Chris Squire - Lucky Seven (REACTION)

[@dolfinpt]

The Fish!❤❤❤❤❤

[@psbarrow]

All of Chris's album "Fish Out Of Water" should be done. It's brilliant.

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Rickenbacker 4001 Bass !!! 👍🎶 Prog- Fusion !! 🎼

[@rickhoward5889]

Keep up the good work please!!! can't go wrong with the Yes rhythm section (at least Squire / Bruford). Yes was special for sure!!!

[@metaphoria3]

Incredible

[@Brian-tb1zs]

Chris Squire is exceptional, I’ve never heard this, thanks for bringing it to us 👍

[@chacob3380]

check out the whole album Brian - it is all really solid

[@jaquestraw1]

From the album "Fish Out Of Water"

[@EccentricAuntWanda1]

Wow! Deep cut! Bill Bruford is great on this song.

[@DocRock71]

The one, the only Bill Bruford on drums. He's played with King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, UK, and other greats. One of the finest session drummers in history.

[@cobbycaputo3332]

This entire album is quality. This is probably the one with the best groove.

[@richiewest7495]

Look for the FISH live.... Best Chris solo.

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

Incredible song.. and my first time hearing it. I’m just blown away by it. This react just sold me a vinyl copy of “Fish Out Of Water”.

[@AirplayBeats]

I might need to get it as well

[@WillowZiggy1957]

First time listen for me and it was 🔥. Playlist

[@AirplayBeats]

Instant playlist!!!

[@salsalzman2325]

Jazz bassist. Jazz pianist (Patrick Moraz), Jazz drummer (Bill Bruford). Three musicians that played a lot together but this is the only time all three played together!

[@Cpayne30]

Wouldn't say Squire was a jazz bassist at all. His style was very heavy rock actually, that's why he and Alan White's styles worked so well together. Moraz and Bruford are very jazz influenced, of course.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire the greatest show on earth. Gentlemen well done and now you must do the whole album. 🙏👑

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

This is one of the best albums of the 70's. I'm not crazy, it's true! The standout track for me is "Silently Falling".

[@frankpalumbo8384]

I picked this album up in the late 70s. Never listened to it. Took it to college and my roommate played it consistently. Loved it!

[@markdrechsler5660]

The whole album is genius. It would go with me to the desert island.

[@johnladd8421]

thanks. i’ve never heard that. brilliance. i didn’t even hear a guitar. maybe hidden low but seemed like hypnotic keyboards, crazy bass, crazy drums, crazy saxes and a little violin maybe. who knows. sound f’in great

[@melvinwomack3717]

There's a 12 string acoustic guitar hidden on two tracks

[@TheBsnook]

The whole Fish out of Water album is fantastic. But my favorite song would be The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) Please give it a listen. One of my favorite bass players ever, Chris was the man!

[@briangroboski4751]

Agreed. It would be worth the time to listen to the whole album. If you noticed, the drummer hits the snare on the third and seventh beats. Very cool rhythm IMHO.

[@metaphoria3]

Feels meaner than Yes that bass is still punchy still big harmonies in the chorus crazy bass solo w harmonics wow

[@melvinwomack3717]

People are missing the high harp like tones he's making with the bass on this track

[@keithcoleman2869]

You have to realize these guys grew up listening to jazz and r&b from the 50sand 60s.

[@melvinwomack3717]

It's smooth like velvet😊my Boi Bill Bruford on the drums 😁

[@robertcussins2807]

So awesome. Love the whole album. Lucky Seven. Count it...7/4 through the thing. When I got this album, I understood how Yes got the beautiful vocal sounds. Chris was such an empirical part of the band's sound.

[@jakeenan]

Chris Squire's one and only classic solo album.....and it was only fitting that he got the original drummer from Yes Bill Bruford in to take the seat. That was his guy. They were a unique combination. Top level.

[@GaryColemanNC]

You two always make my f'n day... Thanks, gents! (btw, about 90% of the music y'all choose to highlight are the soundtracks of my youth. I appreciate that.)

[@AirplayBeats]

Our pleasure. Thank you!!

