On the Silent Wings of Freedom
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2008
- This is a much cleaner copy, too bad they didn't include this video when they released the Greatest Video Hits back in the 90's.
Check out the discussion on Chris' bass sound on the Tormato album here:
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There is no more versatile guitarist in the history of recorded music than STEVE HOWE. PERIOD.
Agreed 100%
chris ~ Yea! l love him TOO! All his notes, n chords are beautiful, and mostly happy! He may not be as much of a ''virtuoso'' as someone like Trevor Rabin (mid blowing!) ...but he was really something special, and he played with ''that group'' of musicians that switched around with each other in the prog world! Bravo Steve!
Oh yes there is Steve Hackett. And still has his hair and not the ego like Howe.
That's the truth, nobody can come close to Steve Howe on guitar. And nobody ever will either, He is a genius at his best.
there would be jeff beck anyway
I really love how Chris writes a bunch of different bass lines for the chorus and manages to work all of them into the song. I really miss this guy.
Yep, no Yes without Chris
Silent Wings is higher consciousness magic. An all time classic.
Just listen to that bass! Chris Squire, R.I.P. :(
Le Ded guy meme like
@Ricardo de Mugica: THE greatest rock bassist
This song has one of the few recorded examples of a Birotron Keyboard in use. The string sounds you hear at around 6:00 are the Birotron, not a Mellotron. This instrument was to be a replacement for the Mellotron. Only 4 are known to have been built. Wakeman had 2 of them. And there are none in good working order left. The keyboard used actual 8 track tapes to get the sounds. Those tapes only lasted for 100 hours. The company only producing 4 of these keyboards had few of the tapes manufactured. So they eventually deteriorated. Now none are left in good working order. There are only a few recorded examples of this keyboard, mostly on Tormato. The other crazy thing is that Birotron had over 1000 orders for these keyboards. Everyone from McCartney and Lennon to Led Zeppelin. Anyone who made a record was supposed to get one. None were delivered. Wakeman got his because he was funding the company. He pulled out. The company didn’t recover.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
wow. you know your stuff, thanks for sharing
I read that the arrival of digital samplers was the main reason for the early flop of the Birotron. By 1978, the Fairlight was in the scene and the rest is history.
That song still sends a chill down the back of my neck after all of these years.
love how steve takes this great sound of his gibson es-175
Squire and White were on fire this album.
White is not a good drummer!
@@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961 Dude.
@@rbitrossome Sorry but I stand by my comment. Undisciplined sloppy drummer.
@@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Send link to your drumming
@@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961 Jon Anderson was one of the greatest voices in rock history and still is. Not sure why you dislike Jon Anderson's voice but Alan White was a terrible drummer when he played it sounded like someone falling down the stairs. Just terrible.
Seeing Steve string his own guitar at 1:04 is so cool. I've witnessed him doing that at a sound check. He is one with the instrument.
One of the best songs of Yes. Tormato is one of my favorite albums.
That's too bad.
Jon Anderson's voice is unbelievable.
Kauan Raphael Mayworm Klein I agree, he is and will always be the angelic voice of Yes
Did you see how he marked the slowed down tempo signature with his hand while singing during the instrumentally quiet part before returning to the normal tempo with an accelerato? This song is awesome and it would be a lot better if Wakeman was more into it. But Anderson, Howe and Squire managed to pull it out anyway.
AeonNeon1 Kevin Cronin has a similar voice to Jon Anderson.
Unbelievably weak
The subtle nod Steve gives to Alan to trigger his chimes is chilling 🙏
... and then the recall of the main theme at 5:41... goosebumps!
I never understood why people dissed this album, it has some great songs.
Cyan Blue I could never understand that either. I love this album.
Bill Sampson my sister gave me her tormato and fragile tapes the summer after 8th grade and thats all i listened to. i never listened to my foreigner, chicago tapes ever again. there's never been a band like yes. i loved elp too mind you, but yes was more earth grounded.
AAF-CC Executive Director My story is so similar to yours that it seems incredible!. Their music and concerts were without compare. I won't go on and on. The memories are etched in our brains, thankfully.
Cyan Blue Agree, a great album!
Cyan Blue "Don't Kill The Whale", "Release Release" are pretty bad.Then there are those cheesy sounding synthesizers on "Arriving UFO", and the end part of "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom".The album cover itself with splattered tomatoes thrown at it seems to indicate that the buyer should beware.
Five accomplished musicians, all reaching for perfection. That's why Yes were so magnificent.
