All YES Appreciation Thread

Yeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!! Thank you!!

I'm a huge fan of Yes - My fav albums are Close To The Edge and Relayer of course but also Tales and Going For The One.

I love Steve Howe's playing. Really underestimated guitar player in my opinion!

And Chris Squire's playing and sound is unique et incredible!

My first prog band, and the only Prog band I've ever seen live... I honestly don't think they've released a terrible album


-Joel

My first prog band too.  I was fortunate enough to have an older brother with a cool record collection.  He tells me the earliest thing he played me was In the Court of the Crimson King, but my earliest memories are of Yes, specifically Yes Album, Fragile (before it got scratched beyond usefulness), Close to the Edge, Yessongs.  I'd spin these vinyls with my own little hands, spending days just listening, sometimes staring at those great covers.  Tales' girth frightened me at first, but it didn't take long before I got WAAAAY into that one.  (I can remember The Ancients scaring me, scary sounds!  Then I found it scary but in a wondrous way.)  Sure there was ELP and Tull and Zeppelin, but those were never quite as serious to me as Yes - that was my childhood experience and feeling anyway.

Oups 

Where should we go now?

Padraic wrote: The problem, once again, is that the default search parameter is to only go back 6 months.

I realize that, and I set the parameter to any and typed yes appreciation, still nothing.  Don't know why.  Well, I don't know what to say.  Of course I'd love it if people stuck around here.  Question is why didn't it have more activity?  What, is Yes some kind of dinosaur??

 Every album from The Yes Album to Going for the One are excellent. Particularly Close to the Edge, Tales, and the BEAUTIFUL Relayer.

The Quiet One wrote: I really don't know where you people get that Steve Howe is under-appreciated/rated

Edited by Tsevir Leirbag - August 09 2009 at 21:15

Not only is Howe a great rock guitarist, and phenomenal on the nylon strings, but he has all these amazing forays into "old timey" styles that Gilmour and Page, great as they are too, could not touch at all.  Cactus Boogie, Meadow Rag, The Continental, just to name three off The Steve Howe Album. 

Fripp could probably have done that kind of stuff too, but didn't want to.  Same could go for Hackett, who, to be fair, probably edges Howe out on the classical side.  But even as I say that I think of the "proggy" classical of Howe, like in The Ancients and Surface Tension, and I get chills like nothing else gives me.  There's a thematic space and meaning about his playing.  No, no one has it over on him, done deal.

Howe is an excellent guitarist. I saw him live playing double duty last week with Yes and Asia, and he's got to be like 100 years old by now, but he is still rippin'!

I'm surprised I made it on page one here. It's not very often that I make page one on a Yes, DT, Genesis, etc. thread


Edited by J-Man - August 10 2009 at 05:42

progkidjoel wrote: J-Man wrote: Howe is an excellent guitarist. I saw him live playing double duty last week with Yes and Asia, and he's got to be like 100 years old by now, but he is still rippin'! Its because hes a vegatarian... Pretty funny stuff, the healthiest guy in the band has been looking like hes about to die for the past 20 years