As a nurse working with Covid-19 patients, listening to videos like this while I do my charting is how I keep my sanity. I've been a Yes fan since '77, seen them so many times, never get tired of the music. Pure genius and emotion!
I remember walking through a mall, and hearing THIS coming out of the record store from about 100 feet away. I recognized Jon's voice right away; I didn't know they had a new album out. I didn't have the money for it. So I sat in front of the store while the guy at the register just let the whole thing play. When I got my paycheck that week, this was the first thing I bought. Early YES; the best music I ever heard. Just magic.
Great story......this album left an indelible mark on my 17 year old self. I still remember reading the Thumitak of the Corridors three story anthology by Charles R . Tanner while playing this album through headphones . Every time I hear it I recall Thumitacks’s amazing exploits underground. A world without Yes would be so much less.
This was also was on that HBO show..Divorce... The ice skating scene in the last season. The husband requested it he loved Yes all through the series and played them. A nice touch to a TV series.
Alan White killing it as usual. His drumming on Relayer and Tales might not be what Bruford would have played, but it's perfect in my book. He also made Drama unique.
Yes, Alan White was amazing. Quite a different player from Bill Bruford, more straight ahead and based in rock rather than based in jazz like Bruford. His drumming on Drama is as intense as almost any drummer playing extreme metal now.
What modern metal are talking about? I like Drama, I can play a bit (and jam along with Tempus Fugit and It Can Happen semi frequently), but that's not a claim I'd make.
True. Yes weren't a prog band before Alan joined the band and none of the other members ever made album solo that were remotely close to progressive rock.
I was trying to impress my new girl, and I took her into a record shop and asked them to play Floyd's "Wish you were here" which had just come out. After a couple of minutes she said, "Sounds a bit like Gates of Delirium." wha'? Of course at the time I'd never heard any Yes, but she of course had a big brother, and when it came to prog rock she'd heard *everything*.
@@johnmccarthy4134 Might have done, but I don't remember her talking about them the way she did about Gong ... We didn't date for long, unfortunately, we were only kids. I was 14 at the time.
@@DrTomoculus Chris Squire is an inspiration, truly something I wish to become. Such a tasteful and powerful bass that let the band shine. He will forever go down as a genius.
In the Seventies, when Progressive Rock was young, he totally was viewed as a genius. There is something about his personality that somehow makes him the Yes member most fans wish they had known. Sweet guy. On the Talk, tour, he saw I was weeping at the beauty of the music, and went out of his way to demonstrate a couple of points of his technique, perhaps out of sympathy. Sort of the fantasy friend with benefits par excellence. The Egyptian god, Upuaut. You hear the doorbell, and there is someone like him smiling at you, and it is a weekend of video games, cannabis, conversations about friendship, faerie magic, and joy. Years ago, I had a friend whose wife was very beautiful, and I asked him how he managed it. He said, make sure your partner is satisfied, first. Chris Squire played bass and dressed the part like that, for the audience, it seems to me. Jon Anderson is deep, yes, but in his way, Chris was totally deep, as well.
There was enough energy being generated by the musicians to power solar energy for the next three hundred years!! My gosh, how could Alan White maintain the level of intensity he demonstrated throughout this lengthy masterpiece ! All the musicians and singers were just excellent.
I got the Relayer album in 1975. I was just 15 years old at that time and still deeply disappointed and sad that Rick Wakeman left the band. It took me a while to get used to Relayer and until I realized the beauty. But after a while "Gates of Delirium" was next to Awaken and some others my favorite piece of Yes. Such a sound, beauty and purity, still fascinating today! I am now 59 years and saw the Band the first time at the tender age of 16! That was my first concert at all! April 16th, 1974 in Dortmund / Germany Westfalenhalle. Tour: "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Unforgettable!
Wollenschrank My grandparents gave me an 8 track tape of Relayer in pink plastic for Christmas 1977.: pink is not the right color for Relayer. I had no idea that I should have kept that. I was thirteen.
Rick had left because he felt the band just threw in hodgepodge on parts of Tales. He was adamant about detail and structure. No compromise. Rick admitted that Relayer was not his cup of tea. Too wild for him. And he said there are many parts that he simply could not have played. Moraz had a jazz background which Wakeman did not. And he used a couple of synthesizers that were different than Rick's.
Yes holds such a special place in my heart. Their music has elevated me at my lowest points and each member's craft is nothing short of mad genius. I'm only 24 and I envy people who got to see Yes play during their prime like this.
