Isolated Chris Squire bass tracks!

[Axstar]

I've found a number of isolated Chris Squire bass tracks on Youtube. You can also hear Bill Bruford's parts on these, but that isn't a bad thing really! A rhythm section working together, unconventionally.

Close To The Edge:



Siberian Khatru:



South Side of the Sky:



Apparently he used his modified Telecaster bass on SSSOTS. It still sounds like Squire!

Long Distance Runaround:




If you didn't have GAS for a Rickenbacker before, you might do now! Even when it isn't a Telecaster. There must be more of these tracks out there somewhere. I would like to hear some isolated bass tracks from The Yes Album. The uploader has put some stuff from Starship Trooper online, but not the bass tracks! Yet...

 

[Artman]

I was just listening to Yours is no Disgrace. Holy crap! Great stuff.

 

[Standalone]

Yes was my first rock concert, Fragile was the first album from my dad’s collection that I ever played repeatedly. And yet, this Definitely didn’t wind up being my tone and style.

The bass lines on “Close to the Edge” are direct and relatively simple for a tune that comes across as more frenetic and complex overall. Really interesting.

 

[GTHintz]

When I see people saying yes is lame or anything like that I play heart of the sunrise from the beginning. People go "whoa, who's that???" I tell them its Chris and his RIC. The guy shredded all over that that neck before there was shredding as a musical term! Give me a 4001, Roto strings and I'll be very entertained for a while! And I'll add that very few people can get that sound like he did because if you're a soft picker or plucker its not going to happen. He played with dynamics ranging from nice harmonics to hard hitting to light picking to using his nail to dig out a screaming tone. CHRIS IS THE MAN! EVEN IN DEATH!