[@lennartpersson2912]

About a year ago, the album “Fish out of water” by Chris Squire was voted the No 1 (out of 40) solo album by Yes members. Regrettably, he only recorded this one (rock) album. His way of handling the bass is unique and he performed almost all the backup vocals behind Jon Anderson on all early Yes albums. One, not so well-known, album is “Squackett” from 2012, a collaboration with Steve Hackett, former Genesis guitarist. That album contains some really nice tracks!

[@withwilltheresaway3802]

Chris was a truly amazing bass player. He was a melodic and rhythmic player similar to Jaco and Stanley. The greats play what they feel, no matter what instrument.

[@billschafer9668]

Chris Squire is one of the best bassist ever. I did not know that he put out a solo album. This song is pretty cool. Thanks for reacting to it!

[@bobcorbin3294]

Chris Squire was the reason learned to play the Bass in the 1970's...thanks Chris!

[@ronjm945]

A Great…R.I.P. Chris Squire

[@lorcazola]

"Silently Falling" next please.......a Real Trip !

[@keithcoleman2869]

My brother brought this back from college, I was 16.

[@ernaolsson6763]

All musicians on this album are top of the tops!

[@skyblueo]

His one and only solo album and it was that good. The drummer had been the drummer for Yes through Close to the Edge. He left Yes after CTTE and joined King Crimson.

[@boboquisp]

Fish Out Of Water is a great album, glad you're getting into it. Also worthy of your time is the debut album by the band U.K. Good work, guys!

[@wendellwiggins2900]

His one and only solo non YES masterpiece ❤ album. And what a cool voice that blended perfectly with Jon Anderson's. Each member of YES took a break to make a solo album and this is probably the most YES sounding at the time.

[@benoitdesmarais2948]

After Relayer (1974), all the members of the band took a year to complete a solo album. Of the five, Squire and Anderson fared best, with Moraz coming close with a crazy sci-fi/Brazil/Jazz extravaganza (The Story of I). Anderson's was the closest to the Yes sound, in fact i always thought of Olias of Sunhillow as sort of the link between Relayer and Going For The One. Squire kept the jazz-fusion elements of Relayer on Lucky Seven and Silently Falling.

[@mattleppard1964]

The whole album is good but this is its finest gem ❤

[@michaelbeerbados3291]

Chris Squire - lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, 12-string guitar (tracks 3 and 5)[1] Bill Bruford - drums, percussion Mel Collins - tenor saxophone (track 3), alto & soprano saxophones (track 4) Jimmy Hastings - flute (track 2) Patrick Moraz - synthesiser, organ on track 3 Barry Rose - pipe organ (track 1) Andrew Pryce Jackman - acoustic and electric pianos, orchestration, conductor Julian Gaillard - strings leader John Wilbraham - brass leader Jim Buck - horns leader Adrian Bett - woodwinds leader Nikki Squire - backing vocals (tr

[@preflex3502]

Mel Collins is King Crimson's secret weapon.

[@krone5]

The answer to the final question, this was a one album deal, as chris squire went from lucky seven to going for the one with his next studio time with the band yes. This song has lots of swagger.

[@raycewilliams3300]

This sounds to me like..... Frogressive Rock with some Jazz Fusion mixed in. I would call the group "Yes" as a Progressive Rock at it's core and Chris Squire was with that group. Thanks for the great reaction guys. Take care.

[@moetaroumoegi2071]

抜群にカッコイイ曲だな

[@keithcoleman2869]

Bill Brudord on drums, aka The Little Drummer Boy.

[@keithcoleman2869]

The album is Fish Out of Water.

[@brianjacob9084]

Lots of greats on the bass but Chris was something unique.

[@cazgerald9471]

The drummer is Bill Bruford, the original drummer for Yes, but no longer the drummer for Yes at the time of this album.

[@bobcorbin3294]

Mel Collins on Sax had played with Bruford on King Crimson's Red the year before

[@cazgerald9471]

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[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Classic Progs Greatest Bassist Chris Squire, Bass Player Magazine HOF Yes Classic Progs Greatest Drummer Bill Bruford, Modern Drummer Magazine HOF Yes/King Crimson One of Classic Progs Greatest Sax, Oboe, Flutist Mel Collins, don't know his Mag, King Crimson 🎶🎼

[@donholl]

Sax player Mel Collins is "Lucky Seven(ty-five)" this year: hope he's doing well.

