Yes Looking Around - Live in Switzerland, 1969
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The big weirdness here is the dancing; probably the first and last time I saw anyone, unfortunately, dancing to Yes. But by 1969, the term progressive rock had scarcely been invented, and certainly no one had instructed audiences that they couldn’t dance. After about 40 years as a professional musician, it wasn’t until I retired that I played a set of Motown covers, all in 4/4, in a local bar, and it was such fun. Popular music risks its neck when it severs its connection with dance. Given that my friends and I have consistently offered undanceable music, it’s a miracle that we got away with so much and stayed afloat. #billbrufordsearthworks
The musical direction changed completely when Howe and Wakeman came on board, but I loved the first two albums.
I always loved Time and a Word
@@jrsinsf Me too! Chris Squire's bass on "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" is phenomenal. Bill, Peter Banks, Tony Kaye all great musicians and so much energy. A very different kind of Yes compared to later albums, but very enjoyable all the same. There are some videos on UA-cam of the band from that era and they look as if they are having great fun.
So do I :-) Wonderful albums
Love their first, never got into the 2nd; but would love to hear a stripped down version without the orchestra.
@@johngalt5411 Check out one of the Yes BBC sessions collections and the bonus tracks on the Rhino reissues of the first two Yes albums, those have the kind of stuff you're looking for.
Those UNDERRATED first two albums....Full of energy!. I love them
Can I just say that the way Bill punctuates that big, round mid-high bass sound is (expletive)ing majestic! It reminds me of the buttons on a well-stuffed leather sofa. If you only knew YES from Fragile and Close to the Edge you’d get the impression that Bill was only a drummer because that’s where he sat on the stage - behind the drums. But when you listen to the first three albums there is real POWER in his playing. Bill - if you’re watching/reading this - I’m tipping my hat to you right now. I’m glad you’re in the RRHOF because you deserve it.
After all these years Bill's drumming still holds my attention & never ceases to impress. Always economical & clever, I love that.
Gorgeous underrated track in the Yes catalogue
Your life was quite a journey wasn't it? I was born in 1991 an still, Yes brings me the most joy of all music I ever heard. Modern music, old school rock, classical music even. Nothing makes me feel just as happy as Yes does. Magic. Thank you Bill.
Pretty cool to hear and see Yes in the early years before they became the giant juggernaut band that we will all know them for. I love it.
Thank God for Yes.👍🏾
Very nice to see all of.the original members here. Tony Kaye really carries himself on stage and Jon Anderson smiles warmly. Chris Squire looks.cool with that hat. Bill Bruford keeps the beat in the drums and Peter Banks cuts loose with some power chords. And the audience grooves to Looking Around!
Thanks for sharing this one, Bill. God bless.
I play the first two Yes albums when I dj in bars, and they're fantastic for dancing!
Not easy stuff to sing, the harmonics are so close together , the group already showing sophistication and complexity.
This just the studio version. Pretty common for shows like this to make bands mime/lip synch for TV performances.
Audiences bopping to Yes.😂👍👍👍👍👍
I truly appreciate their debut album especially this song and Harold Land
The clarity of some of these old films is amazing - could’ve been shot yesterday. So cool!
The flouncy white shirt and can we mention the pants? Oh the music excellent.
Great, Bill! Love this early period and one of my favorite tracks. Peter Banks is an under appreciated artist.
Those first two records are so bleeping underrated!!!!
Brings back memories. Love the "dancing"
Wow. This is amazing footage. Really appreciate you posting everything you've been posting.
Love this. The interplay of the instruments and vocals is beautiful on this song.
I just learned how to dance to Progressive music! Jaw dropping amazing sound and the vocals! ! Thank you for posting this. Now I can't go to bed, I need to watch this again. Amazing!
Shame it wasn't live.
Ja, sehr schade. Gut erkannt, es ist die original Version von der Platte. Hat eine Band wie YES eigentlich nicht nötig.
Nice clip. As a drumming hobbyist and a huge fan of both Yes and general popular music (espec Motown) , I have to totally agree with the preamble comments.
Great to see this Bill, the kernels of genius are evident in all players, even the ones that moved on to greatness with other bands. Sad part is I still dance like this.
This is great, thanks Bill!
Speaking of dancing, I’ve been watching some early 80’s live King Crimson videos in particular the ones that start with “Waiting Man”. It doesn’t take long before your hips start to sway and then Adrian joins you on percussion and you are both dancing. It puts a smile on my face every time!
YT just have me a Belew link from this video.