I purchased this album from a regular store in an ordinary town. My best friend and I sat down to listen to it. Initially, we didn’t quite grasp what had happened to YES. On our second listen, we started to notice some hooks here and there, memorable melodies, and exceptional mixing and recording. Jon Anderson's performance was raw and authentic. For me, this is by far the best rock album of all time. And YES, thank you !
I've been a fan since 76 and got to see them with my 20-year-old daughter a couple years ago for their 50th year tour. They opened with Close to the Edge. We both cried!
How anyone could actually play this incredibly complex masterpiece LIVE and pull it off will remain a mystery. I saw YES play "Gates" on the "Masterworks" tour. It was ...magnificent.
I was there! I was a student as Manchester Uni, and had followed Yes from their first album, travelling home to London to see them. This was my first chance to see them live, and I was sat near the right hand corner of the penalty area. I recall they also played in Manchester, I think at Man City, but it was hard to get tickets for there. The sound was incredible... I next saw them in 2004/5(?) for their 35th anniversary tour at Wembley Arena, or whatever it was called then. Equally fabulous. Incredible music, the like of which will never be repeated.
This is the most progressive, impeccable music YES has ever produced! Especially at 1330 Patrick Moraz and Steve Howe really make it happen. Of course one has to also mention the best bassist ever Chris Squire - RIP my friend.
Yes, Floyd, Zep. They didn't just create the most magical music, they stamped moments in time in such a way, the people fortunate enough to experience it have memories they will retain to the grave. And even the odd note from such classics flood the mind and fuel emotion with such enchanting memories. Music like this just doesn't exist anymore.
Gates of Delirium was the first song I heard from Yes. It completely redirected my musical taste. At the time all I knew about Progressive Rock was Pink Floyd and something about Genesis. Yes introduced me to such a rich musical world, with so many options. It was like opening Pandora's box for me. Relayer will always be my most beloved album.
Yes was one a few bands that was able to replicate the same studio sound, in the live performances. Amazing, given the fact of the complexity of the progressive rock. The Gates of Delirium is together with Close to the Edge the best progressive songs of all of the symphonic rock.
+constantino gotsis I once saw/read an interview with some of the guys where they said they wrote songs to be played, not recorded, so there really wasn't a lot of difference from their perspective.
Absolutely...I love all things Yes really, but my favorites are: 1. Close To The Edge 2. Relayer 3, Fragile 4. The Yes Album I'm sick to death of just about all the stuff I've listened to over the years, but Yes will always be the exception.
I can't believe I'm seeing this song live! It's one of the hardest songs I've ever heard and to see this amazing band play this song live just PERFECT is unbelievable!! crazy!
RELAYER is a miracle, a complete masterpiece from the first note to the last sigh ... These three songs "redeem" the whole story of Psychodelic Rock ... "A Word we utter , a Word..."
YEAH...Beyond REDEEM! It is one of the most psychedelic compositions ever but in a very clear, precise, sharp edged way, unlike many so called psychedelic tunes which can border on almost absurd nonsense for absurdities sake. This is post psychedelic era in time but is very much so. It is also actually ahead of it's time somehow. It has the edge that RUSH would later come to exemplify. But it is pretty jazzy as well..It is a very strange album. ..Relayer. ..I think actually one of their better albums, but a moment in time, not to be repeated. It is remarkable that they had little difficulty pulling it off live.
Fractal Khaos Yes, amazing album... funny enough, I always liked the live version of Gates on the Yesshows album better than the studio version. For some reason this piece benefits greatly from the rougher sound of the live version.
@@PaterTenebrarum1 Well, both versions are so different, that I think one must TRY TO ENJOY BOTH FOR THSE DIFFERENT REASONS. Even if I do appreciate the studio version, I mean their awesome album.
What a great band! What a great recording! I'm 57 now and still get the same buzz from this as i did at 16 when i was a space cadet! How can YES not be in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame????
+Sebastian Arroyo I'm 56, and I feel just like you. I was but an insecure teenager, dabbling in life, and drugs, when I first heard this incredible track, and suddenly I knew all there was to be known.
+James Lauth Because those Hall of Famers loathe art. When they inducted this canadian band that is much less than Yes, the whole stress was on the number of concerts they had given over the years, not on their talent...
I get so much shite because I've loved this band since I was seven, this performance is wonderful, they're such an important influence on how my life went, the abstraction of words , the emotions in the movements of the songs , I got my first bass guitar when I was eight, thank you so much Chris Squire
You should have been there. It is favourite track and "To be Over" was the first yes track I had heard. Not long after they did he QPR concert and was near the front.
