Those guys were so great. I'd been a YES fan since the 70s, and they hung in there, doing some great records, for such a long time. RIP, Chris and Alan. Have fun playing with Jimi!
This was a soundcheck at the Forest Hills Tennis Center on August 29, 1984. The whole video is about an hour and a half and has interviews with the band members, soundcheck clips and some of the actual concert that night.
I was at that show....they were terrific but Tony Kaye was always the weakest link in this live lineup. Great Hammond player but most of his other keys work was triggering samples of rabin's playing or an offstage player.
My understanding of that time was that instead of having Kaye have a ton of keyboards onstage, they had the 2nd keyboardist trigger the sounds so he could play them onstage - before the computers could catch up to today.
Another interesting story is the fact that when 90125 was almost finished Tony Kaye quit and the band had to scramble to get a new keyboard player and they ended up asking Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music / U.K.) ... and he lasted not very long. He IS in the Owner Of The Lonely Heart video but only really in one shot because by the time the video was shot (but not edited yet) he also quit, so they cut him out of the video. There is an official band photo announcing him by the way. So Yes Management scrambled again and eventually persuaded Tony Kaye to come back (my guess is securing a very nice paycheck) in order to do the tour.
I saw Yes a dozen times if not more starting with Drama and the concerts were good but it was like there was just something not quite there. Except I saw them in Liverpool 2000 ish in what was basically a large tent. There had been a whole series of bands playing in this tent that year. They came on and did a shortish set with some sound issues. Then after going off for a short break they came back, the sound was right and Yes was right. That was the one 24ct gold performance I ever saw by them.
When on their game live, they were possibly the single most incandescent unit in music history. They were certainly the finest live band I ever witnessed. And I saw no small number of shows. Of course, I’m biased. Much of my life they were my go to band.
Not really a myth at all. It's well documented that Casey Young played some additional keyboards live, especially on Hold On. that very obvious edits at 3:36 and at 4:07 are confusing - its really unclear what we are seeing - Casey Young appears to be edited in to this clip.
@Reitia Have you never encountered a light hearted, not entirely serious, comment before? Or are you just a very boring person who likes to wag your finger at people? You surely have to admit Chris looks a prize prat here, but then everyone did at that time. I know because I was there.
@@NickHarman I love him like this. I always love to see him just as Christopher not as Chris Squire. Just as another guy enjoying life. Not as a rockstar entertaining. He was such a terrific person. And this is how I remember him best.
@@NickHarman BTW people are not exactly rocking the ‘fashion sense’ now. They look better in the 80s than they do now, I don’t care what they were wearing. Between the skinny jeans and man buns, To the cargo shorts and the ridiculously disgusting beards hanging down to the chest (shall we mention the pants hanging off their asses?) men today look horrible. They looked far better in the 80’s.
They hid the second keyboardist under the stage. Tony Kaye was a typical Hammond organ player, he lost his place in the band in early 70’ due to his resistance on playing synths and even Mellotron and, despite being a good player, it was clear that he had technical limitations that left him at a different level than the band needed to perform the complex songs that they was already composing at that time.
There is no complete footage of this despite what anyone says. This was used for an MTV segment during Music News. Supposedly they have a few songs from the show, but not an entire concert. This is exactly what the Jimmy Page show from 1988 is like. As for Casey Young, he’s a great arranger and has done film scores and many other projects and had a lot of technology knowledge back then that the band needed help with. Tony was out of the band and replaced by Eddie Jobson in 1983. When Tony decided to come back, Yes offered Jobson (who is amazing) the job that Casey Young ended up with and immediate turned it down.
This wasn't a reheatsal, it was a Soundcheck, and Yes, they had a 2nd keyboard player off-stage, which was very common for bands to have in the 80's , no big deal at all!
Technology wasn't what it is now, the sounds used on 90125 were so complex, a second keyboard player was needed to fatten up the sound, amazing, rare footage.
myth? Casey Young was a Synclavier God - each one cost as much as house so yeah, of course you'd have a full-time guy travelling with the band if you wanted the things to work flawlessly. He was situated underneath the stage risers with a fully functioning "auxilliary control". I read about it as a teenager in (Contemporary) Keyboard Magazine. And yes, this was soundcheck so of course he'd be making sure it all worked...
