This is a multilayered, multifaceted, underappreciated piece, and it pisses me off. They're such masters in every way. This song displays such complexity, yet, in an easy-to-digest way. The bass is clearly the star here, but I am in such awe and utter amazement at how killer is Alan White's drum playing. I am beyond disbelief at how little recognition Alan White gets, relative to how truly magnificent he is. 😢🥁💚😡
This might be one of my favorite performances from alan... he was on FIRE here. I've never heard him play with such urgency. That was great. The production left some to be desired though.
Alan White was so amazing! I love his playing on this song! Drama kicked it up another level too. I’ve always preferred Bruford’s jazzy style and precision but Alan fits this music so well! We are so lucky 🍀 to have two awesome drummers 🥁 in Yes!
For me, "better every time" goes for every Yes song... really any complex song in general. In fact for some Yes songs I can go from almost hate to fave. That was a huge advantage of albums, especially on cassette. It's such a PITA to skip something, you don't. Then one day you wake up with "that crappy song" in your head, but a smile on your face.
In the 70's my 3 favorite bands were Zeppelin, Tull & Yes. I OD'd on Zep, gave Tull long breaks but am getting into them again lately, but YES has been a constant go-to throughout the years. I therefore agree with your assessment.
Wembley, yes live 1978, Wembley empire pool. Matinee, about a third of the way in. After taking the roof off with starship trooper and an amazing crescendo of moog and guitar, that was Wurm, they launched straight into this, Chris Centre of the rotating stage, bass hitting everybody hard. In the stomach booming, vibrations globally shifting tectonic plates, thudding , effects, pedal, lights , action, sounds- not just bass led more, a Seismic event, an earthquake......😂 never to be forgotten.
"Tormato" is exactly like "Drama" in that they both open and close POWERFULLY! In between the bookends of brilliant songs, you get a lot of varied tracks that each has something different to tell. Both albums are criminally underrated!
Exactly I also feel a connection to Jon Anderson's Lyrics . YES is a Special Band Beautiful Souls. I am so happy I found your Channel . Namaste 🕯️💜🎨🤗🎶🎧
"Silent Wings of Freedom" is an all-out rocker. Squire's bass just blazes a fiery trail across the sky...like a meteor. I consider it to be a companion piece to "South Side of the Sky"...but even better. It has an immediacy to it. Love the church bells!
Alan White's drumming is vastly overlooked! I don't think that a lot of people know that Alan White was member of John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band." He played drums on "Give Peace a Chance"..(which YES chanted during the connecting parts of "Your Move/All Good People"), and I think Alan played drums on "Instant Karma."
I love how you call it a sighting when you're talking about when Jon comes in 🤣 that's a perfect word for their presence. I saw Yes 3 times and it was awesome 😎 the first time was in the 70s in the round! It was this album tour to be specific 😍 it was a small venue, the Long Beach Arena.
one of my all time faves! takes a while to get into, but in terms of fun and complexity, after you've listened to Close to the Edge 1000 times, Tormato I think opens up as a real virtuoso album. dont know how to explain it, but Tormato grows on you.
I totally get what you mean. It just takes a few listens to set in and for you to understand. I had a great first exposure to this song, I'll see how I feel about it after a few listens 😮😊
@@L33Reacts maybe an unpopular opinion but this song is about seeking enlightenment. trying to be one, feeling as one, and yet not being one, and the struggle of being on the path and being alienated. being one with everything is the goal, and yet in a sense it is torturous when others have no idea that's how you feel. Jon's always got some actual meaning behind his songs and he leaves it up to the listener to figure it out, while lying to the press and saying it's nonsense. the people who think it's nonsense don't deserve to know, and he stopped caring if people understood long ago. just like Ian Anderson, they write an utterly personal song and don't have the strength to explain it to everyone over and over again, so they just say it's up to the listener to decide. he wants to make you think, but you can be damn sure he knows what it's about. it's like Jesus preaching in parables, they dont care if you understand their art, they just keep making it for those who really care to figure it out.
Hi L33. Please check out "The Fish" from their Live from Montreux DVD The Fish is from their Fragile album but in this performance, Chris transitions into the bass rift from this track with a superb percussion accompinement from Alan. Chris is a true showman in the clip.
