Hey guys this is not your regular cover band. It's DT. They are not a tribute band. They put their own touch on a fantastic song. This is much better than what your average tribute band could do. Great job DT!
To all the people who think this is not the way Bruford would have played it, Alan White has played this in non syncopated straight time for the last forty years. To do it as Bill would have done it isn't tribute, it's replication. These guys worship Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis and the early prog. This is their way of honoring their progenitors and also getting off the way we all do when we jam to the bands we love. Watch them play these covers and watch the glee they do it with. Cheers
acschram yeah but they didn't own the cover either. at least when Yes covered the Beatles or Paul Simon, they tried to make it their own thing, but this is more replication than ownership; in other words, its not a brilliant cover, its well-executed, but it's no America (Yes version).
acschram - EXACTLY! And when DT do covers, its NOT for "hit singles" and they often add a bit of "Metal" to their versions. Its an "interpretation" and a homage to the bands they love. I mean for God sakes, they've shared the stage with Yes, and even performed with Steve Howe!
Nobody could do it the way Bruford did it not even Bruford himself. Lol. Try air drumming to it or anything Bruford played on. See how fast you miss the beats. Lol.
I get fed up of Bruford after a while, he like the sound of his own drumming too much, he was better off when he went to KC with all the other over achievers
The only difference between White and Bruford on HOTS is the drumset. You're right about it being a tribute replication. Bruford uses electronict drums while White uses normal drums. I like the Bruford sound much better. But White does a great job.
How could anybody say anything bad about this performance? This is an outstanding rendition on every level. Keep in mind who they are being compared to...
Agreed. IMHO it's so close to the original I would think it was Yes (on speed) if I didn't know it was DT (until the vocals kick in, that is). Even the mellotron sound sounds, well, like a mellotron.
performance is great, production makes em sound like Dream Theater. I'm tuned in to circa 1972 drums, so its funny hearing this song with 2000s-era production, but i guess there isnt much point in making it sound exactly like the original
EyMeng - they did this song as a "Soundcheck". Thats the level of this band, and their sheer knowledge musically of the past greats. And they shared the stage of Yes during their 35th anniversary, and they did an instrumental version of "Machine Messiah" on that tour. You have to believe that they humbled themselves to "ask" Yes permission to play it . . . and were allowed to do so :).
Being the biggest Yes fan on the planet, I'm stunned by the critics (they're not supposed to sound like yes you dufuses). DT is an outstanding band covering a prog rock staple as a tribute. GREAT FIN JOB. One of the best covers of this tune I've heard. In particular, love the heavier DT spin to it. Just wish they played this when I saw them in Milwaukee!
Andersons voice always gave me chills during this song live..seen every YES line up. I prefer YES here ..that's for sure.. but a bold interpretation.great instrumental work.
Any cover of YES is always a good venture for the ears. In this instance a grand appreciation for it. My fave YES cover by Glass Hammer is SSOTS, different and highly in depth as a GH version. If you have not heard it, search this: Glass Hammer South Side of the Sky on the tube.
a lot of people are saying the lead singer is terrible, but I think he did a great job, his voice matches this song pretty well. Of course I prefer the yes version tho :)
Don't get me wrong (I love DT) but.....when DT plays it , it is just a "nice song", while when YES played is definitively a superb song. YES made the difference.
That is an OUTSTANDING cover of the song. As you can tell by my username, Yes has been my favorite band for over 40 years. Dream Theater NAILS this tune. Impressive!
I recently heard an interview with Rick Wakeman where he said Yes is not Yes without Jon Anderson. James LaBrie did a great job and as a cover this is fantastic. Comparing the two vocalists in not fair. I would imagine a Yes cover of a DT song would seem wrong with Anderson singing. Give the man credit for his talent!
Just like Echoes, Child in Time, Highway Star, et. al. nothing can be as good as the original. Still DT does a fantastic job of covering those songs just as they do here.
@ElennaMorwinyon I love all the bands they covered on this album too, but technically, Dream Theater is more advanced than any of those bands (and it pains me to say that, having been a huge Yes fan for nearly 40 years). Your comment reveals a lack of musical education. I'm not trying to be mean here. Just pointing out that there's a difference between a band being musically accomplished and a band just happening to appeal to your particular taste more or less than another band.
