Yes Perform Walls Live on Letterman, June 20, 1994 - Rare Footage from the Talk Album Era
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Step back in time and experience Yes's stunning live performance of Walls on David Letterman's show from June 20, 1994.
This rare footage captures the band at the height of the Talk album era, showcasing their dynamic sound and musical prowess. Join us in reliving this memorable moment as Yes delivers an unforgettable rendition of one of their hits, blending intricate melodies with powerful lyrics. Perfect for fans of classic rock and the legendary sounds of Yes.
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🎵 Track: Walls
📅 Date: June 20, 1994
📺 Event: David Letterman Show
RIP Chris Squire. Weird to see him here with a Fender Jazz bass instead of his trademark Rickenbacker but the dude could make a cigar box sound amazing.
Chris Squire was a true giant of a musician. A superb singer as well, he is an irreplaceable player.
He used a Jazz Bass on "Sound Chaser" from Relayer...
both Geddy and Chris gave up on the Ricke's ,players evolve
AMEN ! Miss you Chris : (
isn't it interesting Chris Squire switched from his Rickie to a Fender ?
and so did Geddy Lee
Geddy fills in for Chris at the YES induction at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
hmm ?
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and YES the greatest show on earth
Alan White always got a great sound. Snare sounds great. What a great band. Chris Squier was such a monster on bass.
Alan swooped in in 1973 and instantly became an integral part of Yes for almost 50 years. RIP
I love how Jon is on a little stage.
Jon was a little dude!!!
And he's still shorter than Chris!
He still is, even though Chris is gone. RIP, Chris.
Helps with the ego
@@lesblatnyak5947 lol , maybe so 😊
1st time I've ever seen Chris Squire play a Fender.
He played them a few times. Going for the one was one of them.
He used a Jazz bass starting with Sweet Dream on Time and a Word. He would pick it up once in a while: South Side of the Sky (Fragile), Parallels (Going for the One), To Be Over (Relayer), etc.
Say it ain't so!!!
Sound Chaser Fender, Awaken Triple neck Fender
@@michaelhogan6770 Awaken was originally performed on a custom triple neck made by Wal. Later on, he used an exact replica of the original when perfoming Awaken on stage.
If you're interested in Squire's bass collection, check out this video:
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Letterman always had great taste in music and great musical
guests
Wow. I wonder how I missed that. I love YES so much. Rip Chris and Alan.
I’ve met both of them. Good chaps.
I named my son TREVOR after TREVOR RABIN. RIP TREVOR 5 4 18 ❤
😢
Very sorry for your loss.
❤
I saw them when they toured this. Fantastic.
FRAGILE, CLOSE TO THE EDGE
must have albums
Fragile...my first album👍👍
@@ianthesoccerref I was a teenager in the 70s
these albums at this moment in time LITERALLY changed my life
@@Nigel-ry1podon’t forget the yes album and going for the one!
Topographic Oceans aswell. 1979’s Yes were the best.
This is the song that got me into YES as a kid
I remember watching this on TV back in 1994. I loved the album "Talk" and was excited to see Yes performing a song from it. I miss these great late night shows back In the day with Letterman and Conan.
Chris Squire !
RIP CS
Anderson, Squire, Howe, Wakeman, Bruford and White - the classic era.
Chris Squire wearing some sweet Game of Thrones boots.
CHRIS💙
Legends
I ❤️ YES
What a nice, clean set! I remember buying this tape in Louisville in 94, and I've always liked it a lot.
I didn't know what to expect with this album after A,B,W,H Union, and then the 2 volume Keys To Ascensions new songs being performed by the older lineup. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.
Loved this album since it came out- it's still loaded into the catalog in the car!
Badass!
Wow. What a neat UA-cam find. Was lucky enough to see them on this tour. Great show. Great album.
Absolutely. Saw them in Miami and Jacksonville on that tour. What a show!
Great Tony Kaye . Good work .
Chris Squire playing a Fender Jazz??? Hell yeah. That alone makes this gold.
He played other basses than the Ricky quite a lot and used the jazz as early as the 70s.
WOW! Vox are amazing!
Great album, blew me away... the first LP to be recorded to a computer hard drive.
Yep, TALK was the best of the Rabin years.
@@genericusername1365 I loved Talk, but 90210 (or WTF it was) is magical.