Plus I know the one you mean. I saw it a few weeks ago.👍
Underrated tune. Could have been much bigger. Most classic rock aficionados would dig this.
I'm sorry, but every incarnation of Yes is sublime. They created their own genre. My favorite lineup was Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, Squire and Bruford. They were at their peak, IMO. But every incarnation was special. 🙏
I love this song. BTW if you haven't got Bill's autobiography it's great read for how one musician navigates in the strange world of music.
He’s got an armadillo in his trousers!
I manage to work a lot of Yes tunes into my workout playlist. Granted, it's not really dancing, but horsing around with some dance moves. I'm just glad no one is looking .... I hope! 🙂
Love the groovy moves
well, in my teen years we did dance along ''owner of a lonely heart'', but thats another era, lol
Oh hot freakin' damn! Don't want tp hear another word. I just danced my ass off to this! 😁 I am a HUGE YES Fan, but this is the earliest live song I have ever seen! LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!! ♥️
The greatest band of all time.
"The big weirdness here is the dancing;..." I love it!, 'the big weirdness...' What a word choice!! I've been a huge student of YES since my start in college (1985). One thing I've always appreciated was that the YES music didn't lend itself to danceability, yet YES were still successful! 'Weirdness'...Love videos from the sixties!
We danced like mad wizards during the AWBH at the pacific amphatheater. I guess you could'nt see us from the stage. Great dance music, great drumming, great night!
Regardless of my thoughts on the current Yes lineup it's great Yes still exist. However, who would have believed at the time this fabulous clip was shot that Yes would still be around in 2022 without any of the guys in this video, astonishing.
Your biggest fan is in heaven. Another day.........
This is one of my favorites from the first album. Good to see people movin' and groovin' to Yes!
Yes were a fantastic band clearly ahead of their time!🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁👋♥️🇦🇺
Debut & Time and a Word are unbeatable.. Dig it!
Bill, to your introduction about dancing, the beauty of "progressive rock" that with me
began with Yes, was getting stoned and just listening and being brought on a wonderful musical journey to places in the imagination that were so beautiful.
I can remember bringing friends and lovers along and turning them on to it...
They are now wonderful memory's!! Dancing didn't do this.......
Первые два альбома мои любимые. Что в них есть особенное...
Thank you Bill
It's funny but for some reason I seem to picture Pete and Tony as fitting in well with Fleetwood Mac at that time too, really. Kaye may not have had the flamboyance of Wakeman (who did?) but he was obviously a sure thing as an organist on his own. Very much in line with Tony Banks and Rick Wright at the time really.
Man, Tony Kaye’s trousers were _skintight and stossers-like!_ 😀
Great footage.
Had you looked around a gymnasium during a high school dance in the 60's and 70's, you would have seen mostly dudes lining the rear back wall, uninterested, incapable, or frightened of dancing with a girl. THAT was the future prog rock audience!
Would’ve been interesting to see what this group would’ve done as they stayed together. Hell it’s interesting wherever Bill goes! So there you have it….
People were no longer dancing in the end. Merci!
Fantastic!
Swiss people dancing to Yes...now that's weird
I used to dance to "Heart of the Sunrise". Alone.
"Bill Brufford se ha quejado de lo complicado que era estructurar las canciones que hacíamos. Pero olvida lo mucho que disfrutaba cuando ya terminábamos de grabar un disco y salíamos de gira. Es que no es invento mío, pero Bill era el más entusiasta de todos nosotros. Creo que desde que se retiró de la batería está en el rol de viejito gruñón! Eso está bien, yo lo quiero un montón y dentro de poco que lo vuelva a ver, le voy a dar un inmenso abrazo apenas esté cerca, para nuestra incorporación al Salón de la Fama del Rockn'roll. Es que sin Bill, no habríamos hecho nada".- Jon Anderson, de palabra cumplida, por lo que dijo en esa entrevista. Apenas vio a Brufford, a manera de saludo, le dio un enorme abrazo
10/10 que armonización de las voces, como grupo vocal de jazz de primera ... Música bailable y similar al Hush de Deep Purple de esa misma época, es Rock con Peso... groovy sicodélico... por eso Yes tiene fans en el Metal Rock, tocaban con peso, aún con esos segmentos más tranquilos y Pop, pero tenían su 'peso específico'
Not nearly as strange as the fashion models dancing to the Nice playing Karelia Suite and Rondo on French TV in 1969, though.
