Yes Music Podcast

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It was a pleasure once again to welcome Oliver Wakeman onto the YMP. He came along to talk about his new album, Anum Cara, and, as you might expect, I couldn’t help throwing a couple of Yes related questions in as well. Listen carefully towards the end of the conversation and you’ll hear about an abandoned Yes project that Oliver would have been involved in. Head over to the show notes for this episode to see the videos Oliver has created to accompany the album and why not order yourself a copy of the CD rather than streaming the album.

Is this a folk album?

Who else is playing?

Is that really Oliver on guitar?

Let us know if you agree with us!

https://www.oliverwakeman.co.uk

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUhnnySGD3hqs7gxM8V4zaZmDAevuxDev&si=sxEtflxbnnpAQ4j5

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This week, Mark and I chatted about an album we haven’t mentioned in quite some time - Fly From Here. We’ve been considering what makes it a great Yes Album. Always one to push the envelope, Mark also makes some other comments, as you’ll hear later. This is a conversation you may well want to add to so don’t forget to add your comments and ideas to the show notes below.

Is Fly From Here a great Yes album?

Does it 'feel' like a Yes album?

What could possibly make it better?

Let us know if you agree with us!

Fly From Here DVD

Fly From Here CD

The Drama Line Up

2011 @yesofficial key ring from @MichiruKuruma #yestheband #progrock #prog @asiageoff

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Last week was the 80th birthday of the legendary Yes co-founder Jon Anderson. To mark this important milestone, Mark and I chose just 3 of our favourite Anderson moments - solo (or collaborations), with Yes on record and with Yes live.

Clearly, we both had to do a lot of thinking and leave out countless items we could have included. However, we did come up with 6 interesting and iconic items to celebrate Jon's birthday. It's remarkable that he is still so active and has created such an amazing collection of musical wonders over more than 6 decades.

What makes Jon Anderson a special musician?

What collaborations or solo albums are our favourites?

What are our choices of the best Jon live moments?

Let us know if you agree with us!

Song of Seven

Jon Anderson - Animation

Olias logo

Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson Prog God 2016

Anderson Ponty Band - Better Late Than Never

Yes Magazine Volume 2 Number 2

Jon Anderson

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I’m delighted to say that we are back at the helm of the good ship YMP this week. First of all I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has sent their best wishes to me. It is very much appreciated.

This week, Mark and I have been thinking about all the different Yeskit that has fascinated us over the years. We have chosen 2 items each to talk about - it could be scenery, musical equipment or anything else you could describe as kit. Listen out for our choices and add your own to the show notes for this episode.

What Yeskit did we choose?

What was analogue kit like?

Who was Mister Bassman?

Let us know if you agree with us!

Mister Bassman!

https://youtu.be/nx_GIji9EGw?si=TVo0Pa6Or6LUriad

Morley EVO Oil Can Delay

https://youtu.be/5f1tXSNcUw8?si=f1W-5wU2LkfWHfgl

Hammond Organ in Rock!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D21lFrQyJc

Double header!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cYkxl6OTw

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This week Mark and I listened to the edited audio of the main ‘location reports’ I made last Saturday during my trip to London to tell some Tales from Topographic Locations. I had a great time discovering what those important places look like today and their surrounding areas.

Please tell us your experiences of The Rainbow Theatre by leaving a comment below.

Is Morgan Studios still in operation?

Where did the band rehearse Tales?

Where did Yes play 5 consecutive nights on the Tales Tour in the UK?

Let us know if you agree with us!

Tales from Topographic Locations compilation video:

https://youtu.be/6kwtpO4glhQ?si=D5QUgftcVsxulYm7

Yes 50th Anniversary plaque unveiled by Dr. Bill Bruford:

https://youtu.be/HEGTNj-WyCU?si=tq-qZx68PiHZFD3H

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Please join me as I broadcast live from various locations in London that are connected with Yes and/or Tales. I will be going live on Facebook at various points tomorrow afternoon - 28th September 2024.

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This week, Mark and I enjoyed looking back in time via the lens of our Yes tracks through time feature but with a slightly different approach. We both chose 2 Yes song performances from the archives, separated by years, or decades and talked about the differences and similarities in approach, personnel and overall effect. Can you guess what songs we went for and what performances? Have your say on the show notes for this week and see if you agree with us on our choices.

Are there any differences in arrangement between older and newer performances of the same song?

How much difference does changes in personnel make?

Are the newer versions always slower?

Let us know if you agree with us!

Every Little Thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILTC5WZ2Qg

https://youtu.be/Z9TmD4KtnJU?si=Tg2_1DDBuNFj6KNY&t=7482

Yours is no Disgrace:

https://youtu.be/nx_GIji9EGw?si=P61Q5LMeA4uaiLlV

https://youtu.be/6s-fIwAtrho?si=Jo7OkKKWp6rv__gH

Sweet Dreams:

https://youtu.be/hVCZWZRAYic?si=AtzEJJAoDShXjIbe&t=684

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgp9eybyzG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZxosBnUDo&t=2739s

Roundabout:

https://youtu.be/kmZoQFYYx8U?si=VFK0KVpQwIYW8FHf

https://youtu.be/O8mDO4ZJQx0?si=tZtt_nHcYJmScjio

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Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller

It's time for Mark and me to expound our reactions to the new Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks album, True. I just listened to the music and deliberately stayed away from all other information about the writing etc. of the album but Mark found out a little more. I wonder if our views on the record will be the same as yours.