There was no Synclavier on the 90125 album or tour. They used a Fairlight in the studio and an EMU on tour. Casey Young was their programmer and played some filler parts on the tours because they couldn't trust Tony to handle it all. I have never come across anything that would intimate that Mr. Young was a god of any kind, or that he was one of most talented people on the planet. You must be a relative!
@@ChrisLawton66 Casey was interviewed by Keyboard Magazine about the tour. Other than eyewitnesses, not sure how else to "link" a decade before the internet.
@@ChrisLawton66 www.allmusic.com/artist/casey-young-mn0001762961/credits This list doesn't include his movie soundtrack work, and other gigs (grammys for example). Back then, he was a god in the synthesizer world.
@@TheBandL3 It was never a secret that there was an additional keyboard player during that tour. There was an interview in Keyboard Magazine with Kaye and he said so in it.
I'll never be able to unsee the shorty-short shorts that appear to be shrink-wrapped and fused to Tony Kaye's unmentionables. This is clearly an "80's fashion" violation wherein the rest of us have to look elsewhere presently or look confused later.
Alan's snare sound is soooo bad. lol 80's overload. I get that it wouldn't be the same without it, but snare drums don't sound multiple times huger than the rest of the band
"on drums Mr Alan White....It's great to be with you tonight!"
IYKYK...
" the solos "
@@AALEXGARCIA1 EXACTLY!!!!
That's one of the best videos I've seen by YES and I've seen them live 45 times.
Best thing about this is Chris' sunglasses 😄
Those guys were so great. I'd been a YES fan since the 70s, and they hung in there, doing some great records, for such a long time. RIP, Chris and Alan. Have fun playing with Jimi!
This was a soundcheck at the Forest Hills Tennis Center on August 29, 1984. The whole video is about an hour and a half and has interviews with the band members, soundcheck clips and some of the actual concert that night.
I was at that show....they were terrific but Tony Kaye was always the weakest link in this live lineup. Great Hammond player but most of his other keys work was triggering samples of rabin's playing or an offstage player.
Chris!!! I do love to see him like this. Just casual. Not the ‘rockstar’. RIP, love. We miss you.
I saw this tour 4x, incredible every time!
Even Rick Wakeman had a supplemental keyboard player at the ABWH shows. He allowed him to be on-stage though.
Yes, Julian Colbeck
I wonder how that came about; a new approach to layering 80s synths, perhaps.
Just brilliant stuff. I loved the tour.
Thanks for this beautiful back in time, if only there was one for the Drama Tour period
My understanding of that time was that instead of having Kaye have a ton of keyboards onstage, they had the 2nd keyboardist trigger the sounds so he could play them onstage - before the computers could catch up to today.
Bass sounds really nice here.
This is giving me chills! Thanks for posting
UC Berkeley...I was at this show
This is great - I've not seen this before.... thanks for posting
This was amazing, would love to see more.
Another interesting story is the fact that when 90125 was almost finished Tony Kaye quit and the band had to scramble to get a new keyboard player and they ended up asking Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music / U.K.) ... and he lasted not very long. He IS in the Owner Of The Lonely Heart video but only really in one shot because by the time the video was shot (but not edited yet) he also quit, so they cut him out of the video. There is an official band photo announcing him by the way. So Yes Management scrambled again and eventually persuaded Tony Kaye to come back (my guess is securing a very nice paycheck) in order to do the tour.
The studio albums never made justice to the power of yes in live concerts!
I saw Yes a dozen times if not more starting with Drama and the concerts were good but it was like there was just something not quite there. Except I saw them in Liverpool 2000 ish in what was basically a large tent. There had been a whole series of bands playing in this tent that year. They came on and did a shortish set with some sound issues. Then after going off for a short break they came back, the sound was right and Yes was right. That was the one 24ct gold performance I ever saw by them.
