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Chris Squire

#82
Glad you enjoyed YES and Chris Squire.

Many versions of YES over the years. My faves were first 2 versions.

My first Yes show: Yes Album..Eagles wamed up..Don Henley was furious when only myself and 3 others applauded..LOL.."WE KNOW YOU CAME TO SEE YES.. BUT BEFORE YOU LEAVE..LOOK AT US..THEN LOOK AT THE NEXT BAND.. WE'LL BE BACK, ATLANTA..

2nd time..YES [ FRAGILE tour].. Yes was warm-up for Emerson Lake and Palmer [TARKUS tour]
3RD time was Close to the Edge tour...YES performed in QUAD....

Seen them since.. but THOSE were the shows..
 
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LAG said:
Pulled out the Fly from Here CD yesterday and listening to it was like an old good friend. I think it is an excellent Yes album. Anyone else dig that record?
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I can never get all the way through it, but the first two parts of the title track are great at least. I actually prefer Benoit David's voice to Jon Anderson's :ninja:
 
#87
Hamlet7768 said:
I can never get all the way through it, but the first two parts of the title track are great at least. I actually prefer Benoit David's voice to Jon Anderson's :ninja:
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Just give it more time, Hamlet. I wasn't nuts about it at first but it really grew on me...and after all, I think many of us have felt that way about quite a few Yes albums.
 
#90
Yes does put on an amazing show, I saw them a few years back with Jon Anderson.

I found a rundown on Chris Squier's current gear that he's using on tour posted on chrissquier.com—I'm not sure if it's been posted before...

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#92
Indiedog said:
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Just give it more time, Hamlet. I wasn't nuts about it at first but it really grew on me...and after all, I think many of us have felt that way about quite a few Yes albums.
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This is true. I'll pop it on again.
 
#95
Old Fart said:
I listened to Close To The Edge last night, which is my favorite Yes album, and it occurred to me that Squire was/is a total musical 'bully.' It's like his instrument was fighting with every other instrument in the band. And winning. He's got a tone that doesn't NEED a kick drum. HE, CHRIS SQUIRE, determines the cadence and rhythm of the song....the drummer can just try to keep up. And his tone battles directly with the guitar too. Squire occupies a massive space in that mix. If it were a basketball game, Squire would be in the center of the key, swinging elbows.
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Chris's tone on Close to the Edge is incredible. This is the killer aggressive "in your face" Ric tone that really got me interested in playing bass. It's definitely one of my favorite albums.
 
#97
Old Fart said:
I listened to Close To The Edge last night, which is my favorite Yes album, and it occurred to me that Squire was/is a total musical 'bully.' It's like his instrument was fighting with every other instrument in the band. And winning. He's got a tone that doesn't NEED a kick drum. HE, CHRIS SQUIRE, determines the cadence and rhythm of the song....the drummer can just try to keep up. And his tone battles directly with the guitar too. Squire occupies a massive space in that mix. If it were a basketball game, Squire would be in the center of the key, swinging elbows.
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A lot of that is the mix by Eddy Offord ... he loved putting the bass in the forefront of the music.
 
#98
iridiumrocks said:
Fragile and Tarkus are both great albums.I would have loved to see that show. I've seen Yes several times, but never got to see ELP live. Several of my friends saw ELP on the Brain Salad Surgery tour in quad and said it was an amazing show.
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I saw ELP at the Fillmore East when I was in high school, their first US shows. Tarkus was just coming out, if I can remember it correctly. Great show. There was an awful band as the opener, I think it was Curved Air. I hated them. Wish it was Yes!!

Although always a huge fan, I didn't see Yes, strangely enough, for the first time until many years later on the 90125 tour, when I lived near Sacramento in the late 1980's. Very slick stage production but they were awesome. Saw them a couple of times after that, including in Northern Virginia when they toured with all of their past and present members and played in the round in various configurations (at George Mason U). Wow!!

BTW my local shop just got a black 4003 and I'm trying not to even go there to look at it....

ed (Yes, I'm old!)
 
#99
A Ric has such great midrange presence I consider it a crime to put flatwounds on them. Chris Squire changed the world from the late sixties till halfway the seventies with his AWESOME tone.

An hour ago I (again) compared my jazz, precision and ric playing different styles while adjusting their setups. The Ric can simply do it all. If it weren't for Squire I never would have known what a great instrument this is. Big lows, snappy highs (yes I slap on it sometimes) and midrange snarling growlyness that is to die for.

Throw in a Tech21 VTbass pedal for a bit of gritty dirt and you will bring down buildings with it.

Thank you Chris Squire!
 
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#100
Jaco Taco said:
I second this. Actually, something about Squire's style that doesn't get mentioned much is where he puts rests. He actually underplays a lot and puts very interestingly placed rests in his bass lines, it something that I think is very unique about him. An immediate example of him placing notes in interesting spots is the bass line for "Wonderous Stories".
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"Too Be Over" is another good example.
 
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