Listening to Chris Squire: Fish Out Of Water, Part 1
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The first time listening to Chris Squire, Fish Out Of Water (Side 1) on vinyl.
Yet another incredible record. Thank you all so much!
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This is THE BEST solo effort by a member of Yes...hands down! One of my all time favorite albums.
The best of all the Yes solo albums IMHO - would have been interesting to hear how it sounded if given the full band treatment. I think 'Parallels' was missed off this album and reworked for 'Going For The One'. Love how Chris goes back to his youth as a choirboy, with the vocal and orchestral arrangements, even involving his old choirmaster - just wonderful
Listen to the remastered. So much better than the original. It picks up things you just don't hear in the original mix. It's amazing!😎
Rhino's Going for One CD reissue has an early rehearsal version of Turn of the Century that has a fragment of Silently Falling in the middle.
@@jeffschielka7845 I’m not so sure of that. I’ve got the digital, and when I listen to this I was thinking the same thing you just said, that there’s a whole lot more going on here. Weird.
@@jeffschielka7845 no shit batman, had no idea, remastered ya say
Squire was the soul of the band.
his backing vocals were a huge part of the Yes sound.
what a great album this is ! : )
I could smooch you. (In German you say it like that when you are particularly happy about someone) According to my research, you are the first on the "first listen / reaction channels" to listen to this album in its entirety. And since it's one of my favorite albums, I write this with a big smile on my face.
😎
Smooching is similar to snogging! I think we should at least have a conversation first, maybe a spot of dinner….🤣
@@JimNewstead Hilarious!😎
Ah, memories. I bought Fish Out of Water, Olias of Sunhillow and Beginnings (Steve Howe) practically the second each came out.
Squire often sang behind Anderson in Yes, sometimes practically word for word, which is probably why his singing was reminiscent of Yes vocals.
He was far and away the greatest bassist in modern history.
There’s no one better on the Bass, IMO. All of those Yes tunes were heavily influenced by Squire. If you’ve ever been blessed to see him live, he’s so animated and he has so much fun on stage.
I know this is trite... but no, thank you. I first heard this album not quite 40 years ago, and it is probably the best of all of the Yes solo albums, It has a richness and character unlike any of the other projects and as you will see on side two, there's Even more complexity taking this music into other directions.
You are helping to keep this album alive and this music alive and that is I feel so important for future generations and once again thank you!
Spoiler alert - the end of side 2 reduced me to an emotional wreck!
It’s no hardship to make these videos, though it is hard work. I’m thankful to discover the music and to have such a wonderful community. Thank you. Sincerely.
totally agree, except at one point, the word "probably"
I truly love this album . A Bass player makes an album and the Bass is front and centre and everything hangs of it. The compositions are great the orchestrations superb probably in the top ten of my favourite albums ever. It evolves the tempo changes add a excitement that you no longer get with strict tempo on the grid recording. You can feel the mood in the room as these guys just blow through a tune. Squire what a legend. When he passed I had a hole open in my life that would never be filled again. Some of the genius in this is that there is almost no guitar on a rock record and you do not even notice. MR Squire you have and always will be my hero.
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire the greatest. Squire won Guitar magazines bass player of the Year award six yrs in a row. Squire would note that he should have won the guitarist award the two yrs Steve Howe didn't win the guitarist award.
Hey Les!😎
And nowhere is that more apparent than in that new ‘Yes’ album the Quest. No Chris Squire bass lines, his vocals missing with bland and boring songwriting. It is an AWFUL album. They had no business calling it a Yes album.
@@magicalmystery1964 no shit
I lost my dad 15 years ago today, this was his favorite album. He was a Pisces, bass player, singer, and giant man. Squire like. This album means the world to me and I’m glad to see it get its due. Thank you :)
I agree with a lot of the other comments that this is probably the best of the Yes solo works that came out in '75-'76. It is for me, at any rate. Always has been. This album is timeless and really shows the musical depth that Chris Squire has and what he contributed to Yes through the years.
i also quite like Patrick Moraz "The Story of I".
perhaps my favorite Yes solo album.
totally agree, except at one point, the word "probably"
18:28, "Silently circling round; Giving scope to our imagination." I was waiting for that bird of prey that appeared at the end of "Awaken."