That's a Biotron Rick is playing .It would be only played on this Yes album.This song was a monster played Live in the Round,I know! This is also kind of a predecessor to Rick's next solo album Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record which featured Chris and Alan.
I've always loved this song. When my ex heard the song for the first time in 1980, and it reached the climactic moment right before Jon starts to sing, she said, "I think I just had a mini θrgasm." How awesome is that?! As for Jon's lyrics, they are usually metaphors for war, peace, love, and spirituality. They are difficult, at times, to interpret logically; however, they make perfect sense from an emotional perspective. They make people feel something and they spark the imagination, even when the lyrics don't make much sense on a surface level. Combined with the incredible instrumentation, Yes music becomes transcendent. ❤✌
I suggest you go back where you left off and listen to "Madrigal" next. It is a beautiful song, featuring Rick Wakeman on the harpsichord and Steve Howe playing Spanish acoustic guitar. And of course Jon Anderson's beautiful singing.
On my Yes top ten. Best song from a disappointing follow up to “Going for the One”which I thought was among their best. Terrific contributions from all five including unusually pointed lyrics from Jon.
For a lot of bands this would be their best... but for YES , still awesome , but not quite the top of the iceberg. But still freakin' awesome. We know that. 😍
Jon uses his voice as additional musical instrumentation, sometimes his lyrics seem 'way off' in the smokey haze of day-dreams - but isn't that what makes the band what it is? Great to see you looking so good fella, seeing your smile!
Firstly, I find the lyrics some of Jon's best. This is 65% of Tormato's price tag with Madrigal remainder. Heh. My God, Mr. Squire is sublime at the get go, Steve layers his (affectionately) noodling within and around. Jon, what is there to say, Lee, really? Am I wrong? 😊 "Do you choose to be lost midst the challenge of being one?" Come on...this man, these gents, Wakeman reminding above it all. White like Peter the Rock. It feels like a track Jon and Chris (the founders) wrote.
Chris Squire plays the harmoniser effect bass on this track & I think on future times. Punk was taking off at this time which explains some of the sounds on Tormato ? Some futuristic music on this album absolutely love it 👍
L33: I think of this song as if the band is like a high performance race car and they've used it to explore every kind of surface or atmosphere out there, from undersea to surface of the moon to mountains in underground caverns that glow in the dark. Then one day, their mechanic said, "Hey you British monkeys with too many superballs! You're so busy exploring the quicksand pudding ceiling that you never open this baby up on a highway like she's built for and now your carburetor's gummed up! Take this beast out on the highway and put the pedal down HARD! " And that's what they did.... Chris and Alan cleared that entire engine of any buildup and Jon sang how it felt. ...
Hahahaha that is so random but it strangely fits 🤣 good one Greg. Your so right... the rhythm section said hey guys, we got this. Jon your riding shotgun. Let's go.
I want you to react to the album, "Talk, " released in 1994...which I consider another Masterpiece, especially the song, "Endless Dream, " which is the last song on the album. Remember "Talk. " by Yes! Great reaction. Merry Christmas!😊😊😊😊
Jon's lyrics aren't non-sense they are abstract and impressionistic even if they don't always make literal sense I usually get a sense of what he's attempting to communicate within the context of the music.
Absolutely. I always usually understand what he's getting at. It's abstract as hell and especially on Olias when he is constructing an entire new universe basically...it's crazy lol. I love him so much.
❤❤❤Jon Anderson and many members of Yes are very conscious of our interconnection to everything seen and unseen. And that's the spirituality. Peter Gabriel and Jon Anderson are very good friends. 😊😊😊....Yes is about the human journey experience of Love which we shall return to Celestial existence in the Cosmos. And really spreading that experience of light to the rest of humanity. 😊😊😊 And despite the terrible things 😊 happening in this reality...we are moving and evolving to The One. 😊
I truly hope you're right my friend... the world seems to be growing darker by the day. But I try to maintain hope that the world will get better somehow. I want my girls to have a better life then I did. But damn, that is so hard to make happen. I'm trying my best.
