Very profound statement ! You couldn't say it any better ! And that emphasizes the contrast with today's music industry saturation of appearance, gossip and propaganda that in fact can only produce "so called music" ...
Amy ~ Absolutely!! We _ran our lives_ to catch this stuff in the day! But lf you missed it ...TOO BAD, SO SAD! ....And now just like magic ...here it is! :D
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This makes me smile. It seems like they are generally at ease in this interview.Even though the rigors of touring seem apparent they still manage to smile and laugh.Old Grey Whistle had a way of doing that. Love that show.
Two Master Prog legends who were then trail blazers and opened the way with so much skill and virtuosity as musicians. I saw that tour a few days after this interview in Montreal at the Forum, that event changed my life forever, thanks for posting!
Thanks for posting saw Yes at least 30 plus times starting in mid-late 70s always professional on stage and came to play each time. Cheers to all members. Favorite albums: Close to the Edge , Relayer and of course Yes album. Be safe all
@grimble Back when people listened to each other,didnt feel the need to talk over one another and,as a result,people didnt need to raise their voices to be heard.
Rick is low key because he knows he'll be leaving the band shortly. If this was shot in Feb '74, he left on his birthday, only 3 months later on May 18th.
I’m 34 and falling in love with this band. So ahead of their time. Tales from Topographic Oceans, Close to the Edge, and Fragile would be instant masterpieces in the modern prog world if released today. It’s insane to me those were made in the early 70s. No offense to that era. I personally think the late 60s to the late 70s was the best time period for music. Maybe a little early 80s stuff too. So many great tunes. Close to the Edge and The Revealing Science of God are my current favorite tunes by these guys. I think I found my new favorite band.
golions ~ Wakey HATED ''Tales..''. As a Yes listener for almost 40 years, l'm going to tell ya something: WE didn't like Tales _either!_ You have to have been around then to feel why. After their previous albums, especially ''The Yes Album'', ''Fragile'', and ''Close to the Edge'' .....Tales just did not cut it! lt was too forced! You could HEAR that Rick wasn't enjoying it! lt was what it was.
theresa42213 just goes to show how ahead of their time they were. I’ve listened to Tales many times and the only song I don’t like is the Ancient. Side 1 and 2 are amazing to me. Side 4 is good as well. I believe a lot of fans listened to it once or twice, decided they didn’t like it, and moved on. That album requires many, MANY listens to even begin to form a credible opinion on. Whether it’s good or bad was, is, and will always be subjective, but an opinion can only be taken seriously after the listener has FULLY digested the work. Just because you lived through the era doesn’t change this.
@@golions13579 ~ l like The Remembering. Rick liked none of it! l'm 55, and have been listening to them for forty years ...Yes was my favourite band of all time, along with Genesis, and ELP, Crimson, and Zappa. But to me ...if you love it ...then l'm so happy! At this time on Earth, the only thing that seems to be of worth (to me anyway) is JESUS, music, and family. l pray that if we get through this ...mankind will have nothing but empathy, LOVE, and kindness left for our fellow man! May The LORD bless you, and ENJOY THE MUSIC! :)
@@theresa42213 you best get acquainted with Jehovah as he's in the process of crashing this system and bringing in his own govt - JW at the ORG will set u right
This is SO classic: whispering Bob Harris, Wakey drinking booze - or coffee - and The Maestro, who is obviously stoned and smiling up a storm! Thanks for the upload! 🎤 🎹 🎸
... i´m not kidding .... listening to this interview/document is for me like watching artists as talented as Mozart /Bach/ Wagner ...from the late XXth century ...
Love this interview of two of my favorite incredibly talented musicians. 42 shows in 45 days, wow! The physical and emotional toll must be exhausting. Wakeman is hilarious, "I'm going home to try and convince my wife to get rid of the dog she just bought!"
Yeah dude grandfathers....what has your generation done ....these guys music will transcend time and still be enjoyed in centuries to come ....i ask again what has your generation produced that will outlast your lifetime?
Wakeman had informed the band after the completion of the recordings that he would leave after Yes and management had persuaded him to do the tour, this according to Chris Welch's book Close To The Edge, which means that in this interview RW and SH was well aware that their ways would soon part.
He told the band in December 1973 in London, and agreed to the North American and European tours. After Rick had a "maybe yes, maybe no" for a few months until May 1974.
You’re misinformed and paraphrasing. It definitely didn’t happen after completion of the recordings. It happened when then guys started talking about another album and Rick played a few bad shows
Wow some of these comments. People age, you know? Even genius’s like Steve and Rick, it is allowed. Happier note: I didn’t get to appreciate them until the early 80’s but how cool it would have been to be able to see them live in ‘74. You’re so lucky if you did.
The peak of British music, the prog era. There are some jems that came out in the 80s too, but roughly 69 to 75 was unique in terms of musical creativity. The number of milestone records from that short era is simply unbelievable.