When on their game live, they were possibly the single most incandescent unit in music history. They were certainly the finest live band I ever witnessed. And I saw no small number of shows.
Of course, I’m biased. Much of my life they were my go to band.
"Mr Christopher Squire!" Jesus, I miss him!
Do you still have the full tape of this? Would be great to see the entire thing!
thank you so much for upload this, deep feeling
I find it more amazing, us keyboard players need backup. Keep in mind we usually do 3-7 tracks a tune. There were at least 3-4 tracks here.
Not really a myth at all. It's well documented that Casey Young played some additional keyboards live, especially on Hold On. that very obvious edits at 3:36 and at 4:07 are confusing - its really unclear what we are seeing - Casey Young appears to be edited in to this clip.
thats on the master dog- the camera guy like shut off for 2 seconds when he popped down below and back up
Chris Squire has a great sound here
yes, the fashion sense not so good though
@Reitia Have you never encountered a light hearted, not entirely serious, comment before? Or are you just a very boring person who likes to wag your finger at people? You surely have to admit Chris looks a prize prat here, but then everyone did at that time. I know because I was there.
I love that bass sound! Everyone sounds great, frankly!
@@NickHarman I love him like this. I always love to see him just as Christopher not as Chris Squire. Just as another guy enjoying life. Not as a rockstar entertaining. He was such a terrific person. And this is how I remember him best.
@@NickHarman BTW people are not exactly rocking the ‘fashion sense’ now. They look better in the 80s than they do now, I don’t care what they were wearing. Between the skinny jeans and man buns, To the cargo shorts and the ridiculously disgusting beards hanging down to the chest (shall we mention the pants hanging off their asses?) men today look horrible. They looked far better in the 80’s.
Thank you! Impressive and very emotional rehearsals.
Great video! The vocoder must be played by Kaye though, the other guy has no microphone.
Very cool!
Chris Squire looking very "80's".
Fancy sunglasses, Chris!
KIller saw this tour 5 or 6 shows
Thats Tony Kaye on Keys ah with Casey
Squier and White... Monster's!
Enjoying Tony Kaye's energy.
They hid the second keyboardist under the stage. Tony Kaye was a typical Hammond organ player, he lost his place in the band in early 70’ due to his resistance on playing synths and even Mellotron and, despite being a good player, it was clear that he had technical limitations that left him at a different level than the band needed to perform the complex songs that they was already composing at that time.
Kaye is a very good keyboard player. Wakeman just hit with his huge ego but he was never a band musician.
margus kiis cannot compare their skills, Wakeman was not only a better player technically, He was more creative and open for new technologies.
@@josedealbuquerquejr.941 Wakeman was good on fast and mindless strumming, never heard him playing a melody.
@@marguskiis7711 strumming?
On a keyboard?
Wakeman not playing any melody?
Ok then...you're obviously a fuckwit or a troll.
@@marguskiis7711 if you think Rick Wakeman has an ego. then you sure as fuck know *nothing* about him.
Like...just GTFO with that asinine bullshit.
There is no complete footage of this despite what anyone says.
This was used for an MTV segment during Music News.
Supposedly they have a few songs from the show, but not an entire concert.
This is exactly what the Jimmy Page show from 1988 is like.
As for Casey Young, he’s a great arranger and has done film scores and many other projects and had a lot of technology knowledge back then that the band needed help with.
Tony was out of the band and replaced by Eddie Jobson in 1983.
When Tony decided to come back, Yes offered Jobson (who is amazing) the job that Casey Young ended up with and immediate turned it down.
This wasn't a reheatsal, it was a Soundcheck, and Yes, they had a 2nd keyboard player off-stage, which was very common for bands to have in the 80's , no big deal at all!
And Billy Sherwood first came to play with Yes as an off-stage second guitar on the Talk tour.
Billy Sherwood was on stage with them for the Talk tour.
BILLY was onstage!
Did Rush utilize "offstage" players?
@@davidhutchinson3482 Did you hear all the keyboard stuff going on in their later years? Clearly Geddy wasn’t playing all that.