To get the perfect bass guitar tone for Heart of the Sunrise, you have to use a pick (instead of just fingers). That said, John Myung does an amazing job. I've followed Dream Theater's work quite a lot. Never once have I seen Myung use a pick. And, you cannot get the signature Chris Squire sound without it. Still like this cover of Heart of the Sunrise, very much. No one else has covered it as well.
You could play the intro and I'd be surprised it wasn't Yes. Petrucci nails the Howe parts note for note. I like Rudess' approach a bit more. He plays with the Wakeman parts, keeping the essence but making them his own w/o breaking them. IMO note-for-note isn't a cover, it's a tribute. It's *your* take on the song. Perhaps the best example is, of course, Jimi's _All_Along_The_Watchtower_. And us olde fartes may remember _Blinded_By_the_Light_ by Manfred Mann, their cover of a Bruce Springsteen song. I never knew it was written by BS until I did.
Wow..nice to meet you Chris... very far from here but same in the music taste. 6 times YES concert and never bored? Hmm.. that's why we like the prog (rock) music... Thank's to suggest me the Octavarium...I really like it... not only like YES Topo's also like Close to the edge & Gates of Delirium....I'll try the rest.... What do you think the comparison between Steve Howe & John Petrucci or Wakeman & Ruddes. I really like the sound of Steve's Gibson ES 175, nice look also very classic....
Thanks for respected YES... I agree... IMO Yes is the most great band in the planet, with the very nice & unique CD/LP cover (Roger Dean artist). But I can't denied DT is also very great band with highly skillful musician ... for me YES is like Porsche 911 turbo (perfect classic sport car) and DT is like Ferrari (perfect, more futuristic, hardcore and exciting)
Anderson's "sharp distance" is just so incredibly beautiful, I would be amazed if anyone could even approach it... his talking voice, high voice, and lower chest register all sound similar in a very intriguing way.
@EragonFiresword and now that you mentioned it - just found it and listening again for the umptheenth time. Somehow It seems better than YES... goodness. Thanks for the note!
To be honest, it's not a bad cover at all. The timing is tight, and the tone is pretty straight on. It seems like people here are expecting it too much to sound like Yes. I just don't really like the vocalist's extra flourish and the overproduced drums, guitar could be a little less electric too...
Petrucci plays it like Trevor Rabin on Big Generator/Union tour, using fast unisono with keyboards in second part. I doubt Steve Howe would make it technically (however I prefer original, of course).
I think James Labrie's voice sounds pretty good here, don't know what everybody's talking about. He's no Jon Anderson sure, but I think he does a great job.
Agreed. Did you hear about how he wrecked his vocal chords? I heard he was on vacation somewhere and got food poisoning. I can't find many details about it.
@shammadamma they aren't trying to improve on it, they are just paying tribute, how many bands would release entire cover albums, not to mention covers of songs they liked listening to growing up. furthermore how many artists pay tribute to yes. its a good way of getting DT fans into the roots of prog.
Thanks for the suggestion...I've tried Octovarium....hmmm...24 minutes of dynamic sonngs.....for me it's look like YES Tales From Topographic Oceans albums...have you ever try Yes?
That's one of my all time fave covers (and Cairo "South Side of the Sky"). But I also don't expect or necessarily want a band to cover an already established classic track to be done EXACTLY like the original. We already have the original. DT doesn't do "covers" for "Hit Singles", they do it as a homage (like other bands) to one of their fave bands. As long as its good to these ears, that's enough for me. DT usually puts a bit of "Metal" into their interpretations.
Gonna get on the DT train because this was a pretty good effort, not bad at all. Take their cover of Rush "Xanadu" I'll be the bus driver right over that mess but this was ok I thought.
actually, portnoy isn't playing it the way bruford did. bruford played paradiddle diddles between the snare and the hi hat. hat-snare-hat-hat-snare-snare,
EyMeng I mean the little drum and bass break between Squire/Bruford or in this case Myung/Portnoy. Alan White just plays it straight 3/4, kick and cross-stick, but Portnoy, like Bruford on the original track, adds a little bit of syncopation and rhythmic modulation in there, as well as those tasty sextuplets.
So we are the same age... I saw Yes concert in Jakarta, Indonesia at 24 April...1st time concert in my country.... I was very very excited with their concert... hmm...9th YES concert...so I bet you ever saw Jon and Rick in their 35 anniversary concert which was the very best YES line up ...don't you? May I know your country is?
