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    Posted: June 04 2007 at 03:28
Review coming whenever I'm not like "ah f**k, I've got to go to sleep and get up and go to work in the morning".

Tentative review:  Best Yes live performance I've ever heard, though Wakeman could've been better.  Howe literally at the top of his game, and Jon Anderson swears at his guitar.  Chris looks as joyful and peppy as ever, and Alan's got a few tricks up his  shiny, silver sleeve.  Even Awaken was exciting, and a lot of the songs were played drastically differently, mostly thanks to Steve Howe's improvisational skills and apparent hatred towards Rick Wakeman.
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Yeah, it is a superb DVD. Probably the best Yes performance I have too- the whole band are on amazing form. No grumbles with the set- and 'Awaken' has matured into my fave Yes song of them all; the second half of that is immense here. It's an immensely powerful moment when the audience erupts into applause just before the climax. As for 'apparent hatred towards Rick Wakeman', I'm not sure about that, but both men were more subdued than usual- I did notice that much. Still, it didn't detract from the music...possibly the opposite.
 
The Yes DVD I was disappointed with, and was filmed not long after this Montreux set, I think, was that 'Songs From The Tsongas' one- whilst they did at least try out something different, imho they were on slightly patchy form and many of the newly introduced songs into the set were average, imho, like 'The Meeting', 'Time Is Time', Sweet Dreams' and 'Footprints'..


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Originally posted by salmacis salmacis wrote:

As for 'apparent hatred towards Rick Wakeman', I'm not sure about that, but both men were more subdued than usual- I did notice that much.


There wasn't anything sudued about Howe's performance. He was giving his all on pretty much every song, yo could clearly see his head bobbing like a chicken when things started getting intense.. Prior to seeing the DVD I had no idea he could bust out those kind of improvs.
I do wish Wakeman had been more subdued though. He was subdued in the fact that he looked extremely hung over, but while the other guys were chaning things up and improvising, Wakeman's idea of "jazz improv" was throwing in random speedy arpeggios to interrupt everyone else's improvisation.
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