Yes - Don't Kill The Whale (Official Music Video)

[@joememphis1571]

Between 1972 and 1978, Yes had six top ten albums in the US alone. Jon Anderson is one of rock history’s all time great vocalists. He’s rocking those RayBan Aviators in this video. Steve Howe and Chris Squire, two London lads, tearing it up on guitar and bass like a boss. Rick Wakeman with his mastery on the keys and Alan White with perfect tempo, timing and pace on the drums.

[@one-ir7ys]

Quite right!

[@mattzank9559]

Yes

[@ggaworowski]

Perfectly said!

[@AstralPixie]

AGREE! AGREE! AGREE!

[@ezeeeason6930]

Rip Squire

[@joelupo9999]

Another great song written by Chris Squire.

[@user-zt2wc3uh1l]

One of the very few Yes songs with comprehendible lyrics.

[@alexross9355]

Protest Song needs clear message

[@expatlivinginthailand]

Anderson has stated that he chose words for the sound they make rather than their meaning.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth

[@stephenmark6781]

An underrated song with a great message. I love at 2:07 when it shifts up into Rick Wakeman's otherwordly keyboard solo and the eerie "whalesong" effect toward the end.

[@MrBlackPen]

Verdade essa é minha parte favorita da música

[@thomasalbers208]

Unbelievably underrated, like Holy Lamb. I think if these songs were on any other album it would have garnered a lot more respect.

[@chrismorfas7515]

Saw them “in the round” circa ‘78 or ‘79. Great show!

[@henrikdue]

The guitarsolos are fantastic

[@1crimson7]

Yes! This and on the live album. 🎸⚡️🎶

[@awaken77]

2:22 Wakeman played the Birotron - the instrument he involved in design

[@Nunavuter1]

A short song, which makes an important point. I love how Squire, Howe and Wakeman mimic underwater sounds and evoke whale song.

[@marceloarenascamel3458]

Que banda más maravillosa,mi escuela, gracias por existir Yes

[@c.a.t.732]

Chris Squire doing a John "Thunderfingers" Entwistle impression on the bass.

[@maccafan10]

John copied Chris. Let's not forget that.

[@bumwig7384]

Lol huh?

[@LoneLee2022]

@@maccafan10 Squire was probably the best bass player ever. The guitar became part of his body........

[@chrisg2533]

Truly a wonderous song !

[@GTRalso]

Killer guitar. So unique.

[@ThatPoinkySploinky]

Me: I promise I won't get political. Also me after one drink:

[@dougieschatnola513]

after neil peart emerges from alan white

[@dougieschatnola513]

wow billy Sherwood played with foreigner, why put that on one's resume? smh

[@dougieschatnola513]

forrest shelly snarky

[@candlesbyalexandria]

Yes were way ahead of their time! I love yes!

[@ShrekTheMackem]

This is a really underrated song with beautiful lyrics

[@thomasalbers208]

So unbelievably underrated. Should've been on a different album, tormato isn't one of their best. It would have gotten more respect. Great message it has too!!

[@ShrekTheMackem]

@@thomasalbers208 I agree 👌. It was one off the songs which made me dig Yes

[@MrDavidReads]

Dig it! Dig it! Thanks for bringing me here, Quentin.

[@SandraSilva-gj5kb]

When this song was released one of my uncle's was in prison. He was an ecology professor and we were living under a dictatorship. I was a kid going to the penitentiary with my parents. It was surreal!

[@StarfieldRailway]

They were still phenomenal in 2013. I saw them in Jackson, Mississippi, that year, and it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen.

[@michaelcraig9449]

Still? In music one does not necessarily lose their abilities until much later on. This is not like a pro or Olympic sport where it is nearly impossible to still play at a top level after age 35 or 40. Some guys play well at age 80 or 90.

[@StarfieldRailway]

@@michaelcraig9449, yep.

[@pinehawk9600]

Saw them in the round....77?

[@josephcosta9772]

I love this song! ❤️

[@smithpm81]

superb LP, bought it when i was 13 in 1978

[@martinmahoney64]

I love this track from Yes... #Yes, #ProgRock,

[@stevecornelia6817]

Another beautiful eye opening song!✌

[@markgreene6349]

The entire album is worth a listen..dig it!dig it!

[@williamsummers2290]

All YES is great ...seen them three times 1978 in the Round Greensboro coliseum 1984 & 1988 Charlotte 😎

[@santiagosanchezblanco9430]

El single de esta canción lo compré en el otoño de 1978.Ya ha llovido desde entonces.

[@jailbreak852]

Love the bass in this song

[@saramichaelides]

This is fantastic

[@speedingatheist]

The best songs are always too short.

[@MaryAlicePetchPollard]

A message that must continue to be sent out world wide until the atrocities against all marine and land animals stops ! And there is no better way than a message in song -:) Thank you Yes !

