Still Raising Goosebumps

[ajish4]

Tony, when I saw Yes do Soon here in the Zoo, Jon was all in white and when they hit the "Soon, oh soon the light" part, a green laser laid a cone of green light all around him - it was spectacular!

I've seen them do The Ritual twice, and all 4 sides of TFTO. I saw the Relayer tour also. I have some really fantastic color slides and b&w pictures - it was back when you could still take a camera in (1976 ish).

sigh......YOU LUCKY MAN John!

Fingers crossed for August....

[relayer]

Chris, I saw Wakeman live on his 1996 solo tour. He mentioned that, when moving, he discovered a box that had all of the CTTE outtake reels. PLEASE, Release, release them!!!

THAT, probably to most of us, would be one helluva Holy Grail!! The only thing better would be individual multitracks.

Is it just me being dyslexic or something, or is Chris' ability to play a bass part like that and sing beautiful harmonies a rare talent?

I'd say relatively rare - as has been mentioned, there are many who can sing and play, but the contrapuntal nature of what Chris did in the '70s was pretty damn amazing, IMO.

One of my proudest moments (that nobody, except maybe my girlfriend at the time, witnessed) was when I was able to *finally* nail the bass part and backing vox during the "coins & crosses" section of And You & I - after quite a bit of practice. And yet I could never get it together for something like Dire Straits Walk Of Life (simple root - V bass part with "ahhh" backups, IIRC). Of course, that probably had something to do with the fact I wasn't interested in nailing that one.

[woodyng]

just the bass parts by themselves are unbelievable-and singing ANOTHER intricate line,whilst dancing on bass pedals....it boggles the mind....still! i am completely useless as a backup singer,even if the song has a simple bassline,and the vocal is a just the odd ooh or ahh...what's really strange is i can strum chords on a guitar and sing over that without any problem.....bass playing takes up more of my brain's capacity,and i never was a good dancer.....

[ram]

I used to do things like Beyond and Before, Your Move & All Good People, Behind Blue Eyes..... pitchie but OK... but man get me out of 4/4 and all hope is lost. It becomes a real work.

[just_bassics]

What about Tempus Fugit? I try to sing and play the bass line to that one when no one's around to laugh at me