still real @ the end of '24. and sounds great ~

1974 was truly the golden age of prog rock-a flash of pure genius before the gradual fade. It's almost as if the universe said, "Alright, you get one peak, one masterpiece per band, and that's it." Think about it: Relayer, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Kohntarkosz, Au-Delà Du Délire, Red, Mirage, The Power and the Glory, You, the list goes on - each one a pinnacle of creative energy. The level of innovation was insane, like all the stars aligned for one final burst of peak talent across the entire genre. Looking back, it's hard not to wonder what could've been if the magic had lasted just a little longer.

Untouchable-immaculate-never copied-musical genius--there was only one-----YES !!

Aww two generations of comedy legends

Great version

It's like playing on fast forward, but it's probably not!

The first time I heard this was July 19 1975. It was the third song after Sound Chaser and Close To The Edge to open the show that night. Needless to say, I saw YES 35 more times until 2014. Chris passed in 15 ✨️🎶🙏🎶✨️

Man the minute 22:00...Howe spaces out😅😅😅😅😅

Patrick is 'THE MAN'! Halcyon days...

absolute banger

#lateral

Elvis really is a dead ringer for his father!

A brilliant piece of music.

I love it when the drums kick in. so restrained up until then. lovely acoustic guitar. Bless you Go-Betweens [best name for a band too. the hyphen is the genius of it for me]

They were so stinking tight back then. The meter in the middle of this thing, the battle scene as it were, still baffles me. Every time I try and count it out, it comes out differently :-) Amazing stuff. I really wish they would've done more with Moraz. He was a breath of fresh air.

Amazing live too.

I wonder if these were the noises he made when he was jacking it to child porn

To attempt this live is impressive. So many moving parts. The guys are firing on all cylinders here. Magic.

And Yesshows has one of the most beautiful Yes cover by Roger Dean.

This is a 1976 live recording, after the 5 musicians have all provided solo albums. I'm sure they learnt from their experience as artists so much that this is the result. Ritual, from the same gig is astonishing. Thinking that they will make Awaken, their ultimate masterpiece, after this is unbelievable. And I will never understand why Wakeman dislikes it.

16:08 - The best version of "Soon" ever !

I love this song.

When this was first released I don't think many of us young ones were cognizant of the level of virility going on in a performance like this one. The band reveals in 'Yes in their own words' that they constructed the composition in the studio like collages and then learned to play 'the collage'. (!) The studio version is special because it has a depth of field in the recording, that very few rock records had investigated up until then. The tonal colors and effects are unforgettable; nothing sounds like them even today. However in Cobo Hall, Howe's pedal steel comes alive in a shattering way. The amplification and the room make his searing glissandos sound like the Horn of Time, the Horn of Eternity, which is absolutely absent in the studio. Yes were almost always ethereal, reaching to the Heavens, pointing to God. Even in the lyric appears the prayer "Help us now". Anderson said they were asking the hard question about war: do we really want to do this again? A unique performance document from 1976, a tour which featured several dates with 100,000 plus attending. Not many groups touched such heights, then or since.

The voice of a Rock Angel.

When you were in the 80's, you really thought that modernity had arrived, and that life was about to explode into something ever more extraordinary. "Our reason to be here."

Good Evening: The actors booing the audience before the show even begins--something only the Pythons could have imagined...

Just wow.

Much better than that Chinese secret police station in NYC lmfao

00:12:12 take my hat off going forward from here. ..how the fuck do they lock-in so perfectly

No doubt..Yes best prog band ever❤

My and my neighbors are listening to this right now.

If there’s a better performance of Gates anywhere, I’d like to know… This is just superior!

This as to the greatest work of music ever

Happened to be reading the Sillmarillion while listening to this... nuff said!

Nearing the brilliance of Dream Theater

Cheering Russia on as they fight the super imperialist USA NATO

Gates is spiritual truth put to music.

Hernan pages Maracay venezuela Si, la superbanda yes una de lss mejores de rock sinfonicol Con su lejendaria cancion las puertas del delirio

When I was going to Junior High school in Edison, NJ 500 years ago, there was a kid I remember who said that Steve Howe was the best guitarist. He used to draw the Roger Dean Yes logo like you wouldn't believe. I would look at it and think: How do you do that?

I love this version but I found a mayor screw up at 13.45. After thousands of listens, every time something new😉😁😂

Ouvir adolescente e depois na idade madura, é a mesma sensação! Que disco maravilhoso!!!Amo Yes!!!

Seen them do this album live in Minneapolis....Fantastic !!

Along with ELP, Yes branded itself in the early 70s as an extraordinarily tight, technically remarkable, lyrically cerebral band whose members synchronously pushed the boundaries of music to an almost ethereal level. Yes were never more uniquely situated to stand atop the world of progressive rock music than after this stunningly complex, forceful yet hauntingly melodic piece. Steve Howe(as good a guitarist to ever play music in the rock era), Patrick on keyboards(who is excellent in place of the brilliant Rick Wakeman), the incomparable Jon Anderson on vocals, the great Chris Squire(RIP) and the underrated Alan on drums(this is an exceedingly complicated piece to play on percussion and Alan does it with aplomb) are a band nonpareil. Bands like Floyd, Genesis and later Rush and even Dream Theater today have deservedly made their own places of influence and greatness in the prog/rock canon; however, I cannot help but think that Yes forged a trail even more daring and experimental and will continue for decades to come to occupy the center of the prog universe.

I'll tell the bassist Bill R.!

Oh ! Lord ! 🙏✌️

None of my friends had heard of them until one night they were playing in Atlanta and I took them to the show New fans were born at the first sounds of the guitars . They were always one of my favorite bands and live shows were the best

My very first listen to Gates was shortly after buying Relayer in December ,1974. Today is February 21, 2023 48 years plus since that first listen. In all that time I have NEVER gotten tired of Gates and Relayer! This Summer, YES finally intends to play all of RELAYER since 1976! I have heard Gates twice- 2000 Masteworks tour and 2019 YES tour. YES has undergone several peronel changes. I will attend these up and coming YES 2023 YES shows. Steve Howe is the only member left in the band who played on the recording of RELAYER. I understand this. I will see the band play these great pieces of muisic!

Lead me to ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Nice young at heart chorus nhampt mass too

Chris grinding the shit out his bass ... I just don't like Steve's guitar sound, his playing is awesum ... Moraz had great lead sounds .... Relayer was a masterpiece