Album : Fish Out Of Water 1975 Songs: Hold Out Your Hand, You By My Side Chris Squire: Bass, Vocals Patrick Moraz: Organ, Synthesizer Bill Brufford: Drums, Percussion
One of the most underrated bassists in Rock....how was he ignored by the so called experts.... I got this album in 1977... must have played it twi hundred times....RIP Chris...you rocked here and i am sure you rock up there too
@@findmusic8797 This point is to be discussed, it may be true in terms of technical ability, particularly the skill to play complex rhythm signatures and arrangements... But the Ox is somehow a WILDER player, more into pure rock and roll... anyway the two are extraordinary...
I got this record in the late 1970s, still have it, and consider it to be among the very best albums that I am privileged enough to own. It is very rare where every single note of every song is both perfect and memorable but in this case it is. Chris Squire was an amazing talent, huge talent, whose music and legacy shall go on forever...
Then I take it you’ve never heard “ Feels Good to Me “ 1979 album by Bill Bruford w/ Jeff Berlin on bass, Dave Stewart on keys and Allan Holdsworth on guitar.
If I phoned a local Seattle "Classic Rock" or "Rock" station and requested this song, they would all like "Huh?" and then go back to playing "Whole Lotta Love" every single day. Clear Channel Corp. took over the airwaves and REALLY GOOD MUSIC like this has been sitting in some warehouse (un-played) for centuries!
I agree. While Steve and Jon were my favorite members of Yes (not that there were any members I didn't like), this album was head and shoulders above the other 1975 solo efforts. I would have loved to have seen this played live.
@@Olegzyan, my limited Russian is gift from the USAF during the Cold War and somewhat maintained living in Pattaya Thailand with a large Russian speaking community. Many signs and restaurant menus are in Russian. рад встрече!
Thanks to a cousin who ordered from Japan I was able to have this album a few years after it came out. I'm glad me and the ones commenting here are the few ones who really appreciate it and understand the class of compositions that includes.
Remembering Chris Squire born on March 4, 1948. He was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes. Squire concentrated overwhelmingly on Yes' music over the years, producing little solo work. His first solo record was 1975's Fish Out of Water, featuring Yes alumni Bill Bruford on drums and Patrick Moraz on keyboards and The Syn/The Selfs alumnus Andrew Jackman also on keyboards. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Squire
I wish Chris Squire would have performed this song live with YES during the 70 or the 1991 UNION tour. Hearing this song with STEVE HOWE & JON ANDERSON providing the harmony vocals and RICK WAKEMAN on the church organ would have been a rewarding experience.
I am so glad this was documented! This is a great testament to behold and marvel at Chris Squire's brilliance. Fish Out of Water is a timeless masterpiece.
I don’t usually listen to retro albums as prefer to explore new musics but this is the only album I listened to in the 70’s that I still listen to today - it is a stunningly beautiful album
Totally is. I Have been the same band for 10yrs and we could never find a bass player. We used bass pedals. But as a drummer, I need the groove eliment. We tried out someone recently and I hope he stays with us
Just checking back in... still amazing. Still missed. Brilliant, brilliant song writing and bass playing. That intro is the most epic bass proclamation ever
RIP Chris, to me one of the best bass players of classic rock ever had. We will miss you Chris. But at least, we will have your best music Yes ever produced.with us for a long time.
proves that a bassist can be put to good use without a lead guitar! Chris Squire makes the best use of his instrument I've ever heard. unusual to be sure, but very effective in music! Yes was always Pro Bass where as most bands seem anti-bass!
I DID!...I DO!...I ALWAYS WILL! The ONLY Japanese import CD I ever bought because it wasn't available in the US at the time. I remember thinking "How can this be the greatest country in the world without Chris' Fish...?!"
Outstanding! I bought this album when it first came out and I still have it. Bruford and Squire are two of the best and to see them in this live video is the icing on the cake!!!
I bough this album when it came out. When this promo clip was shown on The Old Grey Whistle Test my father who was an old style Bing Crosby Singer was mighty impressed with this and saw it’s brilliance. “ That boy has some talent” he said.
Just amazing! Just look at the smile on the man's face! He had the best of times! The best concert experience ever was seeing hime with Yes here in Sydney, Australia on March 17, 1973. And this is a great clip. Thanks!
