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Joined: March 04 2006
Location: Canada
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Posted: November 25 2008 at 18:26
Now that's ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!! Better than a Spinal Tap video.......the guitar players were hilarious.....nice to see Mr. White and Mr. McGuire don't take themselves too seriously....they should do a song a week like that on TV....I'd watch every time.... good video to introduce your kids to Yes music...classic!
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Joined: August 12 2007
Location: Bryant, Wa
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Posted: November 25 2008 at 18:08
That was just awful. Everything about it. From the performance, the fill ins, the name gaff, to me realizing for the first time that "Huckaberry Hound the hell were you ever in the running for leader of the free world?" has his own talk show. I thought the networks learned their lesson after my show got canceled. But that's Faux News for ya.
But i digress.
Seriously, if the Yes guys want to keep performing, that's fine. Just end the charade and do something different.
Joined: March 06 2008
Location: Michigan
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Posted: November 25 2008 at 09:56
I'm too old to keep up w/stuff like this, I guess. First of all, what the hell are they doing on FOX??? Any exposure is good exposure? Now hanging out on the right wing Nazi channel is OK??? Former candidate Huck has gone from fundamental Christian preacher to hip happening host? He says how "pumped" he is & then calls Chris Squire "McGuire". I couldn't even watch the song; just Huck's intro was cringe-worthy enough for me.
Joined: July 26 2006
Location: Mexico
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Posted: November 24 2008 at 13:44
Pussy Galore wrote:
Caution!!!
If you've any regard for the musical legacy of YES... (and are possessed of a weak stomach)... DO NOT watch this video!!!
On the other hand, if you've ventured forth and viewed the video, perhaps you'll be so kind as to elucidate your fellow prog-rockers with the answer to the following query:
What could possibly have possessed Chris Squire to so thoroughly disgrace himself and trash the musical legacy of Yes in the process?
Is it his desperate attempt to hang-on, at any price, to his long-lost Rock stardom?
Is it his gluttonous, whorish appetite to milk every last penny from the Yes cash-cow?
Or has he simply become a sad, demented, senile, old man?
Do tell...
I watch the video, its' funny to me... a bit of Mocking themselves it always health.
Joined: October 10 2006
Location: Missouri
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Points: 19236
Posted: November 23 2008 at 22:27
I won't support any video from the FauxNews channel or anyone trying to cash in on the Yes name.....mainly the FauxNews part. I'm glad that I didn't get tix for this show when it comes to St. Louis. Dreadful.
Joined: March 08 2007
Location: United States
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Points: 2755
Posted: November 23 2008 at 14:49
Pussy Galore wrote:
Caution!!!
If you've any regard for the musical legacy of YES... (and are possessed of a weak stomach)... DO NOT watch this video!!!
On the other hand, if you've ventured forth and viewed the video, perhaps you'll be so kind as to elucidate your fellow prog-rockers with the answer to the following query:
What could possibly have possessed Chris Squire to so thoroughly disgrace himself and trash the musical legacy of Yes in the process?
Is it his desperate attempt to hang-on, at any price, to his long-lost Rock stardom?
Is it his gluttonous, whorish appetite to milk every last penny from the Yes cash-cow?
Or has he simply become a sad, demented, senile, old man?
Do tell...
Dear me.
I can understand how a fan of '70's Yes (or '90's Yes, for that matter) would be dissappointed in seeing this, but hell, they are playing OWNER!!!! Yes, it's a really crappy song, but it's prob one of the better versions of it that I've heard in a lineup without Rabin. (They prob didn't allow Howe to come along because he seems to intentionally trash this one whenever he has to play it.) This is my first chance to hear the new singer and he seems to have the chops.
Jon and Wakey's lack of involvement is tragic, but if the other three want to tour and can put out a good product, more power to them. Anybody who is outraged about this probably has hours and hours of listening material on vinyl or CD that will make them happy instead.
Joined: February 28 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: November 23 2008 at 00:41
^ You don't know anything about my morals. It's one thing to be dismayed by what you perceive as shabby treatment, but it's another to repeatedly publicise it. My morals wouldn't let me do that.
Joined: September 25 2005
Location: Texas
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Points: 359
Posted: November 22 2008 at 23:13
^I've always loved his music, and I used to admire him as a person, but his treatment of Jon Anderson at a terrible time in Jon's life is despicable. That's my opinion. If you don't agree, fine. We just don't share the same code of ethics and morals.
Joined: February 28 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: November 22 2008 at 00:16
^You certainly have an axe to grind, don't you? Again, you're clearly in possession of information gleaned from years of close personal contact - or you're making it up.
Joined: February 14 2006
Location: United States
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Posted: November 18 2008 at 13:57
Chris hasn't missed many meals, it would seem. Perhaps "Whale out of Water" wouldn't be an inappropriate observation?
"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
Joined: February 14 2006
Location: United States
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Points: 8238
Posted: November 18 2008 at 11:03
White looks okay but McGuire/Squire looks like the weird uncle who shows up at family reunions and only mumbles "I used to be in a band..."
"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
Joined: October 08 2008
Location: Norwich UK
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Points: 7053
Posted: November 18 2008 at 03:52
Glad to be online at this time and be the first to agree.
Top choice... I understand from friends who know that if you sit near the gentleman at a football match the chances of striking up a conversation are non-existant. About the game, not just Genesis.
Still, it must be so awkward to be the only one in a band not to have had a private education...
It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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