What. a. showing. Even over a year later these dudes find new ways to blow my mind. I just can't get over the fact of how they translated this behemoth of a track live like this and SO well at that. Just fantastic. What a band. Should I keep doing stuff from this album? Or what album would you like to see me tackle next? let me know!
I caught their orchestral concert, and G.O.D., in NYC, a couple of nights before 9/11, which was also delirium...and the towers, the gates. Must say though that they spirit gave us strength to weather the storm. There is a video of that tour, which is entirely fabulous.
I’ve had the privilege of seeing Yes dozens of times over the years. Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s a live performance even when you are sitting there watching it all!! I couldn’t eat for days before the concert, and cried when it was over. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I started playing guitar and keyboard last year. Yes are the only band that can inspire me to diligently practice and also make me feel the despondency of wanting to give up at the same time 😂. I certainly won't be as good as Mr Howe anytime soon, but that's okay! Really good video this one, Lee. Glad you enjoyed revisiting the song.
I've been listening to YES for over 45 years but when I was young I didn't appreciate the live stuff as much because it was missing the layered guitar parts and the solos weren't exactly like the record. Now that I'm an old fart those are the things that make the music fresh again. It's reactors like you who reintroduce this music to me. Thanx a bunch.
I'm with you on this. Thru the years I kind of lost interest in Yes, and all these reaction videos have rekindled my passion for them. They've made me really appreciate how great this band really was.
Had such an impact on my wife and I that used lyrics as inscriptions inside our wedding bands. Mine said "the sun will lead us." Hers said "our reason to be here."
Saw them do this on the Relayer Tour then again on the Long Songs Tour with Kansas opening up. It was the last time I saw Chris Squire play live right in front of me at Pine Knob Mi. In the mid 80’s.
The Roger Dean designed stage featured several light "modules" suspended above the stage, each unit resembling a kind of cloud shape and holding the overhead lights for a portion of the stage. A large central unit over Alan and Patrick with three smaller units downstage over Steve, Jon, and Chris, respectively. The three units were connected to the large unit by very large conduits. A white scrim was at the back of the stage. Altogether, it was otherworldly, like a Roger Dean album cover. Throughout most of the show, these all functioned like normal light fixtures. When the battle began, the light modules began to explode with colored lights, and the three smaller modules began to move, lowering and thrusting forward with spotlights shooting out at the audience! Flames were projected onto the scrim! The whole stage was consumed in chaos and smoke and flames, and it was reaching out at the audience! Finally, peace arrives, and Soon. Laser lights stab forth from the back of the house and refract from the stage and into the audience. At first, a plane of green light beams that then begins to tilt creating a new plane to add to the original. The plane of light continued moving clockwise, leaving copies of itself, until the refracted beams were reaching everywhere in the building. Then they turned multicolored. It was like a disco ball on acid. As the lasers struck objects, they would flash! Your hand, jacket, face. The whole building, from floor to ceiling, sparkled! Or, did the building tilt counterclockwise?
After this glorious live experience you could start 'Keys to Ascension'. 1996 with Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White. Live and Studio. Then later that same year 'Keys to Ascension 2' repeats the process. 2 excellent double albums from the original 70's lineup and the last time they recorded together. Shouldn't overlook these any longer at this point in your Yes Education.
@@L33Reacts I've probably heard every live version of almost every Yes song. I've been to dozens of Yes concerts. Nothing compares to this. This IS the bar.
This performance IS amazing, but for me, the studio version (even with Eddie Offord dropping the ball on the sound quality) still tops this with its other worldly atmosphere. It transports the listener to a wonderful far away place that the live version doesn't do because the virtuosity of the playing is the main focus live.
Yes was RED hot on this tour! Soon is such an inspiring song to end the war saga. "our reason ot be here" is so uplifting. I love how they self refer in songs, self refer to their own music, while giving inspiration and positivity to the listener
It’s performances like this that just reduce me to absolute gratitude for having been fortunate enough to have witnessed this band play music like this. It transcends all concepts of ‘rock show’. It was more like church in a way. 11:42 let me guess. RED is the secret word you’re going to ask people to include in their comments.😊 “Cuz RED is the color that my baby wore, and what’s more it’s true; YES it is, it’s true. YES it is.” - Beatles😊
RED 50 years ago this Masterpiece was created and still relevant for today. It is about the War in Heaven using Tolstoy's "War and Peace" text fro the Famous Novel. btw great reaction!