@@Bigjunk9999 "90125". Yes, it was magical (in different ways from the magic of the previous albums). My fave of the Rabin years is still Talk, though. It's subjective and a matter of personal taste, though, so for you it's 90125. Did you like DRAMA? That one is awesome, although in a different way than the albums before it.
NIGEL in Canada🇨🇦
the amazing YES
Complete with Billy Sherwood!
Great album
Love how Chris throws in that lick from On The Silent Wings of Freedom at the end,
I met Allen white and talked to him for an hour or more. Way cool guy .
That must have been an amazing experience, did he talk about his time with John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band ?
This should have been a hit…
It was! I loved it!
I love how Paul Shaffer is jumping up and down like he is directing what is going on....lol.
Holy shit, this was an amazing performance
Trevor Rabin wrote this with Roger Hodgson from Supertramp and had no intention of releasing it as a Yes song. It certainly sounds like nothing else in their catalogue.
Tony Kaye with one hand on keys, and the other hand in the air, as usual.
🗨️🎹
👋🏼🤚🏼
They put Jon Anderson on a raised platform to make him look a little bit taller. It worked 'cause it took me a moment to recognize him.
Interesting performance. They're playing live, and singing live, but there are pre-recorded backing vocals in addition to the live vocals on stage. Alan kept them synced. Nice ending, too.
I noticed that too. As far as Yes is concerned, I don't know why they felt the need for a backing track. Not a true live performance.
The late night band is playing too.
@@j.reveille6815 I'll have to look at the video again. I'm not convinced of this.
I forgot Paul replaced Rick Wakeman for a while 🤣 he really should have worn a cape
Now THAT would be strange.
Tony Kaye on keys in Yes(west)(or Cinema) & Paul's band too btw who's the guitarist that looks like Tommy Shaw?
@@jameshubbard1071 Billy Sherwood over in the corner
@@jameshubbard1071The guitarist is Trevor Rabin. He joined Yes on the 90125 album.
@@cybore213 thanks I definitely knew Trevor Rabin. It was Billy Sherwood that I didn't recognize. Billy kind of resembles Tommy Shaw of styx in this video, although I never saw that resemblance before. Billy is the bassist of yes today, replaced Chris Squire when he died. Back when this video was made, he was a sideman, not an official member of yes. Thanks to thomasrose7713 for pointing it out to me. See comments above.
Well, Yes- but only nominally.
This is the two founders (Jon Anderson and Chris Squire) and one of the original members (Tony Kaye) playing a Trevor Rabin song that’s a fairly straightforward three chord tune with a bridge- not the truly original sort of material with which they made their mark.
This song is really a faint attempt to recreate the success of their biggest hit, “Owner of a Lonely Heart”. It’s not the kind of writing or musicianship that made them iconic, but who really cares? They had already established their credentials and legitimacy with their 1970’s material.
Yes is one of my favorite bands, but it’s easy to acknowledge that “Close to the Edge” would have been a hard sell on Letterman or any other major network programming, especially in 1994.
CTTE Possibly the #1 prog album of all time and soace. I never experienced the world in the same way after that album and became a life long YES fan seeing them perform it the week the album came out and dozens of times after that
Strange comment. This song is in no way similar to Owner of a Lonely Heart. So, if it's a pop track, it's trying to recreate Owner?
@@Cpayne30No question it’s an attempt to recapture the success of their bigge$t hit. Trevor Rabin styling writing. A handful of chords. Typical intro-verse-verse-chorus-etc. structure. Goofy lyrics. Every prog rock band did it in the 80’s and 90’s.
I don’t think it takes an exceptional understanding of music to see the similarities and moreso the difference from the bona fide classic material. Anyone who says this is “just as good but different” or some other such pseudo-equivalency nonsense is clearly not familiar with their first eight LP’s. What’s more strange than of my comments is people commenting on a topic with which they’re clearly unfamiliar.
@peterg5383 I'll admit, I misread that part. Sorry! But even then, I think aiming "ah, they were just aiming for another pop hit" at any catchy track you see is just a....pointless thing to say? Trevor Rabin has always written catchy melodic stuff. I don't see the problem.
Given that CTTE runs of over 20 minutes and Letterman had time constraints, it wasn't so much the style of the music that was the issue.