[@melvinwomack3717]

He passed away last year 😢

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

@@melvinwomack3717 😢

[@artrock101]

@@melvinwomack3717 Not

[@melvinwomack3717]

@@artrock101 you are correct Sir it was Ian McDonald my apologies guys

[@darrenmaxwell1085]

You guys never fail to impress with your choices! This is one helluva an album! BTW, you guys may be the first to react to this (I haven’t searched it but I’ve never seen it either) great song! Love it!

[@malekmo64]

Haven't heard this in ages. Loved the album in the 70s!!! Glad a new generation are appreciating Chris. Be great if you also check out Jon Camp of Renaissance from the same era!!! ❤ Also have a listen to Bill Bruford in the band UK!!!

[@kengregory6026]

superb stuff...nice one chaps :)

[@integraleric]

Nice groove 😊

[@sigil5772]

Count 7

[@melvinwomack3717]

All the Yes members done a Solo album sometime in the 70s almost like kiss did.

[@hklinker]

I heard SD’s The Bear sneaking through at the end of that track. A peak at your process 😉.

[@nouveaudemarrer9128]

I still have the LP of this album! II need to get a new record player though! This song is incredible. The melody is memorizing!

[@wreckingKREW1]

The whole album is stellar. Honestly it stands up to any Yes album,that's how great it is. Try Silently Falling next,it'll blow you away. Bill Bruford,Yes' original drummer is the man on the skins here. He had left Yes after the Close To The Edge album to join Robert Fripp's King Crimson (a band you REALLY need to check out if you haven't already),but KC did one of their many hiatuses after 1974's Red album. So Bruford was kind of a free agent at the time Squire recorded this (he would hook up as a touring drummer for Genesis soon after). The sax player is Mel Collins....HUGE session player who also had stints with King Crimson,Dire Straits and others.

[@PK1971PK]

Chris Squire was the only member of Yes to never leave the band. This solo album of his was a side project and he didn't do another one until a few years before his death. Bill Bruford on drums is a legendary prog drummer that had just left Yes to join King Crimson not long before this was recorded. He was more of a jazz drummer and in his later years his solo projects and bands were more jazz than anything. He is retired from performing now and in academia. All of the performers on this album, less the strings and Chris' wife, were, at one time or another, members of Yes or King Crimson.

[@bookhouseboy280]

Alan White never left after joining in 1972. Steve Howe never really left Yes either after Yes disbanded and Squire and White formed Cinema with Rabin a few years later.

[@PK1971PK]

@@bookhouseboy280 OK, so let me rephrase--Chris was the only original member of Yes to never leave the band.

[@fasteagle9959]

@airplaybeats I’m on y’all’s team !! Thank you

[@markharbin9945]

Chris played like he lived Huge and full of personality

[@michaelyork4554]

Blended, Staggered, Multiple Motifs. Rickenbacker Thumping. RIP Chris Squire

[@KenBlair-jp5nz]

As someone who grew up as a teen in the 60s and learned an instrument , you listened to mowtown and soul music and all the blues dudes and people like coltrane and miles and brubeck and wes montgomery plus the british invasion bands and the cailfornia bands so by the 70s you had developed a way of playing that incorporated all these influences . We didn't know we were channeling these different influences , it was just the way we heard the music in our heads when we wrote songs or jammed .

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

I'm guessing thee time signature has a 7 in it? 🤔 Wow, that beat messed with my head! I'm guessing that's an odd (literally) time signature, where the downbeat shifts in an unusual way? Just a WAG here--I know next to nothing about time signatures. :) Thanks for sharing that--I've never heard it, and will turn my Yes-fan brother on to it. Great stuff as always, La and Chi. All the best!

[@AirplayBeats]

I think it does have a 7. I have to listen again. Hope your brother enjoys it.

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

@@AirplayBeats Thanks guys! Hah! from Wikipedia: "The title of "Lucky Seven" refers to the song being in a 7/8 time signature." Yeah, trying to count it messed with my mind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Out_of_Water_(Chris_Squire_album)

[@keithcoleman2869]

Check out Bill Bruford solo repertoire.