[@mikefarrell366]

I saw them play it live at the first show on the Tormato Tour... fantastic!

[@Tarkus_H]

2:20 And there is the rarest instrument in existence.

[@captainwilliam3920]

Was back in the 1970s, but now it's the most common instrument today

[@happens]

He's talking about the Birotron not the synthetizers in general.

[@barrysteakfriessimp_real]

that's absolutely insane seeing it in action like that!! it sounds incredible! it's so surreal and kind of unsettling to see something with so much mystique just _there._ it's like seeing footage of a long-since passed away man in his prime from a century ago. i wonder where that particular synth is now. i doubt it's functional anymore...

[@Lukather1979]

Cyrus(from 1979's The Warriors film) : "Can you dig it ?" Jon Anderson in 1978 : "Dig it, dig it..."

[@chanfrank7297]

Still listening in 2022 and got tears !!!

[@MrPlayFilm]

Only video I can find where a Birotron is used.

[@maxg.-musician02]

Unfortunately, it's deep down in the mix.

[@Doctor_Robert]

@@maxg.-musician02 Yeah, classic 60s/70s miming music vid--Rick's playing the Birotron briefly in the video but on the record I think he's playing the polymoog at that moment.

[@mikesaba5]

Birotron was invented by Dave Biro at 70's in a project financed by Rick Wakeman.

[@GaryDaemer]

One of my favorite... Yes Albums...

[@simonthetford5500]

I still have the single I bought way back in 78'

[@joelwlikes5380]

Always dug thus bit

[@rafaa151]

This is someone of my favorite Yes songs, but I think that my "number 1" favorite is "Starship Trooper".

[@kimberlyblood46]

Only Wakeman could make his keyboard sound like whales crying! DON'T KILL THE WHALE! ! !

[@sportster16301]

He actually used a special instrument for this song. The only time he ever used it.

[@HeraldOD]

@@sportster16301 is it a Birotron?

[@theoriginaldrdust]

@@HeraldOD a BirotronB90

[@wiremuwifebash]

@@HeraldOD yep, this is the only music video where a birotron is shown

[@XspectrumwolfX]

A lot of people view Tormato as a crap album-but this song is just too catchy!

[@donaldkern9300]

while i dont like it as much as TFTO CTTE Or Relayer it has its Merits

[@trufflecappuccino]

This is far from the worst song off the album. It may actually be the best.

[@Smlmusic2650]

Tormato is a brilliant album, I think the weakest point of it is actually the production and/or recording which I feel could have been much better.

[@dougieschatnola513]

gradually going tormado

[@TheSpiralAim]

There are a couple of songs I really like off the album

[@deboromelo5703]

Yes is universal progressive rock ... Manaus Amazonas Brasil. .

[@chrisburke7646]

Really dig this song from Yes also like starcastle try that too

[@piotrkostka8494]

Steve Howe nagrał chyba wtedy swoją najlepszą yesowską solówkę.

[@Edotter]

Wow, never even knew they did a video for this back in the day. That's cool!

[@lucee2261]

Edotter - Ditto & this is 3 years later.😄

[@kenday4958]

Ihadthetape

[@kenday4958]

79

[@ezioauditore3128]

@@kenday4958 78

[@SPLYSsg]

何ともあまりカッコよくないビデオと楽曲ですが何故だか好きなのです😘

[@miltonmoore2823]

I saw you in Lima Peru in South American tour 2012!

[@andreasantucci8175]

IMO their best song

[@neilharrison3187]

Quentin Smirhes Smashed this !

[@maticritonja970]

rick did an amazing job!

[@PhotographyCol]

Quentin has done a beautiful tribute to this song :)

[@nellykays744]

Howe's enchanting guitar

[@justinemmerson5657]

Wow first song played followed by 3 adverts killed the album

[@ronditchen6664]

This is really a kick a** video for the time thanks for posting it

[@edsonalmeidapedroza4743]

Excelente!

[@nicholassheffo5723]

Though this is shot on PAL analog color videotape, an HD upscale and new audio transfer would really benefit this always-interest gin track form an unusual album form the band, one of their most mixed and unusual, but no less ambitious than their usual excellent output.

[@poll647]

De las mejores bandas sicodelicas

[@DynastyUK]

QUENTIN BROUGHT ME HERE!!!!!

[@danielplainview3003]

He's a piece of garbage

[@ST-xg3gy]

Beautiful!

[@high8us]

dig it!..

[@philipzimmerman6179]

Dig it, dig it!

[@misterakt]

i feel like the Birotron is mixed MUCH louder in this version compared to the album mix.

[@ZulvisDiaxJr]

Dig it!