These are real musicians. Today, we don't have new entertainers of this caliber. Humanity goes through cycles...in the 1970s you had virtuosos like these gentlemen Kids today don't want to work as hard because the standards are lower. You can become famous by having very little talent. These gentlemen worked very hard for years and years to get as good as they are. And there was an industry that supported fine talent and creativity. An industry that was run by musicians or music afficionados. Today we don't have a real music industry. We have corporate executives that know nothing about music and keep new artists with new ideas out. They tell you what they want or you are out. That's why modern music is so simple and boring and sounds the same. We need a rebirth of the music industry..a renaissance. And industry where the executives get out of the way, shut up and give the artist's freedom to create and let the people decide what they like. and we need virtuosos like these gentlemen to be the heros for aspiring kids who want to be musicians. These gentlemen have inspired millions of kids to learn how to play the guitar and keyboard. We need a musical Renaissance. Today's music industry is in the dark ages.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m looking for a path into the music industry, and I’ll happily admit that standards have slipped dramatically over the last few years. I wish wish wish that bands similar to Yes were still as famous as they were back then. It’s really sad that kids aren’t impressed by talent. I’m one hundred per cent convinced it will change eventually, but it won’t be now.
There's dispute over Yes name and authenticity. Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman teamed up as "Yes featured ARW" and they claimed that they "real" Yes. Howe is part of official Yes (Davidson/Howe/White/Downes), which without Anderson and Squire is now kind of cover band.
Mr. Wakeman said that when he heard what YES was doing with Relayer he felt he had nothing to offer to it and left the band. Good thing. Patrick Moraz did an amazing job on it so, so much for Wakeman.
@@chac65 He didn't have a rest in that time, he actually gave himself a heart attack because of the way he was working around that time. He released four more albums than Yes did in that 1974-1977 time span and appeared on songs by The Strawbs and Al Stewart too.
I always thought Wakeman had departed by 1974. They were talking about a possible new LP that year (presumably what was to become Relayer) which he didn't perform on.
"Killer but a Fantastic Gig" at the Spectrum (Afternoon & Evening shows on 2/16/74). My 1st and BEST of 10 YES concerts. Mine was the evening show. Thanks Rick for setting all straight about touring the TALES / CTTE tour!!! PS: Naming his BEST YES concert ever only 2 days after my 1st on 2/18/74 @ MSG, NYC. I should have went to both venues. Oh Well!!
Thanks for sharing that! First time I saw yes live was Feb 7th of that year... first show of the Tales tour in Gainesville Fl. (i think I have the date right)
They were both exhausted, Wakeman especially so. He was already complaining about the band's insistence on playing all four sides of 'Topographic' live, saying it was 'killing him'. Also, the reaction of audiences to this musical bombardment was unnerving him. He could easily see, from the stage, the boredom and restlessness on the faces of many in the crowd, the shouts of 'Roundabout!!' that echoed periodically amongst the crowd. To Wakeman, it was clear that playing the entire album live to the exclusion of all else was a mistake but, since the other members wouldn't listen, he soon quit the band.
You can tell here Wakeman was on the road to his first heart attack, which would happen a few months later. He looks like he'd put on about three stone here compared to what he looked like a year earlier. Combine that with chain smoking, vast amounts of booze daily, and a schedule that would put a healthy person on their back after a few weeks, it's no surprise he had health problems in the mid 70s
Neil ~ lndeed! l'm SO GLAD he made it! A few years later in his 30's ..he would look the best he ever did! Go check him out on ''Gas Tank''. _Stunning!_
Growing up in the 70s would have been great if we had access to all of this information for our favorite bands: You only had access to a few specialized magazines and that was it. Now you go on UA-cam and you have endless videos of concerts, interviews and so on, unthought of back in the day ... 😉
Being that my 1st (And BEST) YES concert of x 10, would the evening show @ the Spectrum on 2/16/74. So Rick using the word FANTASIC to describe that show make it all the more satifying and prove as I was always saying that Rick was using the exuse of leaving the band not so much about the TALES LP itself but was more about him wanting to tour his new JOURNEY album that same year. Which I witnessed on 10/14/74 @ MSG, NYC PS: My 2nd YES, also in '74 for there RELAYER Tour, on 11/20/74 @ MSG, NYC. '1974 was the year YES became a SUPERSTAR band after selling out two major in the larger US venues. '1974 was the "YEAR of YES"!!
Jesus, they just looked like tall boys at that time. So young! I was only 11 in 74, I only saw them in 2002 live, they were still very good. They seemed more relaxed then.
Amazes me...just how different British and American speech behaviors are. The British are basically humble whisperers...whereas Americans...are just loud. Obnoxious even. I can barely hear Steve or Rick...lol. I think I prefer it that way.
