The Ancient in HD by Yes

[@drwwsattic]

was having a regular evening listening to music and browsing the internet but once i started listening to tales its all that i want to do

[@thomasrichmond2413]

1973. I was too young to comprehend. Brain Salas Surgery; Selling England by the Pound; Dark Side of the Moon; Larks’ Tongues in Aspic and Tales of Topographic Oceans. I think it’s worthy of a documentary.

[@hellriser8955]

Can you imagine? It just fucking stopped being that good. And nothing as good has come since. 70s man... Don't think I'm old though, I'm just a young junkie looking for the biggest high and so far Classical and prog music remain unmatched. Jazz is also high level, but not my cup of tea tbh...

[@birage9885]

@@hellriser8955 Good to see you don't have to be old to see this. Unfortunately for me, I was 18 when Tales came out, so I am old, but I knew then how good this stuff was. What a watershed of great music back then, and I remember saying to myself then, how can this get any better, and, it hasn't !

[@johnnyquest6115]

I just want to be on the record saying The Ancient is one of my all time favourite YES songs. I'm sick and tired of the criticism TFTO gets for being too long, or I don't know what. Every minute in that album is a gift to us from the gods. This is my desert island album, the one I've chosen over Genesis' TLLDOB, over PF's The Wall, over ELP's Brain Salad, over LZ's Physical Graffiti, over Dream Theater's Metropolis and SDOIT, etc., etc. Listening to The Ancient is like listening to all the beautiful sounds as I take a trip around the universe on my own starship!

[@katemurphy1915]

SamuraiSamara 69 Bless you

[@katemurphy1915]

SamuraiSamara 69 Right On!!!,,,

[@michaelyork4554]

I would have to bring YESSONGS too!

[@carldavies7418]

I could just imagine you there being a starship trooper sailing on by As for desert island discs, I right with you bro, along with close to the edge and Gates and Soon from Relater but not the jazzy bit in the middle, And I heard a million voices singing......along without you.Der Der de dum derderdedum.....der der de derrrrr Blissfulness total........

[@jkmenegay]

I absolutely agree! Getting lost in the music for almost 90 minutes is an extraordinary experience. And doing this for 40 years has been a pleasure.

[@paularcuri2376]

Most underrated Yes song on vinyl...Howe's pedal steel is absolutely one of a kind...don't take my word for it...just listen yourself!

[@dinocamella5940]

Ive heard every Yes song from 1968 til now 2016,,alot of years..and there is No other band to match there skills or abilitys..Seen them over a dozen times, with different incarnations, most talented band ever to exsist..Jon sings like an angel..Steve Howe Is a Master on the Guitar..Chris Squire plays Bass like no other..From Bill Bruford to Alan White the Percussion..has been there and from Patrick Moraz to Jeff Downs..Love this Band with all my heart and soul

[@josephmurray730]

Absolutely, Dino

[@dinocamella5940]

Ty Joseph, its good to see some people have musical taste

[@kimbjornson95]

Agree 100%!

[@ja7824]

don't forget Rick Wakeman :)

[@untitledfan3660]

all of you guys are so wrong pink floyd can match there skills because there a little more popular than yes heck even pink floyd connects some of their songs together and uses sound effects during their songs

[@Yanto-Bardic]

Yes were so ahead of their time. GENIUS.

[@jcBurton2094]

Deeply spiritual and enigmatic, this is quite possibly the greatest piece of music in progressive rock

[@astraluna6is9]

Be Might be ‘Sound chaser’ I’m thinkin. Damn! That’s a hard one.

[@aidanriess4946]

Love how a 20 minute song by yes can have fewer vocals then a 3 minute pop song. But man, when the vocals do come in they are perfect!

[@josie1776]

There's voice in various parts of this song.

[@mwmann]

A loyal YES man since 1971. This one is beyond excellent.

[@TheDejael]

Excellent track from an equally excellent album by YES.