Chris Squire is absolutely brilliant on the bass and a great singer , I saw them in 1993 when they had two guitars two drummers and two keyboards but the concert I saw in 2014 was absolutely brilliant they played close to the edge and fragile all the way through Plus another hours worth of hits , then Chris Squire passed away the next year so I was super glad to see him again before he moved on to a different place , I would have to look at my ticket stub but I think it was 2014
I first listened to this song 2 years ago. I’m 17 now and it is undoubtably my favorite song. This song, Awaken, To be Over and Close to The Edge are my favorites
@@Kenneth_Fishing Very nicee bro!! The Gates of Delirium is flawless, amazing... My favs are also Close to the Edge, And You and I, Roundabout, Your is No Disgrace and Sound Chaser.
I truly can't Believe that I would hear this live. Today I happened to be listening to this Beautiful recording that my Brother Freddie asked me to listen to this. That was 40 years ago. This is a Masterpiece on every level. Lyrics are universal if one should close their mine to everything else, and only listen to this Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful..and ride the Wave.
I was!! And it was!!! Had just arrived in London from little ol’ Perth, Western Australia a few days before the concert, saw the ad in Time Out and of course, had to go. Yes was constantly on my turntable since discovering them in the early 70’s, a student nurse, they helped me through the angst of it all 😅. Now 66 and still can’t get them off the turntable 🥰♥️
Seeing Yes on relayer was like going to another world..... I have never seen anyone with as much stage presence as Chris Squire..a lot of people will disagree with me...but Patrick Moraz was unbelieveable.....The finest show i ever saw........
Moraz was the best keyboard man they ever had. I was so disappointed that we only got 3 songs and one album out of that lineup. Should have been way more.
@@mysterirhys I've said that last sentence myself many times. Wakeman had his moments with Yes, but overall I prefer his solo work. Moraz was a perfect fit.
Relayer is the greatest progressive rock album of all time. I liked other configurations of the band but Patrick Moraz was my favorite on keys and Alan White was spot on for this album which never could have been produced with Wakeman or Bruford, both of whom I entirely respect. Steve Howe? Well, there was never, will never be another progressive rock guitarist quite like him. Chris Squire was in a class all of his own. No bassist played like him. RIP Chris. All now have come and gone from the band to do their own music except Jon. His voice was and still is from heaven. I heard him say in an interview that he was going to produce Olias II. We'll see and I hope so.
What a Gem. I am 54 and at the tender age of 17 I bought (scalped) tickets to my first Yes concert having never heard them before in a little place in the middle of nowhere (Regina Saskatchewan Canada). The next day i bought the entire discography off some unfortunate radio listener who had won them in a contest the week before the show. When the band rolled into Siberian Khatru after the Firebird Intro... OMG! IT CHANGED MY LIFE. This Album (Especially Steve and Chris during Steve's Slide work is like nothing anyone has ever done before. not Tull,ELP, or even my other favourite Genesis has ever done before. Rest in Peace Chris. Long Live YES
Mitch, I've replied because your comment really got to me, not least because you've mentioned some of my favourite bands from the 70s - JT, ELP and Genesis. Music at the opposite end of the universe to Xfactor. My introduction to Yes was Fragile and Yessongs, on I think the same day, when I was about 17. I'd never heard anything like it, and the Firebird Suite intro to Siberian Khatru on Yessongs has stuck in my mind for forty-odd years. I get goosebumps even thinking about it - or the birdsong at the beginning of Close to the Edge. Take care out there, my friend. :-)
Fricken Rights Michael! "I get goosebumps even thinking about it " I just knew I was not the only one that this happened to when I first heard the firebird/Siberian Kahtru live. We are very alike my friend. Cheers :)
The best YES album. Wish they’d shown more of Chris Squire though. Been listening to them since 1972. Still one of the best bands ever. Love the boots.
He means nowadays Steve Howe isn't as remembered as he perhaps should be. He's not a household name here in America like Hendrix, Page or even Clapton. Its a shame
I saw the Relayer tour before the album was released and it was amazing! I have been a fan since 71. I will be 65 this year and still love listening to Yes!
Joseph Durbin Same here. I saw this tour in NY on Nov 20th , my 16th birthday, and was wondering, what was this song they were opening with? It being Sound Chaser, but to take that album in without knowing it was a lot. Who knew we’d still be loving it 46 years later. I think I saw them tour for this album in ‘74, ‘75, and ‘76, the last two in Englishtown, N.J. I remember them all promoting their solo albums in ‘76.
Incredible performance. This is the most lively YES performance I've ever seen live. Anderson as a multi-instrumentalist is also the most energetic I've ever seen him - he's truly rocking out instead of being the usually reserved, Zen, spiritual guru type :)
I saw them perform this song in 1976 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego. Their performance blew my mind. I went out and bought the Relayer album the next day and still have it in my collection. I think that I'll pull it out and give it a spin.
