Drummer reacts to "Tempus Fugit" by Yes

We finally got to Tempus Fugit! And wow. 80s Yes in all it's glory.
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[@YESFan1971]

Getting closer. Thanks for reviewing Tempus. Next one up....please.....please....please......Does It Really Happen. I love YES-Saturdays. They are the best. YES.....best band ever. Period.

[@L33Reacts]

Next week my friend :)

[@andylipiro3862]

Do Awaken live from Montreux Jazz Festival 2003!!! Has the classic 70's lineup.

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

What you said. Ever. Period. lol ❤

[@gpg9516]

Absolutely 👍🎶🤩

[@leddygee1896]

Chris Squire’s Bass Tone KILLS On This Song!!😁

[@ShiverHinge]

...when you're having fun... SKA!

[@jstock2317]

truly the world would be a different place if Yes didn't make their beautiful music.

[@L33Reacts]

You are so right my brother... they are a boon for the western world.

[@JJ8KK]

I'm one of those YES fans who is forever insisting that reaction personalities listen to the studio version of their masterpieces, but for those who love the visuals, there are exceptions, like Tempus Fugit. It was recorded at a time when MTV was just picking up steam & bands were starting to create a video to promote them. YES created a vid for Tempus Fugit that is excellent in that what you hear IS the studio recording, but what you're seeing is the band playing it for the visuals. The one they came up with for Tempus Fugit was wonderful because it showed Chris Squire, Steve Howe & Alan White in their absolute prime as musicians playing the kind of music they wanted to play (that Jon & Rick were shying away from). Check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKvbi61_nrRrars&ab_channel=yesofficial

[@L33Reacts]

I saw that there was a video and decided against it but I almost did it last night :) I'll give it a listen!! 😄

[@keithosmond5730]

This predates MTV by two or three years.

[@JJ8KK]

@@keithosmond5730Yeah, but MTV launched by heavily promoting the Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star" which was recorded by Trevor Horn & Geoff Downes, who were both members of YES during the recording of Drama, so they (& all bands at that time, actually) were aware of the need to make videos of their performances to promote them even in the years just prior to MTV...

[@scottdemayo9567]

I saw this tour September 1980 in Rochester. One of my favorite concert memories. They were fantastic. 🎶

[@davep8221]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- G. Marx.

[@andybyron1]

Alan’s drumming on this album is awesome.

[@TigerMtnKing]

YES!!! Nobody does it better than the greatest band there ever was or ever will be!🤩

[@jeffschielka7845]

👍😎

[@lesblatnyak5947]

👑

[@L33Reacts]

Absolutely my friend ❤️

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

What you guys said. ❤

[@rhondamcewananderson3968]

I love all the lineups! Great musicians one and all! 🤩

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

One of Chris Squire's Best Bass performances Lee w/Yes, Amazing tone !!! 👍🎸🎶

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and YES the greatest show on earth. 🙏🎶

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

❤

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Your love for Yes is palpable 🎉

[@raymondregis6219]

Upbeat and fun.

[@BoardGameBill]

Everyone raves about Chris's bass work on this song, and rightfully so, but don't overlook Alan! He's absolutely crushing it here. The whole band is great on this song, but these two really stand out for me.

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

Alan White was The Man. He gave Yes muscle and passion when they needed it. ❤

[@1stsharkb8]

Back in the day i saw YES live many times. They were all such talented musicians. My favorite part of their concerts was when they all left the stage and then came up one at a time to do solos. They gave each other space. Very talented group!!!

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

Possibly, even almost probably, the most talented.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Yes!!! Says it in the song.

[@robertstoner8244]

I love this album. I seen them in Madison square garden floor only a few rows back. Great great concert. And the stage moved around in a circle.

[@ideasinthegord3915]

So glad to see Yes making a solid comeback. This is one of the lesser known tracks aside from serious Yesheads!

[@robrowntree9983]

One of my favourite Yes albums. Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to see where you go next. Yes journey well and truly started.

[@mikehand5881]

STEVE HOWE IS Freakin' awesome!

[@diverdown631]

Your smile says it all, we told ya. Maybe the best album closing song ever.

[@L33Reacts]

Great way to end the album on a High note. Start well and end well. They did that on Drama in spades LOL

[@patrickmcevoy5080]

For my money, this was the last Great Yes album. I never had a problem with Horn and Downes, and in fact I think Downes' beautiful keyboard sounds were a vast improvement over what Wakeman had been providing for the previous two albums. And Drama had great songs top to bottom.