Like you said time ago, your first love Bill 👍
Please upload the Motown set!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Unlike most TV shows, it appears we're hearing the band live, and not pre-recorded- True? THX
Definitely not live. It’s possible the vocals are live (doubled with the recording). That was pretty much the standard procedure for musical acts on TV at the time. Still love this video though! (And the song. GREAT song and youthful energy.)
Magic Hammond organ sound
Went to a Genesis reunion concert a few years ago - youngsters (defined as those under 45 in my world) started dancing. “Sit down!” shouted my friend at them, “You’re at at Genesis concert, not Take That.” ….Us English are a strange lot.
Very underrated Yes song!
Yesterdays is a musical masterpiece. Peter Banks is awesome, as is Steve Howe.
I'm a life long Yes fan and I enjoyed seeing this video, but I was also sad that modern pop music is so bad by comparison. Thanks Bill.
Es lo que pensé: madre mía, salen bailando y niños, encima 😱
Pero si lo piensas, grupos poco conocidos como Yes en 1969 los podían metían en cualquier programa.
De todas formas, los ritmos con órgano Hammond son muy bailables y para la época, parecía muy lógico.
I don't know what you're talking about, i dance in 13/8 all the time......of couse i look like i'm having a seizure
Great Song, Easy to hear. Liked imagining Peter singing to support Jon and Chris. A different listen than the work Steve and Company would make moving forward, but great in its one way and direction.
Very cool 🌙
WOW, a Yes song you can dance to! And, filmed before everyone became dirty blondes..... 🙂
Sounds great for a live performance. thanks for posting this gem
It’s a lip-synced TV broadcast. Sounds like it’s the original album version with a few elements of the mix tweaked a bit. (More reverb on the group vocals near the end, a different organ take at the end.) They’re definitely not playing though - the guitar and bass aren’t plugged in and Bill is doing everything he can to avoid actually hitting anything with his sticks! :) Still love this video though, especially the awkward dancing.
Wow!
Super cool song, sort of a companion to "Good Times Bad Times" off of Led Zeppelin's debut. It probably lacked a strong enough hook that would have helped it to chart, but Peter Banks (interesting you got this off his website, Bill) was right -- this really should have been the lead single off the album. And it squashes Chris Squire's claims that it wasn't until Time and a Word that his famous bass sound emerged.
Any full concerts out there with Yes Album or Fragile line ups? Hoping for the original drum part to Heart of the Sunrise. RLRRLLRLRRLL
I don't think Jon was taking this seriously at all, LOL.
Learned the following. So that is how to dance to Yes. Taking tips for next visit to disco. Jon Anderson was instinctive in his use of the tambourine even when they hadn't been discovered yet. Chris Squire had yet to grow out of his fetish for silly hats. Bill was just cool and outplayed everyone just on his use of hi hat alone. Pete was THE best guitarist Yes ever had. Tony was busy inventing The Chalatans (UK version).
Y E S ❗❗❗
😍
Sadly, the audio is not live. It sounds like the studio version. It is obviously lip synched, or dubbed.
Die Musik ist nicht live, sondern das Original von ihrer ersten Platte 😢
Hey, what's the Ric doing in the guitar player's hands??
Harmonies!
The first two albums are imo better that fragile and close to the edge (at least for easy listening), don't get me wrong that later stuff is ingenious in terms of composition, but I feel like those first two albums are a lot closer to the jazz origins and they manage to balance complexity and simplicity perfectly, I personally feel like fragile-era Yes was maybe too complex for my personal taste at least)
Somebody doing the funky chicken there?
Did they only introduce Peter, or seeing the watermark in the corner, did Peter edit this to remove the other members' introductions?
Great video, shame it’s a playback…. The real live videos from this period are immense…especially live version of no opportunity which is a far more definitive recording than the album. I love everything up to close to the edge (can’t get into Alan whites drumming at all) but have a particular fondness for this raw lineup…Pete Banks really rocked out in a way Steve Howe never could, and he had some better jazzy chops to boot
3:37 broken string?
The main riff sounds like Hush by Deep Purple .
Too bad it's mimed. Still great to see footage of the original lineup.
I always wonder how silly it must feel to pretend to play over these studio recordings.
They don't wear sleeves like that anymore
Not live.
..... Or trousers that tight
When I'm listening to Animals by Pink Floyd or Close to the Edge by Yes, I'm thinking "this music is so lacking because I just can't dance to it". How and when exactly did Bill Bruford come to believe such low-grade things about music? About the same time that neo-Marxism entered his brain.