[@hughjass9078]

You guys have the best reactions to music. Love your selections!

[@karelvandervelden8819]

Man o man, you should have continued with the last track, its epic.

[@larryg7126]

The drummer is Bill Bruford, a king of time signatures (you could set your watch by). Originally Yes's drummer but left to join King Crimson which was like going to a post doctorate program that gets harder with the years. Earthworks was his band after King Crimson. Mel Collins was the sax musician also played with King Crimson (always cutting edge, has reinvented itself musically and with personnel/instrumentation with Robert Fripp being the only constant, currently has three drummers, two guitarists, bass for a time and woodwinds).

[@kendetulio4009]

7/4 time. Bruford was the master of it.

[@JJ8KK]

The Squire-Bruford "Rhythm Section" was a unique blending of talent that I've always thought was The Best Ever in Progressive Rock. If you're loving it as you apparently do, you'll want to listen to 2 YES Masterpieces in particular that you haven't listened to yet: *Yours Is No Disgrace* on The Yes Album and their head-shaking cover of Paul Simon's *America* that is absolutely filled with Squire/Bruford ear candy. There are sill others, but those two are Must Listen. Oddly, while Bruford's experimental approach fit in perfectly in a band like YES, he made a WTF decision to leave the band after the Close To The Edge album, primarily because he didn't get along with Squire. There were two reasons, in my opinion... First, Bill let his Inner Snob get the best of him, citing elitist complaints about Chris' personal habits that he "took personally" in a disdainful way. Second, incredibly...Bill was not able to appreciate the Specialness of what he & Chris generated. How did he manage to diminish that in his mind to where he'd finally decide that what he _really_ wanted to do was join a million other jazz-fusion drummers of equal talent in relative obscurity (outside of certain fan circles). Who knows? I'm still not sure why Bill agreed to play drums for Chis on Chris' 1st solo album (which definitely contributed to its specialness) given his surly attitude toward him. All I can figure is he must have needed the money...

[@nozzlevelocity]

The personal habit Bill was referring to was Squire consistenly showing up late. He also described Anderson as being difficult to work with and how their music-making process was tortuous and combative. But the main reason is he felt they'd never top Close To The Edge. He was the first founding member to leave without being fired, and he joined King Crimson that had no stable line-up since '69 and yearly spit out personell like a musical blender with the top off. That was a brave move that worked out brilliantly. Playing on Fish Out Of Water wasn't a long term commitment to Squire, so I can see why he did it.

[@JJ8KK]

@@nozzlevelocity Yes, Bill's _other_ WTF complaint was about the endless number of hours the band (led by Squire) to perfect the mix of Close To The Edge. It seems his superior intellect wasn't able to recognize that THE outstanding thing that bothered him so much was _the very thing_ that will ensure that his name will be mentioned 100 yrs from now by serious students of music, simply because he was the drummer on a Timeless Masterpiece that future generations will marvel at. Either (1) he didn't recognize how Special it was (which is really wtf) or (2) he _did,_ but instead of basking in that knowledge & feeling proud of it, he walked away from it with dismissive comments re: the process that had made music history. I absolutely love the work he did w/Squire, but in my assessment, he was a bit too full of himself for his own good...

[@nozzlevelocity]