[@TheProgCorner]

Drama was so good.

[@jimdukeproject]

Yeah that’s a good one. Trevor proved himself even though the high vocals were a bit of a struggle.

[@CosmicRideMusic]

Don't miss out on the Wakeman solo stuff, my man. It has members of Yes all over it. Would recommend prior to moving on to 80s Yes.

[@uv77mc85]

Not a big fan of 80s yes. 90125 has some great parts on it but it's not special like classic Yes. ABWH suffers from lack of that bass from Chris and Bruford and Wakemans awful "modern" sounds. Not a fan of the songwriting either. Something happened to Steve howes guitar palying after Drama, he would never sound that amazing again. I remember seeing an Asia album in a record shop and buying it and thinking it would be like Drama pt 2. How disappointed I was.

[@yes_head]

If you ever hear the demos from Yes' 1979 Paris sessions it makes sense that Steve, Chris and Alan were wanting to rock out while Jon was wanting to go in a more 'airy-fairy' direction (Steve's words). But "Tempus Fugit" was actually a minor hit back in the early 80s, and would crop up from time to time on FM rock radio stations that would get into deeper cuts. And yeah, everyone's playing at their peak on this one. Chris is hands down an absolute stud all over this album. Plus, this is maybe the last time Steve was overtly psychedelic with his guitar sounds (he uses a Strat on this one because he needed the whammy bar and wanted that shinier tone.) And the Rush comparison is apt. Between Yes, Rush, Saga, and even Genesis this kind of tighter prog was making the rounds in the early 80's. It's interesting to think that Chris influenced Geddy who then influenced Chris! 😆

[@jeffschielka7845]

YES❣️The greatest band on this or any other planet❣️❣️❣️🪐🪐🪐👍😎

[@TigerMtnKing]

🤩

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@TigerMtnKing 👍😎

[@lesblatnyak5947]

👑

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@lesblatnyak5947 👍😎

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

❤

[@benjaminsanabria6021]

Trevor Rabin is the guitarist that makes movie scores, also from YES, this is Trevor Horn, music producer singing.

[@rdmtimpaz]

Steve Howe is on this album - Rabin didn't join until 1983 (90125 album).

[@louissonier840]

may I suggest Beyond And Before? The leading song off the self titled album #1 circa 1969. The First Official Yes Song. If you can pick it up you can hear hints of the future, with Bruford, Anderson and Chris there. His locked down Rickenbacker is already pointing to The Yes Album and Fragile

[@jimmayors2315]

This has a great video of them playing it virtually live on stage. You would have enjoyed it a bunch

[@alrivers2297]

The very first concert I saw was Yes in September of 80 at Madison Square Garden. I was 13, I'm 56 now. my aunt took me, who was just 19 at the time. They had a rotating stage which we were pretty close to. It was one of the best experiences of my life, even though I felt half deaf for a couple hours after we left, lol

[@MitchGiv]

I love YES,,even before my cousin married Chris Whites sister,,she got me tickets a couple times when they were in town,,I grew up with these groups I was ten when Led Zeppelin one came out, and it came out one week after my bday

[@joeyblowey123456]

Best song on the album!

[@benjaminsanabria6021]

You make Saturday's cool,bro,thanks and keep them coming with YES.🙏🏻😎

[@brianvernon249]

I will never forget my dad’s face when I played this song for him the first time. He asked me, this is the song before Owner of a Lonely Heart? My reply: glad I could introduce you back to Yes.

[@L33Reacts]

Hahaha that's great. Dad was like wait, what?

[@brianvernon249]

@@L33Reacts Fragile, CttE & 90125 were worn out. I introduced Tormato & Drama to him as an 18 yr old in 1995. He said Tormato was like ABWH.

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

I love this story!^❤

[@gregjones861]

L33: This sounded like a thousand Buddhist monks throwing themselves willingly into a giant chasm that fed a nuclear-powered high speed tree chipper, causing their blended bits of blood and guts to spray against a rock wall making a giant mural of honor to the word YES. Your joyous reaction was contagious and spread energy over the web. Frankenstein's fluorescent sutures salute you under a strobe light.

[@carlsmoker1167]

A personal favorite.

[@allenlocke1935]

YEssss Yessss!!!! Ska meets prog metal/rock! It was major shot in the arm for them at the time.

[@johnfoster5295]

Fugit is pronounced with a soft g, like fu-jit. It is latin for time flies.

[@davep8221]

As in fugitive.