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" may not be most fans' favorite Yes tune…but given that it was a #1 hit, it's hardly surprising that the band (the exact same "Cinema" line-up, plus Billy Sherwood") played something in that vein when they had a chance to reach such a large audience.
I Never Seen This or Even Knew About This Before ! No Wakeman or Howe in this ! Only Two Of The Original Founding Members of YES Which Are Jon Anderson and Chris Squire and then they added the other 3 to the original Group
Wakeman and Howe aren't founding members. In fact, this keyboardist is actually a founding member (Kaye).
@@Seafroggys yeah you’re right . I didn’t add that to my comment I made. My mistake.
Jon Anderson’s little riser ❤️
30 years!? Also, fans say "why don't you do something new" then when it doesn't hit "why didn't you play Roundabout?". This was the new stuff at the time, though the tune is kind of too tame.
It certainly was not the best song on the album.
Crazy... But there are more original members on display here than on Tales, Relayer or GFTO!
This could be any MOTR 90's band.
How far they had fallen.
Singing live too, but major back up too. Sokay
Always thought it was weird how Shafer and the band would “sit in” on performances where they clearly weren’t needed. Poor Billy Sherwood was stuck over in the peanut gallery.
Interesting how Anderson only plays one chord in the modulated chorus.
Is that a late 80s Billy Sherwood, sighting?
Billy played second guitar on this tour and he played second bass on Endless Dream
Nope. Early 90s.
1994.
who are those guys with Jon Anderson and Chris Squire?
And Paul Shaffer just dances irrelevantly in the background.
The singer is on a platform because he’s very short
Yeah this was a very schizophrenic era for Yes with the 2 lineups and the whole, "will the real Yes please stand up". Personally I loved the ABWH album to death and thought that was the legitimate way forward for the band. As great as 90125 was, the 2 follow-ups were borderline unlistenable and I was ready to say thank you Mr. Rabin for your service, but Steve's back now... we just need Chris to accept the situation. Of course, it was a million times more complicated with contractual obligations and the fact that Bruford really didn't want to be tied up in case Mr. Fripp came calling, which he did. In any case things sort of came back to life on The Ladder but that was short lived. And what can you say about the Yes of 2000 - present?? A gooch-fest, unfortunately.
Meh. More pop than prog rock I'm afraid. They indeed went through some changes.
Sad take, naive condescension is about as faulty as a mind can get. Guess it isnt 1974 ever day for everyone huh.
Right. They would have had a tough time selling “Gates of Delirium” on Letterman in 1994.
nothing wrong with that, noone claimed this was prog at all.
@@stefanstrittmatter6459True, but Yes made it on their reputation as a progressive band. I don’t think anyone expected them to play Tales from Topographic Oceans. At the same time nobody should be surprised if their long time fans are less than thrilled.
@@TheRealTomWendel true, but is is 2024 now and most ppl know yes by their 80s hits. so there should be no surprise now.
The Sound quality is terrible on this !!
Just Anderson and Squire and then they formed the group with the rest of them
I’m a US fanatic but this totally blows I mean let’s be real this is total bubblegum pop for yes, absolutely horrifying
actually, it's good
Amazing
This is Trevor Ravin and his Pop Band. Yuck
This has got to be my least favorite YES song.
Always a bit funny to see Jon pretending to play an instrument on-stage.
My DVD copy of the Yes concert at QPR in 1975 shows Jon playing rhythm guitar. I know he’s actually playing because the audio was so infamously missing from Steve Howe’s guitar that you could only hear Jon playing. It was that way through much of the first part of that show.
@@hklinker I'll take your word for it. I always wondered how he managed to play the chord changes without moving his left hand.
lmfao look at Squires boots, they look like turn-ups - never had much dress sense, these guys haha smh
His furry bear paw boots were worse, look at close to the edge live on UA-cam from the 70s.
@@Farewelltokingz If it is something I will wish I could unsee, I will give it a miss and take your word for it 🤣
Poor Squire, its white powder obsqured his troubled mind((((
Crap.
Oof. Wtf was that?
Hmmm...never saw this before. And it's an "almost live" performance it seems. I still enjoy plenty of stuff off of "Talk" but this is one of the more meh numbers on it, I have to say.
wrong Yes
in other words: No (?)
Poor Chris Squire had to endure this iteration of YES, at the time.