The last 6 minutes of this piece send me to the sky, outside our planet, to the infinite space. At the same time, it send me back on the time, wen I was young, listening this for the first time with a group of friends from high school, almost on the bush, as far as we can go from my bedroom with the turning table, plugged with the cables and extension cord that everyone brought...❤
Awesome... Great to see this performance... One of my all time fave YES songs... Yes, the sound is what it is, but just sit back and watch real musicians playing together, in the moment... Freaking excellent, thanks for posting.
What a rockin' band! Too complex for a lot of folks, but mind blowing for those who get it. Glad they finally let the guitar out. lol. Damn. I still can't get used to Chris being gone. That man was a master.
Alan White looks like a metal drummer here - particularly Chris Adler from Lamb of God. I'm even seeing similarities in their playing style. Both great drummers!
Un-frickin' real!!! I've been a Steve Howe fan since the age of 10. But I've never seen this live performance. He can play anything. I won't talk about the rest of the band, because they're all incredible.
Yes were the most diverse and musically talented band of their or any other time, I saw them live back in the day and still listen to them to this day.
Scott, there's a whole wealth of great modern progressive rock music available on line. There are so many young musicians producing fantastic compositions these days that you will be spoilt for choice. Just login to Spotify, put 'progressive rock' into the search engine and get adventurous. Brother, I guarantee you won't be dissapointed! So much choice. By the way I attended this concert at QPR. It was awe inspiring!! Still gives me chills. My very best wishes to all of you, my fellow proggites. A lifelong prog fan.❣es!
From a musicianship standpoint, take a moment to ponder the talent required to pull off the battlefield sequence, night after night, to such perfection as this. Given today's (2022) landscape, this feat is unthinkable.
@@markhunter8554 It's so bad you wonder sometimes if John Paul Jones only played for Led Zeppelin in the studio and they hired someone else live that they couldn't show for legal reasons.
Relayer I think is my answer to the proverbial question: you're stranded on a desert island and can take 1 album only: what do you take? Sure this footage has some tech problems; good lord, it was recorded aeons ago. But the performance is incredible; I'm speechless at the conclusion, and in love with You Tube for being a repository of this stuff!
There were technical problems with the sound mix when I first saw the gig on the telly back in 1974/5. Everything seemed out of kilter; drums and bass too high or guitar and keyboards muddy then clear, then too loud or too soft. Such a shame. Probably the BBC showing their ineptitude.
@@pettra1 this was a BBC broadcast? That I didn't know! I still have this on VHS picked up from a dodgy bootleg dealer from a record fair back in the 90's
@@ednewton4455 Yes indeed, it was. I remember watching it on the BBC and how they fouled up the sound mixing! Lol. I think you can get the concert on DVD on Amazon. Search Yes QPR or something like that.
I also love the album art on this one. It's been 47 years since this video. If you go back 47 years from 1975 you'd be in 1928. And, honestly it does seem that long ago.
Just me who noticed jon's voicecrack at the end? Love his response to it; really shows how professional and serious these guys were and are on stage! Huge inspiration!
What an amazing band. Never was and never will be another YES. Unfortunately only seen them 3 times at the Tower theater in Upper Darby, PA, outside west Philadelphia. I lived a block away for 37 years.
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As a nurse working with Covid-19 patients, listening to videos like this while I do my charting is how I keep my sanity. I've been a Yes fan since '77, seen them so many times, never get tired of the music. Pure genius and emotion!
Many thanks for your fabulous work. rgds from Germany
Working the over nite in a Boston Hospital and I coulded agree more
Cheers. Thank you for your compassion and dedication. Stay safe.
Stay safe!
BRAVO !!!! Thank You For Your Service !!! Stay Safe. From a fellow Yes fan.
RIP Alan White and Chris Squire, one of the coolest rhythm sections in progressive rock.
Hands down, and Amen.
I should know this, but is that Allen White singing? He sounds just like Jon Anderson.
While I still prefer Bruford, I agree...White & Squire made a GREAT rhythm section! R.I.P.
Two reasons I picked up bass Chris Squire, and school mate name Roscoe Beck.
@@AlexDeLarge2022seems like no one responded to you. Alan White is the drummer and Jon Anderson is the singer, the usual singer of Yes
Wakeman is one of the best keyboard players on earth.
But the way Moraz played in this vinyl.
HE MADE A MASTERPIECE!!
Agreed. I love Rick but Moraz owned thus piece!