"Thank you thank you thank you!" My words exactly on hearing this for the first time. Directed at a Wikipedia link after deepdiving on some Yes biographies.
Hold Out Your Hand and Silently Falling play regularly in my head as they slowly become a part of who I am.
Found this album at a thrift store mixed in with all the Babs and ray conniff. I didn't know who or what this was, but glad I took the chance and bought it.
The melody reminds me of a CSN song, I cant put my finger on it. Oh...."Our House". There it is!
Wow, I recently listened to Caravan and enjoyed Jimmy’s Hastings flute, I didn’t know that he was in this this record although Fish out of water I’ve known for a long time. 😮
Thank you for wonderful video. This is, by far, the best Yes solo album
Hey Jim! Happy Holidays my friend. So glad to see you doing Chris' solo album. This is an amazing album that I'm sure you will enjoy. R.I.P. Mr Squire. Chris you are SO missed my friend. ⚘⚘⚘
Yeah, with Billy Sherwood playing bass now? Yes, Chris is missed a ton.
Squire was Yes
@@Lightmane YES he is!😎
@@lesblatnyak5947 Still is in heaven.😎
Squire and Anderson have such similar voice styles....like brothers....like the Bee Gees did!🤣....I always confuse the two...that mid part of first song/2nd song? i was thinking ELO with voice harmonies! Might be the obvious thing you were thinking....🤔
Loving this, is this the Yes sound? A very warm kind of chord progression? I couldn't be sure of my terminology, but yep Jim's finally getting me into Yes (and solo albums thereof)
Nothing better than a Yes voyage.
Xmassy? As it happens, this came out in the UK Nov.-Dec 75. I think there's a good deal of CSN (particularly Nash) in "You By My Side"
I'd like to imagine this album with the Jon Anderson instead. I don't really like the voice of Chris Squire in lead vocal
Thank you yourself. If it hadn't been for this video (and part 2, which I've already watched) I wouldn't have listened to the whole record for a very long time, despite that I know it's one of the grandest pieces of progressive rock ever, featuring GIANTS, particularly on the bass and drums. I normally never come farther than just listening to 'Silently Falling' over and over again, until I have to go to bed.
It just sounds so British ... ... The flower power is strong with this one ...
The second song "Silently Falling" starts off so pastoral its like an English countryside walk on a Spring morning, but then goes right into fantasyland
with an urban melee of confusion and busyness (Bill Bruford is amazing, but does not bash your brains in, leave that to the organist!) .
The "Circling effect" on the original Quadraphonic LP was 100% amazing -- worth seeking out.
I love this album. Chris really did a great job writing it. I love that Bill Bruford did the drumming
My late wife was a Yes fan. My song at our wedding was Safe. It was part of the viewing music at her funeral.
Bought it the week it came out. A brilliant album with a super bunch of musicians.
I just commented on part 2 how much I've loved this over the decades!
Hey Jim, You need to watch the episode of, " The Old Grey Whistle Test ". First they cover Steve Howe solo material( fantastic), then Chris Squire with Bill Brufford on drums. Epic!
Another one from " The Old Grey Whistle Test ", is National Health doing, " The Callapso ". Fantastic!
Your welcome Jim!!
Chris is YES. Jon is YES. Their individual talents combined with Steve, Bill, Alan, Rick and the rest are why YES is the greatest band ever! And Chris was the greatest bass guitar player ever!
I haven't heard this is such a long time! What a wonderful trip down memory lane. Great album. Chris did backing vocals for Yes and their voices are quite similar in a lot of ways, which makes great blends on Yes tunes. But you are right, you hear the same style and timbre in Chris' voice here.
By the way I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your show as you delve into the music. I’m a 61 year old ex American DJ and know a thing or two about how to run a cohesive and entertaining show. Nice job
Thank you very much!
