Yes Music Podcast Kevin Mulryne

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This week Mark and I watched the video compiled and edited by Hed Gilboa and posted to the YMP Discussion group on Facebook by Doug Curran that contains all the known crowd-shot footage of Yes on the Tales Tour of the US and Canada in 1974.







One mistake I made (presumably amongst many) was to say that the Super 8 film format became available in 1975. Of course, I meant 1965 otherwise this tour couldn’t have been captured using this technology. Also, as Mark mentioned later in the discussion, we do have a great opportunity to see what the stage scenery looked like in action during Ritual via the 1975 QPR film, clips from which are spliced into the Yesyears documentary, released in 1991. However, this is the Relayer tour and various elements of the stage production were enhanced by this time so it may be slightly different. I think I’m still correct when I say that there is no known professional film from the Tales Tour itself.







Anyway, historical minutiae apart, I hope you enjoy listening to Mark and me geeking out about this video and discussing aspects of the Tales Tour. You may well want to watch the video itself and look at the screen grabs I’ve included in the show notes for this week before listening to us banging on as it may help to contextualise our ramblings.









* What was it like to attend a concert on the 1974 Tales Tour?







* What is the video evidence like?







* What can we learn about how Yes played Tales live?









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Screen grabs from the 8mm video







Before the showThe drum canopy closedThe fibreglass entrance tunnelBlue lightBathed in red and orange lightDry ice and blue light during Close to the EdgeThe Ernie Ball Earthwood acoustic bassThe Fender Jazz bassThe Guild Jetstar II short scale fretless bass for The RememberingMichael Tait's 2D mirror ballTales authors, Howe and AndersonThe Caped CrusaderThe Vetruvian Man symbol just visibleThe sun symbol - Giants under the SunThe scarab is openOrgan pipes and scarab beetle illuminatedCooler light in the organ pipesA dramatic drum station shotAnderson at the 'bus stop'Greek masks?Squire!The drum canopy opened up at the end of the concert









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I’ve had no time to put together any news this week but I still managed to speak at length to Mark about both my experiences seeing Yes at Birmingham Symphony Hall. It was a wonderful experience and not just because of the quality of the concert itself.







We’ve also enjoyed listening to the new music from Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks that fans have captured from live concerts and posted on YouTube. There are many reasons to be excited in Yesworld at the moment.

















* How was the performance at Birmingham?







* What is the venue like?







* How was Roger Dean?









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This week we had a great conversation with the delightful Pete Greenwood about his recollections of the Tales Tour when it visited Manchester for two concerts in 1973. The gigs spurred Pete on to pursue his own bass playing and that eventually led to him performing all four sides of Tales himself with the Yes tribute band, Seyes. Fortunately for us, the Tales concerts left an indelible impression on Pete and he shares lots of stories from 1973 with Mark and me. I’m sure you will enjoy listening to those as much as we did.









* What was it like seeing the Tales stage set for the first time?







* How did the audience react to the brand new music?







* Did Rick Wakeman really eat a curry?









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ANderson, Trevor Horn and Trevor Rabin. It’s an area we seldom look at so it was very enjoyable to examine a different aspect of the music of Yes and I definitely learned a lot from what Mark said about his choices. I’m sure you will as well. As always, we’d love to see what your suggestions are for great 80s Yes lyrics so do leave your choices on the show notes for this episode.









* Are there differences between lyrics by different Yes frontmen?







* Do the other writers try to sound like Jon Anderson?







* What makes a good Yes lyric?

















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This week, Mark and I take our cue from the recent announcement of the Talk deluxe box set to be released at the end of this month. It contains a live recording of a 1994 concert in Canandaigua, New York (interestingly seemingly misspelt on the adverts) that includes 5 songs from the recently released album. So we were wondering how the latest songs sounded in 1994 in a live setting.







The best bootleg available up to now has been the TV broadcast from Santiago in Chile during the fairly short South American Tour of 1994. Mark owns a DVD of the show but it’s available to everyone, including me, on YouTube and the version I have included below is the whole of the broadcast version including interviews with the band and behind the scenes footage. It’s well worth a watch in full.







Mark and I focussed on just the Talk songs for this discussion, however, and there’s plenty to enjoy, as you might imagine. This lineup of the band included Billy Sherwood in his first stint and benefits from his singing, guitar playing, keyboards, bass and assorted percussion. He is, as I’m sure you know, a man of many parts. See if you agree with our assessment of the Talk songs from this performance.









* Was it possible to replicate all the studio trickery live?







* Are the band in synch?







* How did the audience react?









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Original TV broadcast (can only be viewed on YouTube):









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This week, Mark and I climbed aboard our state of the art time machine to visit the past of the world’s greatest progressive rock band. We each chose 3 Yes tours we would love to be able to visit and gave each other clues to guess which ones we were thinking of. You’ll get the idea I’m sure.







Do play along yourself and see if you can guess the tours in question before Mark or I do - you probably will. Then, why not add your own to the show notes for this week - set a few clues and then see if anyone can guess in the comments. We had a lot of fun with this activity so join us to test your own knowledge. Set phasers to fun, as they say.









* Where will our time machine take us?







* Can you guess from our cryptic clues?







* Do we show off our Yes knowledge or our Yes ignorance?









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