Agree wish they made another album with Patrick
Moraz was and remained a giant musician. Full marks to everyone who played in this band put them all in the RRHOF!!
i listening nowadays, he sounds awesome
Why didn’t Wakeman play on this album? Was he kicked out of the band? Was he dealing with family stuff? Does anyone know the story?
I remember walking through a mall, and hearing THIS coming out of the record store from about 100 feet away. I recognized Jon's voice right away; I didn't know they had a new album out. I didn't have the money for it. So I sat in front of the store while the guy at the register just let the whole thing play. When I got my paycheck that week, this was the first thing I bought. Early YES; the best music I ever heard. Just magic.
Yes, I remember those days (of vinyl) well, get paid on the Friday and go straight to the record shop before going home.
Great story......this album left an indelible mark on my 17 year old self. I still remember reading the Thumitak of the Corridors three story anthology by Charles R . Tanner while playing this album through headphones . Every time I hear it I recall Thumitacks’s amazing exploits underground. A world without Yes would be so much less.
This was also was on that HBO show..Divorce... The ice skating scene in the last season. The husband requested it he loved Yes all through the series and played them. A nice touch to a TV series.
Amazing that complex and creative music like this was once popular enough to be played in shopping mall record shops!
LOL...not old Yes to me, this is new stuff for me...I'm old :)
Alan White killing it as usual. His drumming on Relayer and Tales might not be what Bruford would have played, but it's perfect in my book. He also made Drama unique.
I liked him better than bruford
Yes, Alan White was amazing. Quite a different player from Bill Bruford, more straight ahead and based in rock rather than based in jazz like Bruford. His drumming on Drama is as intense as almost any drummer playing extreme metal now.
What modern metal are talking about? I like Drama, I can play a bit (and jam along with Tempus Fugit and It Can Happen semi frequently), but that's not a claim I'd make.
White is what made yes progressive. Drumming on Drama is otherworldly
True. Yes weren't a prog band before Alan joined the band and none of the other members ever made album solo that were remotely close to progressive rock.
My, my, my....Squire is just flawless; every movement, every note is majestic. Sheer brilliance! Wow! Just wow!!!
as was Patrick.
You can hear Chris? I can’t, this mix is messed up.
I was trying to impress my new girl, and I took her into a record shop and asked them to play Floyd's "Wish you were here" which had just come out. After a couple of minutes she said, "Sounds a bit like Gates of Delirium." wha'? Of course at the time I'd never heard any Yes, but she of course had a big brother, and when it came to prog rock she'd heard *everything*.
Thats cool! Did she every know any Prog Genesis ( from Trespass to Wind and Wuthering)
@@johnmccarthy4134 Might have done, but I don't remember her talking about them the way she did about Gong ... We didn't date for long, unfortunately, we were only kids. I was 14 at the time.
Hopefully after that comment you got "Re-layed"
Yes always outdoes PF
@@mattwestwood8967 Sounds like a girl after my own heart.
Probably the most insane bass lines I've ever heard. RIP Chris.
One day he'll be recognised for the genius he was.
DrTomoculus He is, he’s usually in best bassist top 10 lists
@@DrTomoculus Chris Squire is an inspiration, truly something I wish to become. Such a tasteful and powerful bass that let the band shine. He will forever go down as a genius.
He didn't seem to like being asked to play this or that note, but it seems to have pushed him into a very original zone. Amazing.
In the Seventies, when Progressive Rock was young, he totally was viewed as a genius. There is something about his personality that somehow makes him the Yes member most fans wish they had known. Sweet guy. On the Talk, tour, he saw I was weeping at the beauty of the music, and went out of his way to demonstrate a couple of points of his technique, perhaps out of sympathy. Sort of the fantasy friend with benefits par excellence. The Egyptian god, Upuaut. You hear the doorbell, and there is someone like him smiling at you, and it is a weekend of video games, cannabis, conversations about friendship, faerie magic, and joy. Years ago, I had a friend whose wife was very beautiful, and I asked him how he managed it. He said, make sure your partner is satisfied, first. Chris Squire played bass and dressed the part like that, for the audience, it seems to me. Jon Anderson is deep, yes, but in his way, Chris was totally deep, as well.
Despite the poor sound feed, this is an outstanding performance.
Ok ml
@Levi Here you go maybe?- th-cam.com/video/KsFEpru1dWM/w-d-xo.html
ManiacalMorbidWoman We all know your are a god and a legend in your own mind . Please spare us your euphoria of grandeur 🙄
@Levi unfortunately the level of Jon's guitar is much higher than Steve's guitars. Too bad.
Yes. Steve was low in the mix.
There was enough energy being generated by the musicians to power solar energy for the next three hundred years!! My gosh, how could Alan White maintain the level of intensity he demonstrated throughout this lengthy masterpiece ! All the musicians and singers were just excellent.