[@dulu0z0427]

非常棒抠图，爱来自互联网💕💕💕💗💗💗💓（大家都很可爱）（醒男的鲸鱼叫声很好听）（不是说他叫的）

[@grantwilliams2650]

The only Yes song’s where the lyrics make fucking sense

[@alanhealy1885]

Still trying to work out Tales, read somewhere Rick Wakeman even asked the question, what the f..k is it all about?

[@jeffjeff4477]

😂😂😂😂

[@kurtdodge6248]

Obviously you're not listening. Too bad. You don't know what you're missing.

[@kurtdodge6248]

Owner of a lonely heart. Much better than the owner of a broken heart.

[@user-zt2wc3uh1l]

@@kurtdodge6248 *Trevor wrote it..

[@dellcoats2447]

Great song with amessage

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

2:07 epic Birotron solo :3

[@MuzixMaker]

I believe you are correct.

2:13 suena parecido a la cumbia xD

[@thefool2007]

Awesome isn’t strong enough.

[@trufflecappuccino]

2:10 keyboard sounds like whale song

[@one-ir7ys]

Jäklar va bra!

[@Easyonmi]

I really like it

[@Easyonmi]

2023

[@sergetartare8195]

Hello, ont Sans lasse pas 👍🤘⚡🔥

[@melquibravo8337]

This is rock and roll

[@ericrohrer5160]

He should've done something with Walter Becker!! RIP to both.❤

[@aquagrowjoe67]

I agree that there should not be ANY WHALING at all! These animals are already endangered and critical to food chain and future generations to see them!

[@reaganl.5113]

Now tell that to the Japanese.

[@shocktrooper8443]

@@reaganl.5113 release...release! the submarines...and "put a tin-fish in their belly!"

[@ShrekTheMackem]

@@reaganl.5113it’s not a coincidence that the Pacific right whale and the grey whale are critically endangered there

[@alles_muss_anders_werden]

👍♥️👍

[@jlmagoya]

Yes's funkiest track ever

[@paulopaivaoliveiraleitedye5206]

Eles ja eram mega esquisitos jovens...velhos então..

[@MrHoefnix]

More topical and urgent than ever.

[@johnebejer]

It's amazing that they didn't get electrocuted making this video.

[@nanu321]

I still think this song is about that time a beached whale got blown up by the DMV

[@nathanleveille8017]

Have to wonder what Roger Dean would have come up with. I'm happy with the dark and muted color palette by Hipgnosis but Dean is another thing entirely

[@MarcusBarnabassisSystersSonne]

best video ever

[@davidoran123]

It was right then and it is still right today.

[@murrman2421]

Howe guitar is spellbinding

[@davidnotley-jones2649]

Memories of early 80s when the world called for commercial whaling to stop, I believed this was the beginning of conservation of animals. We haven't saved much.

[@ВасилийГолышев-б5з]

о чём поют я не понимаю, но музыка просто супер!!!

[@Kenneth_Fishing]

With Yes, you almost never know what they’re talking about

[@tcrutch65]

I have this on vinyl

[@bobowens9798]

Six top 5 albums in the US between 1972-1978. They only had nine US top 40 hits though.

[@nathanleveille8017]

Tormato is the only LP certified platinum between Close to the Edge and 90125. Too bad that potential fans don't hear for themselves...

[@LoneLee2022]

They didn't need hits. They had a cult following.

[@keithewright]

Always an album band more than a singles band, that was one way we measured greatness in music back in the day

[@victorsebastian677]

Me recuerda más Bee Gees o Andy Gibby en la Disco Music. Es un trabajo muy diferente de los anteriores no muy inspirado, pero me encanta el timbre y ritimica de la guitarra.

[@gregorykingsley6179]

this is the 1st time, video or live, I've ever seen where he plays w/ his fingers and not a pick

[@uweschonfeld1290]

I have to get out my Tormato LP & let the Sound of Rick's Whale echo through the Room

[@allnyermind]

I always sang it as "Don't kill Dan Quayle"

[@DonnieDeponte]

You're doing a fantastic job! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

[@diannkelley3481]

It took a little while for this song to grow on me. I think the clincher was Steve’s playing.

[@RobertWeingher]

Yes are the monsters of progressive rock

[@whom382]

After all these years, can't we get a version of this that has the Dolby noise reduction corrected?

[@LoneLee2022]

"Take It, Take It".....................

[@jonehaney8939]

Dig it! Dig it!

[@katiecucumber]

Chris squire plays his underwater wahl bass under water.

[@Zenigotcha]

Japan unfortunately is back at it again......

[@newforestpixie5297]

The lead guitar sounds more like Mike Oldfield than Professor Ponytail. Why doesn’t Steve confess he was too stoned and Mike did it to keep the studio or Jon from stamping their feet. Or did Mike Oldfield write the song ? DONT KILL THE WHALE not this song.