Thank you. Love this piece. Chris uses this line when he plays The Fish live. On a humorous note, the album cover story. Yes was presented with the album art. Rick threw his lunch at it. That wound up being the cover with the tomato splatter.
@@jhutch888 also worth mentioning, Rick Wakeman plays keyboards on Cat Stevens classic “morning has broken” and on David Bowie’s “space oddity” these greats sure do get around. 😎
Chris Squire on Jon's lyrics: "I was worried about if Jon even knew what they meant. After a while I just sang them without thinking about it cause they sounded good."
All of the remaining songs are worth hearing and are quite different from each other. The contrast with DRAMA will be clear as far as the album flow. Really hope you hear that one in it's entirety also, despite Jon & Rick not being on it. Think of it as a different band and I'm confident you'll think "This is awesome!".
Michael Manring played with Michael Hedges (RIP) sometimes. If you haven't heard Hedges, he's one of the most creative guitarists I've heard. He had a cool instrument called a Harp Guitar, that had some harp strings angled over the sound hole. He would play accompaniment with them. Amazing talent.
You get the feeling that this album might have been the result of more jamming as opposed to starting with compositional ideas. They are drawing from their infinite well of creativity. And although I love all their music, this sometimes feels a little strained. I wish they would have slowed the tempo down just a bit. That said, this is a brilliant piece of musical collage. All the elements are independently developing and laid and there, but create a sort of sonic tapestry. It is like the musical version of Jon's lyricism.
check out his commentary on the Yes acoustic rehearsal videos, parts 1 and 2, ( the blueprint for spinal tap judging by the chaos) with Jon going back to his northern english roots, by announcing the bingo and the strippers , and dont mis Ricks RRHOF acceptance speech. There are many humorous vids of him performing and guesting on other shows too @@L33Reacts
"seeing some knucklehead like me listen to it" for what it's worth, out of groups that are often fodder for reaction videos, Yes seems to be one of the ones with more consistently positive reactions, and often surprisedly so
Those drums are gated and compressed out the yin-yang, which may explain the relative noise-free sound floor. I suspect, it is meant to be heard over speakers, very loud.
You know what... your probably right. Through headphones it sounded compressed and quiet. I'll try it through the speakers on my drive I'm about to go on :)
There's a live version of _Release, Release_ on YT. I heard an interview with Jon saying they rarely play it because it's so exhausting, and you can tell it's a bit of work. One of my faves, though. Now I have to go see it again. BTW, here's an in studio version of recording of this. It sounds like a run thru, it's a little different, and Jon often nerfs his voice to stress it as little possible. Then comes the -autotune- ... oh, wait ;-> ua-cam.com/video/kPm0iHPfyG8/v-deo.html
Jon's lyrics speak to the sub-conscious like a dream, you may not get it at a physical 3D brain level but the real you does unless you are sleeping and in the "soup" on auto-pilot. It would probably be to ordinary if if it were translated and sung in linear language.
@@L33Reacts One cannot expect to maintain a standard of Close to the Edge. The fact that they created The Gates of Delirium though was pretty incredible.
I think this album is the end of the classic era of Yes, Jon and Rick quit then the rest make Drama album with duo Buggles from pop scene. Fans split into 2 poles to react Drama: love or hate.
Yes, the word encouraging is the opposite or the antonym of the word disheartening. Regarding Jon Anderson s lyrics, they do not necessarily fit together as story or narrative as they fit together sonically in the melodies, harmonies and rhythms. That is how Jon Anderson explained in the last few years.
yeah, I always feel it falls apart after the atmospheric middle section... the keyboard solos are a mess, and it only comes back together for the last flourish. I've got to say that in latter years, I'm feeling the la-la-la-la sections more like TROLOLOLOLOL, amirite
Good ear...Yes Alan's drums are so padded it sounds like they through a blanket over his kit...To me it ruins the song, but it could easily be fixed in a remix. I wish I could do it I could fix the bass that sounds like it has a pillow in it. Towards the end they add a little more treble to his kick and it it starts to sound better..
