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Poll Question: Bruford, Anderson, Squire,Banks and Kaye
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    Posted: April 16 2004 at 19:43

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Which YES line up was the best. I say: Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe and Squire. Fragile and Close to the Edge. BEST.  



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Damn I forgot the first two albums, Max can we add one with Banks?

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White, Anderson, Squire, Howe and Wakeman. But I think Close To The Edge is the best Yes album so I'm contradicting myself

Just that I prefer White as a drummer to Bruford.Gives it more 'welly'

 
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I prefer the classic line up...I like Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White..the Yes I will be going to see again in July. Can't wait.
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The Bruford/Wakeman. the best players and best album (CTTE).
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The Close to the edge and Fragile line up for me too, including Bruford as a composer!!
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Close to the edge is without any doubt the best Yes album, so you can guess my favourite Yes line-up.
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Gotta go with Bruford, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, Anderson. Bruford left too early, but then we wouldn't have had that amazing incarnation of King Crimson. My fave Yes album is Yessongs. I also like Time And A Word which nobody hardly ever mentions. Imagine Yes with Fripp on guitar as he was being considered as a replacement for Banks.
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White, Anderson, Squire, Howe and Wakeman!! 
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Gotta go with Bruford, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, Anderson. Bruford left too early, but then we wouldn't have had that amazing incarnation of King Crimson. My fave Yes album is Yessongs. I also like Time And A Word which nobody hardly ever mentions. Imagine Yes with Fripp on guitar as he was being considered as a replacement for Banks.

Looks like I'm not the only one contradicting myself.White played on Yessongs did he not?

Also what's wrong with Steve Howe? He had no peers including Fripp IMO.

 

 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

White played on Yessongs did he not?


Yes he did, but Bruford was there on a couple of tracks - Bruford had a similar situation a few years later, when he was replaced in Genesis by Chester Thompson - 'Seconds Out' was released with only a couple of tracks featuring Bruford.

Don't get me wrong, I am not having a go at White or Thompson (both exemplary drummers), but could there juuuuuussst possibly be a small case of "lets not show up the new drummer on the album by featuring his superior predecessor too much"???

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

White played on Yessongs did he not?


Yes he did, but Bruford was there on a couple of tracks - Bruford had a similar situation a few years later, when he was replaced in Genesis by Chester Thompson - 'Seconds Out' was released with only a couple of tracks featuring Bruford.

Don't get me wrong, I am not having a go at White or Thompson (both exemplary drummers), but could there juuuuuussst possibly be a small case of "lets not show up the new drummer on the album by featuring his superior predecessor too much"???

Probably true although Yessongs did feature a Bruford drum solo on 'Perpetual Change' but no White solo on any of the other tracks if I recall correctly so BB still got his chance to upstage his successor as it were.

 
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I go along with the majority...Bruford etc.
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Bruford, Anderson, Squire, Howe and Wakeman got my vote. It's too bad that any reincarnation of that lineup is highly unlikely.
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That solo by Bruford is the only time I heard him solo on record. He doesn't even do a solo on his live album The Brufordn Tapes.
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

That solo by Bruford is the only time I heard him solo on record. He doesn't even do a solo on his live album The Brufordn Tapes.

 

VB, Ya gotta check "the Drum also Waltzes" it's a cover the Max Roach original. Find it on "Masterstrokes" or Bruford/Moraz "Flags" album.

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Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2004 at 17:16
Oh yeah. Forgot about that one, The drum Also Waltzes. I remember when I bought the album, I bought it for this track.
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Originally posted by benny bouncer benny bouncer wrote:

White, Anderson, Squire, Howe and Wakeman!! 

 

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Bruford played on many of my favourite tracks, but I feel White was the better drummer for Yes. White provides a much tighter basis for the band, Bruford's obvious jazz influences didn't really suit their chosen direction.

Aside from his playing, White has provide a stability within the band since he joined, another reason to recognise his rightful place in the "definitive" line up. If it wasn't for White, we would probably not still be able to enjoy the privilege of seeing the band perform the classics live to this day.
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Well, Relayer is my favourite yes album, so my favourite line up is: Anderson, Squire, Moraz, White & Howe.

 

Moraz gives this album something Wakeman never could have given it. And Howe... AMAZING, especially the solo on Sound Chaser.       
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