Kind of hard to believe they did that tour - the first one with an elaborate Roger Dean stage set - with 'only' 22 crew. And this is only 2 weeks into 6 weeks of touring almost nonstop... of course, they did that in part because it was 'cheaper' to not take days off (and not have to pay crew for doing nothing) in between. Still - consider those 22 people had to move all of the gear from one city to the next, put everything together, run the show, take it all back down, pack it back into the trucks and head on to the next city _every single day for six weeks_ with only 3 days off.
As is standard, and likely the case with Yes at the time, there's always local stage crew they pick up for the night, usually and primarily doing easily assignable tasks like helping to unload and then later reload the trucks. So those 22, who still had a heavy work schedule, would get some extra hands. My brother in law was one of those at a northeast venue during the Drama tour and that's exactly what he did - help unload and reload. In between, during the show, his job was to sit under the rotating stage in a little legless chair they had rigged up and keep an eye on the cables so that nothing got tangled up. During the periods when the stage wasn't rotating he was allowed to come out for a short break, stretch his legs and watch a bit of the show.
Great story - thanks! And that makes sense, though even with the local help it's still a pretty incredible undertaking. Yes were absolute touring monsters in the 70's (and, for that matter, in the 80's, at least in the few years they actually were functional and on the road).
I wonder if he felt he should speak more "properly" because it's gonna be on TV. also anyone would feel the need to speak more quietly and carefully when talking with Bob Harris 😄
And 4 months later, after Wakeman's solo album Journey To The Center of the Earth debuted at Number 1 on the charts he gave his notice to Yes and went off to do his own thing. He came back 3 years later because he was skint and living on park benches.
Bill Bruford left Yes because he felt the band couldn't record a better album than Close To The Edge , and joined King Crimson instead . Rick hated Tales From Topographic Oceans, feeling it was way over the top , and that Jon Anderson was losing the plot with his long winded tantric themes etc . When he re-joined the band after Moraz left , it was no coincidence that Going For The One was a return to the more rockier style of Fragile .
They talk about the spectrum which is located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Yes fans were the best that they played in front of in America. From the very beginning the Philadelphia area embraced Yes from the very beginning. Tales from Topographic Oceans is my favorite Yes album. It is my favorite line up. Things would take a bad turn when Rick Wakeman left the band.
"Wakeman hated Topographic Oceans; its why he left the band" - It's true; Rick defames that #1 album which features him prominently in 'The Remembering' - one of those very same, "too long by half" numbers of which he famously complains. But from the internet sounds of those stage performances, it seems Jon's observation is straight: Rick rilly never cared; he dint bother to learn his part of 'Remembering' onstage. It takes a careful long-form timing to hold together the slow majestic 'space' of Rick's showcase composition. So why is his original bass/moog beat consistently, entirely missing on every tape? I think the real challenge of holding a slow timing together is part of what this glittery musician finds so "boring". That.... And assuming we rock fans can't seriously appreciate any longer-form mood. But Remembering' was a fan fave, and I was unhappy when they pulled his tune off the tour. Only now do I understand why the poly-metric "The Ancients" is equally great. After the renewed YES released "Keys to Ascension" Wakeman claimed he learned how to be more comfortable playing with Tales. When he initially left YES, I sense Rick was in the beginnings of a long stage game. Perhaps his 'tude hid some dope and alcohol-powered refusal to engage. Aprés le deluge of Rick's Topographic Flood, to help clean up -JESUS came
To a degree I agree with Wakeman. To be specific, with a little editing, I think it could have been considered as good as Fragile, Close to the Edge, Relayer, or Going for the One. I think there is about 40 minutes of exceptional material, 20 minutes of decent material and about 20 minutes of filler. Wakeman will still say there are great moments on that album, but things got a bit out of hand.
I think I saw them on that tour. Did they have giant pods on the stage? Those things that are shaped like segments of an orange or a tangerine? I was on gympsun weed and was really flying . . . REALLY flying! Friends told me that I was talking to myself. I don't even remember going into the arena.
The sets for Tales, Relayer and the "solo" tour were designed by Dean. On the Tales tour, they came onto the stage from a giant sea shell for the first half of the tour, until roadies broke it. Over Alan was a giant scarab type thing, and it opened its wings (lit from the inside) during songs like And You And I. Alan was surrounded by sheets of tuned metal. Over next to Rick (he'd be on the left or when I saw them, the right) were some crazy whale ribs shaped like lightning bolts. Those too were lit from the inside (or outside). One of the largest tours of the day as far as trucks full of crap. The sets got more elaborate in 1975 and 1976.
I attended the show they are talking about at Madison Square Garden. It was my first Yes concert. Unfortunately I partook of the old lysergic and remember very little of the show.
I dropped acid for CTTE, TFTO, Relayer and the Solo tour. By the time GFTO in 77, it was coke. LOL, now I can barely stand up after a couple of drinks. Get off of my lawn!