It's even more amazing when you get to watch the creation of the masterpiece.
Just wow. These guys earned the right to be idolized. They're not the product of comercial music industry. They are master artists.
I'm already awed by their music whenever I put on one of their CDs, but seeing this video was absolutely astounding because I could see human beings creating that song.
It may sound a bit non sensic... What I'm really trying to say is that it's like this song has always been something like a mountain or a river to me: something beautiful and majestic, but unpersonal, something that just is. And this impression fully imploded when I saw Jon Anderson sing the very first line. "The human race made this song", I thought, and I felt silly and humbled and proud at the same time, and I cried of joy. Thank you for sharing this video. Watching it was... I think you could call it a spiritual experience. Thank you very much.
Fuck Yes man
Isabela A. Mello What a amazing observation you have Isabela, you put into words what I have always felt about YES but could not vocalize it as a teenager , young adult and later as a older adult approaching his twilight years. I believe had they (YES) put out this video at that time, there following and fan base would have been much greater. Your so damm right about that these guys earned the right to be idolized, they truly are masters in the art of music. Maybe thats why they have been denied there rightful place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.....
Non sensic? _NO WAY_! You're talking to YES people, and many _old_ ones at that. We feel this way about most, if not ALL their songs! And today with the YT we can see things you could NEVER see when their songs were created! lt's just too bad we didn't have both at the same time. TV would maybe show this once and if it was missed ....too bad! So YEA! you make _perfect_ sense. Cheers and Blessings! :D
The
Isabela A. Mello exactly isabela the best progressive rock band of all time
Quite simply, the greatest band ever!
My favorite YES album . I bought in 1982 when I was 12. Now in my 50 still enjoy it.
I like a lot of bands, such as Yes, and Queen, Level 42, Eagles, ELO... but i can truly say that only Yes have changed my life, i actually cried because i liked Yes. I never cried over a band before, and honestly, i cannot live without Yes.
Good to hear ❤
i wish the young generation of my time would realize how great this is
It's 7 years later and here I am wishing the same. It's not like I hate new music. I just wanted to know people to bond over mutual love for Yes.
Good luck with that one.
I’m 12 and my favorite band is yes
5:26 That steve guitar for the love of GOOOOOOOD !!!!!!
The internet has been such a wonderful thing giving us chances to see magical things like this, how else would you ever have a chance see YES in the studio during the making of TORMATO ........so cool, RIP CHRIS you will be forever missed and always be one of the very finest bass players progressive rock has or will ever know✌🏼️
Frankly, this is an astounding track and possibly one the greatest Yes compositions they ever did IMHO. Jon's vocals, Chris Squires' bass playing and Alan White's drumming are exceptional. Never fails to raise the hairs on my neck!
This is one of my favorite Yes songs.
What a piece of amazing music. That Rickenbacker bass with the keyboard solo is totally mind blowing.
Miss you Chris Squire. Yes will never be the same without you!
One of my favorite solos of all time. (and YES, i know he's soloing over the whole thing! ;) )
they were really on to something otherworldly with this spacey gem,wonderful guitar effects, harmonized rick, great string synth use and that wondeful middle section with that intense steve howe crescendo. on the silent wings is a 7 minute masterpiece
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Oh Mike here the genius who can say more with a stupid emoji than his butthole. I'm sure you're a musical genius beyond reproach who can play the drums, guitar, keys with your flapping butt cheeks. Genius mike!
Every song on this Lp is excellent. The last of the great compositions by Yes.
@Satanic Panic Fun and Games I disagree, this album is amazing
@Satanic Panic Fun and Games escuchalo un poquito más
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I appreciate White all the more for not trying to fill Bruford's shoes. I like Bill on Fragile and CttE especially but his touch was always too light. White is much more of a multi-textured John Bonham. Though I wish live he would stick to Bruford's parts a little more sometimes. He had his own style from the first notes on Tales on (or Yessongs). Man he is on fire on Relayer! And on Drama he found his signature sound. Very underrated drummer.
Bruford is a jazz drummer and White is a rock drummer
@@123agidee_2 One of my favorite White's drumming is found in "Instant Karma". The way he played the drums and Phil Spector's engineering gave another dimension to Lennon's sound.
Agreed. White is super underrated. Great drummer.
I commented on Nancy Wilson's post that Chris Squire is my "hero/mentor" (I play bass), but Steve Fossen of Heart is also a MUCH-overlooked bassist of imaginative talent, also--and I would like to hear songs by Heart members that have the influence of Yes. To my surprise, Steve Fossen replied to me "Thank you Reńard. Alan White and I like to get together when we can, and play, for fun."