[@ThaiThom]

Steve Howe has been quoted as saying his favorite personal guitar work is on this track.

[@chucksteak6396]

Just imagine how long it must have taken him to find the exact right wrong notes.

[@pauljackson8282]

I'd sure like to see Steve and the band play this one in it's entirety, not just the Leaves of Green section. I'd like them to do The Remembering also, like the live rehearsal version that's here on You Tube, with Patrick Moraz on keys.

[@InScienceITrust]

Such a beautiful composition. I am fortunate to have seen this tour live February of 74.

[@josie1776]

Wow!

[@cafinario]

That piece of Spanish guitar by Steve and Jon’s vocal are just superb.

[@Lightmane]

I absolutely love all 4 pieces from TFTO... but this one is my favorite.

[@Jonyes034]

Here we have the great Steve Howe on guitar, a fabulous voyage through vibrating string

[@jasonbarbush4991]

many think Steve Hackett is the best but to each his own. i know i have a tendency to talk apples and oranges. cars and spaceships.

[@Thundergod-]

@@jasonbarbush4991 Remember GTR from 1986??? It had both Steves....

[@louise_rose]

Steve Howe is on record citing this as one of the artistic peaks of his entire career, and some of us would completely agree. 💗 Fifty years ago, no one had heard anything like it before - it's one of those pieces that truly invent a new language for the guitar (and for the entire band).

[@dougdoores1594]

When this recording came out I was 16. I bought the double LP and this song became my favorite. Today all 4 songs sound better than ever. Thanks vzqk50 for your videos.

[@InScienceITrust]

We must be the same age...I saw this tour I was 17. I still have my LP. And Close to the Edge!

[@dougdoores1594]

I saw the concert in Lawrence, Kansas. I believe the group Gryphon was the opening band.

[@InScienceITrust]

Sounds familiar, I still have my ticket stubs. I wrote the bands attending on the back often.

[@John-pm1hk]

I love your Yes videos but I think this might be the most epic of them all. The images of the various sun gods during Howe;s solo over those great drums, just amazing. you are fantastic.

[@_ID_as_Non_Bidenary]

I can't say that is the best song off of Tales from Topographic Oceans but those two albums absolutely rocked my world. The five men who make up YES are the most brilliant musicians to ever conspire 2 get together and put aside their egos to make the greatest music ever recorded.

[@mikereiss4216]

What's the other album you are referring to?

[@_ID_as_Non_Bidenary]

TALES is a two album release.

[@Yetaxa]

It's a single two-disc album.

[@benjones5840]

ha ha..yes it is, So true, Yeyaxa,,,,ha haaah

[@christopherwolf75]

The genius and compositional magic of this entire album is equal to any Classical Symphony ever written. I am 64 and first discovered this at 17. It stands exalted beyond time.

[@derekbeauchamp2409]

As One with the knowledge and magic of the source . Brilliant start, brilliant words

[@trollahole3610]

Yes indeed. the source.

[@peterpanama330]

My favorite track from Tales. Awesome musical territory. I've seen YES many times, including this show. When YES played played in Portland one time ( 70s) I went down to the Benson Hotel the morning after with some friends. Got to meet the whole band (Moraz was keyboardist at this time) and hold Steve's acoustic.

[@myat5037]

Absolutely amazing band. I saw ARW (Anderson Rabin Wakeman) in November with my dad, and it had to have been the most exciting thing to see in my entire life. The beautiful theater, the kind audience, and of course, the lively band! Even at their age, they performed with finesse and were extraordinarily exciting to see! Although it was a shame they didn't perform from the Tales album, the experience was something my dad and I will never forget!

[@allanrodrigues8100]

Thanks "yes" for this and for other wonderful songs you did. I will always be grateful to you for the hours I spend enjoying your brilliance. Thanks forever.

[@sethdaniel31]

Have known this song for some 15 years, but in the crazy year of 2020...it finally clicked for me!