It's pretty easy to identify what parts of this are Chris' and which are Jon's. IMO it's one of the better songs on the album, although it's not quite classic material. The arrangement has a few too many key changes, tempo shifts, and meter jumps that it doesn't all quite gel. Rick's soloing is oddly spastic, Steve is just randomly filling space for the most part, and the ending has no real connection to the rest of the song. The musicianship -- especially from the rhythm section -- is off the charts amazing, but as much as I love the song it's just not quite firing on all cylinders, the way previous epic rockers like "Siberian Khatru" did.
Tormato(pronounced Tor-mah-to) is much maligned for the mix and I have to agree. The keyboards sound like a frigging Casio, Steve and Rick seemed to be competing against each other for the number of notes played, and I was never a big fan of the harmonized bass. Musically I love it, but an outside producer would have been a big help. Arriving UFO and Release, Release are definitely worth a listen.
This is a good song, but I rarely play this album, I did not like it as a whole and if I like to listen to Yes, all other albums seem a better choice. Maybe it is the song about the whales that turned me off.
Hey Lee since Christmas is approaching you should listen to Jon’s & Rick’s song “Just One Man” a song Jon wrote about Jesus after the death of his sister Joy, he’s brother Tony who’s a retired Pastor says he uses the song when he preaches. Love ya brother I hope things are getting better, & your correct Jon’s lyrics are singing about life, love, hope & GOD & its amazing how he’s been able to hit on the same message so many ways throughout his life. Steve Lukather, great session guitarist, lead guitarist for Toto, touring lead guitarist with Ringo’s All Star Band recently said that The CLOSE TO THE EDGE Album is the best Prog-album ever. If you don’t know Steve Lukather you should listen to him. You say YES/ Jon’s Lyrics touch you in a special way, I just turned 65 & YES’s & Jon’s Music has been the soundtrack to my life. GOD BLESS!!!
It is so fun watching you enjoy Yes.
This is a multilayered, multifaceted, underappreciated piece, and it pisses me off. They're such masters in every way. This song displays such complexity, yet, in an easy-to-digest way. The bass is clearly the star here, but I am in such awe and utter amazement at how killer is Alan White's drum playing. I am beyond disbelief at how little recognition Alan White gets, relative to how truly magnificent he is. 😢🥁💚😡
This might be one of my favorite performances from alan... he was on FIRE here. I've never heard him play with such urgency. That was great. The production left some to be desired though.
Alan White was so amazing! I love his playing on this song! Drama kicked it up another level too. I’ve always preferred Bruford’s jazzy style and precision but Alan fits this music so well! We are so lucky 🍀 to have two awesome drummers 🥁 in Yes!
Well said! Both drummers graced YES and we the listeners with many great performances.
It gets better every time you hear it! Nobody does it better than the greatest band there ever was or ever will be!🤩
It does seem like a track that gets better with each listen! I dug it. They really are the best 👌
For me, "better every time" goes for every Yes song... really any complex song in general.
In fact for some Yes songs I can go from almost hate to fave. That was a huge advantage of albums, especially on cassette. It's such a PITA to skip something, you don't. Then one day you wake up with "that crappy song" in your head, but a smile on your face.
In the 70's my 3 favorite bands were Zeppelin, Tull & Yes. I OD'd on Zep, gave Tull long breaks but am getting into them again lately, but YES has been a constant go-to throughout the years. I therefore agree with your assessment.
Besides The Beatles.
Yep, I should have listed 4 bands. The Beatles kinda invented prog anyway, right?@@markoliver630
Wembley, yes live 1978, Wembley empire pool. Matinee, about a third of the way in. After taking the roof off with starship trooper and an amazing crescendo of moog and guitar, that was Wurm, they launched straight into this, Chris Centre of the rotating stage, bass hitting everybody hard. In the stomach booming, vibrations globally shifting tectonic plates, thudding , effects, pedal, lights , action, sounds- not just bass led more, a Seismic event, an earthquake......😂 never to be forgotten.
Now that….is how you describe the indescribable. Well done!
Ah yes... for me it was May 31st, 1979 in Fort Worth, Texas. It was an amazing show!
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth.
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"Tormato" is exactly like "Drama" in that they both open and close POWERFULLY! In between the bookends of brilliant songs, you get a lot of varied tracks that each has something different to tell. Both albums are criminally underrated!
