Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks - Live Perpetual Change - 667
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller This week Mark and I have been listening to the great live album by Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks - Live Perpetual Change. Listen out for our comments in a few minutes and do let us know if you agree or disagree with us by leaving a comment on the show notes for this week. How does Jon Anderson sound these days? Is this a cover band? What are the epics like? Let us know if you agree with us!
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Delving into the archive for a Yes Tracks Through Time - 666
Yes Music Podcast
Unfortunately, Mark has been unwell this week so best wishes to him for a speedy recovery. As we couldn't record an episode, I've been delving into the archive to uncover the first Yes Tracks Through Time episode I ever did. That was back in April 2013. Wow. Here are the show notes from way back then: The seventy-ninth episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring the first in a series of Yes Tracks Through Time. After the initial recording, what happened to songs live? How did different line-ups of the band alter the character of tracks – if at all? Listen and then let me know what you think...
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Something's Coming - Peter Banks and the new Yes album - 665
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller In a bumper double-feature episode (or something like that), Mark and I compare the Empire featuring Peter Banks version of Something’s Coming with the Yes studio version and we also indulge in a little bit of speculation about the forthcoming Yes album - and who doesn’t enjoy these kinds of guessing games? Well if you don’t, feel free to use the fast forward button. Anyway, it was a lot of fun listening to some very early Yes and what Peter Banks did when he revisited it himself in 1979. Videos of the 2...
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Yes Tracks Through Time - Awaken - 664
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller This week, Mark and I return to one of our favourite pastimes - listening to Yes tracks through time. We each chose 3 different live recordings of Awaken to listen to and then discuss. So it’s time to put your Roger Dean thinking caps on and see if you would have chosen the same versions as us. Which versions did we choose? Why did we chose those ones? Who does it best? Let us know if you agree with us!
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Yes Album Listening Guides - Tales from Topographic Oceans - Part 13 - Extras on the Steven Wilson Blu-ray of Tales - 663
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller This week Mark and I enjoyed discovering the many delights of the Blu-ray version of the Steven Wilson remix set of Tales from Topographic Oceans. It’s packed full of obscure and unusual versions of the songs on the album - a delight for all Yes nerds fans everywhere. Do you have a copy of the Blu-ray version? If not, you might want to find one as explained in our chat in a few minutes' time. What is included on the Blu-ray? Does it sound good? Is it worth choosing Blu-ray as an audio format over DVD-A or...
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You're playing my song! - 662
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller This week Mark and I consider 6 songs that were performed live really well by lineups of Yes that didn’t record them. With the revolving door policy of the band over the decades, there was a lot to choose from so see if we came up with anything you would have chosen yourself. Of course, as usual, we’d love to hear from you some of your own suggestions, so please do add those to the show notes for this week over at yesmusicpodcast.com What have we chosen? How do songs from different lineups sound live? Who...
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David Watkinson, Roger Dean and Trading Boundaries - 661
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller This week I’m feeding back on my trip to Trading Boundaries to see what Dave Watkinson has put on display alongside the permanent Roger Dean exhibition there. I made a video of Dave showing me around and we both enthuse about all the amazing items. I then had a chance to chat with Mark about what he noticed on the video - of course it’s embedded into the show notes over at YesMusicPodcast.com What was on display? Where and what is Trading Boundaries? What has Paul Graf sent to Kevin? Let us know if...
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Yes men covers - 660
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller After an important update on last week's episode, Mark and I choose 3 interesting cover versions each. They all feature Yes men past or present. If you'd like to listen to the songs before listening to us banging on about them, they are all embedded below with the original versions as well. Which covers did we choose? Who is represented from Yes? How do they stand up against the originals? Let us know if you agree with us!
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Yes stole The Gates of Delirium - 659
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller I received an interesting email from a listener this week. She asked if anyone was aware of the connections between a song by the Italian prog group PFM and Yes’ Gates of Delirium. I’ll explain more when I go through the email with Mark a little later on. Many thanks to the Patrons who gave their feedback on the topic and before you listen to Mark and my take, you may want to listen to the music involved. I’ve embedded the PFM and the Yes songs in the show notes so head on over to yesmusicpodcast.com and see...
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Trident Studios Tales with Jon Pickles - 658
Yes Music Podcast
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller Mark was back this week and we welcomed YMP listener and Patron Jon Pickles onto the show to talk about the time he was a 'tea boy' at Trident Studios in London. You'll need to listen to the interview to hear all about it but Trident was the world-renowned studio where, amongst unnumbered highlights of rock music, Yes recorded overdubs for their first album, Queen recorded their first two albums and The Beatles recorded Let It Be and other seminal songs. Listen out for stories about Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford,...
info_outlineThis week marks something of a departure for us here at YMP Towers. In our ever-popular what did they do next series, we have reached the point where Trevor Rabin left the band after the Talk Tour in 1995. He went off to pursue his other musical avenue of choice - film scores. So that means we will be listening not to a rock or progressive album next week but a film soundtrack. That should be very interesting. We are also hoping to have Julia from the fabulous Rabinesque blog with us next week because she knows rather more than we do about Trevor’s soundtrack work and should be able to fill in a lot of the details for us.