Yes -Wakeman "mixed out" out of live performances?

In quite a number of Yes live videos it seems to me that Rick Wakeman cannot be heard in the mix.  Yes, his key parts are there, but when not featured I don't hear him at all though video clearly shows him actively playing.  

Here's what I'm referring to, one example of MANY that could be given in the single video.

Edited by oldschool71 - July 24 2018 at 09:22

try this:  

Oh.. you haven't seen those pics of him during the sessions?  I thought everyone has seen those.. :)  

I'm not going to pretend that I'm interested in the Union album material and associated concerts, so I'm not familiar with the music that was played by Yes at that time. If Rick Wakeman's keyboard parts were mixed out, that could be for many sound reasons. For example, redundant keyboard parts by Wakeman and Kaye that the mix engineer excised as he found that the music sounded better without the redundant keyboard parts, or that Wakeman's parts were badly recorded and excised. Or that Rick himself was not happy with how he played that night and asked that his rougher parts be mixed out. It's not all cloak and dagger intrigue.

Edited by SteveG - July 24 2018 at 10:34

SteveG wrote: I'm not going to pretend that I'm interested in the Union album material and associated concerts, so I'm not familiar with the music that was played by Yes at that time. If Rick Wakeman's keyboard parts were mixed out, that could be for many sound reasons. For example, redundant keyboard parts by Wakeman and Kaye that the mix engineer excised as he found that the music sounded better without the redundant keyboard parts, or that Wakeman's parts were badly recorded and excised. Or that Rick himself was not happy with how he played that night and asked that his rougher parts be mixed out. It's not all cloak and dagger intrigue.

That's cool, I hope Wakeman and the rest really did have a great time - BB never seemed to have much fun 

Edited by The.Crimson.King - July 24 2018 at 16:57

My interest is not only the music but I find YesYes an interesting concept.  How many bands can say that there were two of them at the same time?  

Here's the Wakeman quotes from a BBC documentary (37:00 & ff)


Edited by oldschool71 - July 25 2018 at 14:21

think this has occurred to me ---but will have to revisit ---he is def heard loud and clear on the ABWH live material and he's very in your face on the studio album which I have been listening to lately and loving it. He should have stayed with that line up