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Rednight

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 14:21

mechanicalflattery wrote:

I suppose there's an irony to celebrating the album where Yes ceased to be worth celebrating... That entire album is basically the group running on autopilot

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chopper

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 12:22

mechanicalflattery wrote:

I suppose there's an irony to celebrating the album where Yes ceased to be worth celebrating... That entire album is basically the group running on autopilot

They did "Awaken" (one of the great works of prog) on autopilot?

Edited by chopper - April 19 2017 at 12:29

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 11:54

The tour was the first time I saw Yes as a 15 year old (Stafford Bingley Halls, Nov. 77)! I loved it. Still remember the excitement of the first few chords of Parallels - I think they played the whole album, closing with the magnificent Awaken. I was glad to see them at the height of their powers (the next time I saw them was the 90125 tour...)

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 09:30

I suppose there's an irony to celebrating the album where Yes ceased to be worth celebrating... That entire album is basically the group running on autopilot

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 08:39

Good one but I surely won't celebrate.

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 07:45

Yes I have good memories of that album, especially listening to the ending of Awaken during my summer holiday. One of my top 5 Yes albums.

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Posted: April 19 2017 at 00:52

Sorry to jump the gun a few months before the July 2017 official 40th anniversary of this great album. But who else out there loves Yes-GFTO as much as I do? This album first came out as I graduated high school in the US, and I do believe I wore out the vinyl on the turntable - and the magnetic tape on the cassette-player - playing this album over and over - and over again! Such a great tour de force at that time with Rick Wakeman coming back to the band. All these years later, I boot up the mp3 files on my computer media-player (gone are the vinyl records, the cassette tapes, and the audio CDs) and re-live the original magic of those five great songs!