White just "jams". No extra effort on proficiency, solid fills, or grooving with the bass. Very awful drummer!!!
His trademark 4001 re-plumbed thru Eventide DDL Harmoniser. Very unique sound indeed - love the way Squire makes it roar and growl. These Yes guys are old-school, but they know precisely how to create optimal dynamics - something lacking in today's anodyne world of MP3s & downloads etc. (which compress / destroy these dynamics as a matter of course.) At least the band had Gold Album awards (or two) kicking around for their efforts. AND you could hold them proudly!! What does the modern download world get - A gold MP3? A gold memory stick? That's right - nothing tangible whatsoever ! I know who my money's on... ...
I believe it was an Eventide Clockworks H910 on this track (not a DDL) that was then doubled by Nigel Luby...
@@philipadderley plus the Mu-Tron.
@@relayer43 I don't know if it's a Mu-Tron or some other make of envelope filter, but yes, I feel like the main feature of the bass tone on this and several tracks on this albums isn't the Harmonizer but the envelope filter. It almost sounds like he must have heard a Bootsy Collins record and said "I should try using that sound".
Sooooo wonderful watching these geniuses and all of their virtuosity as they rehearse one of my favorite Yes songs. YES forever!!!!!!!!!!!
The cassette of Tormato played in my friend's and my car all that summer of '79 -
Then, to see them In the Round playing the songs live was a Teenage Dream come true.
An alternate version and studio footage... marvelous!!!
Dan Relayer I wish they’d kept the way they started it off with that little bit at the beginning
Con este tema conocí al grupo que me marcó para toda la vida;quedé fascinado tanto con el video de estudio como por los sonidos de la música,era como haber hallado mi estilo musical :- A los quince años de mi vida existía un montón de estilos musicales y otros que surgían,pero la música de YES no lo pasaban tanto por la radio como la tv de Argentina,el hallarlo fue como un tesoro y en menos de un año tenía casi todos los LPs del grupo ,y para hacerlo completo me compré un equipo musical con módulos de Akai.- Fue un antes y después en mi vida,cada vez que viene YES o Jon Anderson o Rick wakemanpor su lado siempre lo vamos a ver con mi familia que también se hicieron fans del grupo ;lamento la muerte de Cris Squire y Yesfan21 muchas gracias por este video,te felicito y saludos.-
Horacio me siento muy identificado con tu vivencia. Aunque los conocí primero por 90125, y después al escuchar la compilación CLASSIC YES se empezó a abrir mi percepción musical de otra forma jamás conocida previamente para mí.
muchas gracias,y en esa epoca de proliferacion de la musica supe definirme al estilo progresivo
This should be taught in history classes.
Outstanding!! Watching each member of Yes and all their amazing talent!!
This is so awesome! One of my favorite yessongs, and off of one of my favorite albums. I can't believe you came up with this rare footage. Thank you for sharing!
On of my Favorite compositions, ever! What a treat to experience them working out the song together! YES!!!!
Jackie Hamill it was one of my favorites, very modern sounding and way ahead of it's time.
Jackie Hamill Hey Jackie ... Love the music... and your new photo :-) YES is so amazing ... saw that TOMATO tour in FT Lauderdale in 1978 ... Squire was all-some in his stripped long coat!!!
David Blankenship YES they are amazing, brilliant musicians. By the way, the album title is TORMATO, not tomato.
slimshine953 LOL .... I stand corrected slimshine953 .... Please don't throw to many TORMATO's my way .... :-) :-) :-) ...... Let'm fly .... LOL ...
David Blankenship No worries, I won't throw anything at you lol. Anyone can make a mistake or typo. I do have my copy of Tormato handy because I haven't pulled it out for many years. Still my least favorite Yes album, but listenable, and these cats were hands down, top drawer musicians. Impressive, no matter what they were doing. They no longer had to prove anything at this point. The run of fine LPs preceding this, sealed the group's legacy.
I've listened to this several times after Squire's death. This piece may be the first one I thought of when I heard the sad news.
Mine was
Soundchaser...played it all day...the day the soul of yes ...left this planet
Onward.
James Heliotis
Me too, as soon as I heard that he had passed, I had to to play Silent Wings Of Freedom, just so appropriate.
Dreamtime from Magnification has the same kind of vibe, Chris, Alan and Steve are amazing on it not to mention Jon singing.
