Yes 1991 Documentary. P.1. Shock To The System
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2011
- The Union Tour Live, 1991:
Jon Anderson / Vocals
Steve Howe / Guitars
Trevor Rabin / Guitars
Chris Squire / Bass
Rick Wakeman / Keyboards
Tony Kaye / Keyboards
Alan White / Drums
Bill Bruford / Drums
RIP Chris and Alan. Hell of a rhythm section in heaven.
I am pretty impressed with the sounds Jon made at 1:27. LOL. I love him! He seems very fun!
I love how talented Jon is at making noises
Yes is the only band I ever thought would transcend the lifespan of its original members, so it's cool to see Rick saying the same thing. I hope it turns out to be the case, and I hope that the kinds of special side projects and stage & album art grow from it as well.
Yes along with to keyboardists, two drummers, and two guitarists but - one bass. Incredible
This tour was so dam good. Grateful
I can't believe there is a band out there called Yes without Chris Squire and Jon Anderson, it just boggles my mind.
There's a band out there called Yes without Jon Anderson because Jon left not once, not twice, but thrice! OK, so the third time he got fired, but Chris Squire owned the band name, because he was the only band member who never left (well, Alan White never left, once he joined, but I'm talking original members), and Chris got fed up with waiting for Jon to be ready to make another Yes album. The reason there's a Yes without Chris Squire is because Chris wanted the band to continue after he went home, and gave Steve Howe, Alan White and Billy Sherwood his blessing to continue without him.
It Buggles my mind
I like how Rick Wakeman predicted in 1991 that Yes would continue well into the 21st century when they have a new album coming out this year.
yeah, how about that new album lol
I don’t wanna talk about it.
If Rick's prediction comes true, then all the people saying "Yes isn't Yes without (fill in the blank)" are all really just blowing hot air. No matter how passionate they are about their opinion.
schmittelt Let me fill in the blanks for you.
Yes isn't Yes without Rick's statement about Yes supposedly being Yes whatever people take part in it and whatever the (dreadful) quality of music they (presently) create.
It's too bad that Rick wasn't fond of the Union album because for me that album and tour was a huge awakening spiritually for me and Union kind of became the catalyst and soundtrack for the journey.
And who can blame him? If they replaced 90% of your keyboard parts with some random stuff you know nothing about, you'd be pissed off too.
At least he had a blast during the tour, and that's the most important thing.
Abhiyoga He started a lifelong friendship with Trevor. They are quite the tandem on & off stage.
@@JusCuz410 Yes they were a great team, absolutely.
Had this on VHS... Thanks for the upload.
Awesome band!
This snippet is amusing in hindsight since in 2014 Yes (although not with Anderson) did record with Roy Baker Thomas. Rabin meanwhile has later said he didn't like the song "Shock to the System" which he felt was ripping off "City of Love" Anyway, lately I've been suggesting that they should have another Union kind of thing now twenty-five years later. Anderson Rabin Wakeman are working together. Why not team up with the current Yes. It would be a nice tribute to Squire.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All living members of Yes playing a medley of their best stuff. It would take all night, but...
Marc P Coderre Great idea! Yes are one of the greatest bands in music history
I never liked ShockTTS either. Kinda cool to hear Rabin agreed. Parts of the chorus are ok, but it's one of their worst songs, this coming from a huge fan. The riff was just very predictable and not very Yes and I was disappointed they played it live when there were SO many other songs they could've chose instead.
In the "backstage" portions of Steven Soderbergh’s Crude 1985 Yes Documentary ‘Access All Areas’, Rabin also said he did not like "City of Love" and would rather take it out of the show. Go to the 19 mins. 3 secs. mark:
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Well, to explain why I don't think a full blown Union type project would/could ever happen, you have to back to WHY it happened in the first place. Now, a certain amount of what I'm about to say, I think, is supposition, but I don't think I'm too far off the mark here. I think what happened was ABWH owed Arista a second album. They actually demoed a record called Dialogue, but I think most of those songs got thrown out. I think someone realized the ABWH album wasn't particularly successful, simply because it was called ABWH, rather than Yes. At the time, Chris Squire owed the band name, being the only guy to never leave the band, and in fact, took the ABWH members to court to stop them from calling their band Yes. So it was maybe suggested that maybe ABWH should try to lure Squire into doing something with them, so they could use the Yes name, because it was more "marketable" (and trust me, when you're talking about people like Jon Kalonder, who's the A&R guy who sort of facilitated this whole thing, "marketing" is what it's all about).
