums he's been on. Rick is in a race with Steve with lead instruments as far as Yes firepower goes. Geoff not so much, but his layering of keyboards from Drama onwards is amazing, and you can still pick up stuff 40 or so years later within that album, IMO. Well said, mate.
This isn't a Demo. This is a live rehearsal caught on a cassette tape recorder. The band working out an unrecorded song. "Demo" should be deleted from the title. This is probably from the Cinema days, i.e. before Anderson was bought onboard.
You're exactly correct: live rehearsal caught on cassette. And I'm leaving the title exactly as is, because most people are not that picky and just happy to hear a kick-ass rare track.
Anderson was brought in last minute and had about a month to record parts & change a few words. "Change a word, get a third" as the songwriter's joke goes
Barely adequate. Trevor is trying to sing too high. Sounds like someone other than Yes.
It's a demo. Duh.
It's not Yes.
Its Cinema
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I wish they had continued on as Cinema. I think the Yes fans would have supported it more. And as much as love Jon Anderson, Rabin and Squire could have carried it.
They could have. I agree.
Agree. And it would have defanged the whole "no Jon, no Yes" thing. They should've become a different band -- it would have helped build upon their identity as a new band, too.
To be very successful they needed Jon to give it that extra something. It worked, but it's not to say that Cinema wasn't hugely powerful, they smashed it and some. Turn it up and be in the room. 🙂👍
The story goes that Trevor Horn was pressured to put out a hit single, and he didn't think Trevor Rabin had pop hit quality. So Trevor Horn being a huge Yes fan, and former singer asked Chris to send a demo to Jon to see what he thought and if he would sing. Jon said "Then it would be Yes wouldn't it." Chris said "Yeah I guess so." But I agree Cinema was a great band and could have put out million selling albums. But they probably would not have a series of MTV hits like that on 90125.
steve howe does itt for me ///still admire the whole thingggg.....
If this were polished up with Jon on lead vocals, it would have made a great track on "90125." They should have carried it over to "Big Generator."
I'm in touch with Rabin, and suggested they add this song to the ARW album, which sadly never happened.
Give trevor R another nod. I recently saw a picture with him withn jason bonham
Calling this a "demo" is enough of a stretch to actually be pretty funny. Let's be real, musicians operating at this level, especially, setting out to record a demo of a tune, would have taken care to do a well recorded, if plain and simple, recording. These guys, if they wanted a real demo to play for serious people (management/label/et al), would have knocked out a pretty good recording that many would consider good enough to release as-is. More than likely by spending an afternoon or evening at some humble, cheap, but decent little 8 track (in those days) "demo" studio in SoCal, running through maybe a few takes playing live together in the room, a quick simple mix, and out. What we have here is something that will be very familiar to loads of musicians, at least of a certain age range... the sound of a little sketch documentary recording from a cheesy little portable cassette machine sitting in the rehearsal room there to grab a rough recording for review and discussion, catch little improvised bits and variations so they don't forget, all that stuff. Given the way KZread commentary goes nuts with people getting their panties in a bunch, understand that isn't a criticism. (Watch somebody go nuts anyway.) That's just the realistic perspective of what this actually is. I think this is a pretty good piece that I think should have been recorded in earnest, even if they decided to leave it off 90125 in the end. (We know how that can go, it might have then ended up on some later compilation or "expanded deluxe version" re-release of 90125 or something. ) It's cool to be able to hear it, even in such rough form.
Depends on where the source of this recording comes from. For all you know, there is a full stereo version in the vaults. Because this isn't a "cassette recording", there's an obvious mix to it, the song has definitely been worked on, everyone knows their parts. Obviously a song that was rehearsed a number of times before this recording. So I'd question the source of this audio, rather than the musicians who did it. Maybe this is the best someone could get, who has no true access to the vaults. "the sound of a little sketch documentary recording from a cheesy little portable cassette machine sitting in the rehearsal room there to grab a rough recording for review and discussion" That's not what this is. And i doubt Chris, Alan, Trevor or Tony said, hey get out that cheesy little portable cassette machine we all love, and lets nail this version of the song. All in one take. This is the best version the public has access to. There's no doubt in my mind this exists as a full stereo version.