Epic performance. Needs a replay to really catch it all. What an epic Saturday set of tracks. Well done ,L33. I'll have to envision the angels battling for dominion on my replay. Blessings and peace, y'all.
RED L33 - This is my very favourite Yes album and can you believe that this is the first time I have heard the live version.... I have listened to so much of their material but I suspect that I had the impression that the live version wouldn't match the album. How wrong I was... This for sure is Steve's and Alan's Tour De Fource....!!! Patrick was good but he isn't Rick. ( Sorry, I souldn;t be comparing ) How bloody amazing this was... The fidelity of the sound is amazing. One of my times listening to this album back in the '70's, my wife and my sister in law dropped a half tab each... and me and the brother in law were standing by... and they giggled for 6 hours. I wonder what they saw in this...!!!! Hell that was frickin amazing. Thank you to whoever requested this or L33 - If you did it off of your own bat then Kudos to you. Thank you to making me listen to this and appreciate the live version. God, I remeber those days with you back in the hotel...!! Goodness, I got all nostalgic there for a moment. So glad you are where you are now and that the channel is doing so well for us the community.
Think about the baton that alan was passed after close the edge and the major epics that he steered and navigated. I dont think he gets the credit he deserves in the world of rock and of Yes. He was a powerhouse!
The war section was even more chaotic & frenetic than in the studio track, even without Alan’s rack of car parts. Yes was absolutely at the top of their game in this period, to me no other prog band even comes close. Oh, red.
Great to see you reacting to this. This version is amazing, much better than the studio one. It's not only flawless, it's intense as hell, and the ending with Soon gives me goosebumps galore.
You'll see many people say this rendition of "Gates" is justification enough to own this entire album (although "Ritual" is another good reason). The instrumental work is of course beyond incredible, but the standout thing for me is actually the aggression in Jon's vocal in the first section, which makes the contrast with 'Soon' all the more dramatic. In spots he sounds almost unhinged, like his life depends on it. BTW, the QPR video does have a crap mix, but by the time they got to "Gates" most of the bugs had been worked out, so if you ever want to see what this all looked like it's worth checking out.
Now we’re talking! Does it get much better? More from this album would be great. YES! I love how they are not ‘rushing’ it because they are live. So many do that. It takes awareness and resolve as a band not to let adrenaline make you do doubletime.
Of all the concerts I have seen over the years, Yes' concerts were the most enjoyable to me. It is amazing that they can translate those albums to live performances so well. I hate the color red by the way...
Such. A. Triumph. Of. Art!!! Amazing food for the imagination and heart. And yes, red. Based music. Incredible. Wish they’d done another one w Moraz. Anyway, still waiting for more Talk, Union, BG, 90125. :) they don’t hit these heights, but they hit other heights in a few of the tracks.
To be creative enough to come up with this and good enough to execute is otherworldly. Moraz and Howe were artistically similar which really showed here, as opposed to Wakeman's sheer brilliance which is it's own thing.
I remember that studio version of "Gates" reaction that you did, and towards the end, you sort of zoned out and said, "I need to do something different with my life." The first time we hear an impactful song, it can often be associated with a certain time or place, and maybe not a very good one. Songs can be enhanced or tainted in that way. That's just life. Not the sort of thing or feeling you necessarily want to revisit - as you said, it's a special track. But part of special is "sometimes". It will always be there when you need/want it.
You are so right… once that “soon” section started in that video I was just kind of having an out of body experience 😂 it was in that moment that I was pushed over the edge to make a change. And I did. Good to hear from you my friend.
RELAYER!!!! Only the great classical composers can match this epic masterpiece. There is a live video recording of this but I would NOT recommend it cause the sound quality is really bad. If you decide to do Ritual make sure you find a version that isn't split in two parts like the vinyl version was done - basically they just chopped it in two with no fade.. Actually Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks do a really good rendition of Gates...
They lost the plot so bad that only Patrick could save them. The bit just prior to the soon section is crazy. The bass is just not even partially real.