Yes he really does, doesn't he? I was sitting here listening, admiring his naturally-blonde hair, and guesstimating he had two blonde parents to produce such fairness in Rick 🤗. So, stumbling onto your comment makes me happy, as they do indeed resemble each other! 💕
@@karengarrison3666 And they are all keyboard wizards. By the way, I have the same blonde hair, and neither of my parents are blonde! They think it may have been a recessive trait--or a mix up at the delivery ward!😆
It was like a competition for who could talk the quietest :-)
No one is going to beat Whispering Bob in that competition.
Shhh!
..which is a good thing
Bob sets the tone for the interview and possibly the volume as well! Whispering Bob H ain't blowing out your eardrums! Lol 😆
It’s the British way to be 🥴
I saw Yes a month after this interview...in March, 1974 in San Diego....I was 14...my first concert ever...it changed me forever...still a Yes fan!🤗
I was at that gig! Steve kicked me in the head for coughing at the wrong time. I still have the mark.
Me to, age 16 😊
Me too, but a lady never reveals her age! 🤭😇❤
@@karengarrison3666 understood 👍🏼
Legendary artists.They were young &,probably shy,speaking above a whisper.Their music speaks for them.
Very profound statement ! You couldn't say it any better ! And that emphasizes the contrast with today's music industry saturation of appearance, gossip and propaganda that in fact can only produce "so called music" ...
Two musical genius rockers.
One of the greatest things about youtube, being able to see all this old never-seen footage.
Thanks for posting, just awesome.
I agree. It is good to see these interviews, and the concerts. I was too poor in the 70’s - 80’s to afford a concert.
So right😉
Amy ~ Absolutely!! We _ran our lives_ to catch this stuff in the day! But lf you missed it ...TOO BAD, SO SAD! ....And now just like magic ...here it is! :D
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I love that wakeman mentioned the Philadelphia spectrum !
This makes me smile. It seems like they are generally at ease in this interview.Even though the rigors of touring seem apparent they still manage to smile and laugh.Old Grey Whistle had a way of doing that. Love that show.
Wow, Rick spoke well of the show, and this was during the Tales tour.
He was happy because he could still smell the curry on his upper lip
Two Master Prog legends who were then trail blazers and opened the way with so much skill and virtuosity as musicians.
I saw that tour a few days after this interview in Montreal at the Forum, that event changed my life forever, thanks for posting!
Thanks for posting saw Yes at least 30 plus times starting in mid-late 70s always professional on stage and came to play each time. Cheers to all members. Favorite albums: Close to the Edge , Relayer and of course Yes album. Be safe all
Ditto to everything you said
Love Yes
Interesting to see how soft spoken Rick is here, compared to later years.
Yeah... That was when he was drunk all the time. Strange enough right?
@grimble Back when people listened to each other,didnt feel the need to talk over one another and,as a result,people didnt need to raise their voices to be heard.
Rick is low key because he knows he'll be leaving the band shortly. If this was shot in Feb '74, he left on his birthday, only 3 months later on May 18th.
I think that Steve and Rick never had a good chemistry, never were friends, but both were an important part of Yes amazing sound!
Drunk
Ah! Steve Howe in his prime... the reason I picked up the instrument! Thank You.
That speaks volumes.
Same
The reason I traveled to get an apprenticeship to learn how to build instruments.
the reason I put down the instrument LOL
He set the bar for my generation, that's for sure!
How nice. I saw them the following month, March 10 1974. The Tales tour. This brings back some great memories.
These blokes
Opened up a great bit
Of musical genius
I was at that show at the Garden. It was great.
Yes compositions were complex. Amazing that they were able to play them live and pull it off.
I’m 34 and falling in love with this band. So ahead of their time. Tales from Topographic Oceans, Close to the Edge, and Fragile would be instant masterpieces in the modern prog world if released today. It’s insane to me those were made in the early 70s. No offense to that era. I personally think the late 60s to the late 70s was the best time period for music. Maybe a little early 80s stuff too. So many great tunes. Close to the Edge and The Revealing Science of God are my current favorite tunes by these guys. I think I found my new favorite band.
golions ~ Wakey HATED ''Tales..''. As a Yes listener for almost 40 years, l'm going to tell ya something: WE didn't like Tales _either!_ You have to have been around then to feel why. After their previous albums, especially ''The Yes Album'', ''Fragile'', and ''Close to the Edge'' .....Tales just did not cut it! lt was too forced! You could HEAR that Rick wasn't enjoying it! lt was what it was.
theresa42213 just goes to show how ahead of their time they were. I’ve listened to Tales many times and the only song I don’t like is the Ancient. Side 1 and 2 are amazing to me. Side 4 is good as well. I believe a lot of fans listened to it once or twice, decided they didn’t like it, and moved on. That album requires many, MANY listens to even begin to form a credible opinion on. Whether it’s good or bad was, is, and will always be subjective, but an opinion can only be taken seriously after the listener has FULLY digested the work. Just because you lived through the era doesn’t change this.