@@DrTomoculus I don't know where you get any notions about questioning the musicians who did this. So never mind that. It is pretty obvious that the band had the parts and arrangement pretty much worked out, and had, no doubt, played it a few times. We are talking about people who were top notch musicians with high standards and ability and well known for the amount of work they put in. There very possibly might be a proper recorded version of this on tape tucked away somewhere. This would not be that. You can imagine whatever you might, but don't be silly. This is, very clearly, exactly what I had said; a rehearsal recording captured simply with no particular fuss with whatever they had in the room. This is something recognizable in the first few seconds to any musician familiar with capturing rough recordings of rehearsals... if not yer basic boombox in a corner, then, at best, maybe whatever basic cheap mic was laying around plugged into some home stereo cassette deck. The "obvious mix" idea is hilarious. I don't think you understand, what you have is just the sound made by good musicians playing in a room together who are not going to proceed very far into rehearsals without getting a general decent balance among the elements involved. i.e., balancing themselves in the room... and then captured for working purposes in some simple and fairly cheesy manner. Believe this, or not; this is just something captured in rough form by the band for purposes of musical review (and/or even simply documenting as a memory backup reminder of parts and arrangement) and not particularly caring about the recording quality. To put it simply, for musicians of this caliber at their level of professionalism, something as sonically bad as this could not be anything other than what I describe. It's that simple.
@@JohnEaganMedia I'm still waiting for the obvious tape drop outs and warbles that you'd hear on an over 40 year old boom box recorded cassette. Just stop.
@@JohnEaganMedia How about try straight into a mixing board to 2 track reel to reel. Because if you think theyre going to go KACHUNK (which every boom box recorded performance is preceded by) , and then the shaky start all tape cassettes have as they pass over the spools, and then the drop outs and noise reduction working its ass off trying to handle the amount of sound hitting its small little microphone, and then listen back to audio this quality (as you're stating) and say this was worth going through the entire song to listen back to this, you must be kidding. This is something that escaped the vaults, probably without their knowledge. Huddled around a boom box listening back to this while theyre possibly spending money already putting this stuff together. For real?
@@DrTomoculus Dude. You really are funny. A few things are apparent. You're not a musician (at least not a serious professional or semi-pro, maybe you mess around on something now and then and maybe even take part in a garage Dad Band for fun on weekends... if so, cool, have fun), or a recording engineer, and have evidently never been in a rehearsal room with musicians doing serious work. You're not really listening, a bad start to making public comments on the topic. Just for a start- the comments about what funky noises and glitches you expect at the start. Listen and pay attention. Notice that the item we're talking about here is a recorded piece that starts immediately right on bar 1, beat 1 of the song. (If we really want to be exact about this, it isn't absolutely crisp... I checked this out, bar 1 beat 1 comes in 300 ms in.) This is a big clue. It tells you the obvious, that somebody who put this into a video to upload to KZread, or perhaps someone before them, took the original source recording and extracted this in an edit for the kind of thing we have here that we're all listening to (whatever failures in listening some might have going). To spell this out a little more and belabor the point; if the band only wanted to grab a recording of this one song at the time, the tape was probably rolling for some time before they went into it. But, for that matter, this was probably somewhere in the middle of a tape that was just rolling continuously (cassettes were cheap)as people would do in rehearsals when people were capturing rehearsals on cassettes. Did you notice you didn't hear a count in? Again... what band ever just launches right into it without a count to set the tempo and sync up? (But then you might keep at this and say something silly like "you almost never hear bands count it off on songs on records"... Yes. Because professional recording edits.) Moving on; try to pay attention to the sound quality, quite apart from whatever warbles of wow and flutter and expected dropouts you think would be there. There is massive distortion throughout, frequent hard clipping, and just overall, we have the sound of some cheesy cassette machine with AGC circuitry just extremely overloaded at all times dealing with what's pumping into probably a small room from a loud rock band and reducing everything to "full squash" of dynamic range at all times. Also, notice in particular how the low end and low midrange is just crushed and mangled in the frequencies where there is the most energy (and with monumental amounts of that from a loud rock band in a small room). Stepping aside from the sound quality a moment, while it's a decent performance, again, actually try to listen, and notice Rabin goofing around... the silly Tarzan yell, the maniacal laughter hamming in the middle. Probably trying to crack each other up getting a little loopy after a few hours in the practice room. Seriously, do you really think this was supposed to be an even remotely serious recording? Repeating the fairly obvious to people who understand what we have here- it a band grabbing a rough working sketch for reference and critique in a practice room.
I think one of the oddest, if not oddest, moments in all the decades of going to see YES in all their incarnations, hearing this band do Awaken tops the list.
Well, you can definitely tell why they needed Trevor Horn and Jon Anderson. 90125 doesn't sound dated NOW, but this sounds pretty dated.
It sounds like a jazz fusion / prog rock mix . Trevor's album before yes was called wolf and it was a rock masterpiece with a heavy sound