Is this a Yes album?

Why would it be?

Is it any good?

Let us know if you agree with us!

https://youtu.be/xn-kFz5ibGA?si=sopJh41QjTJDqEBs

https://youtu.be/-yNutgZWo5g?si=LS9PtD7CyP7dArff

https://youtu.be/ty4M-EluOMs?si=L2zG2OcUYbiQwVRp

Photos from Clive Ayer:

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A couple of weeks ago, Mark and I assembled one of the most learned and erudite groups of experts the progressive world has ever seen to talk in incredible depth and detail about the Steven Wilson remixes of Tales from Topographic Oceans.We welcomed Prog Report stalwart Geoff Bailie along with Yes book authors Simon Barrow and Stephen Lambe to our special YMP round table after setting them the task of listening to one side each of Tales, with Mark taking side 4. I was exempt because I needed to act as referee and moderator - or at least that’s my excuse.

Steven Wilson Remix vinyl

If you’re a fan of YMP deep dives, you’re in for a treat. If you’re not a fan of that kind of thing feel free to take this week off - not really, it’s all fascinating stuff.

Is remixing Yes albums ever a good idea?

What has Steven Wilson done to Tales?

Has he improved it?

Let us know if you agree with us!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKbZ-Fq1jqpwV01e0siDMvxxNrgbvwYrf&si=64uV0bhYZPEzA-Em

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Mark and I had a great conversation with the legendary Michael Tait this week. Here is what the biography on his Mickey's Black Box website says:

"Michael “Mickey” Tait landed in London from his native Australia in 1967. It was his third stop, after Hong Kong and Tehran, in what was meant to be a 3 month “Visit the Motherland” working vacation. His first job was bartending at the Speakeasy, a private club frequented by the who’s who of the music business. Rubbing shoulders with rock stars led to his second job: Road Manager for the newly formed progressive rock band YES.

During his 12 years on the road with YES he advanced the art of stage production and was a driving force in the new field of tour lighting.

He is credited with building the first pedalboard for guitar, the double Mellotron, the flat mirror ball, the 400-watt Leslie speaker box, and one of the first pin matrix lighting consoles. Next came self-contained lighting units consisting of genie lifts in large road cases with integral 4 cell par 64 lamps. These became known as “Tait Towers,” hence the name of his soon-to-be lighting rental company.

Perhaps one of his most important innovations was the portable rotating stage used by Yes in the 1970’s. Inspiration struck Tait while delivering a can of 35mm film to Morgan studios, where YES were recording. The concept, initially met with skepticism, was soon embraced as it gave everyone in the house a better view of the band and also increased the ticket gross dramatically."

Despite recovering from COVID, Michael was generous and open about his recollections of working with Yes, particularly around the time of Tales from Topographic Oceans.

Yes concert at the Montreal Forum on the Tales Tour, photo courtesy of Ken Jonach - lots of Mickey Tait's work on show

https://www.taittowers.com

https://mickeysblackbox.com/

Was the Tales Tour a turning point for the Yes live production?

How did Michael get from Yes roadie/van driver to establishing the most successful live production company in the world?

What about Jon's bathroom at Morgan Studios?

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Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller

Unfortunately, this is another week in which Mark and I have been unable to record a new episode. Don't worry though, next week we are interviewing someone who created a huge amount of Yeskit when he worked with the band in the 1970s. We are also taking part in an epic session all about the Steven Wilson remixes of Tales from Topographic Oceans with several of your favourite YMP guests. Those two episodes will (hopefully) be coming up in the next two weeks so look out for those.

This week, on the theme of Yeskit, I'm going to replay the interview we did with the delightful Derek Dearden.

The Yes equipment warehouse as it is today

Here's how I introduced the interview in June 2023:

"Unless you have already read my book, Yes The Tormato Story, you may not recognise the name Derek Dearden. However, you have certainly heard the results of his amazing technical wizardry. This is another deep dive episode but it also contains much of interest to any Yes fan. Derek was a delight to speak to when Mark and I interviewed him a few months ago and I’ve been keeping this fascinating interview under wraps so that early readers of the book had a few surprises to discover. If you don’t like spoilers, then consider coming back to this episode at a later date. I won’t be offended.

Quite a bit of this conversation was used in the chapter entitled The Other Drums in my book but even if you have read that, I’m sure you’ll love hearing Derek explaining how it all came about in his own words. To whet your appetite, Derek was employed at Advision as a technician and then went on to found a company very closely associated with Alan White."

What did Derek Dearden create for Alan White?

How did it all come about?

What else did Derek invent?

Let us know if you agree with us!

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Theme music

The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from: archive.org