When Chris passed away I felt as if I had lost an old friend, he had a presence on stage,for me there wasn't anybody that came close.
Consider myself lucky to have met him.
Thanks Jim
You’re welcome. It was/is a wonderful record!
I cried for a couple of hours. Still heart broken. Saw Chris 36 times.
I was cleaning the jeweled CD holder the Sunday Q 107 announced his Death,,,,Well
Not just the best solo effort by any of the lads,I personally have always put this record right up with any Yes album. It's that damned great.
I consider this the best album I've ever heard.
In the winter of '75, we had a massive snow storm in NJ. I lived in an apartment with large window that looked out into a courtyard. At night there were flood lights that illuminated the courtyard. During that blizzard , one flood light was all that was visible through the white out. But as each snow flake slowly fell past that light, each one was lit up One night, as the blizzard continued, I wrapped myself in a blanket and sat in front of the window watching the snow fall past the floodlight for hours. And what was playing on the stereo on endless repeat? Silently Falling. It was like Squire had written that song for just this occasion. I have never forgotten the magical way it made me feel.
Amazing story! Love it!
I've thought for many years now that the piano intro to the last track, Safe is like a musical interpretation of falling snow.
I love this album. Solo but heavy involvement of Bruford and Moraz. Great orchestral arrangements. Chris sounds like Sting vocally.
Thanks for reminding me of this one. Time to put it on the record player again.
Don’t know if you listened to it already, but otherwise I’d really recommend Rick Wakeman’s solo album The Six Wives Of Henry VIII. My personal favorite of the Yes members solo albums!
I’ve got it Ron, but not listened to it yet. I’m sorry about not doing the online chat yet. I promise we’ll get to it in the new year. Hope you’re ok 👍🏼
@@JimNewstead No problem at all, Jim. Happy holidays and stay safe!
Ranging through my mind over Yesfolk solo projects, I'd have to say they all did pretty damn well. Steve's was the only I didn't own, and I tended to gravitate more toward Jon's wondrous Olias and Rick's differentiated and lovely Wives. Patrick Moraz' first solo album, with "Best Years of Our Lives" and "Cachaca" is another worth checking out. All of their work is a cut above most every other band at the time, and since, really. I will admit to being spoiled by Jon's voice, but if he had sung on this it would have been just another Yes album. Looking forward to side 2.
Merry Christmas, Buckinghamshire!
Chris was a unique bass player, and the counterpart of Steve and Jon as the main songwriters for Yes. His signature lies in the immediately recognizable sound, which is for me one of the trademarks of Yes music. With his formal musical education as a choir boy, he could easily sing the high backing vocals and meanwhile set out a very harmonized bass line (J.S. Bach) Now that's what I call true musicianship. Once you get to know the signature of the bandmembers (for me it stops with GFTO), that's what made YES unequaled ! Enjoy side 2....
Side 2 is already recorded…. It kinda left me in an emotional mess. It’s too good!!!!
@@JimNewstead pretty cool Eh!
@@JimNewstead Incredible album!🧑🎄
Tell us you don't know what "one-off" means without telling us you don't know what it means.
sorted for you ok ?@@atlasking6110
Squire was Yes..
Jist saw that you listened to this. My favorite of the Yes solo work (I don't count Bruford's work because he left Yes long before he issued his solo work). Silently Falling is the ace on Side One. Been rocking out to that middle section for 42-ish years now. The interplay of the drums, organ, piano, and of course the bass is great, just an incredible jam.
Hello Jim, at the end of the second song ("You By My Side") you said that the music sounded a little Christmas-y. I think what you were hearing links back to some of the church music Squire was interested in and sang as he was growing up. Squire only recorded one other solo album (2007): "Chris Squire's Swiss Choir" - a Christmas Album.
Yea, I’ve heard about this record. I don’t have it yet, but will undoubtedly get around to it at some point!
Squire is the GOAT on bass. Also, FOW one of my all time favorite albums period--as good as it is hard to figure out why he never did another.