[@tonyanderton3521]

Well, done, Seth. Welcome. Perhaps this song is more relevant now than it has ever been.

[@brianquinn989]

I love the Bass on this song.

[@zachjohnson637]

Psychedelic jazz fusion, which Wakeman hated, but I love.

[@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy]

why did wakeman left the band in one moment (dont know when)?

[@ER-me1ii]

Nacho Lago because he hated the long song direction they were taking.

[@uapuat]

I'm probably alone in this but this is my favourite track from 'Tales...' It sounds like it might have come from 'Relayer.' A prototype for 'Sound Chaser' in parts, maybe?

[@giantessmaria]

far from alone my friend. each piece is a masterpiece in its own right. but i have noticed, for myself at least, that each piece has been my fave at certain points ... i also think Tales and Relayer mark a very distinct period in the band's evolution....compared to other periods before and after, Tales and Relayer mark an intricate phase they were going through....by far my favorite era in their illustrious career.

[@michaelclarence8844]

This has been my favourite track from the album since I got it the week it was released; I don't think the others come close. I think this music goes along with what came from Fragile & Close To The Edge as being the apex of what Yes achieved. Relayer was something else, it moved away in a new, & interesting, direction, but then all that was lost with Going For The One, & they never found it again

[@Robert_St-Preux]

It's pretty King Crimson-y, and that's good!

[@katemurphy1915]

uapuat That could be. Thank you for the observation

[@gmlasorsa]

Wow Yes fan for 48 years and I never considered this! Interesting observation in light of the inclusion of the staccato, stabbing part that we hear around kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYm4qqWQd9ZmnK8 that they inserted into Ritual when they played it on the tours with Moraz in '74, '75 and '76 .I actually hear more hints to the Gates of Delirium now that you mention it.

[@katemurphy1915]

The beauty of your videos just about competes with the beauty of the music..thank you again.

[@dinocamella5940]

The Bass is brillant also..Rip Chris

[@trollahole3610]

Bass is always good. Seeing Squire jump around in person was awesome.

[@alaincote8687]

tout simplement merveilleux!! Merci!

[@TacomaPaul]

Sweet little "Siberian Khatru" lick at 5:10. ;-)

[@theyeags5505]

DUUUUUDE

[@untitledfan3660]

I've heard some of yes's songs on the radio before

[@InScienceITrust]

Hahah yeah caught that...Been listening to this for over 40 years.....

[@DX7036]

also Close to the edge at 13:27 and some bits of roundabout here and there

[@sneezejs]

Never recognised that before (bought the album in '73 - my first album purchase (I was 10)). Thanks for that!

[@faceface24]

The best part of this song is 0:00 - 18:41

[@maxwellfan55]

I partly understand why Rick Wakeman left after Topographic but not fully. Six Wives aside (absolutely brilliant) he did afterwards rather indulge himself in whimsical and costly musical adventures,. His contribution across the whole of Topographic was, I thought, outstanding, proving he was absolutely critical to its success and that he was a vital band player in Yes. My believe is T from T O remains their most original and creative work.

[@brucefishkin7089]

I read that wakeman would bring takeout food on stage to eat while playing t from t o as a sort of protest. BUT, he was a professional in that he always gave his all when (brilliantly) playing his parts.

[@дмитриймакаров-е6т]

beautifull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@richardware3687]

I bought "Tales" when it first came out and this side "The Ancient" is still after the decades my favourite side for some reason. To me it has a primordial sound and something eerie about it. I feel it is really cutting edge because it has a bit of many different styles of music in it.

[@jackbauer3948]

cheers

[@davidtas8]

The best band EVER🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@katemurphy1915]

fluctus notum fluctus notum We know that. Thanks 🙏

[@totalmassretain6199]

I actually got “sucked in by the music” by this piece not on LSD, but on wild lettuce!

[@Khalmir428]

Love this, thank you.

[@ThrawnTheater]

vzqk, I've watched many of your videos, and this just might be the best one yet. Amazing work.