40+ year bassist here; OTSWoF is my favorite bass performance in any genre. absolutely mind-shattering.
For all Steve's guitars, when he's in the studio it's the 175.
Those Steve Howe flourishes; crescendos are something else.
I completely love seeing these rehearsal videos, regardless of quality. It's still like a wonderful time capsule!
Just SO cool! 💖
R.I.P. Chris
Yes: a Master Class band.
‘Tormato’ is outstanding in every way. It has everything one could ever want in a mystic progressive rock Lp. And the album cut of this song is the absolute best cut OF this song. 70s Yes is the best Yes. Tell me I’m wrong.
Highly underrated Yes album. Even by the band themselves. I love it. Especially this track.
It’s awesome. I agree. I love Drama also.
Ive seen them at least 10X
I was known in Highschool as having the hand embroiderd yes Jacket
You had a good thing in high school then and you are lucky to see them 10x. Never saw them once, but I would like such a jacket and to shake Jon's hand to say thanks. Yes is part of my life blood the music is almost like religious experience and a teacher at once. I love these guys I really do
Best prog rock band ever...imo
until yessongs then they become a true mess
Marco C. S. Drama was the first miss to me. 90125 has great moments but they are yes in name only though there are a few good songs over the years.
ignore the replys here they have maybe had one bad album and it was pretty good too. I won't name it because I leave it to you to what is bad. Best prog rock band ever...ever
@@jesusmind1611 “ They have maybe had one bad album and it was pretty good too” Yes
I wonder if it was hard to put all this music together with so much talent. Every member is astounding in their own right. But this footage is so amazing. Glad we have YES...
Awesome footage of Yes in the studio. Absolutely love the Tormato album and On The Silent Wings Of Freedom. Super technical song with high degree of musicality. Multi layered and soaring guitar soloing while uplifting lyrics are being sung. Yes is the only band to successfully pull that off. This is Yes at their pinnacle peak.
YES is the only music that I can this word to. MAGIC.
Extraordinaria banda YES y un temón de 1978!!!
Someone said in another copy of this video that this version is better than the "official". I believe the same. It's amazing how each guy can make different layers of music that sounds so powerful. This is an evergreen song of Yes.
One of my all time favorite songs ~
That there was magic being made. A moment in time, brilliant and true. Thanks for posting and letting us re-live it.
I've never seen Alan so energetic xD
Cheers mate for the upload, one of my favorite yes tracks, infact, it holds all my memories...it has everything.
What a fantastic album !!!! You fellow YES fans that don't like this album aught to be ashamed of yourselves !
Love the album Tormato!
INCREDIBLE. Was this the greatest band of all time or what? I mean, pound for pound, who could F with them? Not many. I think I had only heard this track perhaps once in my life. It changed my opinion that the older Yes stuff is just too old fashioned to today's ears.
Having the highest level of faith in a band's collective, and individual, ability is a wonderful feeling, a total joy. Great era.
One of their best records too. The critics of course hated it.
We miss you, Chris Squire
RIP
Great to see them in the studio, astonishing musicians. Many thanks for uploading!
yesfan21, thanks very much for this! OTSWOF is one of the first Yes songs I heard, and I've loved it always. As an organist I'm completely knocked out by Wakeman's soloing here, but everyone sounds fantastic. There are bits of this clip shown in the Yesyears documentary, that is, little bits, enough to make one yearn for more - so thanks again!!
Based on that and other multi tracks of Yes I listened Yes had a similar approach to recording. They recorded a draft of song and bass take, like on that session, is generally a final one. Chris bass lines were starting point for the songs, then band polished their ideas to finish the songs.
Chris Squire was one of the best bassists ever.
Wow - I didn't know what this would be, but I didn't expect that informal studio glimpse. What a treat!
A wonderful album Tormato, classic Yes indeed! The so called fans who put this album down just don't get it, do they?
Yes I don't think they do. This track is absolutely brilliant. Squire's Onward is and absolutely beautiful song. Madrigal is magnificent, Future Times / Rejoice and Don't Kill The Whale are my first Yes songs to ever hear. They are what attracted me to the band.
I totally agree!
It might not be as good as anything that came before, but it's certainly better than anything that came after. I love it.
After such a great run, Tormato is a disappointment. I was a massive fan of theirs but Tormato doesn't reach the standards they already set. It was no surprise founding member/vocalist Anderson left the band after this one and Wakeman left again. I find people who love Tormato were born in the early-mid 1960s and didn't get to experience the five classic albums they already released. I do love the cover by Hipgnosis and it's worth hanging on the wall.