I once gave his first solo album as my "best album of all time" entry. It was between "Olias of Sunhillow" and this one and I, eventually, after getting a headache thinking about it, that I chose "Fish Out of Water".
here i am again. sheesh.. i am pushing 60 in a couple of years. just wanted say hey, and damn.. this masterful musician carried me through all these years. truly, got me through all the crazy drinking fight crap back in 75... my little ol 8 track sitting atop my old piano, in my room. pfffft i no like dying.. but there i go
THANK YOU CHRIS! This is a COMPLETE PRICELESS GEM to find now. Chris at his best with two other greats [Drummer: Bill Bruford & Keyboards: Patrick Moraz]. I had also purchased the FOOW Record way back when & loved it then & now LOVE IT even more. The GIMONO looks simply incredible & the performance & video are excellent. I had older classical musician parents who would not accept R&R as a legitimate musical art form. That is, until they heard GREAT ROCK musician groups like YES, GENESIS, ELP & others. These incredible R&R musicians gave our music a new appeal & legitimacy that it never had previously. The REAL question isn't whether YES will get into the RRHOF. The REAL question is whether the SUPER GROUP *** YES *** will accept the RRHOF into YES WORLD.
Chris Squire has always been one of the greatest bassists to ever fret the instrument... Musical genius unmatched! The kimono thingy is pretty cool too! Great video!
My very first attendance at a LIVE show was this very year: 1975, Poco opening for Yes. Just after that show, I hear this album. Wow. It's hard to believe I've been listening to this great album for over 45 years...
Chris composed and arranged Fish Out of Water at the same time as Yes were recording Relayer, but his own melodic/orchestral tendencies are far more evident in this album that in the Yes recordings. Also, Chris' early training as a choir boy (at St Paul's I believe) kicked off his lifelong friendship with Andrew Pryce Jackman, a fellow choir boy (whose brother became a founding member of the famous Kings Men Choir Ensemble), and eventual master arranger and keyboardist, who orchestrated all the parts for Fish (that was Squire's nickname, BTW, given him by Bruford when he accidentally flooded a hotel room). Pryce Jackman can be seen on this video, the guy with the top hat, playing piano, tubular bells, and singing. Squire chorale influence probably accounted for many of the stunning vocal passages in Yes albums, something they became known for.
One of my all time favorite albums of all times ! Makes me want to puke to listen to today's music ! Chris Squire you were a genius and still are ! Bill Bruford, Patrick Moraz and that wonderful orchestra in the background pure magic!
It looks really convincing because he was such a professional when it came to vocals, as well, from years of choir, including St. Paul's. But, it is all pantomime, as the orchestra was paid a fee to pretend they were playing. And, his rehearsal ethic was apparently impeccable, even if his punctuality was not. Looks amazingly tight, huh? It is virtually impossible to watch his fingers without learning something new. The way he puts so much thought into each and every note is still mystifying to me. And, misty-fying if you are among those who weep when Yes music is really good.
Wow that is so wonderful and sad at the same time. A moment of musical magic captured in time....... I wish the whole album was performed on camera like this. Watching this feels like getting punched in the heart the emotions and memories it stirs. I don't think I've ever missed a musician as much as Chris, his loss is a wound that will never heal 😢😞
I believe there are a whole lot of us that know about this GREAT album. But watching Bill Bufford you can see this was NOT DONE LIVE, Bill is a GREAT drummer and I know he played this on the album, and he can play this, but it's CLEARLY NOT done live, Still love it though just for the memories of seeing Chris alive! Thanks
Rest in peace Chris Squire,Peter Banks and Alan White.....
One of the greatest albums that almost no ones knows about.
apart from you and me...saw this at the cinema when it came out
Yea, except for every Yes fan
@@johnnicholson8345 Not everyone's a Yes fan.
Agreed; possibly the best bandmember solo album ever made.
@@paulbennett772 Yes, the best solo album. Absolutely masterpiece.
The best of the Yes solo albums!
Indeed!
Isn’t a bass guitar it’s lead guitar. No words to describe it. RIP Chris.
No, it's Chris Squire.
It’s a crime against humanity that this masterpiece of an album isn’t as popular as it should be
I wore this album out. Went to Germany got a big stereo
These so-called musicians rock stars cannot hold a candle to the guys 50 years ago when music was music at its best
I hope that Chris's family know what a great musician he was and what music he has contributed to the music to music
This one of the best progressive rock, prog jazz, rock albums of all time , period-- let alone by a bass player. We all know Chris was special.
A Chris masterpiece! Every Yes fan must have this album
+awaken77 AGREED! Lucky Seven is my all time favourite Chris Squire song!
Indeed
One of the most underrated bassists in Rock....how was he ignored by the so called experts....
I got this album in 1977... must have played it twi hundred times....RIP Chris...you rocked here and i am sure you rock up there too
RIP Chris. The greatest bassist in rock.
Love Chris but Entwistle was the KING!