I totally agree with you, amazing!
I got the Relayer album in 1975. I was just 15 years old at that time and still deeply
disappointed and sad that Rick Wakeman left the band. It took me a while to get used to Relayer and until I realized the beauty. But after a while "Gates of Delirium" was next to Awaken and some others my favorite piece of Yes. Such a sound, beauty and purity, still fascinating today!
I am now 59 years and saw the Band the first time at the tender age of 16! That was my first concert at all! April 16th, 1974 in Dortmund / Germany Westfalenhalle. Tour: "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Unforgettable!
Great album and underappreciated.
Wollenschrank My grandparents gave me an 8 track tape of Relayer in pink plastic for Christmas 1977.: pink is not the right color for Relayer. I had no idea that I should have kept that. I was thirteen.
Rick had left because he felt the band just threw in hodgepodge on parts of Tales. He was adamant about detail and structure. No compromise. Rick admitted that Relayer was not his cup of tea. Too wild for him. And he said there are many parts that he simply could not have played. Moraz had a jazz background which Wakeman did not. And he used a couple of synthesizers that were different than Rick's.
@@smilanesi98 Patrick Moraz - competent and creative - tried to sue Moody Blues when he left them
How LUCKY you were man!
This is real musicianship, i heard it as 11 years old and i still loves it as 50 yrs old 😁
+scrumsie me too!
+scrumsie And me!!!
Loved them at 16,,,Now I m 60,,,,,,timeless
The first rock album I bought on my life: Yes Album, as a 15y old. Also still love them as a 62y old
@@toefire4206 I discovered them at age 16 too.
Yes holds such a special place in my heart. Their music has elevated me at my lowest points and each member's craft is nothing short of mad genius. I'm only 24 and I envy people who got to see Yes play during their prime like this.
I'm 54 and I feel the same. Born too late.
It was truly amazing, every time.
100% agree, their songs in my head at times seems to be the only thing that keeps me going.!
@@va3ngc me, 62. Saw em past their prime:1979
First saw them in ‘76 and ten times between between ‘77 -‘79. Magic times!
Rarely had they rocked that hard. The album was a real revelation for longtime fans.
Babaziba Yes, Relayer was ‘different’: people tend to fear difference.
best Yes album IMO
@@EastmanD what about Close to the edge?
@@mishaodessit769 BTW on iTunes they call Moraz' album The "Story of I".
I was ready to dislike it when I saw that Wakeman and Bruford weren't on it, but it quickly became my favorite Yes album.
I purchased this album from a regular store in an ordinary town. My best friend and I sat down to listen to it. Initially, we didn’t quite grasp what had happened to YES. On our second listen, we started to notice some hooks here and there, memorable melodies, and exceptional mixing and recording. Jon Anderson's performance was raw and authentic. For me, this is by far the best rock album of all time.
And YES, thank you !
Yes is outstanding. Saw them 19 times. Close to the Edge is the best ever.
I've been a fan since 76 and got to see them with my 20-year-old daughter a couple years ago for their 50th year tour. They opened with Close to the Edge. We both cried!
I wish I could even see them once. I still could but I wouldn’t want to go without Jon and Chris Squire
@@Kenneth_Fishing I really missed Chris and Jon but all in all the music was fantastic and I've seen them countless times all the way back to 76
I saw them about 90 times, since February 1972.
19 ur crazy 🤪 love it
This is too good to be real. I love this band. In July of 75' they came to Nashville. If I could only go back in time...
How anyone could actually play this incredibly complex masterpiece LIVE and pull it off will remain a mystery. I saw YES play "Gates" on the "Masterworks" tour. It was ...magnificent.
YES ,I fully agree with you it's a master work!
It's a testament to their incredible talent. They always have and always will be my favorite band of all time.
Practice practice practice
Equally, Supper's Ready is just the same live.
@@steevyboy1 Suppers Ready is excellent, but not as complex. Yes blows Genesus away in terms of chops and technicality.
I was there! I was a student as Manchester Uni, and had followed Yes from their first album, travelling home to London to see them. This was my first chance to see them live, and I was sat near the right hand corner of the penalty area. I recall they also played in Manchester, I think at Man City, but it was hard to get tickets for there. The sound was incredible...
I next saw them in 2004/5(?) for their 35th anniversary tour at Wembley Arena, or whatever it was called then. Equally fabulous. Incredible music, the like of which will never be repeated.
This is the most progressive, impeccable music YES has ever produced! Especially at 1330 Patrick Moraz and Steve Howe really make it happen. Of course one has to also mention the best bassist ever Chris Squire - RIP my friend.