@@golions13579 ~ l like The Remembering. Rick liked none of it! l'm 55, and have been listening to them for forty years ...Yes was my favourite band of all time, along with Genesis, and ELP, Crimson, and Zappa. But to me ...if you love it ...then l'm so happy! At this time on Earth, the only thing that seems to be of worth (to me anyway) is JESUS, music, and family. l pray that if we get through this ...mankind will have nothing but empathy, LOVE, and kindness left for our fellow man! May The LORD bless you, and ENJOY THE MUSIC! :)
@@theresa42213 you best get acquainted with Jehovah as he's in the process of crashing this system and bringing in his own govt - JW at the ORG will set u right
Check out steve howe kick in the head,. Best he ever did.
It is so great seeing this interview of these great musicians as young men. Thank you so much for posting.
Thank you so much for posting this. It’s fascinating. One of my favourite ever bands. Two of my favourite ever musicians
This is SO classic: whispering Bob Harris, Wakey drinking booze - or coffee - and The Maestro, who is obviously stoned and smiling up a storm! Thanks for the upload! 🎤 🎹 🎸
According to wakeman himself he never used any drugs nor pot , likely he is tipsy but not stoned
@@danielguevara2702 The Maestro he's talking about is Steve.
Such great instrumental virtuosos-so fortunate to have seen them twice in the 70's.
... i´m not kidding .... listening to this interview/document is for me like watching artists as talented as Mozart /Bach/ Wagner ...from the late XXth century ...
Esteban ~ lt is for me too! Wakeman is an absolute TITAN!
Steve can't stop to smile
Such pleasant young gents in interviews, but monsters on stage. 🎶
Amazing how Rick is the center of piece. Thanks for posting.
So cool to know that the implied album was to become Relayer, and that Rick was still a part of it at this point.
I love Relayer, and it's weird to think Rick ISN'T playing on it.
@@oo88oo love Rick but Relayer was a masterpiece without him.
Love this interview of two of my favorite incredibly talented musicians. 42 shows in 45 days, wow! The physical and emotional toll must be exhausting. Wakeman is hilarious, "I'm going home to try and convince my wife to get rid of the dog she just bought!"
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Wow two of the grandfathers of progressive music at the age of grandsons. Great vintage video, thanks for posting.
I think it's often forgotten that all the most celebrated classics of prog rock were made by very young men, barely out of nappies
Yeah dude grandfathers....what has your generation done ....these guys music will transcend time and still be enjoyed in centuries to come ....i ask again what has your generation produced that will outlast your lifetime?
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man oh man. they were soooo young, and soooo BRILLIANT !
Wow! This is a great interview! Look how young they looked!
Great interview!
What a blast! This apparently was in between the first two times I saw Yes in Feb 1974; saw them both nights (MSG).
Two genious very down to earth and kind. Rick Wakeman is a legend ❤
I saw this tour in Los Angeles … my first YES concert ❤
Wakeman had informed the band after the completion of the recordings that he would leave after Yes and management had persuaded him to do the tour, this according to Chris Welch's book Close To The Edge, which means that in this interview RW and SH was well aware that their ways would soon part.
He told the band in December 1973 in London, and agreed to the North American and European tours. After Rick had a "maybe yes, maybe no" for a few months until May 1974.
You’re misinformed and paraphrasing. It definitely didn’t happen after completion of the recordings. It happened when then guys started talking about another album and Rick played a few bad shows
Thank you so much for this! I’ve never seen an interview with them from when they were young.
Wow some of these comments. People age, you know? Even genius’s like Steve and Rick, it is allowed.
Happier note: I didn’t get to appreciate them until the early 80’s but how cool it would have been to be able to see them live in ‘74. You’re so lucky if you did.
Yes, most definetly great. But we have Yessongs and the video that accompanied it so we have a bit of those times.
I did! So grateful, it was absolutely magical! 💖
This tv program always made good stuff
Whoa... young Steve Howe voice. So different from his later years.
Right? There's a distinctive tone in his speaking voice that is totally absent here.
Thanks for posting this interesting item!
So good. Thanks for posting this!!!
Wow! This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing! Happier days...
Aww this is _beautiful!_ Fresh outa bed ..poor boys! They never even had a chance to brush their hair! Fabulous!
Enjoyed that - thank you very much.
Love RW, love SH, love Yes!
Rick Wakeman is just a young chap of 25 here...
Love the 'Starsky' cardigan! I still want one of those!
Thanks for sharing this great footage
The peak of British music, the prog era. There are some jems that came out in the 80s too, but roughly 69 to 75 was unique in terms of musical creativity. The number of milestone records from that short era is simply unbelievable.