Exactly
I also feel a connection to Jon Anderson's Lyrics . YES is a Special Band Beautiful Souls. I am so happy I found your Channel .
Namaste 🕯️💜🎨🤗🎶🎧
That's a song I like to listen to in the dark. The church bell hits hard then.
Forever my favorite band! 💖🎶
YES❣️❣️❣️The greatest band on this or any other planet❣️❣️❣️🎵🎼🎶🔈🔉🔊😎
Even on Jon's planet! 😉
You got that right Jeff!🤩
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@@TigerMtnKing Thanks Jerry!👍😎
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Lee, this reaction is epic! You get it all…music makes our soul happy. YES!
Thank you so much Nancy I appreciate it 😊 I love Yes so much. What a special, special band.
"Silent Wings of Freedom" is an all-out rocker.
Squire's bass just blazes a fiery trail across the sky...like a meteor.
I consider it to be a companion piece to "South Side of the Sky"...but even better. It has an immediacy to it.
Love the church bells!
Dude I loved those church Bells too... what a cool touch. Chris was on FIRE here. So was Alan. I couldn't get enough of his drumming here 😂
Alan White's drumming is vastly overlooked!
I don't think that a lot of people know that Alan White was member of John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band." He played drums on "Give Peace a Chance"..(which YES chanted during the connecting parts of "Your Move/All Good People"), and I think Alan played drums on "Instant Karma."
I love how you call it a sighting when you're talking about when Jon comes in 🤣 that's a perfect word for their presence. I saw Yes 3 times and it was awesome 😎 the first time was in the 70s in the round! It was this album tour to be specific 😍 it was a small venue, the Long Beach Arena.
one of my all time faves!
takes a while to get into, but in terms of fun and complexity, after you've listened to Close to the Edge 1000 times, Tormato I think opens up as a real virtuoso album.
dont know how to explain it, but Tormato grows on you.
I totally get what you mean. It just takes a few listens to set in and for you to understand. I had a great first exposure to this song, I'll see how I feel about it after a few listens 😮😊
@@L33Reacts maybe an unpopular opinion but this song is about seeking enlightenment.
trying to be one, feeling as one, and yet not being one, and the struggle of being on the path and being alienated.
being one with everything is the goal, and yet in a sense it is torturous when others have no idea that's how you feel.
Jon's always got some actual meaning behind his songs and he leaves it up to the listener to figure it out, while lying to the press and saying it's nonsense. the people who think it's nonsense don't deserve to know, and he stopped caring if people understood long ago.
just like Ian Anderson, they write an utterly personal song and don't have the strength to explain it to everyone over and over again, so they just say it's up to the listener to decide. he wants to make you think, but you can be damn sure he knows what it's about.
it's like Jesus preaching in parables, they dont care if you understand their art, they just keep making it for those who really care to figure it out.
Hi L33.
Please check out "The Fish" from their Live from Montreux DVD
The Fish is from their Fragile album but in this performance, Chris transitions into the bass rift from this track with a superb percussion accompinement from Alan.
Chris is a true showman in the clip.
Hey Steve I'll check it out! Thank you for the suggestion ☺️
I love every Yes album dearly, but for some reason this one resonates.
thanks for this reaction one of my favorites.
For me it sounds like the band woke up one morning and decided to have some fun. :)
That's a perfect description of this 😊 I love it
Lee i think your reactions, like Yes are outstanding!!
Stephanie you are too kind... thank you so much!
That's a Biotron Rick is playing .It would be only played on this Yes album.This song was a monster played Live in the Round,I know! This is also kind of a predecessor to Rick's next solo album Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record which featured Chris and Alan.
I've always loved this song. When my ex heard the song for the first time in 1980, and it reached the climactic moment right before Jon starts to sing, she said, "I think I just had a mini θrgasm."
How awesome is that?!
As for Jon's lyrics, they are usually metaphors for war, peace, love, and spirituality. They are difficult, at times, to interpret logically; however, they make perfect sense from an emotional perspective. They make people feel something and they spark the imagination, even when the lyrics don't make much sense on a surface level. Combined with the incredible instrumentation, Yes music becomes transcendent. ❤✌
I suggest you go back where you left off and listen to "Madrigal" next. It is a beautiful song, featuring Rick Wakeman on the harpsichord and Steve Howe playing Spanish acoustic guitar. And of course Jon Anderson's beautiful singing.
