Listen to Yes: Yesshows Part 4

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Ladies and gentlemen YES the greatest show on earth. Music that will live in infamy providing journeys with the divine. 👑🎶🙏

[@jeffschielka7845]

👍😎

[@rickstermandude]

Infamy? I think it has a pretty good reputation.

[@marklockey4434]

Absolutely incredible bass lines from Chris Squire on Ritual…tone, power, clarity and dexterity.

[@robertsonwilliams8650]

Ritual part 2 phenomenal musicianship,wonderous stories a lovely song to finish the album off .

[@jeffschielka7845]

...hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😎

[@anthonyblakely399]

I always cry when Jim cries to beautiful music like this from Yes. People cry in Yes concerts.😊😊😊

[@JimNewstead]

Thanks 🥲 those are happy tears!

[@andrewwallace4481]

Squire was on Fire here ! some of the finest bass fills ever on Vinyl :-)so much energy absolutely JimTotally & utterly unique first heard this 40 years ago still blows me away to this day🤓The Symphonic Gates of Delirium is amazing Jim with Orchestra

[@JimNewstead]

That is in the collection for one day!

[@jeffschielka7845]

R.I.P. Chris. You are SO missed my friend.🕊🕊🕊😎

[@GES8215]

Alan never got the recognition he deserved but Guys like Lars get the spotlight. Alan is a beast on this whole album

[@ChromeDestiny]

Yes' In a Word Live three disc set is a good way to hear what classic Yes songs sounded like during this period. Disc one also has incredible performances from the Yes Album lineup and disc three has some Drama album outtakes done live and a killer live version of Shoot High Aim Low. Yes' Wembley 1978 broadcast, the source for Don't Kill the Whale from this live comp is a must hear, you can find it here on KZbin or over on the Yes Forgotten Yesterdays download page.

[@Rowenband]

And it is on that album that you can find It's Love with Chris soloing and singing along. For me one of his best performances in solo.

[@bachmibm]

My favorite live album of all time. “Ritual” is truly astonishing and represents their masterpiece, Tales from Topographic Oceans”, in grand fashion. Excellent video as always, Jim!

[@kenl2091]

The bass-led section early on this side is certainly much extended from the original studio version and was probably done that way as they weren't doing 'The Fish' live at that point. I'm sure I've heard some of the runs and tricks heard here incorporated into later live versions of The Fish (or, more accurately, Whitefish) This record, though somewhat overlooked when Yes are discussed, is the equal of the better known Yessongs.

[@rudolfbecker4313]

I personally like the song selection of Yessongs better, Heart of the sunrise, And you and I, Perpetual change, Roundabout, Yours is no disgrace, Close to the edge - that reads to me like a best of live 🤘

[@mellotronin54]

Come the summer I will do my Yes challenge again. I listen to every album I own in chronological order . It gets harder because I just bought a load of boots hope the weather is nice because I can get out out in the garden at the same time. I love this band the 70's live stuff is so energetic and moving.

[@Rowenband]

Great idea. Did it once but should redo it.

[@dianeschneider9129]

Great album!! Amazing sound!

[@mellotronin54]

I shall be seeing Yes again this June. I know many people say they are not the band they were but I shall go and see them until one of ceases to exist.

[@mellotronin54]

My Wife never saw them in the "Glory Days" and loves to see them even though I know they are not what they were. But hey who is?

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Fabulous!

[@planktonrecords]

Thanks Jim. Great live album which I’ve not heard before (for some unknown reason!). Another Yes vinyl to buy for the old collection!

[@stevejamo1958]

The original UK release double album, came with a free single with I've Seen All Good People/ Your Move, (Wembley 1978) and Roundabout, (Oakland 1978). These were added to the 2009 CD release as bonus tracks.

[@yes_head]

Huh. That must have been a UK-only thing, cuz I got that single with my copy of the 'Classic Yes' album that came out in '81.

[@vfrbore1728]

And there it is. That magnificent bass solo. I wasn't lucky enough to see Yes at that time, but on the Symphonic Tour Chris Squire re-created that solo, and I can tell you that from my front row seat at The Royal Centre in Nottingham it was something I will never forget. Yesshows is patchy for me due to the song choices, but GoD and Ritual make it an essential purchase. And just over three months after this was recorded the band were in the studio creating Going For the One.

[@petervandersluijs9256]

I atended this specific concert in Rotterdam in 1977. The only time I've seen them live.

[@alanmartin-hz5bp]

As you say Jim just wow that bass still gives me goose bumps 44 years later amazing performance and reaction

[@martinreed5964]

RITUAL Exactly as it says on the tin

[@sly_perkins]

I had the cassette version where all of Ritual was on side 2...but they left in the fade out and restart. I listened on my Walkman alone in my Army communications rig all night.

[@mellotronin54]

I had forgotten how great/bonkers Ritual this was wow oh wow. How people can diss this track amazes me .They must have no musical soul or adventure.

[@operating]

I’m ready. Let’s go!

[@uv77mc85]

I love Steve howes Les paul junior sound on the TFTO tracks. it's all flutey and woody. Sounds more like he is using a 2 pickup guitar but he isn't.