Covering a song doesn't have to mean copying it. This is an amazing cover version being a pretty good copy as well (in spite of a different bass sound and well-it's-not-Jon-Anderson-is-it sentiments). Many Yes tribute bands would probably give their left feet for this level of playing alone. To be honest, in the last 30 years Yes have played versions of this song that weren't as inspired as this one by Dream Theater - and I'm saying this as a fan and collector of Yes (1969-1977 mainly)...
We all know DT is great 'Metal' band, I agree it is really good Cover Song...As a YES fans nothing compare with Steve Gibson's...Jon Voice, Rick's keyboard, Chris bass and Alan drums....
A great job by DT. Some songs are so Iconic that covering them opens oneself to heated debates and criticism. For me the playing is the best part of the song.Labrie's take on Jon's singing is over dramatic and the sentimentally is not needed.
Stop banging on about the singer's voice. He's not Anderson and he's not trying to be. He's got a different style and they're just trying to play a piece of music they like.
It's really hard to make this song sound good when playing bass with fingers. I'm a good finger player (not as good as John Myung though lol) and I have a hard time doing this justice
Giacomo Tarkus Sannino exactly! I would say that Myung cannot use pick properly because he never uses one. There is a lot of bass players that think that playing with pick is amateurish or something and that the only correct style of playing is with fingers. Of course if you can play only with a pick and not with fingers - it makes you a limited player. But if you play only with fingers and you cant use a pick - it also makes you limited. A good bass player should be able to play using any technique. My opinion is that John Myung didn´t do very good here. I would love to hear how Chris Squire would play some of the DT songs :-D But its always a pleasure to here other good bands to play Yes. And....yes I also play this song with fingers because I cannot use a pick :-D
+cursedswordsman My personal way of cheating while using my fingers: Using my fingernails. It gives it that thin but fluent sound, at least during the bass solo. Also punching the heck outta your strings (like what Geddy Lee does) during the faster parts gives you the punch of Chris' signature Rick sound. It works for me, but then I own a Rick so that really makes it a lot easier as well.
Yes is an extremely hard band to cover, and make it sound good. People are shitting on this cover, but I think that it is quite good. Obviously the lead singer is no Jon Anderson. Then again who but the man himself is?
Nobody but Bruford ever gets that drum beat at the first breakdown right. It's not supposed to be your average stoner rock jam. that's the fucking point. the bass provides that while drums turn it into something different. Even on Yes Songs the live version sounds cheap because Bruford isn't there.
@antonvonwebern ... dude im the biggest yes fan in the world and i quite enjoyed it. Portnoy's take on the drums combined Bruford's jazziness with White's push and rock n roll tendencies...than i heard the first verse .......haha...but come on he's not Jon Anderson...or Benoit David for that matter haha... it's a good cover
i really don't understand all of the critisizm on labrie's singing. i think his voice sounds beautiful here. since when is vibrato not allowed? especially in progressive metal.
I'm not a big DT fan, but they do a great job at covering classic prog rock bands. I actually think Portnoy handles this song better than Alan White does, which surprises me. Sure, it still lacks Bruford's touch and sense of subtlety, but it's a step closer to Bruford than White's treatment IMO.
would have liked a little improv from the bass during the intro--hey--it's your thang of a yes song---give yourself some room to add your individual distinctiveness to the borg...resistance is.......
Definitely some good points here, but I have to agree with someone who once said he sounds like a wailing Banshee at times. He also sounds bad when he tries to sing aggressively. To his credit, he did wreck his vocal chords or something years ago. I'm not sure of the details. I do think that he sounds very good when he's at the mid to mid-high range though.
I am a huge, 40 yr fan of YES and I must admit that they have balls in trying to cover one of the most difficult, talented bands of all times. The main problem is Labrie's inabilty to even remotely capture Jon's intentions or range. The best if the keyboard and guitar. Portnoy is too heavy where as Bruford was about finesse. And the bass is just not in the same league. Squire invented the fugue style for bass players. Overall a 7 out of 10.
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This was recorded in a SOUNDCHECK.
Hey guys this is not your regular cover band. It's DT. They are not a tribute band. They put their own touch on a fantastic song. This is much better than what your average tribute band could do. Great job DT!
