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Craig 
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Posted: December 11 2004 at 20:30 |
I enjoy Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe's "Evening of Yes Music Plus" CD
and was wondering if it is worth it to purchase the "ABWH" studio recording?
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greenback
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Posted: December 11 2004 at 22:51 |
I recommend it, there are many excellent tracks.
IMO, Quartet is among the best "Yes" tracks.
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: December 11 2004 at 22:57 |
 Craig wrote:
and was wondering if it is worth it to purchase the "ABWH" studio recording?
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HELL YES!!! Highly recommended. My favorite yes album.
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dropForge
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 00:24 |
That was a great concert! I jizzed when Rick walked over to his L-shaped rig for his solo, was playing some legato melody on the lower synth on his Apex column, and his right hand rose to the keyboard atop it and he started playing a signature speedy riff.
But his solo on the Union tour was even better. It was amazing. It was the best solo of the night. Rick was just rippin'!
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tuxon
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 11:35 |
ABWH made a great album, one of my altime favourites, although it sounds a bit dated IMO. If you like the concert album then you already know how some of the songs sound, the studio recordings of these songs are equaly good if not better.
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Emperor
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 08:48 |
greenback wrote:
I recommend it, there are many excellent tracks.
IMO, Quartet is among the best "Yes" tracks.
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Absolutely agree! :-)
And BROTHER OF MINE too...
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sigod
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 09:46 |
^ 'sokay.
Saw them on the tour and it was good but I wasn't too fussed about the album. However in the light of this thread, I'll give it another listen. 
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Guillermo
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 18:40 |
Craig wrote:
I enjoy Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe's "Evening of Yes Music Plus" CD
and was wondering if it is worth it to purchase the "ABWH" studio recording?
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Their studio album is one of my favourites of my CD collection, with songs like "Brother of Mine", "Birthright", "The Meeting", "Quartet", "Teakbois", "Let`s Pretend". The live versions of "Brother of Mine" and "Birthright" are better, but they lack Tony Levin because he was ill in the day of that concert and he was replaced by Jeff Berlin, who did a good job.
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Fragile
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 18:50 |
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Guillermo ABWH is a very fine album with all those tracks you mentioned at the time of it's release.It was like mannah from heaven considering the AOR garbage plied by the RABIN era prior to the real YES coming back onto the scene.
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 18:55 |
I thought Birthright and Fist of Fire were in the vein of Classic Yes, but the rest of the album was, for lack of a better term, wimpy. There was a lack of fire in the playing, no real punch. I guess I better listen to it again and maybe edit this post, eh? 
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Guillermo
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 18:55 |
Fragile wrote:
Guillermo ABWH is a very fine album with all those tracks you mentioned at the time of it's release.It was like mannah from heaven considering the AOR garbage plied by the RABIN era prior to the real YES coming back onto the scene. |
I still like some of the RABIN era songs, but I prefer ABWH. Maybe the ABWH studio album sounds dated today, but I still like it.
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Fragile
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 19:11 |
Good idea Danbo  Cast your mind back to those dark Yes days, not much hope around and then this little gem springs out.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 14 2004 at 23:23 |
I always saw ABWH as the real Yes in exile. Theclosest to the real band but who couldn't use the name.
Refreshing album after the dark poppy Rabin years.
Iván
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sigod
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Posted: December 15 2004 at 05:45 |
ivan_2068 wrote:
I always saw ABWH as the real Yes in exile. Theclosest to the real band but who couldn't use the name.
Refreshing album after the dark poppy Rabin years.
Iván
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Never minded the Rabin years but hey, I was a child of the 80's
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Emperor
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Posted: December 15 2004 at 05:49 |
Rabin is not so bad person...
Of course, I prefer Howe much more, but aren't CHANGES, CINEMA, THE MORE WE LIVE and especially ENDLESS DREAM masterpieces?!
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Swinton MCR
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Posted: December 15 2004 at 05:55 |
Bloody hell I've just found the CD - I had bought it and never listened to it !!!!
Must have been one of my more money than sense periods !!!!
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