Could not agree more. 👍
On my Yes top ten. Best song from a disappointing follow up to “Going for the One”which I thought was among their best. Terrific contributions from all five including unusually pointed lyrics from Jon.
Going for the one was such a good an album .. but so is this so far. Just not AS great as the others.
the band would be as happy as I am that you love this music mate, a new generation of fans means the music with live on
I hope so man... I really appreciate their work too. I hope other people my age can fall in love with them and other bands from this era like I have.
For a lot of bands this would be their best... but for YES , still awesome , but not quite the top of the iceberg. But still freakin' awesome. We know that. 😍
Jon uses his voice as additional musical instrumentation, sometimes his lyrics seem 'way off' in the smokey haze of day-dreams - but isn't that what makes the band what it is? Great to see you looking so good fella, seeing your smile!
Dave, great to see you man! Yeah I've been feeling better lately. Still not there yet but I'm getting there.
YES! 😉
The through line is Chris’ bass. Follow it from the beginning, and let the other instruments unfold around it.
Gotcha, thanks. When I listen to it again I'll make sure to focus on that
Firstly, I find the lyrics some of Jon's best. This is 65% of Tormato's price tag with Madrigal remainder. Heh. My God, Mr. Squire is sublime at the get go, Steve layers his (affectionately) noodling within and around. Jon, what is there to say, Lee, really? Am I wrong? 😊
"Do you choose to be lost midst the challenge of being one?" Come on...this man, these gents, Wakeman reminding above it all. White like Peter the Rock.
It feels like a track Jon and Chris (the founders) wrote.
I still have this album on cassette from back then lol
Chris Squire plays the harmoniser effect bass on this track & I think on future times.
Punk was taking off at this time which explains some of the sounds on Tormato ? Some futuristic music on this album absolutely love it 👍
L33: I think of this song as if the band is like a high performance race car and they've used it to explore every kind of surface or atmosphere out there, from undersea to surface of the moon to mountains in underground caverns that glow in the dark. Then one day, their mechanic said, "Hey you British monkeys with too many superballs! You're so busy exploring the quicksand pudding ceiling that you never open this baby up on a highway like she's built for and now your carburetor's gummed up! Take this beast out on the highway and put the pedal down HARD! " And that's what they did.... Chris and Alan cleared that entire engine of any buildup and Jon sang how it felt. ...
Hahahaha that is so random but it strangely fits 🤣 good one Greg. Your so right... the rhythm section said hey guys, we got this. Jon your riding shotgun. Let's go.
I want you to react to the album, "Talk, " released in 1994...which I consider another Masterpiece, especially the song, "Endless Dream, " which is the last song on the album. Remember "Talk. " by Yes! Great reaction. Merry Christmas!😊😊😊😊
Ewwww
Jon's lyrics aren't non-sense they are abstract and impressionistic even if they don't always make literal sense I usually get a sense of what he's attempting to communicate within the context of the music.
Absolutely. I always usually understand what he's getting at. It's abstract as hell and especially on Olias when he is constructing an entire new universe basically...it's crazy lol. I love him so much.
@@L33Reacts He’s not your prototypical Rock star but there’s no denying his significance to contemporary music
❤❤❤Jon Anderson and many members of Yes are very conscious of our interconnection to everything seen and unseen. And that's the spirituality. Peter Gabriel and Jon Anderson are very good friends. 😊😊😊....Yes is about the human journey experience of Love which we shall return to Celestial existence in the Cosmos. And really spreading that experience of light to the rest of humanity. 😊😊😊 And despite the terrible things 😊 happening in this reality...we are moving and evolving to The One. 😊
I truly hope you're right my friend... the world seems to be growing darker by the day. But I try to maintain hope that the world will get better somehow. I want my girls to have a better life then I did. But damn, that is so hard to make happen. I'm trying my best.