Patrick Moraz is GREAT. This is their best album. Bought it new when it came out... Big fan.
Thank you YES!
"Prog" in it's highest form.
Yes, Floyd, Zep. They didn't just create the most magical music, they stamped moments in time in such a way, the people fortunate enough to experience it have memories they will retain to the grave. And even the odd note from such classics flood the mind and fuel emotion with such enchanting memories. Music like this just doesn't exist anymore.
Gates of Delirium was the first song I heard from Yes. It completely redirected my musical taste. At the time all I knew about Progressive Rock was Pink Floyd and something about Genesis. Yes introduced me to such a rich musical world, with so many options. It was like opening Pandora's box for me. Relayer will always be my most beloved album.
Ironic you said that! Pandora's Box was the nickname Steve Howe gave to that sit down acoustic guitar and that was his signature on so much Yes music.
Yes was one a few bands that was able to replicate the same studio sound, in the live performances. Amazing, given the fact of the complexity of the progressive rock. The Gates of Delirium is together with Close to the Edge the best progressive songs of all of the symphonic rock.
+constantino gotsis I once saw/read an interview with some of the guys where they said they wrote songs to be played, not recorded, so there really wasn't a lot of difference from their perspective.
Absolutely...I love all things Yes really, but my favorites are:
1. Close To The Edge
2. Relayer
3, Fragile
4. The Yes Album
I'm sick to death of just about all the stuff I've listened to over the years, but Yes will always be the exception.
I've been in love with Yes since I was 17...and I'm 65 now and still love them.
The ending is one of the most beautiful moments in rock music.
Totally agree
@Cathode Roy I was just thinking the same.
I can't believe I'm seeing this song live! It's one of the hardest songs I've ever heard and to see this amazing band play this song live just PERFECT is unbelievable!! crazy!
They were amazing musicians. Some of the best music this world has ever heard IMO.
Check out their version with an orchestra. I think you lookup symphonic gates of delirium.
This was my first Yes gig. I was totally blown away.
Me too
Steve is criminally undermixed in this recording.
as he should. he gets in Moraz's way.
In every recording
Yeah,mix very keyboard heavy
RELAYER is a miracle, a complete masterpiece from the first note to the last sigh ...
These three songs "redeem" the whole story of Psychodelic Rock ... "A Word we utter , a Word..."
I AGREE
Согласен абсолютно, это великолепно, волшебная музыка. Agree at all.
YEAH...Beyond REDEEM! It is one of the most psychedelic compositions ever but in a very clear, precise, sharp edged way, unlike many so called psychedelic tunes which can border on almost absurd nonsense for absurdities sake. This is post psychedelic era in time but is very much so. It is also actually ahead of it's time somehow. It has the edge that RUSH would later come to exemplify. But it is pretty jazzy as well..It is a very strange album. ..Relayer. ..I think actually one of their better albums, but a moment in time, not to be repeated. It is remarkable that they had little difficulty pulling it off live.
Fractal Khaos Yes, amazing album... funny enough, I always liked the live version of Gates on the Yesshows album better than the studio version. For some reason this piece benefits greatly from the rougher sound of the live version.
@@PaterTenebrarum1 Well, both versions are so different, that I think one must TRY TO ENJOY BOTH FOR THSE DIFFERENT REASONS. Even if I do appreciate the studio version, I mean their awesome album.
What a great band! What a great recording! I'm 57 now and still get the same buzz from this as i did at 16 when i was a space cadet! How can YES not be in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame????
hall of fame does not worth them
+Sebastian Arroyo I'm 56, and I feel just like you. I was but an insecure teenager, dabbling in life, and drugs, when I first heard this incredible track, and suddenly I knew all there was to be known.
+Paul Burgess Cool Paul....at 58 I am still learning!
+rick edwards Ditto at 53!
+James Lauth Because those Hall of Famers loathe art. When they inducted this canadian band that is much less than Yes, the whole stress was on the number of concerts they had given over the years, not on their talent...
I get so much shite because I've loved this band since I was seven, this performance is wonderful, they're such an important influence on how my life went, the abstraction of words , the emotions in the movements of the songs , I got my first bass guitar when I was eight, thank you so much Chris Squire
You should have been there. It is favourite track and "To be Over" was the first yes track I had heard. Not long after they did he QPR concert and was near the front.
Seven!
