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'Yes' with Chris Squire

#21
Im a lifelong yes fan! My fisrt show was 1978 (going for the one) 3 shows on the 90125 tour, 1 ladder tour show,1 masterworks tour show and one magnification tour show (outdoor venue in essex junction vermont). The yes lineup has changed back & forth over the years, igor on keys, rabin on lead billy sheehan and steve howe both playing guitar, etc. That being said, i'm a purest at heart. The ultimate yes lineup has to be howe,anderson,squire,white & wakemen.
 
#22
My first memory is from when I was two or three years old, seeing Chris Squier jump around on stage with his yellow Ric. It was mesmerizing. But it sucks to see that Rick Wakeman wasn't in the DTV concert, I saw it too. And I didn't know that Jon Anderson was such a "spiritual" person.
 
#23
rockscott said:
Im a lifelong yes fan! My fisrt show was 1978 (going for the one) 3 shows on the 90125 tour, 1 ladder tour show,1 masterworks tour show and one magnification tour show (outdoor venue in essex junction vermont). The yes lineup has changed back & forth over the years, igor on keys, rabin on lead billy sheehan and steve howe both playing guitar, etc. That being said, i'm a purest at heart. The ultimate yes lineup has to be howe,anderson,squire,white & wakemen.
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Billy Sheehan on guitar with Yes:eek:?????? I never knew that. When was that?
 
#24
They were doing an acoustic set the last few years. Unplugged roundabout, owner of a lonley heart, etc. Very cool! I'm glad i got to see all those shows because i think its a done deal! Time for the fools @ rolling stone to PUT YES IN THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME!
 
#30
rockscott said:
Im a lifelong yes fan! My fisrt show was 1978 (going for the one) 3 shows on the 90125 tour, 1 ladder tour show,1 masterworks tour show and one magnification tour show (outdoor venue in essex junction vermont). The yes lineup has changed back & forth over the years, igor on keys, rabin on lead billy sheehan and steve howe both playing guitar, etc. That being said, i'm a purest at heart. The ultimate yes lineup has to be howe,anderson,squire,white & wakemen.
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Ha! Going for the one is when I stopped listening - dang I am old!
 
#32
Hate to drag the discussion off-topic, but the simple fact is that 90125 is the most overwhelmingly successful album Yes ever released. Ever.

Trevor Rabin is an artist I have followed and admired since his days in South Africa with Rabbitt, and is one of my favorite songwriters and guitarists ever... he now has graduated to scoring movie soundtracks (his resume is astounding) but I have seen shows with Rabin and Howe, and Trevor's melodic sensibilities, outstanding guitar playing and great voice (quite complimentary to Anderson/Squire) made those late 80's shows much more enjoyable than the ones with just Howe.

 
#33
M.R. Ogle said:
Hate to drag the discussion off-topic, but the simple fact is that 90125 is the most overwhelmingly successful album Yes ever released. Ever.

Trevor Rabin is an artist I have followed and admired since his days in South Africa with Rabbitt, and is one of my favorite songwriters and guitarists ever... he now has graduated to scoring movie soundtracks (his resume is astounding) but I have seen shows with Rabin and Howe, and Trevor's melodic sensibilities, outstanding guitar playing and great voice (quite complimentary to Anderson/Squire) made those late 80's shows much more enjoyable than the ones with just Howe.

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I have to agree with this, and I've seen several Yes lineups live.
 
#34
M.R. Ogle said:
Hate to drag the discussion off-topic, but the simple fact is that 90125 is the most overwhelmingly successful album Yes ever released. Ever.

Trevor Rabin is an artist I have followed and admired since his days in South Africa with Rabbitt, and is one of my favorite songwriters and guitarists ever... he now has graduated to scoring movie soundtracks (his resume is astounding) but I have seen shows with Rabin and Howe, and Trevor's melodic sensibilities, outstanding guitar playing and great voice (quite complimentary to Anderson/Squire) made those late 80's shows much more enjoyable than the ones with just Howe.

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Rabin's playing and contribution to Yes those years is searing. He gets a lot of flak from Yes purists (I guess he was too pop, or led them away from prog?), but he's great.

That clip shows Squire playing the bass that looks like a Big Al. It's an Electra?
 
#37
M.R. Ogle said:
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The cool thing about this is with two guitars up there you're getting some of the secondary guitar parts in "Owner" that you didn't get live with the 90125 lineup.

I think Squire was playing that bass all the way back on the 9012Live tour on "City Of Love" (tuned to low D). I'll have to see if I can find my DVD of it.
EDIT: Yup. He also plays it on "Cinema" & "Leave It".
 
#40
On the topic of basses...

Squire's 5 String Tobias was first used on Big Generator. I don't think it's seen much if any studio use since then. He also had some extended scale Tobias 4 strings, never seen the exact length mentioned but in concert vids from that time onwards keep your eyes peeled for a Tobias with a neck half a mile long, easy to spot the extra dot inlays on the fretboard as well. I remember the low A string on the song Big Generator moving the concert hall. It was a tremendous experience. Seem to remember from an old interview that Squire wanted the low A, and Mike Tobias convinced him to keep the bass tuned in standard intervals.

I've seen more recent vids when they've pulled out some of the old forgotten songs and Chris was playing a 6 string Carvin on them.

It's funny how the Electra has a Rickenbacker bridge, but everybody knows you can't pick with a Ric bridge, because you "can't palm mute." Of course, it's even harder on a Ric with a horseshoe pickup (or the bridge cover on) since that gets in the way, and these items have to be removed to make the bass playable. Guess nobody told this guy that when he was a lad. Somebody should set him straight.

On the off topic tangent the thread has taken:

Howe's a fantastically skillful old elf/wizard, but Yes never had the same energy after Rabin left. I'm not crazy about Trevor's solo stuff, soundtracks don't always make the best listening material (not their goal) but his are well done. Wouldn't be surprised if he's making considerably more $ now than his old bandmates are. I prefer his work with Yes.. and the rest of the band's work with him to what I've heard from either since then. Would they still be playing if it weren't for the 80's reunion, which only happened because Rabin had so much of 90125 already recorded as solo demos, and hooked up with some out of work ex-Yes guys looking to form a band? That got people noticing them again.

Billy Sherwood struck me as a good musician, but no fit replacement for Rabin. He seemed mostly there for backup and to cover Trevor's leads in his songs, but it wasn't the same. OTOH, since his departure he's been more of a singing bassist than a guitar hero, and it suits him much better. Never would have believed the "backup" guitarist would actually have made a better Squire replacement than a Rabin replacement!
 

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