[@vzqk50HD]

ThrawnTheater Thank you!

[@erictripton]

My Favorite Yes tune, hands down

[@doughodges7422]

What a stunning video presentation THANK YOU

[@richarddanner4803]

Ridiculously unbelievable!!!!’

[@michaelrandle8316]

The visuals for this song in particular, gives me an entirely new appreciation for this music, and its meaning, which is among my all time favorites. It all works for me.

[@uhdudewhy7980]

This is the song (especially the acoustic guitar solo) that made me a Yes fan.

[@dougross8789]

I saw this performed on their masterpiece tour and it was a blow your mind moment when all of Alan's drums all took on a life of their own. I need to see if there is a vid of that on here.

[@frankbotterweck8938]

Tfto is, IMHO, yes' finest album: beautifull melodies, heavy riffs ... a prequel to relayer, another masterpiece

[@joseantonioenriquezfrias2416]

Yes . Yes yes the best grupo in Millenium.

[@lori3865]

I am going to sleep so perfect tonight after hearing and watching this.

[@carlsedon2571]

Transformative music. Simply put it's stunning in its scope and execution

[@alfonsomunozguemes10]

Excelente música un gran grupo de rock progresivo del Siglo XX

[@hoknes]

Amazing visuals - wanted to congratulate you on all your hardwork - the audio sounds great too !!

[@jeffdawson2786]

No band but Yes would finish such an unusual side so beautifully. Topographic Oceans is second only to Close to the Edge for me, and sometimes it is unrivaled in 70s English prog, certainly in concept, breadth, and musicianship. The HD really brings the sonic goodies muffled on the original LP. Then again, maybe I had a crappy stereo in those days. 😳🎧

[@rickcotter4539]

One of the strangest tracks of yes I've ever heard in my life but very powerful it's like nothing I've ever heard in my whole life I was 6 years old when the song was produced they are something else

[@katemurphy1915]

Again, I would like to thank you for the magnificent video.

[@jasonbarbush4991]

voices as clanging cymbal isn't so bad after all. even the percussion makes the show worthwhile.

[@untitledfan3660]

no other bands can match pink Floyd or yes: both will still be very popular to this day

[@ThaiThom]

Yes is far more complex than Floyd.

[@cihanugur8973]

What I Left Floyd is overrated period.

[@ThaiThom]

@王陽洋 I agree. Pink Floyd is overrated and Yes is underrated.

[@juancastillo8948]

Wonderful!

[@dinocamella5940]

If You Love Yes, You fuckin rule, and your my type of person

[@ScreamingDoug]

Yes is the greatest band ever blah blah blah (seriously they are) but I really can’t wait to see this vid...woah 3 minutes in and mind is blown! The palette shifts are crazy...vzqk50HD’s stuff rocks

[@TruNordics14]

I've decided after 45 years of mulling it over and listening to Yes, while there may be more technically musically sophisticated pieces by Yes such as Close To The edge, this "long" is possibly almost certainly perhaps my fav Howe-centric Yes piece.

[@wyattyewchuck4218]

I want to leave this Earth listening to this album in the last song is the revealing science of God

[@14thedock]

Actually I was in the category of those who thought Tales was too long; I'm reforming my view however. It requires a different sort of attention... as it is oceanic in structure, waves of movements appearing and disappearing; the Tales are being told in mythical counterpoint. Anyone got ideas about the guitar solo starting at 9.00 with each ascending phrase beginning on the tonic and ending a tone higher going through a total of 11 consecutive phrases? I always felt there was something symbolic going on here, its not random... maybe lost in the mists of hashish smoke-filled time?

[@vzqk50edge]

Love it! Thanks for your comment! It is an ascending tribute to those above us I believe. At least that is how I tried to depict it in the video.