Thank you. Love this piece. Chris uses this line when he plays The Fish live. On a humorous note, the album cover story. Yes was presented with the album art. Rick threw his lunch at it. That wound up being the cover with the tomato splatter.
Glad you enjoyed my friend! I truly appreciate you watching. I'll have to check the fish out :)
Listening to the sick syncopations Alan is hammering out on this track…hard to believe it’s the same drummer on John Lennon’s “IMAGINE”…😮
Alan's also on Instant Karma, which is an all time classic drum part.
I keep forgetting yall told me he played with Lennon. That is amazing. What a difference in genres lol good for him
@@jhutch888 also worth mentioning, Rick Wakeman plays keyboards on Cat Stevens classic “morning has broken” and on David Bowie’s “space oddity” these greats sure do get around. 😎
Oh yeah. Steve and Rick also played on Lou Reed's first solo album!@@NickWebber-vp4pd
glad you feel good mate, this song is amazing
Thanks bro I appreciate you 🙏
You can clearly hear that before recording this album Chris bought a new effect pedal for his Bass
Chris Squire on Jon's lyrics: "I was worried about if Jon even knew what they meant. After a while I just sang them without thinking about it cause they sounded good."
All of the remaining songs are worth hearing and are quite different from each other. The contrast with DRAMA will be clear as far as the album flow. Really hope you hear that one in it's entirety also, despite Jon & Rick not being on it. Think of it as a different band and I'm confident you'll think "This is awesome!".
I can't wait to get to drama! It's gonna be great lol.
I know you'll like this one Lee. It's my favorite from Tormato. I'll try to be awake at 5:30 AM to catch the premiere.
Thank you for your reactions to music of my youth. If you like bass Chris was a great bassist. You may like. Michael Manring - ' Monkey Business Man'
I'm glad you enjoy them don! Thanks for watching! I'll add it to the list
Michael Manring played with Michael Hedges (RIP) sometimes. If you haven't heard Hedges, he's one of the most creative guitarists I've heard. He had a cool instrument called a Harp Guitar, that had some harp strings angled over the sound hole. He would play accompaniment with them. Amazing talent.
aye M Hedges has been an inspiration as well as Preston Reed , Martin Kolb, Ralf Illenberger Calum Graham & many more, thanks @@davep8221
You get the feeling that this album might have been the result of more jamming as opposed to starting with compositional ideas. They are drawing from their infinite well of creativity. And although I love all their music, this sometimes feels a little strained. I wish they would have slowed the tempo down just a bit. That said, this is a brilliant piece of musical collage. All the elements are independently developing and laid and there, but create a sort of sonic tapestry. It is like the musical version of Jon's lyricism.
according to Rick, Jon is the only person trying to save the planet, while living on a different one
That's frickin great 🤣🤣 Rick is hilarious
check out his commentary on the Yes acoustic rehearsal videos, parts 1 and 2, ( the blueprint for spinal tap judging by the chaos) with Jon going back to his northern english roots, by announcing the bingo and the strippers , and dont mis Ricks RRHOF acceptance speech. There are many humorous vids of him performing and guesting on other shows too @@L33Reacts
"seeing some knucklehead like me listen to it"
for what it's worth, out of groups that are often fodder for reaction videos, Yes seems to be one of the ones with more consistently positive reactions, and often surprisedly so
Those drums are gated and compressed out the yin-yang, which may explain the relative noise-free sound floor. I suspect, it is meant to be heard over speakers, very loud.
You know what... your probably right. Through headphones it sounded compressed and quiet. I'll try it through the speakers on my drive I'm about to go on :)
@@L33Reacts They used monitors back in those days to mix a record. Usually, Yamaha NS10's.
There's a live version of _Release, Release_ on YT. I heard an interview with Jon saying they rarely play it because it's so exhausting, and you can tell it's a bit of work. One of my faves, though. Now I have to go see it again.
BTW, here's an in studio version of recording of this. It sounds like a run thru, it's a little different, and Jon often nerfs his voice to stress it as little possible. Then comes the -autotune- ... oh, wait ;->
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Sweet thanks I'll check it out after I do the studio of it! Should be next week for the studio..
