I know but I meant the classic line up. Anyway I don’t like anything after 90125 and still don’t understand why Howe still continues with this. The level of playing is also not what it used to be.
I still like the ABW&H album though.
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I know but I meant the classic line up. Anyway I don’t like anything after 90125 and still don’t understand why Howe still continues with this. The level of playing is also not what it used to be.
I still like the ABW&H album though.
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Cashflow!
I think he doesn’t need to do it for the money anymore. Maybe he just can’t retire. Same as The Rolling Stones.
For anyone who says they don't like any Yes albums after 90125 -- and especially if they do like the ABWH album -- I always point them to the Keystudio album. Recorded in 1996 and 1997, released in 2001, it consists of the new material/studio recordings only from the two Keys To Ascension albums. I contend it was the last good Yes album...and much better than several that preceded it.
edit: ...and it features the proven* lineup of Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, and White. (*I almost said "classic" but I know a lot of folks think that implies Bruford on drums.)
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I'll have to check that out as I do like the new studio material on the two KTA CDs.
Most famous musicians don't have the money you think they have. They also don't receive the income streams they once enjoyed from their recorded works like they once did, nobody wants to pay for music anymore. John Entwistle was pretty much always broke. Divorces, extravagant lifestyles etc. take a lot to maintain.
^^^This.
Back in the Good Old Days bands toured in order to promote their albums. Nowadays bands record albums to promote their tours.
Back in the Good Old Days bands toured in order to promote their albums. Nowadays bands record albums to promote their tours.
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my Facebook feed has recently been spammed with a promo for this band Circuline. Finally decided to give them a listen:
Not bad! I'm on the fence about the music; there are some elements that suggest a naivete that I generally find offputting, but none so egregious that I wouldn't give them a second listen. But I really liked the lyrics to ^^^that number.
Here's the first hit I got on youtube when I searched for Circuline, I'm two minutes into this one and it definitely doesn't suck.
Not bad! I'm on the fence about the music; there are some elements that suggest a naivete that I generally find offputting, but none so egregious that I wouldn't give them a second listen. But I really liked the lyrics to ^^^that number.
Here's the first hit I got on youtube when I searched for Circuline, I'm two minutes into this one and it definitely doesn't suck.
from Fred Frith's 1980 album Gravity ...rather unexpectedly, this tune always reminded of classic prog-rock; similar in some way to the Triumphant section of "The Gates Of Delirium" by Yes (i.e., after the Battle section, but before the Swamp section that precedes "soon, oh soon the light"). I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given Frith's pedigree in Henry Cow, but by 1980 he already seemed so distanced from that genre and more of a noise/skronk Downtown NYC avant-garde musician. Anyhow, cool tune:
A couple of bands have recently popped onto my radar-
Thank You Scientist
Bubblemath
Something they have in common with your Circuline-
Tremendous musicians...honestly, though, I could deal with a lot less lyrical content. Or maybe it's me.