To all the people who think this is not the way Bruford would have played it, Alan White has played this in non syncopated straight time for the last forty years. To do it as Bill would have done it isn't tribute, it's replication. These guys worship Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis and the early prog. This is their way of honoring their progenitors and also getting off the way we all do when we jam to the bands we love. Watch them play these covers and watch the glee they do it with. Cheers
acschram yeah but they didn't own the cover either. at least when Yes covered the Beatles or Paul Simon, they tried to make it their own thing, but this is more replication than ownership; in other words, its not a brilliant cover, its well-executed, but it's no America (Yes version).
acschram - EXACTLY! And when DT do covers, its NOT for "hit singles" and they often add a bit of "Metal" to their versions. Its an "interpretation" and a homage to the bands they love. I mean for God sakes, they've shared the stage with Yes, and even performed with Steve Howe!
Nobody could do it the way Bruford did it not even Bruford himself. Lol. Try air drumming to it or anything Bruford played on. See how fast you miss the beats. Lol.
I get fed up of Bruford after a while, he like the sound of his own drumming too much, he was better off when he went to KC with all the other over achievers
The only difference between White and Bruford on HOTS is the drumset. You're right about it being a tribute replication. Bruford uses electronict drums while White uses normal drums. I like the Bruford sound much better. But White does a great job.
A pleasure to listen to. And that for a YES-fan for over 40 years...............
How could anybody say anything bad about this performance? This is an outstanding rendition on every level. Keep in mind who they are being compared to...
Agreed. IMHO it's so close to the original I would think it was Yes (on speed) if I didn't know it was DT (until the vocals kick in, that is). Even the mellotron sound sounds, well, like a mellotron.
amen
performance is great, production makes em sound like Dream Theater. I'm tuned in to circa 1972 drums, so its funny hearing this song with 2000s-era production, but i guess there isnt much point in making it sound exactly like the original
Dont know, io sound great, but sometimes a bit mechanical
EyMeng - they did this song as a "Soundcheck". Thats the level of this band, and their sheer knowledge musically of the past greats. And they shared the stage of Yes during their 35th anniversary, and they did an instrumental version of "Machine Messiah" on that tour. You have to believe that they humbled themselves to "ask" Yes permission to play it . . . and were allowed to do so :).
Hot cover of a Yes classic! John Myung is an awesome bass player
This awesome song is almost 40 years old and still rocks. Yes Rules. Amen.
Being the biggest Yes fan on the planet, I'm stunned by the critics (they're not supposed to sound like yes you dufuses). DT is an outstanding band covering a prog rock staple as a tribute. GREAT FIN JOB. One of the best covers of this tune I've heard. In particular, love the heavier DT spin to it. Just wish they played this when I saw them in Milwaukee!
Andersons voice always gave me chills during this song live..seen every YES line up. I prefer YES here ..that's for sure.. but a bold interpretation.great instrumental work.
I love Yes😍 and DT is such an amazing band
anyone else hear the influence this song has on ¨learning to live¨? i hear it
The beginning bass part with the melotron In the background yep. Same here
Both are contenders for my favourite song of all time so I can see it
This is not a cover, this is a truly recreation of a fine art almost unreachable for the vast majority and DT is capable of it!!
First time I ever heard John Myungs' bass cuz in their albums it's always mixed down
I got a lot of respect 4 this group covering this wild song! Not alot of bands nowadays can kick it like this!!!
I like Dream Theater. This is a great cover.
Fantastic rendition of the new generation to the great ones! Love it!
To all of you comparing bands: If you want it to sound exactly as the original, why bother to hear a cover? Just shut up. This sounds great.
Wait. Wait. Wait
DT is my second fave band, yet I never heard of this version! I'm crazy for this song, Yes's version. This is a cool find.
Any cover of YES is always a good venture for the ears. In this instance a grand appreciation for it. My fave YES cover by Glass Hammer is SSOTS, different and highly in depth as a GH version. If you have not heard it, search this: Glass Hammer South Side of the Sky on the tube.
a lot of people are saying the lead singer is terrible, but I think he did a great job, his voice matches this song pretty well. Of course I prefer the yes version tho :)
One of the most technical music ever. Great song.
The reason why I like this cover is because I am a fan of yes and dream theater so this is pretty good on their part putting their own spin on it.
Don't get me wrong (I love DT) but.....when DT plays it , it is just a "nice song", while when YES played is definitively a superb song. YES made the difference.