[@jeffschielka7845]

Hey Jim! Side 4! Thank you for continuing the journey of the greatest band on this or any other planet❣️❣️❣️🪐🪐🪐👍👍👍😎

[@lesblatnyak5947]

After fifty years, I got to admit Ritual is my favourite YES tune by a smidge 🙏🎶👑

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@lesblatnyak5947 Excellent song!👍😎

[@JimNewstead]

Thanks for coming on it with me!

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@JimNewstead My pleasure Jim!👍😎

[@TigerMtnKing]

YES!!! The greatest band there ever was or ever will be! Thanks Jim!🤩P.S. I think the reason they split up Ritual was because a vinyl record can only hold up to around 25 minutes per side.🤩

[@jeffschielka7845]

So correct!!!👍😎

[@TigerMtnKing]

@@jeffschielka7845 Can't ever get enough of YES!!!🤩

[@ChromeDestiny]

Technically you can go a bit over, Genesis and Todd Rundgren used to really push the limits but it's not recommended cause you lose so much loudness and bass.

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@TigerMtnKing 👍😎

[@TigerMtnKing]

@@ChromeDestiny This version of Ritual is almost 32 minutes long so I don't think it would have fit on one side. Remember 'The Revealing Science of God' was originally 28 minutes long and had to be edited down to around 21 because it wouldn't fit?

[@Relayerman]

The 2009 remaster of this album on CD also includes I've Seen All Good People (from Wembley '78) and Roundabout (from Oakland, Calif. October 7, 1978). And Ritual is complete without any splits.

[@JimNewstead]

I need to get this on CD too!

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@JimNewstead 👍😎

[@ryanr5319]

Thanks for the reactions Jim. I feel next should be Yesstudio (sp?) New tracks after Talk with classic lineup. Then really only Revealing Science of God from the Keys albums. Jk. But it sounds pretty good as well for live.

[@IllumeEltanin]

I’m late getting to this video, so most likely you’ve been reminded already. But yes, when Jeff and I tied for your radio show contest, Alan White had passed, and if I recall correctly you hadn’t watched any live Yes yet. So Ritual from Songs From Tsongas felt like the perfect request at the time. You were able to see the classic line up with White, and watch a video which highlighted the rhythm section of Yes, so in a sense it was a tribute to Squire as well.

[@wendellwiggins3776]

YES's INTERWOVEN instrumental LUSHNESS was sublimely unsurpassed from any genre. I can't stress enough the power of the emotional & spiritual impact they had on us LIve at the time with those classic lineups, specifically. At times the music felt as though it was a separate flawless organic Force onto itself.

[@npc8348]

Yesshows are all live albums where the energetic performances of the time really shine. But 'Ritual' and 'the Gates...' on Symphonic Live 2001 are my personal favourites. The concept is the same as Awaken by Jon Anderson and Todmobile in 2015: Yes + orchestra, but the orchestrations are excellent and the chemistry between Yes and the orchestra is outstanding. Even if you can't make a video due to KZbin rights, please listen to it in private.

[@Rowenband]

During the bass solo, it's not Jon singing with the bass, it's Chris himself singing while playing. For a better example of Chris soloing and singing, listen this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4CQpq1nhL6Gj5Y

[@simonal1989]

For anyone wondering, it's Jon doing those weird vocals at the 9 minute mark!

[@GES8215]

ive always wondered i thought it might be chris but def NOT steve

[@saurian11]

Actually, it's Patrick Moraz doing the "Demonic " howls and shouts. Jon was helping with the percussions.

[@simonal1989]

@@saurian11 It was Jon. Alan White even confirmed it.

[@tonygrinney7115]

BTW Jim if you wondered what the bird is on the front of Yesshows is the fictitious" Siberian Khatru".Ritual my favourite from Tales. Yes Jim it was Tsongas that you saw Ritual before I remember because it had the automatic suspended drums, that didn't quite work out (they weren't loud enough).

[@JimNewstead]

Thank you thank you THANK YOU! Out of all the hundreds of comments of the last three days, yours is the only one to address that query!!!!

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@JimNewstead Might of been one of the vids I requested!👍😎

[@Atom-56]

It does, differ to the album recording, Rick Wakeman plays on the album, here, Patrick Moraz was on keyboards, contributing all those evil sounds😡 And the middle section was played twice as fast!

[@joeychicago6436]

Sigh, I bought 'Tales From The Topographic Ocean' over 40 years ago, I still haven't managed to get through it. I don't understand why I have a weird mental block on that album. I did love ending with Wonderous Stories, Wakeman's keyboards a so beautiful.