I don't know what you're smoking, but Chris was happy to take part in every line-up he was involved in, particularly with Trevor.
Lame tune. Legendary hot band
Yikes!! This doesn't sound like YES..sounds more like a modern version of the Byrds...
To every season, turn, turn turn...
Nothing beats the Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire, and White. Except Bruford.
This song was flat and boring.
Yes was about the music, not who was playing at the time. Only appreciated constant was Anderson and Squire, who most agree were the glue.
Having grown up listening to Close To the Edge and Relayer.etc......this is boring crap.
where's the rick....Chris ?
Miss Chris and Alan
Mind blowing, got to love Rabin
NO, we don't.
@@cadcncengineeringfabricati3497 Need you to back up this sentiment man, because if you have any interest and love in the band Yes you would understand that he carried them through the tumultuous time of the 90's. If you don't respect Trevor, you don't understand progressive rock. *spits
He's kind of like Blaze Bayley filling in for Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden in the 90's. People hate on him, but where would the band be without him?
@@RealtimeJapanMish he made a classy prog band into disgusting pop wretch group. GFY
They were such a great band back then. They could make even a simple song sound amazing. It was great to see Tony Kaye in the band. Gosh I miss them!
2 versions still playing live
Ck. UA-cam videos
One being Jon Anderson with The Band Geeks ....Great!
m.ua-cam.com/video/m0NFtT0IMDw/v-deo.html&pp=ygUZWWVzLCB0YWxrIHRvdXIsIGFyZ2VudGluYQ%3D%3D
I actually liked Yes during the 80s. Saw them twice back then. Trevor Rabin is just an incredible guitarist and singer.
I liked the DRAMA of the moment too
@@frankgradus9474 Drama (1980) was a GREAT album.
My fav is 70’s Yes but can’t deny staying relevant in the 80’s with Trevor. He’s amazing! I love the Union tour just to see Trevor and Steve play off each other-it’s was great for the fans-maybe not so much the band😊 Rick has described that tour as chaos but he had fun😊
I like this era too, quite the vocals with Jon, Trevor, Chris and Billy!❤️
Damn, that was great!
I had never seen/heard that performance before.
OMG... thank you for posting this. As usual, the one irritating thing for me about the Letterman show was Schaffer's band always horning in. YES did not need any help, believe me. A great YES era with Trevor Rabin IMO. Thanks again for posting this and making my day!
I'm not a fan of this song but cool to see Yes on Letterman. Is that Billy Sherwood stuck way off to the left?
Yep! He played back-up throughout the Talk tour.
This song is a grower for sure , just having Jon , Chris &Alan on it make it so . Rodger Hodgson on bv's only guy
Who could match Anderson's range .
I like it
Really enjoyed this line up.. Trevor criminally underrated..Chris on a fender (rip) legend
Isn't that brilliant? Trevor - one of the all time greats.👍
What instrument is Jon playing? Thx.
FM music candy and for the American commercial market. Later on, when full original lineup was together again, then did not play any this stuff. During this period there were two versions of Yes touring, and a lot of angry fans going to the wrong concert, as FM candy was not there thing.
You are right. But in comparision with another candy music from the time and even today, the quality was superb. Behind the curtain was Roger Hogdson and the best ears in the market in the artistic production.
Their only album i couldn't stand.
As Sid Allen put, yes it’s commercial but it’s a nice melody and pretty well made compared to some of the pop of today.
I enjoy some chocolate every now and again.
It's no more "candy" than "Looking Around", "Sweet Dreams", "I've Seen All Good People", or "Wonderous Stories." Not every song needs to be 20 minutes long and in 17/8 rhythm.
Saw this group of talented musicians in Richmond VA many years ago. Great show.
Sounds more like one of the eighties “power ballad” tripe bands than Yes. Such a shame.
I barely remember this song as being a thing.
My favorite song off that album.
Was that tommy shaw way over on the left?
hermosa canción!
Cool seeing Paul Shaffer singing in the background
hahaha.......thanks, didn't catch it at first. Very cool, very funny.
Music connects, makes us feel love.
Uh does anyone realize that goofy Paul and his stupid band interfered in *EVERY* Letterman musical performance? Like...go look up any video. Why??
Where’s Steve!?
After the Union tour ended in '92, Howe rejoined in 1995.