That is an OUTSTANDING cover of the song. As you can tell by my username, Yes has been my favorite band for over 40 years. Dream Theater NAILS this tune. Impressive!
To listen to another band that loves Yes, hear Shadow Gallery's cover of Release Release or Stanley Snail's cover of Siberian Khatru
This is pretty cool.
I recently heard an interview with Rick Wakeman where he said Yes is not Yes without Jon Anderson. James LaBrie did a great job and as a cover this is fantastic. Comparing the two vocalists in not fair. I would imagine a Yes cover of a DT song would seem wrong with Anderson singing. Give the man credit for his talent!
check your ears very bad voice and out of tune
Just like Echoes, Child in Time, Highway Star, et. al. nothing can be as good as the original. Still DT does a fantastic job of covering those songs just as they do here.
great rendition to a bill bruford masterpiece in drumming
great, I love this version too!
Agree. And just 34 years of enjoying Yes (started at 12). Kudos from Buenos Aires (where I've seen Yes live in 1985).
Yes..one of there influence band never forget
I like it. You might think I'm crazy, but I think they did justice to Yes. James LaBrie is being himself, and that's all we need.
Great work....great musicians.
I love Yes but now I love them moooooreeeee
Thanks for the reply... I have to listen to the DT's mellow songs
@ElennaMorwinyon I love all the bands they covered on this album too, but technically, Dream Theater is more advanced than any of those bands (and it pains me to say that, having been a huge Yes fan for nearly 40 years). Your comment reveals a lack of musical education. I'm not trying to be mean here. Just pointing out that there's a difference between a band being musically accomplished and a band just happening to appeal to your particular taste more or less than another band.
Excellent ! Great cover with the DT own impressions. Thanks for post this !
AMAZING!!
So stiff, so excellent, so Dream Theater.
Epic song epic cover!!
This is a great cover. They put a lot of work into it. THANKS!!
great cover
This sounds like Breaking All Illusions !
scenes from a memory.one of THE BEST studio CD's ever made !
My FAVORITE "YES" song EVER!!! "DREAM THEATER" is hands down the best, true-progressive, rock band around today.
Perfect rendition.
increible
Becomes different with the vocals of James LaBrie, but still a very good cover indeed!
Great cover!
To get the perfect bass guitar tone for Heart of the Sunrise, you have to use a pick (instead of just fingers). That said, John Myung does an amazing job. I've followed Dream Theater's work quite a lot. Never once have I seen Myung use a pick. And, you cannot get the signature Chris Squire sound without it.
Still like this cover of Heart of the Sunrise, very much. No one else has covered it as well.
Do it better your big shit
i always said it would be fucking awesome if Dream Theater covered this. their style is perfect for it. then today, i found this. Day = Made.
O-M-G!
John Myung is the best in this cover I think!
You could play the intro and I'd be surprised it wasn't Yes.
Petrucci nails the Howe parts note for note.
I like Rudess' approach a bit more. He plays with the Wakeman parts, keeping the essence but making them his own w/o breaking them. IMO note-for-note isn't a cover, it's a tribute. It's *your* take on the song. Perhaps the best example is, of course, Jimi's _All_Along_The_Watchtower_. And us olde fartes may remember _Blinded_By_the_Light_ by Manfred Mann, their cover of a Bruce Springsteen song. I never knew it was written by BS until I did.
Dood.. I wish I coulvd've listened to this with you Ron Miller! Rest in Peace bud
Love Yes, love DT..decent cover. Just makes me want to listen to the original. I like DT's cover of Dark Side of the Moon over this cover.
A cover wouldn't be a cover if a band didn't put a slightly different twist on things. Like DT injecting their DNA into this YES classic :)
Wow..nice to meet you Chris... very far from here but same in the music taste. 6 times YES concert and never bored? Hmm.. that's why we like the prog (rock) music... Thank's to suggest me the Octavarium...I really like it... not only like YES Topo's also like Close to the edge & Gates of Delirium....I'll try the rest.... What do you think the comparison between Steve Howe & John Petrucci or Wakeman & Ruddes. I really like the sound of Steve's Gibson ES 175, nice look also very classic....