Hey Jim, I agree with you ,the opening track reminds me of something......Crosby,Stills and Nash perhaps? Nice job mate!
And now we want to see a reaction on Nektar - A tab in the ocean. 🙏🙏🙏🙂
So nice to start my day with Hold Out Your Hand, Jim - thanks! Mr. Squire is definitely missed. Loved this album since the 70's. Since you're hitting this in the holiday season, be sure to check the single Run With The Fox, with Alan on drums and Peter Sinfield lyrics. Then there's Chris's other solo album, Chris Squire's Swiss Choir (say that 5 times quickly!😂) which includes a Mr. Hackett on guitar. Which leads us to Chris and Steve collaborating on their album Squackett! Well done again, sir!👍🏼😃⛄️🎄🎅🏻🎁
Hi Jim. The second song reminds me of our house by Crosby Stills Nash and Young, on the deja vu album in style and mood.
Chris Squire spoke about his deliberate effort to sound like Graham Nash.
This was finally released as a standalone blu-ray in 5.1 a few months ago - well worth the dive. Great album, and what a fantastic bassist he was. Vale, Chris.
He sounds a bit like Ozzie.
Cooooollll!
You're making me a happy man.
So much amazing solo stuff from the Yes guys. I do feel like starting a reaction channel. Songs from this album turn up in surprising places, like 2 or 3 minutes was on the Good Girls TV show last year, and local public radio used a segment as a transition.
I’ll get to them all in due course!
I've never heard this before either. So far so good, I'll probably pick up the 2018 remaster on CD. Curious about side two now!
Joyous, exuberant and a phenomenal piece of music from beginning to end. Not pretentious and contrived like so many ‘prog‘ pieces. A natural and emotional musical expression which amazes me to this day. All the musicians on the album did an amazing job in helping Chris realise his ideas but when you listen to Yes you know the extent of the influence Chris Squire had on Yes, he was the heart and soul!
Totally agreed man.
Phenomenal album...close 2nd right behind Olias Of Sunhillow.
Beautiful parenthesis... Absolutely amazing ! go on Jim !
At 05:17, hey man ! You are listening to THE album of THE Bass Man 😆🤩
If you like good bass guitar sounds with orchestra arrangements, listen to Renaissance (the rock band) with a wonderful 5 octaves female voice. You’ll discovering a wonderful band. Try Ashes Are Burning, Mother Russia, Running Hard or Things I Don’t Understand. I love your channel. Thank U.
I forgot how good that album was. The keyboard work is excellent. And so was Bill Bruford on drums.
I consider this the best work Mr. Bruford has done. This is complex music. But I haven't heard everything he's done.
Here’s hoping you have purchased the 2022 remaster/REMIX. Yup, a remix, which has been long overdue.
Everything on the prior mixes had ‘ muddy’ spots. Never really detracted from the album, it was all there was to reference.
The new mix is crystal, like we would expect from Yes. I am an aficionado of anything that utilizes Tubular Bells and Chris was chummy with and I am sure influenced by Mike Oldfield at the time. The Bells in Hold Out Your Hand now literally jump out at you.
I discovered Yes and Prog Music in general in an extended search for the song Fountains by Starcastle. It just took that single song to change my musical tastes 180 degrees.
I found Fountains after I gave up looking for it. Discovered Yes, Emerson Lake and Europe, PFM from Italy, all the greats.
Best Yes album that was never a Yes album!
Did what you can't recall have anything to do with CSNY, like maybe from Deja Vu?
What a lucky (7) find! Didn’t know you’d done this or I’d long forgotten. You can sure hear his Yes harmony voice here as well as the strong Beach Boys influence ❤
I am also the proud owner of the 2012 5.1 Blu Ray version.
It's funny that this album has a little bit of a 80s r&b feel of some sort 😁
I bought this lp upon release, and played the hell out of it back in the day... Nonetheless, I haven't listened again since the 70s, and had forgot how great it is, perhaps better than Olias of SunHILLOW! Thanx for posting /reacting to this now.