The two best players in Yes. I have always wanted to see them together. Odd that this is Topographic Oceans days and Rick is happy with the tour.
Love Steve and Rick, but no Yes without Chris Squire, arguably the best bass player ever.
The fish was the heart and soul of the band.
@@autknot better than Entwistle no and squire was influenced by entwistle too so but squire definitely 2nd maybe 3rd or 4th best
My Heroes! Thanks for posting this!
These are real musicians.
Today, we don't have new entertainers of this caliber.
Humanity goes through cycles...in the 1970s you had virtuosos like these gentlemen
Kids today don't want to work as hard because the standards are lower.
You can become famous by having very little talent.
These gentlemen worked very hard for years and years to get as good as they are.
And there was an industry that supported fine talent and creativity.
An industry that was run by musicians or music afficionados.
Today we don't have a real music industry.
We have corporate executives that know nothing about music and keep new artists with new ideas out.
They tell you what they want or you are out.
That's why modern music is so simple and boring and sounds the same.
We need a rebirth of the music industry..a renaissance.
And industry where the executives get out of the way, shut up and give the artist's freedom to create and let the people decide what they like.
and we need virtuosos like these gentlemen to be the heros for aspiring kids who want to be musicians.
These gentlemen have inspired millions of kids to learn how to play the guitar and keyboard.
We need a musical Renaissance.
Today's music industry is in the dark ages.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m looking for a path into the music industry, and I’ll happily admit that standards have slipped dramatically over the last few years. I wish wish wish that bands similar to Yes were still as famous as they were back then. It’s really sad that kids aren’t impressed by talent. I’m one hundred per cent convinced it will change eventually, but it won’t be now.
Those were the days - I was in high school and they changed my life. I learned to play from listening to Bruford and White.
Could do a heck of a lot worse, for sure! For my part I didn't pick up Bruford influence until I'd been playing several years already.
I can’t fathom the talent between those two just sitting there casually shootin’ the breeze.
Saw Yes on the Union show at Wembley early 90s. Excellent.
''l go hope and try try persuade Roz to get rid of the dog she bought'' Ha! He really was a living doll, and a _BRILLIANT_ technician/composer.
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this, its such a pity they're not friends anymore.
That could change in a heartbeat. They've spent the better part of their lives together. Musical brothers even through the squabbles.
Steve Smith aren't they? I'm not up on the gossip. Did they fall out in the last few years?
There's dispute over Yes name and authenticity. Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman teamed up as "Yes featured ARW" and they claimed that they "real" Yes. Howe is part of official Yes (Davidson/Howe/White/Downes), which without Anderson and Squire is now kind of cover band.
Don't forget Billy Sherwood who is as much of a Yes member as Davison.
@@BluesLicks101 ~ Changed already!
weird thing is.. Rick would leave soon after this as they worked on and released Relayer in the same year
Mr. Wakeman said that when he heard what YES was doing with Relayer he felt he had nothing to offer to it and left the band. Good thing. Patrick Moraz did an amazing job on it so, so much for Wakeman.
@@johnnyquest6115 He had a nice rest and did a wonderful job on Going for the One.
@@chac65 You're correct, Wakeman needed a break. I just wonder why Mr. Moraz keeps claiming credit for Awaken?
@@chac65 He didn't have a rest in that time, he actually gave himself a heart attack because of the way he was working around that time. He released four more albums than Yes did in that 1974-1977 time span and appeared on songs by The Strawbs and Al Stewart too.
@@jonahhoward5109 Yeah but he had a rest from Yes.
I always thought Wakeman had departed by 1974. They were talking about a possible new LP that year (presumably what was to become Relayer) which he didn't perform on.
Damn. This is the youngest I’ve ever seen them. Sound pretty mature for such young guys. Great band.
Decorum was a thing back then.
They sound like respected musicians. Exactly.
"Killer but a Fantastic Gig" at the Spectrum (Afternoon & Evening shows on 2/16/74). My 1st and BEST of 10 YES concerts. Mine was the evening show. Thanks Rick for setting all straight about touring the TALES / CTTE tour!!! PS: Naming his BEST YES concert ever only 2 days after my 1st on 2/18/74 @ MSG, NYC. I should have went to both venues. Oh Well!!
2:02 Steve Frog
Sooo young 😮
Thanks for sharing that! First time I saw yes live was Feb 7th of that year... first show of the Tales tour in Gainesville Fl. (i think I have the date right)
They were both exhausted, Wakeman especially so. He was already complaining about the band's insistence on playing all four sides of 'Topographic' live, saying it was 'killing him'. Also, the reaction of audiences to this musical bombardment was unnerving him. He could easily see, from the stage, the boredom and restlessness on the faces of many in the crowd, the shouts of 'Roundabout!!' that echoed periodically amongst the crowd. To Wakeman, it was clear that playing the entire album live to the exclusion of all else was a mistake but, since the other members wouldn't listen, he soon quit the band.
keep the whispering down, bob is trying to whisper
sshhh! :)
And later that year Rick had a number 1 album played Crystal Palace and the rest is history
Such cool guys.
