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It’s the 25th anniversary of YES releasing their 21st century chestnut “Magnification” in September 2001, with Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, the late Alan White, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, and the late Chris Squire ALL In the Studio.
YES treated concert goers twenty-five summers ago to this lithe but nevertheless powerful quartet with full orchestral arrangements, including this gem “Deeper (In the Presence Of)” live in Amsterdam.
“The YES Album”, a progressive rock touchstone, was quietly released in early 1971. If the British Invasion bands led by The Beatles and Rolling Stones wanted to be rock’n’roll’s second verse after “Be Bop a Lula” and “Maybe Baby”, then London’s King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and YES were determined to be rock’s “C” section, the musical bridge which takes the listener somewhere unexpectedly before returning to the familiar refrain.
YES innovated in early 1994 with “Talk”, and singer/lyricist Jon Anderson singer/guitarist/composer Trevor Rabin joined me In the Studio to talk about “Talk”.
Cheap Trick has been consistently excellent live for decades, as proven by this white hot performance long ago at Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ. Broadcast live in December 1978.
The musical moonshot “90125” by YES resulted in more than eight million copies selling (three million just in the U.S.) from a musical entity thought to be extinct, but with the songs “It Can Happen”,”Hold On”,”Leave It”,”Changes”, and the #1 hit “Owner of a Lonely Heart”, YES could rise like a musical phoenix from the ashes of the progressive rock Seventies with the comeback album of the Eighties in “90125”.
“I got a $1000 car and headed West”, says Melissa Etheridge, revealing her first step like a real-life Dorothy leaving Leavenworth, Kansas and landing in Oz, which in Melissa’s case was Southern California, a full five years before she would top the charts with her fourth album, September 1993’s “Yes I Am” .
A half century ago, YES’s Close to the Edge was stunningly popular, with Top Five sales in both the U.S. and UK. In these thoughtful, detailed classic rock interviews, YES lead singer/lyricist Jon Anderson, guitarist Steve Howe, extraordinary drummer Bill Bruford, and keyboard innovator Rick Wakeman provide a surprisingly candid recounting of the undisputed peak of the Progressive Rock era.
The remarkably durable breakthrough fourth album by progressive rockers YES has turned out to be anything but “Fragile”… YES co-founder Jon Anderson is joined In the Studio by keyboard innovator Rick Wakeman who joined the band to make “Fragile”.
By leading off with this torrid performance of “Blackest Eyes” from In Absentia in July 2003 at House of Blues in Los Angeles, Porcupine Tree led by Steven Wilson left no doubt that the neo-prog rockers were not just studio nerds.