[@akaFrits1]

Great reaction Jim! You compared it a few times with Yessongs. And though the sound quality differs a lot, I find myself playing Yessongs more than this one. It’s not the energy or musicianship, which in both cases leaves nothing to be desired, but I guess it’s the coherence of the songs as a complete concert. Yesshows is somewhat patchy to me: more a collection of - great - songs than the concert registration that Yessongs offers (though of course it isn’t a registration of a single concert). And to my taste the ‘tribal’ part of Ritual is simply too long. I’m always glad when Steve picks up the soleil theme again

[@rudolfbecker4313]

Sorry to all fans of this live album, but my favourite Yes live album is and will be YESSONGS - forever 🤘 it's the originality of playing the well recorded studio songs with this raw power, this energy ... it doesn't matter, that most of the songs aren't as filigrane as in studio. And also sorry to all the fans of Chris bass solo - nothing's gonna beat The Fish 🤣 my favourite bass solo and maybe the best of rock history 🤔🤘

[@yes_head]

Right up until -- or even through -- 'Drama', Yes were almost always better live than on record, which is remarkable, considering they set a pretty high bar with their studio work. That changed with '90125' when they were beholden to sequencers and click tracks, and the new audiences they were playing to wanted to hear the songs just like the record. Also, the 80's was no longer about extended bass or drum solos, was it? Speaking of, Chris' solo on "Ritual" is expanded, as is Alan's. That's also Chris scatting toward the end of his solo (as seen in the Queens Park video). But what's frustrating for Yes fans is that so little live stuff has come out covering this period. There are *many* well known bootlegs that fill in gaps in the '76-'79 time period, but Yes for whatever reason doesn't seem interested in putting it out. They must figure hard core fans who already have those boots won't pay to replace them with a band-authorized version. But who knows. As long as Steve Howe is still kicking and the demand is there (and wallets need replenishing...)

[@JimNewstead]

That begs the question, are the bootlegs any good? There’s a few one heard of different bands that are amazing but mostly sound like they’ve been recorded on a potato!

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@JimNewstead Seek and ye shall find. There are so many.👍😎

[@JimNewstead]

But how do you know if it’s any good before buying?

[@jeffschielka7845]

@@JimNewstead I don't think collectors care. Many of mine aren't even opened. As far as playing them you really won't know until you play them.😎

[@JimNewstead]

@@jeffschielka7845 yup. I’m not a collector for the sake of it, I’m a listener. I don’t want to waste money on something that sounds like it was recorded in 1927!

[@MisterWondrous]

Gates live is and was a marvel; a wonder of the world. Excellent record and reaction. And speaking of wondrous... Yes messed with heads by naming the song "Wondrous Stories"but the video "Wonderous Stories", which is kinda freakish. So I asked Google "wonderous"...and it said: "Did you mean "wondrous"...then goes on to explain: "Did you mean: wondrous Definitions of wondrous. adjective. extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers. synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful extraordinary. beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable." So it is not a synonym for wonderful, particularly, and wonderous has 1/10 the number as wondrous. Sometimes people try to correct my name. The term is more akin to "miraculous" as in Ouspensky's "In Search of the Miraculous". Gonna listen to Gates again. Very pleased. A new one for me.

[@Atom-56]

The song we just heard on here, wasn’t Gates, it was Ritual 👍

[@MisterWondrous]

@@Atom-56 I know that. But he was talking about how he evolved on Gates. I memorized both songs when they came out.

[@JimNewstead]

What's an E between friends?

[@MisterWondrous]

@@JimNewstead True dat, mate. I once referred to you as Jim Newstad, but alas, I am the certifiable king of the typo. Glad to see you back. Missed you.

[@JimNewstead]

I’ve not been away as such, just languishing in the never ending duties of autistic child care!!!!

[@JerseyJon2]

Those 1976 shows with Patrick Moraz were their peak as a live band imho. We're very lucky that Ritual and Gates, at least, were recorded (and mixed) for posterity. Am I right that this was Patrick's last gig with Yes before he was ousted?

[@shyshift]

Ritual totals out to 28:54 Jim. And the studio version was 22:?? so Atlantic didn’t want nearly 30 minutes on one vinyl side. CD is a much better listen.

[@JimNewstead]

Yeah, I need to seek that one out!

[@shyshift]

@@JimNewstead btw, in the percussion solo of Ritual that’s all 5 playing percussion. Chris is on Timpani. Jon is banging away on all kinds of metal including an Electric Slinky which Patrick turned him onto. Steve plays Timbales I think and Patrick is making the groaning chant with Mellotron or Vako Orchestron. Alan is hitting his drums that were connected to a Minimoog Synthesizer somehow. He probably got the idea from Carl Palmer. Oh! Chris sings harmony with his bass guitar 🎸 which is nearly impossible to do live. The album was mixed by Chris Squire and it was his first time at that.

[@Rowenband]

I think at the time Atlantic COULD'NT do it on one vinyl side ! I have no example of a vinyl over 27 minutes before the '80.

[@shyshift]

@@Rowenband Todd Rundgren’s Utopia (1974) side 2 is over 30 minutes long. Todd Rundgren-Initiation (1975) side 2 is one tune A Treatise On Cosmic Fire and it’s 36 minutes long.

[@Rowenband]

@@shyshift OK ! Thanks for the info. I learned something today. So the 20-24 minutes sides were just a choice of the company ?! That's weird. Do you know why this was kind of a standard ?

[@WooBino.]

Such a weird choice of songs and arrangement on the LP's.

[@JimNewstead]

Indeed!