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    Posted: January 21 2008 at 10:15
Hello,

No sure it's the good forum to come...My problem is the following : I've just acquired the remastered version of this fabulous album, but the release notes of the CD are very poor : I should like to know where and when these were played; I just know it's was during the Fragile and Close To The Edge tours, no more...
Can somebody help me or tell me where I can get these informations?

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Yessongs is a "greatest hits" album off the first two Yes albums that includes a couple of extra tracks.  The only song with the "classic" Yes line up is the cover of the Paul Simon song "America."  
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You're wrong, Everyone - "Yessongs" is a live album recorded during the "Close to the Edge" tour - I don't know where or when it was recorded (as far as I know, at least three different concert recordings were used, and there's a rumour that lots of instrumental passages and vocal harmonies were overdubbed). The "greatest hits" featuring "America" is called Yesterdays.
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2008 at 15:43
yes.. Everyone.. you sort of screwed the pooch there LOL. .it is a live album.. you might want to listen to an album first before commenting hahhahah.  I've found references to 4 different shows that songs were taken from.

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Points: 14 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 05:38
Ok,

Thanks to all, I wish it would very diffcult to find; on http://www.yesworld.com/, you find a list of all the Yes concerts since the birth of JC Big%20smile, but, effectively, it's sometimes two, three or four recordinds for the same track...also, tthe tracks on Yessongs all finish abruptely, no like an usual live album...

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Piecing bits of information together, the bulk of the album was recorded in North America and White stated he had been in the band about 3 months when it was recorded so I guess that would place it on the Autumn North American 1972 tour. If you check here http://forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=4&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 you'll notice some dates are marked with official recordings available. No doubt they will be the ones used on Yessongs.

If you hunt a bit further here no doubt you'll be able to find the dates Bruford played on.
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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 10:52
Originally posted by M. B. Zapelini M. B. Zapelini wrote:

You're wrong, Everyone - "Yessongs" is a live album recorded during the "Close to the Edge" tour - I don't know where or when it was recorded (as far as I know, at least three different concert recordings were used, and there's a rumour that lots of instrumental passages and vocal harmonies were overdubbed). The "greatest hits" featuring "America" is called Yesterdays.

it is more than just a rumour. it is more like an open secret


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Points: 20042 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2008 at 15:21
Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Piecing bits of information together, the bulk of the album was recorded in North America and White stated he had been in the band about 3 months when it was recorded so I guess that would place it on the Autumn North American 1972 tour. If you check here http://forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=4&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 you'll notice some dates are marked with official recordings available. No doubt they will be the ones used on Yessongs.

If you hunt a bit further here no doubt you'll be able to find the dates Bruford played on.

I've always thought that Alan White only had something like 3 days to learn the set before he joined. Maybe that's not true then?
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Points: 3659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2008 at 15:27
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Piecing bits of information together, the bulk of the album was recorded in North America and White stated he had been in the band about 3 months when it was recorded so I guess that would place it on the Autumn North American 1972 tour. If you check here http://forgottenyesterdays.com/tour_listing.asp?s=5&tname=4&SortBy=tDate&so=asc&navb=4 you'll notice some dates are marked with official recordings available. No doubt they will be the ones used on Yessongs.

If you hunt a bit further here no doubt you'll be able to find the dates Bruford played on.

I've always thought that Alan White only had something like 3 days to learn the set before he joined. Maybe that's not true then?
 
You're right Chopper, when he joined he did only have a few days to learn the set before the first gig but Yessongs was recorded on the following visit to North America. They did a summer tour there, then a short European tour then back to the states in the Autumn.
 
They were back there again the follwing spring too!
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