[@badhagger]

I saw this live. We use to do a lot of acid & go to as many concerts as possible but this was the only show I ever tripped at. They played the whole album. Starting with "The Ancient". It was not the best show ever I saw but it was actually pretty darn cool. Skynyrd & Tull beat them out. I was not tripping at those shows. lol Love YES! : )

[@petermcintyre100]

I've got to confess, after approx 46+ years, since last hearing this composition, it didn't come across as the chaotic mish-mash that I first recalled, while in my late teens. With mature ears now, I can interpret it more easily; in fact I even picked out similarities in Chris's bass lines and Steve's angular playing, to John Whetton & Robert Fripp, of King Crimson, from that 1973 era (Larks tongues in aspic; 1st movement 2nd passage) who'd played in that frenetic fashion at times. Not an uncommon habit, stealing licks from your contemporaries, or vise-versa. But no, overall there's lots of melody in the piece. With hindsight, Steve could have left out that short, wailing sound effect from whatever instrument he used, just before introducing that glorious acoustic performance.....

[@Lightmane]

JustJP will be reacting to all of Tales as soon as he gets to 13k subscribers. He's one of the best reactors and unfortunately one of the best kept secrets on KZbin. Just letting everyone know.

[@marcmanis2970]

The best album ever if your a YES fan

[@sebc3129]

on 12:30 of The Ancient music video, This acoustic piece of the song reminds me of something religious, something biblical when Jon said "Under God sold out and conquer our King".

[@jeffcarroll6553]

And the gods sought out and conquered Ahkin

[@goribmanus8067]

Le talentueux steve howe

[@sren1280]

素晴らしい長編大作。 世界最古であるメソポタミア文明、あるいはオカルトの域になってしまうがレムリアやムー大陸、アトランティスなどの超古代文明をも想像させてくれる。 シベリアン・カートゥルやマシーン・メシアとはまた異なるベクトルのファンタジー楽曲。

[@rf-bh3fh]

As above so is below. What was is to be. Open your eyes and see. Those who have two good ears need to listen. Be passers-by. Love Father and follow mothers advise.

[@mike91539153]

Super Cool

[@deanhargrave2805]

as much as I love these guys... seen them many times... this is a re-hash of old ideas... bummer....

[@dinocamella5940]

dont matter, color, race , sex, or creed, we would get along

[@henryolsen6248]

Dino Camella ok......

[@yopage]

My favorite from Tales. I don't mean the acoustic guitar though it ended the piece well. The grinding strings to open was pretty daring at the time, sure to be attacked by the critics. But Yes was always daring. After the success of Fragile, what other bands would have totally changed the format and record Close to the Edge?

[@tonyanderton3521]

Yes always went out on a limb. Always trying to break boundaries and find new voices. They had their own unique sound.

[@CharlesCCRidesChandler]

I must be trippin' again?!?...)O(...

[@MGDCrown559]

If you were not tripping Charles? Now that would be a trip!

[@MGDCrown559]

Yesss indeed!

[@hugegnarlyeyeball]

avant garde

[@rf-bh3fh]

❤️

[@Awengate]

12:50 to 17:43 Masterpiece.

[@fossie32]

Magnificent! Did you do the clip yourself?

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Is the movement really light? Is light passing past us or are we traveling at the speed of light?

[@yazan3bsi]

I ate the fruit of knowledge with Gods

[@123StillMoving321]

Aaaahh - is that what happened to it?!

[@armandoart8755]

Bill Bruford on drums ...?

[@juaniriarte1193]

Alan White

[@dinocamella8607]

Allen White

[@vitalidovtrov7877]

PORTRAITS - MONAD BESCHREIBUNG: Debutalbum eines Kickstarter Projekts. Der Drummer hat einen KZbin - Kanal und hat sich so den Traum eines eigenen Albums realisiert. Schaut mal rein und kauft es euch vielleicht als MP3. Kanal: kzbin.info/door/semFJVxbqSyFZfoU0Tgnzw Album: muzoic.org/release/album/portraits-monad Vielen Dank!