@@jamesanderson3006 they are/were all great in their own ways. Music isn't sport.
Chris was a disciple of John E.
The student surpassed the teacher
@@findmusic8797 This point is to be discussed, it may be true in terms of technical ability, particularly the skill to play complex rhythm signatures and arrangements... But the Ox is somehow a WILDER player, more into pure rock and roll... anyway the two are extraordinary...
Genius player and composer
I got this record in the late 1970s, still have it, and consider it to be among the very best albums that I am privileged enough to own.
It is very rare where every single note of every song is both perfect and memorable but in this case it is.
Chris Squire was an amazing talent, huge talent, whose music and legacy shall go on forever...
Best solo album by far of any Yes member past or present !!!###
Then I take it you’ve never heard “ Feels Good to Me “ 1979 album by Bill Bruford w/ Jeff Berlin on bass, Dave Stewart on keys and Allan Holdsworth on guitar.
@thomasrichmond2413 I heard it and it's great/ but Fish had even commercial appeal.
Indeed!
What a great drummer Brufford is! Never conventional, never common place!
He's a off meter drummer, listen to to all his work, like Lucky Seven, if you play drums you can hear it in ALL his work!
what a spectacular performance of an epic composition by Chris Squire....
If I phoned a local Seattle "Classic Rock" or "Rock" station and requested this song, they would all like "Huh?" and then go back to playing "Whole Lotta Love" every single day. Clear Channel Corp. took over the airwaves and REALLY GOOD MUSIC like this has been sitting in some warehouse (un-played) for centuries!
...and let us not forget Dr. Bill Bruford on drums...
And...patrick moraz on keyboards...
I consider this like a true Yes album.
I think I could be lucky tonight
Holding out my hands 😊
Of all the Yes members' solo albums in 1975, this is by far my favorite! Incredible album.
I agree. While Steve and Jon were my favorite members of Yes (not that there were any members I didn't like), this album was head and shoulders above the other 1975 solo efforts. I would have loved to have seen this played live.
@@johnbean8440 not so sure. Olias is a monumental undertaking and nothing like anything you'll ever hear.
Olias of Sunhillo ...Jon Anderson up there too
How he simultaneously plays in that timing and sings is something major... wow..
only someone with true musical talent and insight could pick that up. nice!!
greeat multitasking
it does help that he only has to hand/lip sync the entire performance... (this is the studio recording soundtrack). BTW : I'm a fan
evidence are the harmony vocals coming in at 7.30 : this is Chris himself on multi tracked harmony vocals : nobody sounds like him
It's really not that hard but I've been playing Chris since I was 15 so there's that.
Chris thanks for making my youth a better place to be. So many nights.
So very sad at the passing of Chris Squire. An incredible inspiration to me and many other bassists and musicians. Rest In Peace.
Definitely the Greatest bass player of prog rock! Recognizable right from the first note. Unparalleled bass genius!
I love Chris 6268182364
My favorite bass player
@Олег so wonderful to see how music transcends politics and languages. The bridge between us all. большое спасибо!
@@billhart9832 спасибо, друг! thank you, buddy!
@@Olegzyan, my limited Russian is gift from the USAF during the Cold War and somewhat maintained living in Pattaya Thailand with a large Russian speaking community. Many signs and restaurant menus are in Russian. рад встрече!
One of the few bassists who could truly make it a lead instrument. John Entwistle was another.
And Gary Thain! Check the Album "Sweet Freedom", Uriah Heep
And Getty Lee who started playing with a Rickenbacker as a Chris Squire fan! (Rush band)
And Colin Hodgkinson of eg “Back Door” and other groups. Saw him at a Radio 1 in concert performance. Real lead playing on a bass.
Thanks to a cousin who ordered from Japan I was able to have this album a few years after it came out.
I'm glad me and the ones commenting here are the few ones who really appreciate it and understand the class of compositions that includes.
once upon a time, when music was good.....
Remembering Chris Squire born on March 4, 1948. He was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes. Squire concentrated overwhelmingly on Yes' music over the years, producing little solo work. His first solo record was 1975's Fish Out of Water, featuring Yes alumni Bill Bruford on drums and Patrick Moraz on keyboards and The Syn/The Selfs alumnus Andrew Jackman also on keyboards. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Squire
I saw Yes on a number of occasions. Chris was a superb operator. He was three sheets to the wind at Edinburgh Playhouse, but he didn't drop a beat.
I love his kimono. Its like a trademark for his image. I miss you Chris.
Absolutely. In terms of fashion and music, the seventies was the coolest time to be alive.
