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threefates wrote: I love Yes a lot also... but even Union is better than "Big Generator"...

Of course you are welcome to your opinion, but I disagree....BG has some killer tunes:

Final Eyes

I'm Running

Shoot High Aim Low 

Holy Lamb

(And I admit that even Rhythm of Love, Love Will Find a Way, the Title Track & Almost Like Love are guilty plaesures for me!)

Union has probably just as many good tracks (I Would Have Waited Forever, Shock to the System, Lift Me Up, Miracle of Life, The More We Live-Let Go, Take the Water to the Mountain), but has more tracks that I skip than any other Yes CD: Holding On (Probably my least favorite Yes track of the entire catalog!), Dangerous (It Sure Is!), Saving My Heart (Even bad pop for Rabin!),  and much Mediocrity: Silent Talking, Evensong (Bruford-Levin can do much better), Masquerade (Ditto Steve Howe)....Also, a lot of die hard Yes fans have real problems with this album because so many studio musicians were used....

Note the following side of the story from Producer Jonathan Elias:

http://www.bondegezou.demon.co.uk/iv/jeinterview.htm#p2

 

Rick Wakeman calles it "Onion" because he cries when he hears the CD!

From an interview on www.nfte.org issue 263

Yes went through this sort of management and because there’d been ABWH, because there’d been the Yes side of things and the UNION side of things, there just seemed to be managers and agents everywhere, and my personal opinion--and this is only an opinion--was that a lot of decisions where made on behalf of the band that the band didn’t make, and that were not in the best interests of the band. Certainly at the end of the UNION tour, and I say this again, this is an opinion, this is not fact, my opinion is that the management there at the time thought, “Great, Yes has built up a lot of respect…the UNION tour was a great tour, had built a lot of respect, that’s great--built up a fan base. Everything’s really good again; everything’s great. It doesn’t matter who does the album, because that’s fine, everybody will buy it now." And that’s not right. That’s not how things work.

MOT: You don’t think it more of a commercial consideration, in that 90125 was such a big hit for Yes, that certain people said, “Hey, let’s get that version of Yes back together and create an album, maybe we’ll have another 90125?”

RW: I don’t think so, because there’s two ways of looking at it. You can say, yeah, that’s true, 90125 was an extremely important album, it saved the band, to many extents. The ABWH tour was a great tour, and when the two units merged to form the UNION tour, probably the strongest elements were from the ABWH side of things of the two units being put together. So in essence, to remove that unit at the end of it was a bit strange. I think you’re dead right, but I think the commercial side was purely financial…personally what I would have thought was there probably wasn’t a way where in truth where there could have been an eight piece album, because the UNION album was, as it was, was pretty dreadful. Actually that’s not fair, it was very dreadful. In fact I don’t even class it as a Yes album, because the only person that wasn’t on was Bill Clinton playing saxophone…I mean the prat, so-called producer just had all of his friends on it; it was just a joke. It’s a joke.

MOT: Yeah, I have to agree. It started out strong; I “Would Have Waited Forever” and “Shock To The System” kind of carried it forward, but after that it just did not sound like Yes.

RW: Well the problem was I played loads and loads of things, which went on Cuebase or whatever it was we were using at the time, and then because we were rehearsing on up to the tour, we made the fatal mistake of leaving people in the studio who said, “Ha, I’m going to change that; I’ll change all these sounds.” and I know I can speak on behalf, I think I’m sure Steve wouldn’t mind, we listened to some of it and Steve said, “I didn’t play that; I didn’t do that!” Everybody listens to different things on a Yes [album]. I listen for the overall sound…and I’m going, “I know Steve did this; where’s that gone? Where is it; who’s that?” (Laughs) It was just a joke; it was an absolute joke. I mean, saved by the tour, which was a tremendous tour, an interesting tour and a tremendous tour. I don’t know what the answer was after that, but the solution that the management took, I think was wrong. I mean that’s a personal opinion; I’m not just saying it because it excluded Steve and myself and Bill, but I think it was wrong.

MOT: As far as UNION goes, it’s really ironic; as you were saying, ABWH was a stronger unit than the Yes West guys were, but Yes West really fared great on UNION. I mean, ABWH got screwed.

RW: Oh yeah, yeah, that’s true. Oh absolutely. But that’s the whole history and the story of Yes you know. I must admit I looked at the UNION tour…I think Steve and I knew full well that at the end of it that the Yes management over here were using the situation to build up their own situation, and I mean I think we were both aware of that. I looked upon the UNION tour as something I was going to thoroughly enjoy and I’ll make the most of, by enjoying it and having fun and playing it, which was exactly what I did, and to this day, it is still to this moment sitting here, the most enjoyable tour I’ve ever done. I mean my only regret is that I couldn’t sit down in the audience and watch it. And it was an important part of Yes history--a very important part of Yes history. I mean, there are certain stepping stones in Yes’ history, and I’m not talking about when there’s changes being made. It’s interesting you mentioned 90125--very, very important part of Yes’ history. If that album had stiffed, there’s a fair chance there wouldn’t be a Yes out there today--very fair chance. In a strange way, Jon getting frustrated and coming up forming ABWH…I mean ABWH was a very, very important part of the whole Yes band.

You and I think alike on this one Yarstruly, i,m always having to stick up for BG. I truly like the album.!

You can't get into some of Tales.. .but you like Big Generator... you truly are sick, yars!!

Yes's artistic product began to suffer when Jon
Anderson was taken back to his home planet and
replaced with a cyborg copy of himself...

Yes ONE OF THE GRETEST BANDS TO EXIST (for me, only beaten out by GENESIS or maybe PINK FLOYD!!) They are definetly magnifecent, and Three Fates, sorry to tell u that Big Generator is much better than Love Beach!!!!!

threefates wrote: Snow Dog wrote: And they are both better than love bitch No they aren't  Find any lyrics on Big Generator thats as good as "Taste of my Love".... not possible!!!

Is that the one with the "peaches and cream" lyric?