Pete Banks - Dancing Angel (1976)

Pete Banks / Guitar (Gibson 335)
Martin Briley / Bass
Andy McCulloch / Drums
Colin Towns / Keyboards

[@sl-valadez8831]

Totally agree, Peter never recovered from it all -makes me sad 🙁I love Peter's style 100%

[@melodymakerSD]

I hope he knew what a masterpiece this was. We miss you Peter!!

[@hemphatman]

RIP Peter. Great tune from a great artist.

[@Mikino1976]

Great guitarist. It’s a shame he never hit it big after Yes. I always loved his style.

[@guitarlawyer75]

Rest in peace, Peter

[@59ladislas]

RIP Peter

[@sz3rd]

peace be with you, you'll be missed

[@Avalonrick1]

Guitar Workshop, Vol. 2 you can find it amazong. A collection of various artists including Peter Banks who has contributed two tracks. It is is the only place I have been able to find this track.

[@Tuurke01]

Aahh, at last on You Tube. Great song! Thanks for posting!

[@rene_wrocl]

Rest in peace

[@paulingamells1316]

Pete's guitar always sounded the most pleasant, Survival, Somethings Comin, Hello solo by Lionel Richie and the later version of Astral Traveller instrumental

[@bshelby231]

Rest in peace Jamming with Rory,Alvin & Jimi

[@chrischoir3594]

great

[@ledrotten]

Awsome track,too most ,an obscure musical footnote,Peter never really enjoyed the fame he should have,too bad he just couldn't find the right circumstance to share his enormous talent with more of the world ,his passing in 2007 was largley un noticed...

[@AwesomeVideoExperiences]

pete died in march 2013

[@melodymakerSD]

Run two tracks simultaneously - One 40 to 45 seconds ahead of the other for an incredible sound!!!

[@melodymakerSD]

Pete Banks has a very sneaky style to guitar - really sort of a frank zappa style of his own.

[@charlesnolan7602]

I purchased everything PETE on album ( 2 YES, 3 FLASH, TWO SIDES solo ) did in one year, 1973, before the solo stuff and EMPIRE came out. In one of the YES tomes, the producer of TIME & A WORD, TONY COLTON, friend of Jon Anderson, clashed with Pete. PETER did not like having his guitar parts substituted with orchestra melodies. This may have overflowed post album, with Jon Pressing for Pete's end with YES. I had heard that Jon according to Pete actually called him, around 2010, but a musical connection was never reached...

[@gmoralesmx2]

Q.E.P.D.

[@YesSabbath5]

This is pretty cool stuff! Can anyone tell me exactly what band/project/album this is from?

[@pippipmagrip]

I loved the Yes stuff with him.I thought they should have ditched Anderson and got Roger Chapman or Chris Farlowe.

[@Tuurke01]

Great song! Is this from Guitar Workshop Vol.2? If so, could you upload "Warning: Rumble strips" by Pete Banks? Thanks for posting!

[@ledrotten]

he really didn't contrubute enough volume of work to the Yes catologue , so its not really hard to say ,its not prudent to make that assumption,but l do beleive he chose the direction Yes's sound took right from the beginning ,that Yes sound came from the direction his guitar work was heading ,but the band ,after taking the crossroad Peter choose,continued to evolve in that same vein ,into the great band they've become ,yyou can't put down Anderson or Howie ,they did perfect the Yes sound

[@kalanovicszoltan5481]

With Greenslade's rhythm section.

[@neilparnell5712]

Well spotted.Two more underrated fantastically gifted musicians who deserve more credit just as Peter does.

[@WELLBRAN]

Greenslade .watched them back then they were good!

[@ksjoyjespeace]

IS IT PHIL COLLINS ON DRUMS HERE?! SURE SOUNDS LIKE HIS STYLE!! HOW RARE IS THIS!!? THANK YOU!

[@jpirard]

jon anderson had a one octave range????????

[@RiichFC23]

Does anybody know wich kind of drumheads and hihats series Andy used? I Just love the way his drum lines sounds

[@chophyakumanpatsu9757]

RiichFC23 Two 22inch Fibes bass drums, with chrome finish. Two Ludwig floor tom-toms, 16x16 and 16x18 in clear Acrylic. Three top tom-toms(see-thru), 12x8(Ludwig), 13x9(Fibes), 14x10(Ludwig). and Ludwig deep concert snare drum. Cymbals: Heavy guage 22inch ride cymbal, 16inch hi-hat cymbals, 18inch crash cymbal, 18 and 20inch Chiness cymbals, and two 22inch extra cymbals. 38inch paiste gong. Ludwig speed king pedals. Andy had special, short, thick sticks made for him by Footes.

[@fullersearth1]

It's Phil on drums

[@21stcenturyPYG]

OK

[@cowboomie]

Chris Farlowe ruined Colosseum and his work on earlier projects like "From Here To Mama Rosa with Chris Farlowe & The Hill" is more of the same. Yes would have died the same kind of fate as other Farlowe projects had he been in it.

[@pippipmagrip]

Anderson had a one octave range and kicked Pete banks out of the band. Pete never really recovered from it and when all said and done Steve Howe has never had the attacking tone that Pete banks had. A lot of Yes's music after Pete banks became by their own admission overly self indulgent, my persona; preference still stands for me.

[@xmandlt]

Go back and listen to Yours Is No Disgrace on Yessongs. Also, Steve was by far the superior composer.

[@FishGalleon]

@pippipmagrip Yeah. I’ll have to disagree with this comment. Yes got way better as they evolved. Up to Drama. They continued to evolve being that. Obviously in other directions. Some was outstanding and some was downright SHIT. Love YES from the first album up to FFH with Benoit David.