Boom!!! There you go, I am glad you enjoyed if Fred!
Great album. Often described as the Yes album that never was. Interestingly in the same year Steve Hackett released his first solo album (Voyage of the Acolyte) while still a member of Genesis and that was described as the Genesis album that never was - it was a corker too!
Check out run with fox another good Christmas song by Chris (and Alan White).
Not only one of the best Yesman solo albums, not only one of the best prog solo albums, but one of the most wonderful music records ever produced. God bless Chris Squire hope he's got a shiny golden tone-throne up above.
Sadly this is the first reaction video I went right to the end to see Only the reaction.....
Chris really made the best of the Yes-solo albums of the 70s, with perhaps the exception of the band Bruford, which rocked pretty hard in the jazz-fusion direction. Steve Howe had some great instrumental songs on his albums, but others suffered from him not being a strong lead singer.
I'm that very old guy who comments when you listen to Yes albums and the like. You made me laugh watching that video where you read posted comments, including mine. You made me sound like Betty Muriel Sartre, instead of how I really sound - like Karl Gambolputty de von Ausfern Schplenden Schlitter Crasscrenbon Fried Digger Dangle Dungle Burstein von Knacker Thrasher Apple Banger Horowitz Ticolensic Grander Knotty Spelltinkle Grandlich Grumblemeyer Spelterwasser Kürstlich Himbleeisen Bahnwagen Gutenabend Bitte Eine Nürnburger Bratwustle Gerspurten mit Zweimache Luber Hundsfut Gumberaber Shönendanker Kalbsfleisch Mittler Raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. Merry Christmas!
I just spat my beer out across the room!
Thank you!!!!!! Merry Christmas my friend, I hope it’s a good one 😄
@@JimNewstead Cheers! I hope to visit GB long enough to run in the general election. I hope I can count on your vote. Do you live near enough Luton to help me run against the incumbent? He's from the Very Silly Party, perhaps you've heard of him - Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel?
Bought this album in 1976. Loved it from the first listen. Squire was an amazing artist and sadly missed :( The middle section of Silently Falling is heavily influenced by Patric Moraz. Take it to a another level and listen to Patrick' s solo album: "The Story of I" - Quite the journey in itself. Happy Holidays and thank you for all the reactions! :)
Now I've been meaning to do this album for a while now too....ok this is my first time☺️...🤫....here goes...oh and Jim have you heard Cirith Ungol? Got into them recently....on my third album now....
Funny you should say You By My Side sounds Christmassy (it's heralded in by the orchestral bit at the end of Hold Out Your Hand - an almost invisible transition you didn't notice). My mum bought this for me for Xmas 1975 (the year my dad left home - not such a bad thing in hindsight) and that one track just says Christmas to me. As everyone says the best of the solo albums and sadly not heard much live as far as I know.
I've never listened to this entire album, so this should be interesting.
And you call yourself a fan? Lol!😎
Um.... just wait to the second side. I'm an emotional wreck now!!!!
@@jeffschielka7845 I own none of their individual albums. Never was interested.
@@jeffschielka7845 NicknLex just reacted to Sound Chaser. They loved it, but you won't enjoy it, since they "pause the video", lol.
@@Lightmane That's why I unsubbed months ago.😎
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR HOLD OUT YOUR HAND - this then will give you an idea on the great man looked and sang, moved and grooved with Bill Bruford and Patrick Moraz. Epic epic epic stuff, a stunning album I have heard since it was released and so pleased it now sits so highly in the play list of greats for you.
Oh don't forget Run With The Fox ...Xmas single. 😃👍🤘🎧🎸🎹🎼👏
A very talented cast of musicians.
The ONLY negative is that Yes never performed any of this album. I would have lost it at a Yes show if they'd done Hold Out Your Hand or Lucky Seven. They would have knocked it out of the park. An absolute classic prog album and Squire's finest musical moment. (Doesn't hurt to have Bill Bruford playing drums either.)