What. a. showing. Even over a year later these dudes find new ways to blow my mind. I just can't get over the fact of how they translated this behemoth of a track live like this and SO well at that. Just fantastic. What a band. Should I keep doing stuff from this album? Or what album would you like to see me tackle next? let me know!
Don’t Kill the Whale ❤
Haven't listened to this record for a while, but I remember its version of 'Ritual' being exceptionally good!
All of it!👍😎
I caught their orchestral concert, and G.O.D., in NYC, a couple of nights before 9/11, which was also delirium...and the towers, the gates. Must say though that they spirit gave us strength to weather the storm. There is a video of that tour, which is entirely fabulous.
Do the whole album! P.S. Please!!! 😁
You won't hear a better live performance from any band than this. Peak Yes. Peak 20th century music. And there's nothing more to say.
The Yes Symphonic version of this will also blow your socks off!
I agree.
This is my favorite version of this. Everyone Is on point.
All the Yes, all the time! Thanks, Lee!
I’ve had the privilege of seeing Yes dozens of times over the years. Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s a live performance even when you are sitting there watching it all!! I couldn’t eat for days before the concert, and cried when it was over. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I started playing guitar and keyboard last year. Yes are the only band that can inspire me to diligently practice and also make me feel the despondency of wanting to give up at the same time 😂. I certainly won't be as good as Mr Howe anytime soon, but that's okay!
Really good video this one, Lee. Glad you enjoyed revisiting the song.
Rick wakeman will do that. And Patrick and well
Love YES-Saturdays. They are the best.
You're gonna love this. Really looking forward to your reaction to Ritual off this same live album.
They always knock it out of the park in concert- every song. ☮️❤️😎🎼
'Soon" has to be one of the most beautiful spiritual pieces of music ever written
A song in the key of masterpiece. RED!!
Thanks Lee fantastic song I saw this live at JFK stadium in Philadelphia 1976😊😊😊😊
I've been listening to YES for over 45 years but when I was young I didn't appreciate the live stuff as much because it was missing the layered guitar parts and the solos weren't exactly like the record. Now that I'm an old fart those are the things that make the music fresh again. It's reactors like you who reintroduce this music to me. Thanx a bunch.
I'm with you on this. Thru the years I kind of lost interest in Yes, and all these reaction videos have rekindled my passion for them. They've made me really appreciate how great this band really was.
Another incredible YES Saturday! ❤🔥🤯 Outstanding performance! 👏👏👏Another red letter reaction!☮❤🎶
Incredible performance wow
Yes!!!!!❤❤❤
👌👌👌👌👌🔥
YES!
The boys in top form!👍😎
Hey Jeff, how is your recovery from surgery going?
@TigerMtnKing Painful. Taking it one day at a time. Thanks for asking!👍😎
Alan White tears it up on this one. All of them do.
Fantastic. REALLY hope I catch the premiere. This song is almost on par with Close to the Edge for me 😊
👍😎
Had such an impact on my wife and I that used lyrics as inscriptions inside our wedding bands. Mine said "the sun will lead us." Hers said "our reason to be here."
Flawless played live . Red as hell.
Seen this song performed in concert in Santa Barbara, CA.
R E D❤❤
How can I not be watching red? Out-fucking-standing! Gates and Suppers Ready are the all-time epic tracks.
Saw them do this on the Relayer Tour then again on the Long Songs Tour with Kansas opening up. It was the last time I saw Chris Squire play live right in front of me at Pine Knob Mi. In the mid 80’s.
Always REDy for live YES.
This is my fav bass line ever by anyone, Squire is on fire on this live version.
It's perfect.
What an incredible piece of music that was ... and live. Amazing. It could turn your eyes red. : )
My favorite live version of this masterpiece!🤩
TED. FED. RED DAMNIT!!
Yes live always brings the songs to another dimension, never a repetition of the record. Greatness in the studio and totally awesome onstage.