[@wfamdaxj]

Great to see you back on the Yes dude... Fucking awesome tune this. When Chris sings Harmony's its just brilliant. If you want to see the complications of the bass playing check out - Miguel Yes Bass covers..... crazy.. Love you man. Peace.🖖

[@L33Reacts]

Love you too bro thank you for stopping by 🙏😄

[@joelliebler5690]

It is a good though fairly straight forward tune. My favorite is Into The Lens on this album!

[@L33Reacts]

We did into the lens a couple weeks ago! It was a very intriguing track. So different for them.

[@joelliebler5690]

@@L33Reacts It is different because the songs were originally done by Geoff and Trevor as The Buggles!

[@dolfinpt]

I know Jon A did not want to sing songs off of Drama…but Dam…isn’t that spot where they sing “YEEEEESSSS!” Just killing to hear Jon A sing it! I would Love to hear him belt it out with Chris in harmony!! Still holding out for Mind Drive!❤️

[@CosmicRideMusic]

Steve Howe has a bit of great solo work in the seventies as well.

[@Atom-56]

Love it 👍

[@davidyoung7418]

I life changing bass riff from a life changing band! Such tight playing from the band on Drama. I think that they felt they had something to prove after the ill fated Tormato album. There is a book out about the making of the Tormato album that is full of interesting revelations and an insight as to how it ended up the way it did. Chris, Alan, and Steve were keen to rectify a few things with Drama and even though it might not have went down well at the time with a significant amount of the fan base, it was a very important album overall for Yes and merits a re-evaluation all those years later. Rick Wakeman, a critic of Drama later conceded the importance of the album and its legacy for the continuation of Yes into the 80's and beyond. After the Drama tour, Yes officially split. Just a few years later they would return with a new line up and Trevor Horn producing thanks to some of the seeds sown on this album.

[@GES8215]

Talk about a left hand work out on bass. This and Natural science by Rush make my hands cramp.

[@robertjantzen6545]

I was ok with a Buggles Yes album until I saw the video with Trevor Horn in Elton John sunglasses and his underwear.

[@craigfazekas3923]

Lee !! If I could make a suggestion ? Stick to the things that are making you grow, in terms of subscribers. I've latched onto other reaction hosts, only to watch them veer off from this kind of material, once whole catalogs from bands like Yes are covered. This is them in their prime. Stick to that as much as you can- versus something like Fly From Here ? Dig deeper into them in their prime. Go into things like the extended version of 'A Venture'.... Or the box set 'The Word is Live" (live Yours Is No Disgrace or America !!) BBC sessions, TV appearances, ect. Just stick to this stuff, but dig deeper when material outwardly appears to "dry out". Just using YES as the example here. You do what you want, of course !! But this is my suggestion to you, my friend.... 🚬😎👍

[@PJprog]

Obviously THE best non Jon Anderson YES album. Chris Squire at his best , but it's that new - wavey sound to everything which smacks of 1980. Prog for the new decade. So feel-good too as well. What an album !! Cheers Lee. 😍

[@Raistlin306]

Speaking of Reggae, give a listen the The Messenger from The Ladder album, Jon is a big Bob Marley fan, and this song is about him.

[@L33Reacts]

I'll add it to the list. Sounds like fun! I love Marley

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

The live album for The Ladder is also excellent. Yes Live At The House Of Blues. There’s a great Awaken, solid Perpetual Change. My favorite is the live It Will Be A Good Day(The River), an unsung track from The Ladder. Later Yes does have it’s moments as well. God, I love this band!❤

[@susangonsalves9636]

Trevor Rabin (guitarist/singer) scored dozens of movies. He was with Yes later on in the 80s into the early 90s (Such as on "Endless Dream"). Trevor Horn is singing here and is a producer. It will be interesting to see what you think of what was called "Yes West," once Steve was out for a while and Trevor R takes his place.

[@sigil5772]

A way to view Drama is as a bridge towards the later more "standard" kind of rock they did with Trevor Rabin (or in Steve's case what he did with Asia). If you've honed your musicianship skills on ever more complex music, and you've offered up to fans something like Sound Chaser, where are you going to go, I mean, what happens if you take musicians who are _that good_ and then force them into a straighter, squarer sort of mode? What I like about Drama and Rabin era stuff is the _discipline_ that Chris and Alan bring, because you can imagine how lesser-skilled musicians might be able to handle the material, but they just wouldn't be able to achieve the same thing.