Lucky Seven has an amazing vibe, like a chilled version of Pink Floyd’s Money, and the epic that closes the record is of a piece with Silently Falling, so you have 20 more minutes of joy ahead of you.
No, you do. It’s behind me now, but it was truly amazing. Thanks 👍🏼
Only Bass. no electric guitars. Makes this a special album.
I think you will like the recent Yes album The Quest Jim (apologies if already mentioned to you)....made it to my top 15 albums of this year....it's excellent-my grower of year- and already overlooked by many Yes fans I suspect....much like Magnification which is also fab....enjoying this....that third track has a nice odd piano sequence/ rhythm....
Though I don't really like the timbre of Chris his solo voice, I think it's together with Olias the best solo album from the members of Yes at the time.
My opinion... Best YES solo album (competes for over-all album as well). * Much like Mike Rutherford's "Smallcreep's Day"... BASS players ROCK!!!!
Don’t know this album. I always love his base playing because he (mostly?) plays the base with a plectrum.
Sounds like Yes with a different singer 😇. And now you mention that too 😜. I write my comments while listening 😋
I heard worst solo albums by members of great bands throughout the years.
This isn’t bad at all. Would I buy it…maybe, maybe not. Is it special enough, I’m asking myself. Jon Anderson’s latest album, I probably would buy.
Such a shame he passed away.
Have a look at the band IQ.
Oh yes, IQ. I intend to.
No it’s interesting that you say it sounds like Yes, because I don’t think so. I’ve been following Yes for years, they are my favorite band, but this album is very different to me. With a much heavier jazz influence, which is surprising because Chris was never much of a jazz freak. But this does not sound like Yes to me. This album does have a lot of the 7/4 time which he uses a lot in Yes as well. Said it was his favorite odd time signature.
Wow, I missed that one. Before I listen to your reaction : this is my favorite solo album by a bass player ! And what bass player. I just wrote a line about Martin Turner and his singing and playing, well Squire is amazing in both too. His the best and I was completely touched when he passed… I often say to friends that this may be the best Yes album !
"All of the pieces fit...but the puzzle carries on."
Another great album. Hearing chris' vocals you can see how his backing vocals were raised on Drama to balance Trevor Horns lead
Loving that you're getting so much enjoyment out of the suggestions that the subscribers are offering up. I'd like to VERY STRONGLY suggest that you give yourself a Christmas treat and have a listen to the "801 Live" album (Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, Simon Phillips, Francis Monkman, Lloyd Watson and the awesome bass of Bill McCormack). Just to whet your appetite, here's a snippet to be going on with: th-cam.com/video/E-6s9JlNSkU/w-d-xo.html
One of the best things about this album is you finally get a big dose of Chris' vocal on its own, so that you can train your ear to know what it sounds like. It makes listening to Yes albums more interesting when you can know what he's contributing to the vocal mix. For example, Chris often favored the long "ee" sound in his vocal lines, so even on Drama with some of the vocals Trevor Horn sings you can tell where Chris wrote the lyrics.
Discovered this a year ago and cant believe how underrated it is.. Brill upload
I discovered this today. I can’t believe how underrated it is….!!! 😁👍🏼
Really like this record. I saw it for 10 euros at a second hand store, but I was already spending way too much. Regretting not buying it right now...
Squire’s bass sound is like a sonic muscle pumped with steroids.
Hi Jim, Thanks for reacting to another one of my favorites I love all things YES. Been a fan since 1973 its great to watch you experience all for your first time. Here's to more of that!
What can anyone say that hasn't already been said? The best of the Yes solo albums. Majestic, magisterial, epic, awesome.
I have this album in a box… amongst 60-odd others. The unpacking must begin.
This is a special one for me.it was the second YES venture which really made me dig into other music by YES
I love your reactions, like my brother on the other side of the planet...
Thanks bruv!
Thanks for that wee Christmas treat , Jim...Chris and Bill so brilliant together.
Never heard any of this before ever....Blimey, what an excellent surprise......
That’s the idea my friend!
Masterpiece in the history of Prog and the best solo album by any of all the Yes members