At the same time, Squire, Rabin, White, and Kaye were trying to continue on as Yes. They had been dropped by Atlantic, and were unable to secure a contract. I think at the time, they were trying to carry on with Billy Sherwood as their new lead singer. Perhaps everyone remmebered how the Drama era lineup was shunned by a lot of people, simply because Jon Anderson wasn't there anymore. So I think maybe from their perspective, they were thinking "We need Jon back in the band".
The finished album is a combination of two sets of recordings (it even says so in the liner notes), basically a full album of ABWH material, plus like an EP's worth of songs from the Squire/Rabin/White/Kaye/Sherwood camp (it actually might be longer than EP, but I know there's fewer Squire/Rabin related songs than there were ABWH songs). On top of that, at least on the ABWH material, there's a LOT of overdubs. Most of the guitar work on the ABWH songs were played by a studio guitarist named Jimmy Haun, and there's a LONG list of keyboardists credited with playing on the album (including Jim Crichton from the Canadian band Saga...I always wondered how he got roped into it, until I realized that Saga owned their own recording studio in LA, and it was one of the several studios where Union was worked on, and as such Crichton got roped into playing a little bit on it). It's hard to know exactly what Steve Howe played on the record, other than his solo guitar piece, Masquerade. Jimmy Haun did an interview once where he went down the list of songs, and on at least a few he said he played EVERYTHING on them. And I think Wakeman's suggested he's not on the album AT ALL (supposedly, the label gave him two different copies of the album, and he threw both of them out of windows). Who knows if Bill Bruford even played on it.
Adding to that reports I've heard that Jon ANderson and Steve Howe were barely able to work together during the 1996-2004 era, I somehow suspect the two of them probably would have reservations about working together again. It's worth noting that I recall readnig interviews, following Jon Anderson's third departure from the band, where the other band members said that they WAITED something like 4 or 5 years, because Squire, White and Howe, at least, wanted to make another record, but Jon was off doing solo things and whatever, and Squire being the owner of the band name finally got fed up and said "We'll, just get someone else to sing", and that's what they did. So I'm not sure a Union type project is even possible anymore. I think maybe these guys have figured out they don't really need each other to do something. Yes has been very successful for the last 14 or whatever it's been years without Anderson, and I seem to recall the ARW thing did pretty well, so I think maybe Jon and Steve in particular probably don't even want to work together anymore.
Thanks Elena
Old? That's all relative...boring? Never once...Yes forever
Yes forever! X
I know everyone always puts the whole Union experiment down as a clusterfuck...... THIS however.... Everyone contributing, every member standing out and sounding great! It's not the greatest Yessong, but God damn if this live version with Steve adding that true Yes/Howe guitar run and still ripping the fretboard apart ( when he still had that legendary speed) alongside Rabin's own personal metal-tinged sound..... Fuuuuuck man, THIS performance of Shock to the System gets me smiling and everytime.... And the whole damn band sounds like they're all in the groove on this. Takes a ok song... Turns it into badass jam.... Well done gentleman. Wish you would all quit your bitching and everybody get back together while you have the chance... Chris wanted you guys and the Yes name to go Onward.... Don't let him down. Or yourselves.
wtf are you talking about he literally leaves the guitar parts out then does a lil wayne tier solo
and the singing is awful
there are definitely some gems on the Union album
Bruford looks like he desperately tries to hide his hatred for this album and the tour.
Fun excerpt. I'm looking forward to part 2
Funny that Tony Kaye was already old at 45 haha
If you're in North America, make sure you have a region-free player before purchasing the DVD of this. It's an official Atlantic release, but only in PAL.