[@kimobrown9500]

THE RUSH & REGGAE COMMENT SO ON SPOT .BUT, HOW ABOUT THAT SICK BASS ! 🙏🙈👍... BRAH, THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS A COOL, SICK JOURNEY ..... CONCEPT STUFF, SO GOES THE HISTORY IF THIS SPECIAL BAND .. THE 60's, 70's, 80's.... YES ! .. MASTERS OF THE HUMANE MUSICAL CONNECTION -THE REAL THING 🇺🇸

[@luiselorza1261]

play something from yesshows, great live album

[@anthonyblakely399]

One of the few songs that has "Yes " in the lyrics. Love this song. You loosing weight. You look thinner. Is this your new look. "Machine Messiah, " is my favorite, too. Love this whole album. BTW you look great. Good reaction. 😊😊😊😊

[@L33Reacts]

Haha thanks bro yeah I'm down 20 pounds so far. And this is my usual look when I actually keep my up with hairstyle lol when I let it get long on the sides I look terrible haha

[@mightyV444]

Maybe check out The Buggles' song 'Lenny' some time, Lee! Trevor totes sounds like Jon in one particular part of that one 😀

[@uv77mc85]

Theres a video for this song and one of the others from this album

[@nintendo64isking]

try out the mirror to the sky title track dude, more people should be reacting to some of the recent Yes music, I love the epic on their most recent album!

[@RonnieMcNairney]

Hey Lee, Try listening to MIRROR TO THE SKY, Album, by YES. It's absolutely excellent One of The best. Keep Rocking. Ronnie SCOTLAND. This Singer sang VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR...The Buggles.

[@jamiedimond9419]

Machine.Messiah.

[@L33Reacts]

That was my first listen to Drama! It was fantastic. Still one of my favorite Yes tracks:)

[@davidmckenzie420]

My favorite song on that album. And as someone has said, there is a great MTV video of this.

[@Lionize728]

I think fans get too hung on the line up to the extent that they can close their minds to quality music. It's a shame really.

[@kencrabtree9197]

Totally agree with you

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

With time the mind of a true Yesfan eventually opens to everything. We have been so favored by the Gods to have been on the planet at the same time this band was plying it’s trade. In the future, listeners will be highly jealous of us. They changed my life. Somehow helped give me direction and strength to face what comes in life. And i am not kidding. ❤

[@wendellwiggins3776]

ANOTHER ONE STEP AWAY from their best work. TORMATO is my least favorite of the 70's but I like it better than DRAMA & beyond. Still great playing that maintains the Steve, Chris, Alan YES's cliche "typical sound" but missing is that Secret MAGIC Ingredient that made the music once TRANSCEND beyond believability!

[@davep8221]

For me, _Release, Release_ and _On the Silent Wings of Freedom_ are up there with the other greats.

[@MitchGiv]

Oops been yrs it was Alan White my bad

[@ChromeDestiny]

There's a bootleg of Yes being down to a trio and they do a great instrumental version of this song. I'm surprised Rhino didn't use that one when they reissued Drama with bonus tracks.

[@wendellwiggins2900]

Cute😅Popish! I didnt hear Drama until many years after it debut. Never felt I'd missed anything. TORMATO IS BETTER regardless of the naysayers!

[@TheReaperMan275]

Chris' bass sounds like it's run through a Flanger on this one. I used to play a bass cover of this one and that's the effect pedal I used and it sounded just this same. "Tempus" is definitely a workout on the fret board! But in a good way. Chris Squire was my hero.

[@L33Reacts]

I bet this is definitely a work out! Sounds amazing though. Chris is definitely my favorite bass player I've found out of the many I love on here lol

[@smithpm81]

where about in the USA are you located?

[@L33Reacts]

Maryland

[@smithpm81]

@@L33Reacts thanks lee, keep up the good work mate

[@AirDOGGe]

Not my favorite YES album. Some good songs but to me YES is not YES without Jon. They should have renamed the band to "MAYBE" during this period in time. 😁

[@davidyoung7418]

🤣

[@delllittle5692]

Ah you skipped some. oh well. Yes this one is my favorite. I thought you'd work up to it. But here we go.

[@L33Reacts]

There is only 2 tracks left from drama to do and we are going to knock them out in one video :))

[@TrevRockOne]

You're mixing up your Trevors. Trevor Rabin does the film scores. Trevor Rabin isn't on this album. Trevor Horn is.

[@L33Reacts]

Damn you, Trevor!

[@TrevRockOne]

@@L33Reacts lol, I'm also a Trevor. You're surrounded.

[@franckbizouard3357]

Try and try, but this music leaves me cold. Apart from Close to the edgae and some other songs, in general Yes is not for me.