[@nrg16108]

This double album could have been reduced to a one LP great edit with a lot of the long instrumental jams shortened and it would have not been panned by so many including Wakeman. Over 40 years later it still has a special message!

[@bazeye]

If one had to reduce Tales to one 20 minute, and two 10 minute songs, like Close to the Edge or Relayer, I would have The Revealing as side one, and have the Remembering starting from "Don the cap" to the end, no Ancient, and Ritual up to the drum solo.

[@barrypeirson3710]

The Ancient is part of it for me. My favorite part

[@ANTHONYCUSHEN]

Pre Avatar

[@crossignal3126]

💙☝️👌

[@jackbauer3948]

So fucking good

[@Walamonga1313]

12:28

[@randyharris5195]

Classic progressive rock.

[@benjones5840]

The Ancient seems to be about the original civilization, Africa

[@benjones5840]

One can feel the jungle.The syncopation in the intro is more African that Asian.

[@TruNordics14]

Ben Jones Tales is an homage to the earliest cultures spread throughout the world who built astrologically encoded monuments and structures and the mysticism associated with such culture's cosmological knowledge. On the cover of Tales from Topographic Oceans is the Mayan step pyramid in Chichen Itza Mexico, the Nazca Lines of Peru, and some of the famous Druid standing stones of Great Briton. There are cultures that predate ancient Egypt, the circular temple monument structures in Göbekli Tepe pre-date the earliest temple monument structures of ancient Egypt by some 6000 years. There are ruins scattered around the globe some archaeologists suspect are much older than anything in Egypt or Europe. Yes were hinting at Antediluvian cultures lost to time such as Atlantis though I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you imagine something of ancient Egypt in their music.

[@redrob2394]

@Master Of Puppets Metallica Suck Lemons

[@claudemasse8028]

I'm a mid boomer.We were born from about 52 to 7

[@andrer.newcomb6516]

Hello again, vzqk50HD.

[@claudemasse8028]

Yes gave Western music fuel,Way west so far west it's east.

[@v5j95jv9j5w]

rip alan white

[@GrizbyK72]

Probably the weakest of the 4 movements on the album in terms of composition and melody. But does it NEED to be as complicated and segmented as the others? It just feels so... primal. Conjures up images of a planet in formation, rife with tectonic shifts and seismic volcanic upheavals. A seemingly inhospitable wasteland, save for those lucky organisms who would one day evolve and intersperse themselves around the entirety of the globe. Including those that would eventually grow to rule the planet itself.

[@benjones5840]

I think that We Love When We Play is weakest.

[@InScienceITrust]

The Ritual Nous Somme Du Soleil was the most "accepted" dare I say, commercial track...weakest??? No I have to say The Remembering holds that although weak is not how I would describe any of this album. The drum crescendo in Ritual, having seen it on the original tour with the Lady Bug Wings over the drum kit and the light show>>>>>Awesome memories..

[@jcBurton2094]

There is no such thing as a "weakest movement" from "Tales" - the movements complement each other brilliantly. But this movement is very different from the other three

[@andrenewcomb3708]

People are led astray . . . and often go astray enough on their own. Even priests go astray. And there is need for someone to pick up 'the word' (understanding) . . . hence, the many names for God.

[@alexandrelima834]

Ainda bem que fizeram este clip. James "Chupacamerom" deve ficar aborrecidícimo...

[@3ggshe11s]

Probably the low point of the entire classic Yes '70s era, but the Leaves of Green bit at the end is nice.

[@katemurphy1915]

And what did the thirteen dislikers want to listen to? You know that I cannot resist asking.

[@ignacioaristegui9599]

you have to have the ability to play this ... and also a little ability to listen to it. To think that there are those who criticize Tales from... for being too pretentious. Fuck.

[@yssopyot5487]

For too many years this song has gotten a lot of shit. That ends today.

[@katemurphy1915]

Yssop Yot Thank you 🙏