ARW tix for the Nov San Antonio show
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showwwwwzaço!!!!!!!!!
Could it all begin with someone?
Great job on the videos! Anywhere I can get it on DVD?
Steve Howe DID NOT play the guitar on the album version of this song.
Tony Levin played the bass on the original too.
Interesting how positive they are considering how in recent years they've all slagged Union as a lawyer's album, a compromise between ABWH 2 and a Rabin-led Yes album that would've clashed in the market. Wakeman for one says most of his parts were dubbes over. He said he threw the disc out hi car window when he heard it.
He also said the Union tour was his favorite band experience ever
The funny thing is that all the comments Rick, Jon, Bill and the others are making about the music overriding everything are BS. Especially Bill's comment about Yes being the only band he want to be a part of, and that he's happy to be back in a creative musical environment. Today know that Union was just pure business, and that most of the people involved couldn't wait for it to be over, especially Bruford, who admits he did this only for the money so that his "real musical projects" could be financed. Rick was right about there always being a version of Yes existing, with none of them in it. We are almost there...
Shock to the System is one of my favourite Yes tracks, but Jonathan Elias was a strange choice as producer for the Union album. The band was certainly too cluttered and Bill Bruford said he felt he was being bought and sold like a footballer. It seems someone should have said, 'This is not right, let us go back to the beginning and sort this out.'
There was no time to "sort this out". Arista put a deadline on them, and they had to finish the album. That's why there's so many keyboardists listed in the credits, because they were working in something like five studios in LA to get the album done. It's also why Jimmy Haun apparently replaced most of Steve Howe's guitar work on the ABWH songs, because Jonathan Elias didn't want to deal with trying to get the performances he wanted out of Steve. And according to Elias, Jon Anderson was the "executive producer" on the project. Elias says everyone gives him crap for bringing in studio guys to replace Steve and Rick, but Anderson signed off the whole deal. When Elias said "We can't wait for Rick to come over and do overdubs, we gotta get someone else", Anderson said, "Well, alright let's get it done".
As for Bill, I do remember a quote somewhere that he complained that after the Union tour ended, eh and Steve were sort of benched, if we continue the sports metaphor, as the band intended to continue as a six piece. Then Rick got benched, because they signed to a new label, and the A&R guy or label president or whomever it was felt that "90125 was the most successful album, therefore that's the lineup the audience wants to see". ANd they found out how wrong they were when the next album, Talk, flopped. Course, it would have helped if the label had put some promo push on it. I don't think they even did a video for anything off Talk. The only promo I remember seeing for that album was when they did Walls on Letterman (and actually, I like that version better than the one on the album). It would have also helped if the entire record didn't so...sterile.
Thanks for this! What is the name of the documentary? I'd love to get a copy.
+DuaneTheSeeker DVD: YesYears,1991
Just Love this great tune, YES Are not old farts 🤣 Just think John is great
Everything is double except bass guitar! 😀
. . was this at wembly? cos i was there! yes!
It was at Denver Colorado.
The Floridor concert was better than this visually
My friend and I were actually discussing Union the other week, and I said that the album really ought to be called Pissing Contest--because truth be told it is, despite what Rick says here. Yes was never meant to have this many people in at one time; the stage is far too cluttered and Bill and Steve in particular look quite uncomfortable. And the music suffers for it; Union is a mess, and I say that as someone who actually enjoys most of the songs (or at least the ideas therein).
Yeah, not a fan of Yes with two drummers, or two guitars either. Lose the individuality of their musical styles.
positivity is so much more fun than what you’re doing
To me, it actually seems like most of the members are having fun - well, besides Steve. In most other songs, Bill looks like he's enjoying himself, and almost everyone else seem to be having a blast. As much as Union wasn't that great of an end product, the Union tour was definitely great.
@@Skankindead I love both the Howe era and the Rabin era, but in the years since Rabin left Howe has come across as pretty territorial and petty. It's disappointing.
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