The album is crap. Silent wings starts out great but then gets all silly. Its a shame coz it could have been one of their best songs but they never finished it properly. Some of Ricks keyboard sounds are cheesy as it gets and more saturday night variety show than prog. The fact they never play any of these songs live is telling.
Having been a fan of YES since 1974, I love to see and hear any studio footage of them creating any of their virtuosic and original pieces, some of them rock symphonies. I really enjoyed Tormato, and have seen YES live in many line-ups over the years. Thank you, yesfan21:)
Great! I love these vids that allow me to watch my favorite band engaged in their creative process. Virtuosic playing, and a continuous flow of innovations and themes all built with such energy and precision. Amazing. And they make it look so easy.
Probably one of Yes' greatest songs and now it's all but forgotten. Tormato was so much better than it gets credit for.
Enjoy it folks...the golden era of rock and we'll never see talented bands like Yes, Led Zeppelin or others great bands of that time period again....sorry to say.
pajasa62 I’ve thought about your comment for three years now, and Zeppelin aren’t on the same level as Yes. There. I said it.
@@crookcountysellouts No, Zep was not on the same level. They were a totally different style of band....but on that level, for that style....no one else were on their level :)
I concur! PC's and Internet killed the musical stars. Tormoto was epic. most all yes albums of that time were. Strange to hear all the extra stuff going on. I must of listened to this album 100 time or more
@devoutyesfan wrote: " i can truly say that only Yes have changed my life, i actually cried because i liked Yes. I never cried over a band before..."
When Yes broke up... the first time, way back when, I didn't cry... but felt the loss in some disorienting 'existential' way. ...walked around mope-headed for days... As if the world had shifted on its axis , definitely if imperceptibly, and I alone had noticed.
Very nice peek into some of what goes on behind the scenes!
So much talent in one room! Amazing.
Too bad not behind the drum kit
Awaken brought me here. There was some comment about Awaken being the bands all time choice for their finest cut. I thought that too but then I thought what about this song, this is kind of Yes at their finest Jon and the others in their youth caught on camera what a trip.
Chris Squire is still the greatest. RIP ALAN & CHRIS & Thank you!
Love these guys.
Super video. Great song, and the video enhances appreciation of it. Really liked how calm they were talking about such intense music.And they were getting along with each other. To think, this was the last time this version of the band would play together for many years. Ahead was 'Drama," 'Owner of a Lonely Heart," etc.
The "Whales, UFO's and Circuses" date the album, but the music is still fantastic. The opening to "Whales" and "Freedom" is just great. I just hope this music doesn't disappear in the next generation.
It was pretty funny to hear Jon Anderson never uses the black keys on the piano when he composes a song. Everything in C
WHAT? You're kidding...
Absolutely true. Verified by Chris Squire and others.
racist bastard! #SharpLivesMatter
What if it's minor? A minor??? LOL!!!
Obviamente todos los viejos fans de Yes en Argentina no teníamos idea que existía este material, así que gracias UA-camrs, gracias Internet!!
That's so right :-) He's got such a unique voice, I never get tired of hearing him sing.
Amazing, extraordinary Album songs.
I just have always loved every aspect that YES portrayed.
Paula Slade their music is so evocative and every 70's album has it's own unique feeling depicting so many things about life. there will never be another yes.
good lord, Jon sounds heavenly
This has to be about the best rock video I have ever seen.
What an incredible song and performance, out of this world for sure! I doubt if any other band could have played this or anything remotely like it, so unique and amazing.
AMAZING piece of musical history... awesome!
Definitely the best song from this album
That's pretty cool that my usenet thread on Chris Squire's bass sound still survives over 11 years later!
I love this band!
yes ! so cool !! see them all well !
It's awesome to see them all in their prime creating more magic.
Great great songs. Chris!!!!! Some of Steve's best work to, to me.
What Chris and Steve are up to is just stellar 💯 not to mention the rest 😊…
What a wonderful piece of art!
This is blissfully perfect only a true fan of yes would be able to find and appreciate this video to it's fullest extent my god
Great song from a great album.
This is a brilliant example of how they developed songs. They didn't write it out, just talked about what sounds they wanted.
That was so friggin cool
One of their best tracks. Hearing it in raw form is great.
Jesus!!! This video is SO COOL!!!!! THANK YOU YESFAN!!!! YESSSS!!