Jon's lyrics speak to the sub-conscious like a dream, you may not get it at a physical 3D brain level but the real you does unless you are sleeping and in the "soup" on auto-pilot. It would probably be to ordinary if if it were translated and sung in linear language.
See, you think like I Do. Your higher self understands. Even if the body doesn't:) Jon knows what's up... he's a truth seeker.
Though Tormato is a step down from their previous albums, it's still a very good album, and a lot of fun to listen to.
Exactly. It's not CTTE but it's still good yes
@@L33Reacts One cannot expect to maintain a standard of Close to the Edge. The fact that they created The Gates of Delirium though was pretty incredible.
Steve and Rick really play off of each other on this.
I think this album is the end of the classic era of Yes, Jon and Rick quit then the rest make Drama album with duo Buggles from pop scene. Fans split into 2 poles to react Drama: love or hate.
Tormato may not be Yes's best album but its better than any album they put out after that.
There are two songs it’s probably fine if you can’t get to them. The songs Arriving UFO and Circus of Heaven are pretty divisive with fans.
Yes, the word encouraging is the opposite or the antonym of the word disheartening. Regarding Jon Anderson s lyrics, they do not necessarily fit together as story or narrative as they fit together sonically in the melodies, harmonies and rhythms. That is how Jon Anderson explained in the last few years.
yeah, I always feel it falls apart after the atmospheric middle section... the keyboard solos are a mess, and it only comes back together for the last flourish. I've got to say that in latter years, I'm feeling the la-la-la-la sections more like TROLOLOLOLOL, amirite
Please do the Drama album
We will be starting "Drama" sometime next year :) mid January I'm guessing.
Not all of Chris's bass had 4 strings!!!
Good ear...Yes Alan's drums are so padded it sounds like they through a blanket over his kit...To me it ruins the song, but it could easily be fixed in a remix. I wish I could do it I could fix the bass that sounds like it has a pillow in it. Towards the end they add a little more treble to his kick and it it starts to sound better..
As much as I like this song, it does seem like they phoned it in.
I feel the production was wonky but they were on their game instrumentally.
Please add Yes’s American to your list
Added! Thank you!
I'd rather hear America 😂😂
It's pretty easy to identify what parts of this are Chris' and which are Jon's. IMO it's one of the better songs on the album, although it's not quite classic material. The arrangement has a few too many key changes, tempo shifts, and meter jumps that it doesn't all quite gel. Rick's soloing is oddly spastic, Steve is just randomly filling space for the most part, and the ending has no real connection to the rest of the song. The musicianship -- especially from the rhythm section -- is off the charts amazing, but as much as I love the song it's just not quite firing on all cylinders, the way previous epic rockers like "Siberian Khatru" did.
Thanks!
Thank you so much Barry!! You rock bro! 🪨 😃😃😃
Tormato(pronounced Tor-mah-to) is much maligned for the mix and I have to agree. The keyboards sound like a frigging Casio, Steve and Rick seemed to be competing against each other for the number of notes played, and I was never a big fan of the harmonized bass. Musically I love it, but an outside producer would have been a big help. Arriving UFO and Release, Release are definitely worth a listen.
Im a huge yes fan . This is a good one. However tormato is not of the best. Internal crises
This is a good song, but I rarely play this album, I did not like it as a whole and if I like to listen to Yes, all other albums seem a better choice. Maybe it is the song about the whales that turned me off.
Hey Lee since Christmas is approaching you should listen to Jon’s & Rick’s song “Just One Man” a song Jon wrote about Jesus after the death of his sister Joy, he’s brother Tony who’s a retired Pastor says he uses the song when he preaches. Love ya brother I hope things are getting better, & your correct Jon’s lyrics are singing about life, love, hope & GOD & its amazing how he’s been able to hit on the same message so many ways throughout his life. Steve Lukather, great session guitarist, lead guitarist for Toto, touring lead guitarist with Ringo’s All Star Band recently said that The CLOSE TO THE EDGE Album is the best Prog-album ever. If you don’t know Steve Lukather you should listen to him. You say YES/ Jon’s Lyrics touch you in a special way, I just turned 65 & YES’s & Jon’s Music has been the soundtrack to my life. GOD BLESS!!!