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There are now two bands called Yes

#161
Biggbass said:
hmmm...Sounds like a so-so cover band hammering out a somewhat lame version of a great song.
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I just watched the video for the first time in years and I see I was wrong about Huckabee playing bass instead of Squire. I'm sure it happened at some point in the dismal show and I'm afraid to guess what song they might have played.
It was certainly an awful performance by all involved. Sorry.
 
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#163
Pauly 4001 said:
You are referring to Yes appearing on whatever the Mike Huckabee show was called. Huckabee played bass, which I hope gave Chris a chance to reassess the idea of showing up at that particular gig.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
There it is! That's the one. Thank You! And I say:
No! No! No!

"Owner" without samples and keyboards, and without any decency or integrity. Cultural decline and then some... but the worst thing, calling him Chris Mcguire or something.
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#164
12bass said:
Alan White played well on the Huckabee show.
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I thought he was struggling, as if he had accidentally taken horse tranquilizers or something. Or maybe he was trying to keep time with the Huckabee house band. I'd watch it again if I could.
I'm going to randomly speculate that when Huckabee did play bass instead of Squire which I swear did happen at some point in the program that he jammed along with "Ritual" or "Tempus Fugit" or maybe "Close To The Edge".
 
#165
12bass said:
Alan White played well on the Huckabee show.
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I have always liked Alan. As an early fan, I couldn't imagine anyone replacing Bruford. But at times Bruford was too much. Just take a good, hard listen to Fragile. He thought he was Dave Brubeck. He wasn't. Alan came from the Plasic Ono Band. He brought a more subtle, tasteful style to the music. If Lennon hadn't gone off the rails and and started his decline into the abis circa 1972, who knows what could have happened on that front. But Alan White is to me the Yes drummer. Just listen to him on Tales and Relayer,
 
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MCF said:
I have always liked Alan. As an early fan, I couldn't imagine anyone replacing Bruford. But at times Bruford was too much. Just take a good, hard listen to Fragile. He thought he was Dave Brubeck. He wasn't. Alan came from the Plasic Ono Band. He brought a more subtle, tasteful style to the music. If Lennon hadn't gone off the rails and and started his decline into the abis circa 1972, who knows what could have happened on that front. But Alan White is to me the Yes drummer. Just listen to him on Tales and Relayer,
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I tend to agree. But now, the couple Alan White/Chris Squire were so close nit, that I think that Squire couldn't play with any other drummer than Alan. Due/thanks to his idiosyncratic style, I mean Chris's. Bruford said at times he couldn't play with anything that Chris played. Because Bruford often demanded that some other guy was holding down the groove and pulse while he could go off into outer space not caring of where ONE was in the beat. Bills snare drum can come in at ANY time, and has no relation to anything else going on...it threw everybody else off, but him. I've even seen Tony Levin struggled while playing with Bruford! Can you believe this? On the Crimson DVD of the 90s 00s, where they were a sixpiece, while TL is laying down the main lick for "INDISCIPLINE" Bruford goes out there, and you can see TL's face cringing, closing his eyes with a wry smile trying to not lose beat. Of course, he managed, but hey, if even TL struggled with him sometimes, I can magine what it would be like with Chris.

As it is of Yes, I think they had very little totally improvised in their music. No matter that they got solos, long numbers, I think too much were set in stone. They were definitely not a jamming band like Allman Brothers, or as the luminaries in the prog field which Bruford went over to: King Crimson. And Bruford rather likes to improvise.
 
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#169
12bass said:
The drum breakdown in Gates Of Delirium is awesome! It's sad his playing is now a shadow of what it used to be....
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It's definitely not the only one in that band. I remember one of their cruises (Cruise To The Edge) where he lost tempo, and couldn't keep it up for the whole evening, due to that the cruise liner rocked so the stage started to waver a bit. You know the old joke, how can you see that a stage is totally horisontal? The drummer has equal amounts of drool on both sides of the mouth. It wasn't to be that evening. I am saying the following with both Yes camps: KIBOSH! And has been so at least since around 2010... if not even before.
 
#170
MCF said:
... Alan came from the Plasic Ono Band.. If Lennon* hadn't gone off the rails and and started his decline into the abis circa 1972, who knows what could have happened on that front...
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* stage name for Yoko Ono. ;) You don't know how much she had an impact on him, and since it was Plastic Ono Band, she was the one calling the shots, not Lennon. You know like the Sharon/Ozzie things these days. Plastic Ono had revolving members anyway.
 
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Hadn't seen that complete video of Owner. I'll be completely honest. I'm not a Rabin fan at all. And I think that is the weakest song in the catalogue through 82-83. That being said, it was the best version of that song I've heard. These guys aren't washed up. This should be the current YES. Howe on the Ric is great. He's slowed down immensely on guitar, but he plays a nice bass. Rabin plays well. Anderson sounds twenty years younger than he is. Wakeman is fine and Alan is, well, Alan; very steady. I don't know why all the drama.
 

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