I wish Chris Squire would have performed this song live with YES during the 70 or the 1991 UNION tour. Hearing this song with STEVE HOWE & JON ANDERSON providing the harmony vocals and RICK WAKEMAN on the church organ would have been a rewarding experience.
I am so glad this was documented! This is a great testament to behold and marvel at Chris Squire's brilliance.
Fish Out of Water is a timeless masterpiece.
The best of YES 75' solo albums!!
I'd say Olias is right up there with it. Beginnings is just behind both of them. Chris is certainly more accessible.
Agreed!
Right Justin !! The FISH is now forever in The Topographic Oceans... ( R.I.P. CHRIS... and thanks for the MUSIC !!! )
I became bass player thanks to this album.
I don’t usually listen to retro albums as prefer to explore new musics but this is the only album I listened to in the 70’s that I still listen to today - it is a stunningly beautiful album
As I said before these three musical leaders should have done more together...... Just excellent work
Bass is not only an follower but a real melodic instrument
Totally is. I Have been the same band for 10yrs and we could never find a bass player. We used bass pedals. But as a drummer, I need the groove eliment. We tried out someone recently and I hope he stays with us
Just checking back in... still amazing. Still missed. Brilliant, brilliant song writing and bass playing. That intro is the most epic bass proclamation ever
Great performance, we miss you Chris!
What a great loss to all of us....
THE Greatest bassist king of mélodies !
Solo albums were the norm for successful bands like Yes ...this just happens to be the best one of all time.
So cool to this day......RIP to one of the best to do it.
The only time I ever saw him playing a fireglo Ric. Man, I miss Chris Squire. The greatest, in my opinion. Totally underrated.
RIP Chris, to me one of the best bass players of classic rock ever had. We will miss you Chris. But at least, we will have your best music Yes ever produced.with us for a long time.
R.I.P. Chris. Thank you for all of the years of joy. I will miss your dancing with the bass.
C'était un Grand Bassiste de Progressif Rock ...!!
A true Master piece Indeed. 😎🤘😉👍🎼🍺💀🖤☠️
Great album!!! The sound of tje Rickenbaker Bass!!!! Pffff !unique!
Chris Squire, the best bassist!!
no, just a bassist. Unique and inspiring.. best.. no
He had one of my favorite singing voices ever.
#Yuge!
Thank you, #ChrisSquire,
The #FishOutOfWater is STILL a #Masterpiece,
RIP Chris Squire
#AlwaysLoved
#NeverForgotten
Marvelous ; voice and bass are so great 👌
So sad news... He was the greates bassist in sympho rock, no doubt .
懐かしすぎます。クリスのベースももちろん良いのですが、やはりボーカル力ですね。イエスはクリスの歌唱力で支えられてたと思う。
ビルブラフォードのシャツの「Ｂ」はビルのＢ?（笑）
Legendary bass player indeed, Playing with the Angels in the universe
Love Jon. But wow. Never knew Chris had such a great voice. Singing and playing bass in odd time. That's a genius.
genius>? No, people do it every day. if you actually play you should know that... it is what we do.
RIP Chris Squire - One of a kind - Yes, the Hearth of the sunrise !
an extrodinary classic prog rock lp. thanks! chris.
CHRIS SQUIRR R. I. P
Excellent bass player ❤
proves that a bassist can be put to good use without a lead guitar! Chris Squire makes the best use of his instrument I've ever heard. unusual to be sure, but very effective in music! Yes was always Pro Bass where as most bands seem anti-bass!
I adopted his style & method when I took up the bass 50 years ago
70's best music ever
I DID!...I DO!...I ALWAYS WILL!
The ONLY Japanese import CD I ever bought because it wasn't available in the US at the time. I remember thinking "How can this be the greatest country in the world without Chris' Fish...?!"
I bought the Japanese issue CD too from a mail order catalog
Listen to the 2018 remaster if you can find it - it’s absolutely gorgeous
@@FishingwithWPBCharlie Thanks for letting me know! :-)
Great power released with such tenderness.
Nobody like him. Nobody.
Simply Wonderful! ✌️
Outstanding! I bought this album when it first came out and I still have it. Bruford and Squire are two of the best and to see them in this live video is the icing on the cake!!!
I bough this album when it came out. When this promo clip was shown on The Old Grey Whistle Test my father who was an old style Bing Crosby Singer was mighty impressed with this and saw it’s brilliance. “ That boy has some talent” he said.
AMAZING! LOVE Chris! RIP.
Just amazing! Just look at the smile on the man's face! He had the best of times! The best concert experience ever was seeing hime with Yes here in Sydney, Australia on March 17, 1973. And this is a great clip. Thanks!