Red skies, red rain, red dead, red was paying attention great reaction thank you, love yes-saturdays! Oh, and RED! ❤🎉😅
The Roger Dean designed stage featured several light "modules" suspended above the stage, each unit resembling a kind of cloud shape and holding the overhead lights for a portion of the stage. A large central unit over Alan and Patrick with three smaller units downstage over Steve, Jon, and Chris, respectively. The three units were connected to the large unit by very large conduits. A white scrim was at the back of the stage. Altogether, it was otherworldly, like a Roger Dean album cover. Throughout most of the show, these all functioned like normal light fixtures. When the battle began, the light modules began to explode with colored lights, and the three smaller modules began to move, lowering and thrusting forward with spotlights shooting out at the audience! Flames were projected onto the scrim! The whole stage was consumed in chaos and smoke and flames, and it was reaching out at the audience! Finally, peace arrives, and Soon. Laser lights stab forth from the back of the house and refract from the stage and into the audience. At first, a plane of green light beams that then begins to tilt creating a new plane to add to the original. The plane of light continued moving clockwise, leaving copies of itself, until the refracted beams were reaching everywhere in the building. Then they turned multicolored. It was like a disco ball on acid. As the lasers struck objects, they would flash! Your hand, jacket, face. The whole building, from floor to ceiling, sparkled!
Or, did the building tilt counterclockwise?
After this glorious live experience you could start 'Keys to Ascension'. 1996 with Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White. Live and Studio. Then later that same year
'Keys to Ascension 2' repeats the process. 2 excellent double albums from the original 70's lineup and the last time they recorded together. Shouldn't overlook these any longer at this point in your Yes Education.
Hahaha, that was kickass! One of my favorite records and they pulled it off gracefully!!
I remember your first video for this song. Time flies! ❤
continue doing this one
The best performance of the best song ever written. Blows away the studio version.
Yeah I agree. That was fucking incredible lol
@@L33Reacts I've probably heard every live version of almost every Yes song. I've been to dozens of Yes concerts. Nothing compares to this. This IS the bar.
This performance IS amazing, but for me, the studio version (even with Eddie Offord dropping the ball on the sound quality) still tops this with its other worldly atmosphere. It transports the listener to a wonderful far away place that the live version doesn't do because the virtuosity of the playing is the main focus live.
Red hot Track from the affirmatives !!
Simply the best. But can you imagine being security at the show and having never heard Yes before? Standing there thinking WTF is this?! LOL
Heart of the Sunrise from Yessongs maybe next. Or Ritual from Yesshows.
Lee is being surprise as many who did not think YES was as good "Live" as they were in the studio.
Yes was RED hot on this tour! Soon is such an inspiring song to end the war saga. "our reason ot be here" is so uplifting. I love how they self refer in songs, self refer to their own music, while giving inspiration and positivity to the listener
It’s performances like this that just reduce me to absolute gratitude for having been fortunate enough to have witnessed this band play music like this. It transcends all concepts of ‘rock show’. It was more like church in a way.
11:42 let me guess. RED is the secret word you’re going to ask people to include in their comments.😊
“Cuz RED is the color that my baby wore, and what’s more it’s true; YES it is, it’s true. YES it is.” - Beatles😊
Red ❤❤❤❤
the. yes. train. does. not. stop!
RED 50 years ago this Masterpiece was created and still relevant for today. It is about the War in Heaven using Tolstoy's "War and Peace" text fro the Famous Novel. btw great reaction!
My fece turned red in excitement when I saw them perform this in 1975...
Now we’re talking!
I listen to this song like 5 times a week lol. RED!
Red.
Can't skip Soon.
Epic performance. Needs a replay to really catch it all. What an epic Saturday set of tracks. Well done ,L33. I'll have to envision the angels battling for dominion on my replay. Blessings and peace, y'all.
A heavenly host clashing against the rebellion of eternity
Red😊
RED L33 - This is my very favourite Yes album and can you believe that this is the first time I have heard the live version.... I have listened to so much of their material but I suspect that I had the impression that the live version wouldn't match the album. How wrong I was... This for sure is Steve's and Alan's Tour De Fource....!!! Patrick was good but he isn't Rick. ( Sorry, I souldn;t be comparing ) How bloody amazing this was... The fidelity of the sound is amazing. One of my times listening to this album back in the '70's, my wife and my sister in law dropped a half tab each... and me and the brother in law were standing by... and they giggled for 6 hours. I wonder what they saw in this...!!!!
Hell that was frickin amazing. Thank you to whoever requested this or L33 - If you did it off of your own bat then Kudos to you. Thank you to making me listen to this and appreciate the live version.