I still miss Chris Squire : (
Technology wasn't what it is now, the sounds used on 90125 were so complex, a second keyboard player was needed to fatten up the sound, amazing, rare footage.
Sorry, I was too preoccupied with Chris Squire's MONSTER bass tone from that Rick!
The one and only god of the bass: Chris Squire! My rock hero!
myth?
Casey Young was a Synclavier God - each one cost as much as house so yeah, of course you'd have a full-time guy travelling with the band if you wanted the things to work flawlessly. He was situated underneath the stage risers with a fully functioning "auxilliary control". I read about it as a teenager in (Contemporary) Keyboard Magazine. And yes, this was soundcheck so of course he'd be making sure it all worked...
There was no Synclavier on the 90125 album or tour. They used a Fairlight in the studio and an EMU on tour. Casey Young was their programmer and played some filler parts on the tours because they couldn't trust Tony to handle it all. I have never come across anything that would intimate that Mr. Young was a god of any kind, or that he was one of most talented people on the planet. You must be a relative!
Seems to be a disagreement here gents. Why don't both of you provide links to your sources? This needs resolution.
@@ChrisLawton66 Casey was interviewed by Keyboard Magazine about the tour. Other than eyewitnesses, not sure how else to "link" a decade before the internet.
@@ChrisLawton66 www.allmusic.com/artist/casey-young-mn0001762961/credits This list doesn't include his movie soundtrack work, and other gigs (grammys for example). Back then, he was a god in the synthesizer world.
Oh yes, I had that issue of Keyboard mag. Casey Young was interviewed, I think.
WOW! Thank you VERY much! I've never seen any Forest Hills footage in this quality! You wouldn't happen to have the entire tape in this quality?
As a matter of fact, I do! I'll get to the rest of it someday. This post was to satisfy the curiosity of a few naysayers regarding Casey Young!
thanks! -- and sure would like to see that
@@TheBandL3 Hi Joe! Stumbled across this clip again. I would still love to see the entire tape of this if you have it! Stay safe.
@@TheBandL3 It was never a secret that there was an additional keyboard player during that tour. There was an interview in Keyboard Magazine with Kaye and he said so in it.
R.I.P. MR CHRIS SQUIRE🌹🌹🌹
And now, pls, give us a Judas Priest rehersal with Jonathan Valen from Turbo tour!
You toured with YES? You played keys? Where on the stage were you? Under it! ha ha
Never knew about that second keyboard player!
That’s Tony Kaye.
Whatever happened to Casey Young
Here’s Casey talking about playing with yes podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/yes-music-podcast/id466246409?i=1000487435408
He’s a sound engineer now. He’s arguably had a more lucrative career as a session musician and synth programmer than YES has.
Great interview with Casey here. He's had a long and very successful career in music. www.insidemusicast.com/musicasts/2018/6/4/casey-young.html
Thats Toney Kay on keys
Scroll forward for the 2nd guy playing offstage
Rabin is ripping.
I'll never be able to unsee the shorty-short shorts that appear to be shrink-wrapped and fused to Tony Kaye's unmentionables. This is clearly an "80's fashion" violation wherein the rest of us have to look elsewhere presently or look confused later.
FRANK LEE SCARLET ha ha ha ha
Well he could clearly wear it back then.
Likely had a tennis match the same day ;-) (Yes, Tony played tennis quite competitively in the 80's - likely a celebrity circuit).
Chuck Norris action pants shorts or are they daisy duke's?
🙏 ✌ ❤ 🎶 🌎 👏 Chris
No matter what the truth is, hold on to what is yours.... yup, that's America now. So sad.
That would be funny to have some ordinary guy with street clothes just standing on the stage watching the goings on.
OMG!
Why is there such a rough and obvious edit?
Guy probably shut the camera off.
Roger Waters as hidden musician ?
I love "Not Yes"!
I like to call this band Cinema.
Alan's snare sound is soooo bad. lol 80's overload. I get that it wouldn't be the same without it, but snare drums don't sound multiple times huger than the rest of the band
Oh shit 3:11 is epic
Cheaters!
You're taking it too seriously