I once gave his first solo album as my "best album of all time" entry. It was between "Olias of Sunhillow" and this one and I, eventually, after getting a headache thinking about it, that I chose "Fish Out of Water".
That's an amazing performance, as good as any Yes album, fish out of water,
A massive performance by one of my favorites - R.I.P. Chris Squire
here i am again. sheesh.. i am pushing 60 in a couple of years. just wanted say hey, and damn.. this masterful musician carried me through all these years. truly, got me through all the crazy drinking fight crap back in 75... my little ol 8 track sitting atop my old piano, in my room. pfffft i no like dying.. but there i go
THANK YOU CHRIS! This is a COMPLETE PRICELESS GEM to find now. Chris at his best with two other greats [Drummer: Bill Bruford & Keyboards: Patrick Moraz]. I had also purchased the FOOW Record way back when & loved it then & now LOVE IT even more. The GIMONO looks simply incredible & the performance & video are excellent. I had older classical musician parents who would not accept R&R as a legitimate musical art form. That is, until they heard GREAT ROCK musician groups like YES, GENESIS, ELP & others. These incredible R&R musicians gave our music a new appeal & legitimacy that it never had previously. The REAL question isn't whether YES will get into the RRHOF. The REAL question is whether the SUPER GROUP *** YES *** will accept the RRHOF into YES WORLD.
Patrick Moraz unceremoniously booted from Yes the prior year…what a classy guy helping out Chris here.
Chris Squire
Chris Squire has always been one of the greatest bassists to ever fret the instrument... Musical genius unmatched! The kimono thingy is pretty cool too! Great video!
And Bill Brufford too! His unusual timing..I still can't figure it out after 30+ years!
Rest in peace Chris.
Diego Catalano
AMEN
My very first attendance at a LIVE show was this very year: 1975, Poco opening for Yes. Just after that show, I hear this album. Wow. It's hard to believe I've been listening to this great album for over 45 years...
RIP Chris. Rock has lost one of its greats!
very good........................................
What a great tune.
He was indeed "the bass player that other bass players listen to..." Rightly so, magnificent talent.
Chris composed and arranged Fish Out of Water at the same time as Yes were recording Relayer, but his own melodic/orchestral tendencies are far more evident in this album that in the Yes recordings. Also, Chris' early training as a choir boy (at St Paul's I believe) kicked off his lifelong friendship with Andrew Pryce Jackman, a fellow choir boy (whose brother became a founding member of the famous Kings Men Choir Ensemble), and eventual master arranger and keyboardist, who orchestrated all the parts for Fish (that was Squire's nickname, BTW, given him by Bruford when he accidentally flooded a hotel room). Pryce Jackman can be seen on this video, the guy with the top hat, playing piano, tubular bells, and singing. Squire chorale influence probably accounted for many of the stunning vocal passages in Yes albums, something they became known for.
One of my all time favorite albums of all times ! Makes me want to puke to listen to today's music ! Chris Squire you were a genius and still are ! Bill Bruford, Patrick Moraz and that wonderful orchestra in the background pure magic!
It looks really convincing because he was such a professional when it came to vocals, as well, from years of choir, including St. Paul's. But, it is all pantomime, as the orchestra was paid a fee to pretend they were playing. And, his rehearsal ethic was apparently impeccable, even if his punctuality was not. Looks amazingly tight, huh? It is virtually impossible to watch his fingers without learning something new. The way he puts so much thought into each and every note is still mystifying to me. And, misty-fying if you are among those who weep when Yes music is really good.
I love to hear this Fantastic sound!
The bass line on hold Out Your Hand is god-like. In conjunction with BB’s drums it’s enough to make me fall over with bliss.
This is beautiful
A Genius! YES has always been my favorite band, How sad!!!!
Wow that is so wonderful and sad at the same time.
A moment of musical magic captured in time.......
I wish the whole album was performed on camera like this.
Watching this feels like getting punched in the heart the emotions and memories it stirs. I don't think I've ever missed a musician as much as Chris, his loss is a wound that will never heal 😢😞
RIP CHRIS SQUIRE (best bassist in the universe(
Crying...
Me too
Mestre Chris Squire!
Melhor baixista do Rock Progressivo de todos os tempos.
You have been an inspiration my friend
I believe there are a whole lot of us that know about this GREAT album. But watching Bill Bufford you can see this was NOT DONE LIVE, Bill is a GREAT drummer and I know he played this on the album, and he can play this, but it's CLEARLY NOT done live, Still love it though just for the memories of seeing Chris alive! Thanks
Chris Squire wasn't only a fantastic bass player but probably also the most famous crossdresser in the history of progrock🙁.