God, I remeber those days with you back in the hotel...!! Goodness, I got all nostalgic there for a moment. So glad you are where you are now and that the channel is doing so well for us the community.
Love Gates!!! Still waiting on Mind Drive:/ ❤
Me too!! Bring it on!!! RED!
Rubber Soul
Think about the baton that alan was passed after close the edge and the major epics that he steered and navigated. I dont think he gets the credit he deserves in the world of rock and of Yes. He was a powerhouse!
My favorite color is red❤❤
The war section was even more chaotic & frenetic than in the studio track, even without Alan’s rack of car parts. Yes was absolutely at the top of their game in this period, to me no other prog band even comes close.
Oh, red.
Thanks for reaction!
The stove is red here in Holland while i'm watching you, great stuff!!
Great to see you reacting to this. This version is amazing, much better than the studio one. It's not only flawless, it's intense as hell, and the ending with Soon gives me goosebumps galore.
I’m so glad I did! This blew me away. And blew away the already amazing studio track for me. What a gift this song is
Red, my dude, RED!
You'll see many people say this rendition of "Gates" is justification enough to own this entire album (although "Ritual" is another good reason). The instrumental work is of course beyond incredible, but the standout thing for me is actually the aggression in Jon's vocal in the first section, which makes the contrast with 'Soon' all the more dramatic. In spots he sounds almost unhinged, like his life depends on it. BTW, the QPR video does have a crap mix, but by the time they got to "Gates" most of the bugs had been worked out, so if you ever want to see what this all looked like it's worth checking out.
Red
Now we’re talking! Does it get much better? More from this album would be great. YES!
I love how they are not ‘rushing’ it because they are live. So many do that. It takes awareness and resolve as a band not to let adrenaline make you do doubletime.
Knew you'd love this one! And people who don't hang around for your comments after make me see... red.😉
Haha good one Bob! I appreciate you watching my friend 🙏👍
Their best live performance ever.... (sorry Rick) God wish I'd been there back then in Cobo Hall, the crowd went crazy!
This is back in the days when artists played their own intruments, wrote their own songs and didn't lip-sync on stage.
OMG. Better than any live version or studio version I get emotional 😢 wet
Of all the concerts I have seen over the years, Yes' concerts were the most enjoyable to me. It is amazing that they can translate those albums to live performances so well. I hate the color red by the way...
To see this song played outdoors on a perfect night was truly sublime. Are the gates red? I dont know
Red ❤
Such. A. Triumph. Of. Art!!! Amazing food for the imagination and heart. And yes, red. Based music. Incredible. Wish they’d done another one w Moraz. Anyway, still waiting for more Talk, Union, BG, 90125. :) they don’t hit these heights, but they hit other heights in a few of the tracks.
How do they remember all the parts when they play live?
I would make more than one mistake if i had to play this on stage even once.
Incredible!
To be creative enough to come up with this and good enough to execute is otherworldly. Moraz and Howe were artistically similar which really showed here, as opposed to Wakeman's sheer brilliance which is it's own thing.
I remember that studio version of "Gates" reaction that you did, and towards the end, you sort of zoned out and said, "I need to do something different with my life." The first time we hear an impactful song, it can often be associated with a certain time or place, and maybe not a very good one. Songs can be enhanced or tainted in that way. That's just life. Not the sort of thing or feeling you necessarily want to revisit - as you said, it's a special track. But part of special is "sometimes". It will always be there when you need/want it.
You are so right… once that “soon” section started in that video I was just kind of having an out of body experience 😂 it was in that moment that I was pushed over the edge to make a change. And I did. Good to hear from you my friend.
RED
Fuckin RED
❤Sublime Performance….Red
Check out please… 🔥’Ritual…it will blow you away!!
RELAYER!!!! Only the great classical composers can match this epic masterpiece. There is a live video recording of this but I would NOT recommend it cause the sound quality is really bad. If you decide to do Ritual make sure you find a version that isn't split in two parts like the vinyl version was done - basically they just chopped it in two with no fade.. Actually Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks do a really good rendition of Gates...
Red read red
Wed, red or something close to Relayer ing to you
When was this recorded, please?
They lost the plot so bad that only Patrick could save them. The bit just prior to the soon section is crazy. The bass is just not even partially real.
This is my favorite version of this. Everyone Is on point.
Red😊
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