You can tell here Wakeman was on the road to his first heart attack, which would happen a few months later. He looks like he'd put on about three stone here compared to what he looked like a year earlier. Combine that with chain smoking, vast amounts of booze daily, and a schedule that would put a healthy person on their back after a few weeks, it's no surprise he had health problems in the mid 70s
Neil ~ lndeed! l'm SO GLAD he made it! A few years later in his 30's ..he would look the best he ever did! Go check him out on ''Gas Tank''. _Stunning!_
cocaine too
I thought this was Spinal Tap when this showed up in my feed.
Howe's got this "I must smile during the whole interview" smile on. hahahhaha
Interesting moment at 4:00 - 4:07 when Rick says "things perhaps you wanted to do on the album" - watch Steve ;)
Strange to that by the time Rick knew ie was going to leave ... We've got no impression here by their talking !
Growing up in the 70s would have been great if we had access to all of this information for our favorite bands: You only had access to a few specialized magazines and that was it. Now you go on UA-cam and you have endless videos of concerts, interviews and so on, unthought of back in the day ... 😉
UA-cam is simply so good. Peace and Love.
Being that my 1st (And BEST) YES concert of x 10, would the evening show @ the Spectrum on 2/16/74. So Rick using the word FANTASIC to describe that show make it all the more satifying and prove as I was always saying that Rick was using the exuse of leaving the band not so much about the TALES LP itself but was more about him wanting to tour his new JOURNEY album that same year. Which I witnessed on 10/14/74 @ MSG, NYC PS: My 2nd YES, also in '74 for there RELAYER Tour, on 11/20/74 @ MSG, NYC. '1974 was the year YES became a SUPERSTAR band after selling out two major in the larger US venues. '1974 was the "YEAR of YES"!!
The power of UA-cam, seeing all this stuff hidden away.........but now for all to see, well done Google
Wow! Thanks for such a rarity!
Jesus, they just looked like tall boys at that time. So young! I was only 11 in 74, I only saw them in 2002 live, they were still very good. They seemed more relaxed then.
We’re the same age. I only began seeing them live around the same time as you.
@@straycatttt Me as well - Magnification tour...
"Search for Jehovah while he may yet be found" - time is running out
Hello fellow people my age LoL I was also 11 here until September of this year I turned 12
Wow, RW so serious back then
He usually wasn't, but he wasn't happy during this period.
Amazes me...just how different British and American speech behaviors are. The British are basically humble whisperers...whereas Americans...are just loud. Obnoxious even. I can barely hear Steve or Rick...lol. I think I prefer it that way.
Wakeman is usually a bigger personality in interviews than this, I don’t think he was very happy with the direction the band was going at this time.
Kind of hard to believe they did that tour - the first one with an elaborate Roger Dean stage set - with 'only' 22 crew. And this is only 2 weeks into 6 weeks of touring almost nonstop... of course, they did that in part because it was 'cheaper' to not take days off (and not have to pay crew for doing nothing) in between. Still - consider those 22 people had to move all of the gear from one city to the next, put everything together, run the show, take it all back down, pack it back into the trucks and head on to the next city _every single day for six weeks_ with only 3 days off.
As is standard, and likely the case with Yes at the time, there's always local stage crew they pick up for the night, usually and primarily doing easily assignable tasks like helping to unload and then later reload the trucks. So those 22, who still had a heavy work schedule, would get some extra hands.
My brother in law was one of those at a northeast venue during the Drama tour and that's exactly what he did - help unload and reload. In between, during the show, his job was to sit under the rotating stage in a little legless chair they had rigged up and keep an eye on the cables so that nothing got tangled up. During the periods when the stage wasn't rotating he was allowed to come out for a short break, stretch his legs and watch a bit of the show.
Great story - thanks! And that makes sense, though even with the local help it's still a pretty incredible undertaking. Yes were absolute touring monsters in the 70's (and, for that matter, in the 80's, at least in the few years they actually were functional and on the road).
Hopefully they were well paid for it? Probably not though lol
Kingdongdingdongdang union pay so probably good.
two of the greatest ever and they don't speak anymore----big time prog tragedy.
Why don't they speak anymore?
Rick Wakeman's accent has become noticeably broader over the years. Cor blimey gov, ain't you a proper geezer?
I wonder if he felt he should speak more "properly" because it's gonna be on TV. also anyone would feel the need to speak more quietly and carefully when talking with Bob Harris 😄
He sounds like he was a bit subdued here..hiding it
Mick Jagger wins the prize for that one
And 4 months later, after Wakeman's solo album Journey To The Center of the Earth debuted at Number 1 on the charts he gave his notice to Yes and went off to do his own thing. He came back 3 years later because he was skint and living on park benches.