​@@JJ8KK What you call a WTF complaint about Chris being constantly late was also a WTF complaint for everyone who worked with him during his entire career including producers and engineers. Once on a tour, the 80s Yes left him behind to teach him a lesson. He had to fly with the roadies & gear and was super pissed, but he was on time the rest of the tour. Spoiler alert: It was not a life lesson. I agree that Bill never acknowledged the magic he and Chris had, but Chris never acknowledged it either - even after it happened again on Fish Out of Water and "Heart of the Sunrise" sans White on the Union tour. Bill was a spontaneous jazzer who was tired after four years of Yes debating constantly over specific chords and notes. That process definitley resulted in amazing music, and he left largely because he knew Close To The Edge was their masterpiece. But it's not the only way to make music, and he didn't owe Yes a damned thing when he split. He didn't just happen to be on Close To The Edge, he was one of the reasons for its success. He didn't leave them in the lurch either. He said he was leaving after the tour, but Anderson said he didn't think Bill could give it 100 percent with the knowledge that he was leaving. That was probably wrong, but that's how Anderson ran his band. Bill left for King Crimson without his own drum cases because Yes had already given them to Alan White. Bill never made disparaging remarks in the press about Yes members until many years later, mostly beginning in the 90s. In 1972, he would only give witty remarks like, "I was tired of A major and wanted some D flat minor". Bill did not trade his position in Yes for obscurity. King Crimson was popular and growing bigger, especially after Bill and Wetton joined. He toured with Genesis the first time Phil was on vocals. U.K. was a supergroup, and everyone knew who was in it. They were headlining and selling out stadiums in Europe. His fusion album One Of A Kind is a masterpiece, equal to the best of Brand X. There were also excellent tours with Gong and others. That's all in the 70s when his career went like a comet through the best of progressive and fusion music. There's no reason to assume he wouldn't be remembered if he'd left Yes before Close To The Edge, so I don't buy that argument either. If you want to talk about arrogant behavior, talk to Hugh Padgham who recorded Drama in 1980. He was so livid about Squire's behavior at Townhouse Studio that he swore he'd never speak to him again. That doesn't change my opinion that Fish Out Of Water is the best progressive rock album of all time. I don't need my favorite musicians to be heroes. If all musicians are supposed to be nice and pleasant, then get ready for some music that is nice and pleasant. Yes never sounded the same after Bruford left, but that was his decision, not ours. You can trash him if you want, but I don't think you're painting an accurate picture of him or what happened.

[@jamesnorrisbarrett8927]

easy to categorize: good f-ng music. Beyond that, what really matters? Also, a lesson in how to write a song in 7

[@malekmo64]

3 am, the phone rings buzz buzz Hello after finally waking ⏰️ Hi this is Chris from Yes RW says ok, we were wondering if you would like to join our band? RW Do you realise it's 3 am in the morning and I have just gone to bed? Why don't you ring me later in the morning? 6 am ..... the phone rings Buzz Buzz 😂 Rick Wakeman about Chris Squire 😅 Yes 1971 after Tony Kaye left....

[@cazkain]

Not Zep houses of the holy...lol

[@willo8794]

Sounds Steely Dan ish

[@onemotherpucker]

🙃👍

[@melvinwomack3717]

Fun fact @6:06 mark the word night is sung two times with Three crash cymbals hits overlapping the vocal.which is sung toooo-night,niiiiight😅

[@mamiche9925]

Old Tool

[@michaelbeerbados3291]

A YES album without Jon Anderson....this is right in the lineup with GFTO and Drama

[@melvinwomack3717]

The track going for the one is a masterpiece in itself 🤯 it's genius And into the lens from drama is fantastic

[@michaelbeerbados3291]

Do you THINK Tool listened to Chris ,Bill and Yes?? HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@AirplayBeats]

😂

[@melvinwomack3717]

Right! and a lot of 80s King crimson, CAN And Rush 😉

[@melvinwomack3717]

​​@@AirplayBeats listen man when I tell you Bill Bruford is such an amazing and underrated drummer 🤦🏾‍♂️ there's a super group that consist of Bill Bruford along side some members of Genesis and King crimson called"U.K"Bill is going berserk, the self titled album is a prog rock staple.both of you are going to want your own copy of this album hell I own 3 just for the hell of it 😅 BTW good looking out yall have a good one brothers

[@bookhouseboy280]

Danny Carey said Bruford is the progressive drummer who influenced him the most.

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

@@bookhouseboy280 Wild.. so glad to know this.. so I had guessed correctly. In the comments under some Tool react video, someone had made comparisons to Rush and others stating they were obvious influences. I chimed in that Yes was likely an influence of Carey’s and this yahoo was laughing at me saying he didn’t see any connection at all. I suggested he listen to some Yes tracks and maybe rethink that notion. Under that same reaction, one fan declared that Led Zeppelin was now irrelevant because of Tool’s cover of “No Quarter”. 🙄 As great a band as Tool is, they really have a pretty arrogant fan base.