Thanks for respected YES... I agree... IMO Yes is the most great band in the planet, with the very nice & unique CD/LP cover (Roger Dean artist). But I can't denied DT is also very great band with highly skillful musician ... for me YES is like Porsche 911 turbo (perfect classic sport car) and DT is like Ferrari (perfect, more futuristic, hardcore and exciting)
Great instrumentation but the vocals kill it....in the singer's defense, Jon Anderson's vocals are no easy feat to match.
they don't play nearly as well as I HAD HEARD
Labrie sounds find here, he's had some rough years where his voice was fucked from a food poisoning incident.
Anderson's "sharp distance" is just so incredibly beautiful, I would be amazed if anyone could even approach it... his talking voice, high voice, and lower chest register all sound similar in a very intriguing way.
@EragonFiresword and now that you mentioned it - just found it and listening again for the umptheenth time. Somehow It seems better than YES... goodness. Thanks for the note!
@lummond also remember that Chris uses a bass pick wile Myung uses only his fingers.
To be honest, it's not a bad cover at all. The timing is tight, and the tone is pretty straight on. It seems like people here are expecting it too much to sound like Yes.
I just don't really like the vocalist's extra flourish and the overproduced drums, guitar could be a little less electric too...
Petrucci plays it like Trevor Rabin on Big Generator/Union tour, using fast unisono with keyboards in second part. I doubt Steve Howe would make it technically (however I prefer original, of course).
I think James Labrie's voice sounds pretty good here, don't know what everybody's talking about. He's no Jon Anderson sure, but I think he does a great job.
Agreed. Did you hear about how he wrecked his vocal chords? I heard he was on vacation somewhere and got food poisoning. I can't find many details about it.
@shammadamma they aren't trying to improve on it, they are just paying tribute, how many bands would release entire cover albums, not to mention covers of songs they liked listening to growing up. furthermore how many artists pay tribute to yes. its a good way of getting DT fans into the roots of prog.
Thanks for the suggestion...I've tried Octovarium....hmmm...24 minutes of dynamic sonngs.....for me it's look like YES Tales From Topographic Oceans albums...have you ever try Yes?
@BillatBYP Have you heard Spock's Beard's rendition of the same song?
Still the best cover of a Yes song is Stanley Snail's "Siberian Khatru," IMHO.
Robert Kaye agree
That's one of my all time fave covers (and Cairo "South Side of the Sky"). But I also don't expect or necessarily want a band to cover an already established classic track to be done EXACTLY like the original. We already have the original. DT doesn't do "covers" for "Hit Singles", they do it as a homage (like other bands) to one of their fave bands.
As long as its good to these ears, that's enough for me. DT usually puts a bit of "Metal" into their interpretations.
Band Geek's cover of "The Calling" is pretty top shelf
Sweet cover indeed
Gonna get on the DT train because this was a pretty good effort, not bad at all. Take their cover of Rush "Xanadu" I'll be the bus driver right over that mess but this was ok I thought.
Finally, Portnoy actually plays the drum part like it's supposed to played...
too bad the drums sound like tin cans, but thats 2000s prog production for ya
newvultraz I love Portnoy but his snare sounds awful and I'll take the Bruford version but this is better that white's.
actually, portnoy isn't playing it the way bruford did. bruford played paradiddle diddles between the snare and the hi hat. hat-snare-hat-hat-snare-snare,
EyMeng I understand that, but this song needs the Bruford style of snare timing. You can't improve on perfection !
EyMeng I mean the little drum and bass break between Squire/Bruford or in this case Myung/Portnoy. Alan White just plays it straight 3/4, kick and cross-stick, but Portnoy, like Bruford on the original track, adds a little bit of syncopation and rhythmic modulation in there, as well as those tasty sextuplets.
So we are the same age... I saw Yes concert in Jakarta, Indonesia at 24 April...1st time concert in my country.... I was very very excited with their concert... hmm...9th YES concert...so I bet you ever saw Jon and Rick in their 35 anniversary concert which was the very best YES line up ...don't you? May I know your country is?
Covering a song doesn't have to mean copying it. This is an amazing cover version being a pretty good copy as well (in spite of a different bass sound and well-it's-not-Jon-Anderson-is-it sentiments). Many Yes tribute bands would probably give their left feet for this level of playing alone. To be honest, in the last 30 years Yes have played versions of this song that weren't as inspired as this one by Dream Theater - and I'm saying this as a fan and collector of Yes (1969-1977 mainly)...
this starts out great but drops out when it gets to the sensitive sections
We all know DT is great 'Metal' band, I agree it is really good Cover Song...As a YES fans nothing compare with Steve Gibson's...Jon Voice, Rick's keyboard, Chris bass and Alan drums....