Nowadays, Rick Wakeman looks like Whispering Bob - and Steve Howe resembles Norman Tebbit!
When Rick speaks of the "cut" at 6:09, is he talking about the mastering?
yup
Bill Bruford left Yes because he felt the band couldn't record a better album than Close To The Edge , and joined King Crimson instead . Rick hated Tales From Topographic Oceans, feeling it was way over the top , and that Jon Anderson was losing the plot with his long winded tantric themes etc . When he re-joined the band after Moraz left , it was no coincidence that Going For The One was a return to the more rockier style of Fragile .
They were just babies back then cracks me up
They talk about the spectrum which is located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Yes fans were the best that they played in front of in America.
From the very beginning the Philadelphia area embraced Yes from the very beginning.
Tales from Topographic Oceans is my favorite Yes album.
It is my favorite line up.
Things would take a bad turn when Rick Wakeman left the band.
James I agree wholeheartedly. Wakeman was central to the look, sound, feel of the band. And those synth solos...?
Huh? Have you two ever heard of this little album called "Relayer"?
"Wakeman hated Topographic Oceans; its why he left the band" - It's true; Rick defames that #1 album which features him prominently in 'The Remembering' - one of those very same, "too long by half" numbers of which he famously complains. But from the internet sounds of those stage performances, it seems Jon's observation is straight: Rick rilly never cared; he dint bother to learn his part of 'Remembering' onstage. It takes a careful long-form timing to hold together the slow majestic 'space' of Rick's showcase composition. So why is his original bass/moog beat consistently, entirely missing on every tape? I think the real challenge of holding a slow timing together is part of what this glittery musician finds so "boring". That.... And assuming we rock fans can't seriously appreciate any longer-form mood. But Remembering' was a fan fave, and I was unhappy when they pulled his tune off the tour. Only now do I understand why the poly-metric "The Ancients" is equally great.
After the renewed YES released "Keys to Ascension" Wakeman claimed he learned how to be more comfortable playing with Tales. When he initially left YES, I sense Rick was in the beginnings of a long stage game. Perhaps his 'tude hid some dope and alcohol-powered refusal to engage.
Aprés le deluge of Rick's Topographic Flood, to help clean up -JESUS came
To a degree I agree with Wakeman. To be specific, with a little editing, I think it could have been considered as good as Fragile, Close to the Edge, Relayer, or Going for the One. I think there is about 40 minutes of exceptional material, 20 minutes of decent material and about 20 minutes of filler. Wakeman will still say there are great moments on that album, but things got a bit out of hand.
ASMR pioneers
I think I saw them on that tour. Did they have giant pods on the stage? Those things that are shaped like segments of an orange or a tangerine? I was on gympsun weed and was really flying . . . REALLY flying! Friends told me that I was talking to myself. I don't even remember going into the arena.
The sets for Tales, Relayer and the "solo" tour were designed by Dean. On the Tales tour, they came onto the stage from a giant sea shell for the first half of the tour, until roadies broke it. Over Alan was a giant scarab type thing, and it opened its wings (lit from the inside) during songs like And You And I. Alan was surrounded by sheets of tuned metal. Over next to Rick (he'd be on the left or when I saw them, the right) were some crazy whale ribs shaped like lightning bolts. Those too were lit from the inside (or outside). One of the largest tours of the day as far as trucks full of crap. The sets got more elaborate in 1975 and 1976.
I attended the show they are talking about at Madison Square Garden. It was my first Yes concert. Unfortunately I partook of the old lysergic and remember very little of the show.
lysergic. ha.
I dropped acid for CTTE, TFTO, Relayer and the Solo tour. By the time GFTO in 77, it was coke. LOL, now I can barely stand up after a couple of drinks.
Get off of my lawn!
@@slidetek "get off my lawn" 😂 LoL
I thought it was Jan and Marcia Brady from the thumbnail.
I forget the guy who once described Jon Anderson as resembling an English housewife.
@@straycatttt well, if it was the 1950's, and Jon Anderson answered the telephone, i could see someone asking to speak to the man of the hosue!
Rick Wakeman looks like Gregg Allman. Maybe those two keyboard wizards should have gone on tour together with Edgar Winter
Yes he really does, doesn't he?
I was sitting here listening, admiring his naturally-blonde hair, and guesstimating he had two blonde parents to produce such fairness in Rick 🤗.
So, stumbling onto your comment makes me happy, as they do indeed resemble each other! 💕
@@karengarrison3666 And they are all keyboard wizards. By the way, I have the same blonde hair, and neither of my parents are blonde! They think it may have been a recessive trait--or a mix up at the delivery ward!😆
They are all "...Good People..." Do you love everyone you've ever worked with?
I believe they're aliens...too much talent and creativity to be from here