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Maybe they were feeling the New Wave pressure. It's not one of my favorites, either, but it was a good tour with the in the round stage and I got to see Wakeman in his silver and blue jumpsuit with mini silver cape.

I have some photos from that tour, Long Beach, CA Arena show. Should I post a few?

Tormato was a piece of dung...IMHO, I hasten to add! I couldn't really listen to much after Relayer...

Part of the band's legend is that Bruford couldn't take Anderson's "airy-fairy" stuff. After his departure, there remained for a while a strong musical ethic in the band..but by the time Going For The One came out, they were more than a little concerned with 'staying current'...a little too concerned to bother with writing good material.

That and all that darned cocaine. (There I go again!)...

Oh yeah,...Alan, by all means, post photos...

Go for it, Alan!!

The Yes Album blew me away when I first heard it, and it remains one of my favourites to this day. I stayed with them up through Relayer, but that was a bit too jagged for me, and I thought they were getting a bit full of themselves.

Didn't Rick Wakeman once refer to "Tales..." as "Toby's Graphic Go-kart"?

Right...and this from a guy who staged 'King Arthur' on ice! There's a million ways to get too full of yourself, that's for sure.

They ain't pimpin' no Lexuses (Lexi), though!

Rick had a touch of sour grapes, I think - and was, as you point out, far from immune to excess.

The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales are, to my ears, the definitive Yes collection. What I heard in Relayer was a band trying a bit too hard to be clever and complex.

And perhaps succeeding a bit too well. As Captain Beefheart once said:

"Hey, twerp! Play somethin' I can dance to!"

i love tormato. going for the one, drama and close to the edge would be my top 4.

Okay Sean...for you, I'll take it back...but only because I like Thin Lizzy, too!

no no no, stand firm!

Fine...dung it is!

Musta been lettin' my O get a little too H...

http://www.pbase.com/alanz01/yes_sept_1978

A couple of Chris and one of Steve's guitars including a Rick Resource-relevant six string.

Time marches on, laddies...

Sorry, I removed the password protection...

It is true that a lot of the prog artists were well-off (to put it nicely) to begin with, but what about, say, Neil Peart? When he came in to audition for Geddy and Alex, he was carrying his drums in garbage cans because he couldn't afford cases. I guess he's an exception, but still . . . you don't get much less well-off than that. Except maybe not having drums.

Actually, on the prog-punk subject, I immediately thought of the Mars Volta. They stress that people should not label their music as simply one or two genres, but they've really managed to combine everything great about both prog and punk (and salsa and experimental and metal for that matter).

Word about Tormato. There was another thread where I believe I said that Tormato was a ****** album filled with great songs. Except "Circus of Heaven". That was just bad. To each his own, though. Personally, I love everything Yes has done, though certain things get listened to more than others, and I haven't listened to Union yet, so I have yet to see if it really is *that* bad.

My theory is that Neil was such a jerkface even back then that none of the music stores in Toronto would sell him any gear so that's why he was improvising with garbage cans.