A great job by DT. Some songs are so Iconic that covering them opens oneself to heated debates and criticism. For me the playing is the best part of the song.Labrie's take on Jon's singing is over dramatic and the sentimentally is not needed.
Stop banging on about the singer's voice. He's not Anderson and he's not trying to be. He's got a different style and they're just trying to play a piece of music they like.
Ghastly. How they ever persuaded Labrie to do this is beyond me. Executed with all the subtlety of a bunch of body shop workers from Long Island.
all the reason my friend!, Wakeman is the best on keyboard of all time...
It's really hard to make this song sound good when playing bass with fingers. I'm a good finger player (not as good as John Myung though lol) and I have a hard time doing this justice
fingers work well depending on how you set your tone
why don't play this with pick, excuse me?
Giacomo Tarkus Sannino exactly! I would say that Myung cannot use pick properly because he never uses one. There is a lot of bass players that think that playing with pick is amateurish or something and that the only correct style of playing is with fingers. Of course if you can play only with a pick and not with fingers - it makes you a limited player. But if you play only with fingers and you cant use a pick - it also makes you limited. A good bass player should be able to play using any technique. My opinion is that John Myung didn´t do very good here. I would love to hear how Chris Squire would play some of the DT songs :-D But its always a pleasure to here other good bands to play Yes. And....yes I also play this song with fingers because I cannot use a pick :-D
+cursedswordsman My personal way of cheating while using my fingers: Using my fingernails. It gives it that thin but fluent sound, at least during the bass solo. Also punching the heck outta your strings (like what Geddy Lee does) during the faster parts gives you the punch of Chris' signature Rick sound. It works for me, but then I own a Rick so that really makes it a lot easier as well.
@BillatBYP Always happy to be of assistance :)
Yes is an extremely hard band to cover, and make it sound good. People are shitting on this cover, but I think that it is quite good. Obviously the lead singer is no Jon Anderson. Then again who but the man himself is?
I doubt there are many bands that can do this cover of YES as well as DT! This is coming from a devoted fan of BOTH bands.
Nobody but Bruford ever gets that drum beat at the first breakdown right. It's not supposed to be your average stoner rock jam. that's the fucking point. the bass provides that while drums turn it into something different. Even on Yes Songs the live version sounds cheap because Bruford isn't there.
Not bad not bad
Darn it! it didn't have the weird We Have Heaven outtro. But I think the Yes version is better. But this is good.
@antonvonwebern ... dude im the biggest yes fan in the world and i quite enjoyed it. Portnoy's take on the drums combined Bruford's jazziness with White's push and rock n roll tendencies...than i heard the first verse .......haha...but come on he's not Jon Anderson...or Benoit David for that matter haha... it's a good cover
i really don't understand all of the critisizm on labrie's singing. i think his voice sounds beautiful here. since when is vibrato not allowed? especially in progressive metal.
I'm not a big DT fan, but they do a great job at covering classic prog rock bands. I actually think Portnoy handles this song better than Alan White does, which surprises me. Sure, it still lacks Bruford's touch and sense of subtlety, but it's a step closer to Bruford than White's treatment IMO.
Cool cover, but Myung's thumpy humbucker tone is a poor substitute for Chris Squire's clarion clang.
After this song im off to bed
Surprisingly, Labrie didn't fuck this. Awesome.
fuck yeah!
would have liked a little improv from the bass during the intro--hey--it's your thang of a yes song---give yourself some room to add your individual distinctiveness to the borg...resistance is.......
Definitely some good points here, but I have to agree with someone who once said he sounds like a wailing Banshee at times. He also sounds bad when he tries to sing aggressively. To his credit, he did wreck his vocal chords or something years ago. I'm not sure of the details. I do think that he sounds very good when he's at the mid to mid-high range though.
I wonder how Howe thinks of this...
I am a huge, 40 yr fan of YES and I must admit that they have balls in trying to cover one of the most difficult, talented bands of all times. The main problem is Labrie's inabilty to even remotely capture Jon's intentions or range.
The best if the keyboard and guitar. Portnoy is too heavy where as Bruford was about finesse. And the bass is just not in the same league. Squire invented the fugue style for bass players. Overall a 7 out of 10.