Great band , saw them a couple of times in the 70's , not seen anyone better since
Chris Squire is absolutely brilliant on the bass and a great singer , I saw them in 1993 when they had two guitars two drummers and two keyboards but the concert I saw in 2014 was absolutely brilliant they played close to the edge and fragile all the way through Plus another hours worth of hits , then Chris Squire passed away the next year so I was super glad to see him again before he moved on to a different place , I would have to look at my ticket stub but I think it was 2014
you deserve it! awful music
Great music. My favorite band of all times through all their changes in personnel.
I saw this Relayer tour. I was standing about 30 feet to the right of Chris. Still the best concert I’ve ever been to and my ears are still ringing.
One of the most beautiful and chaotic compositions I’ve ever laid ears on. A most stellar message as well. Many thanks to the Yes fellas.
Yeah
Partick Moraz is a wizard. I wish we had more music from this line up.
The ending is so gorgeous! Fantastic live version!
I may be the most beautiful movement in rock music history.
“Soon” is one of their very best moments
Amen brother.
Chris, Jon and Steve,
What a wonderful sight.
Wow, never seem Anderson go as crazy as that! What a tune! Would have liked to see Moraz on one more album at least....
Memo from 1975
As you can see we still put out the best music
I'm 16, and just fell in love with that song and the whole album...
I first listened to this song 2 years ago. I’m 17 now and it is undoubtably my favorite song. This song, Awaken, To be Over and Close to The Edge are my favorites
@@Kenneth_Fishing Very nicee bro!!
The Gates of Delirium is flawless, amazing...
My favs are also Close to the Edge, And You and I, Roundabout, Your is No Disgrace and Sound Chaser.
I truly can't Believe that I would hear this live. Today I happened to be listening to this Beautiful recording that my Brother Freddie asked me to listen to this. That was 40 years ago. This is a Masterpiece on every level. Lyrics are universal if one should close their mine to everything else, and only listen to this Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful..and ride the Wave.
Just image being at this show. Earth shattering.
I was!! And it was!!! Had just arrived in London from little ol’ Perth, Western Australia a few days before the concert, saw the ad in Time Out and of course, had to go. Yes was constantly on my turntable since discovering them in the early 70’s, a student nurse, they helped me through the angst of it all 😅. Now 66 and still can’t get them off the turntable 🥰♥️
@@susykeys :thanks for the reply. The atmosphere at this show must have been electric. If this was not video tapped, it would be a shame. Take care.
Seeing Yes on relayer was like going to another world..... I have never seen anyone with as much stage presence as Chris Squire..a lot of people will disagree with me...but Patrick Moraz was unbelieveable.....The finest show i ever saw........
ken lafler I envy you: I am too young to have ever witnessed any of these shows.
Moraz was the best keyboard man they ever had. I was so disappointed that we only got 3 songs and one album out of that lineup. Should have been way more.
@@mysterirhys I've said that last sentence myself many times. Wakeman had his moments with Yes, but overall I prefer his solo work. Moraz was a perfect fit.
Relayer is the greatest progressive rock album of all time. I liked other configurations of the band but Patrick Moraz was my favorite on keys and Alan White was spot on for this album which never could have been produced with Wakeman or Bruford, both of whom I entirely respect. Steve Howe? Well, there was never, will never be another progressive rock guitarist quite like him. Chris Squire was in a class all of his own. No bassist played like him. RIP Chris. All now have come and gone from the band to do their own music except Jon. His voice was and still is from heaven. I heard him say in an interview that he was going to produce Olias II. We'll see and I hope so.
What a Gem. I am 54 and at the tender age of 17 I bought (scalped) tickets to my first Yes concert having never heard them before in a little place in the middle of nowhere (Regina Saskatchewan Canada). The next day i bought the entire discography off some unfortunate radio listener who had won them in a contest the week before the show. When the band rolled into Siberian Khatru after the Firebird Intro... OMG! IT CHANGED MY LIFE. This Album (Especially Steve and Chris during Steve's Slide work is like nothing anyone has ever done before. not Tull,ELP, or even my other favourite Genesis has ever done before. Rest in Peace Chris. Long Live YES
Mitch, I've replied because your comment really got to me, not least because you've mentioned some of my favourite bands from the 70s - JT, ELP and Genesis. Music at the opposite end of the universe to Xfactor.
My introduction to Yes was Fragile and Yessongs, on I think the same day, when I was about 17. I'd never heard anything like it, and the Firebird Suite intro to Siberian Khatru on Yessongs has stuck in my mind for forty-odd years. I get goosebumps even thinking about it - or the birdsong at the beginning of Close to the Edge.
Take care out there, my friend. :-)
Fricken Rights Michael! "I get goosebumps even thinking about it " I just knew I was not the only one that this happened to when I first heard the firebird/Siberian Kahtru live. We are very alike my friend. Cheers :)
goosebumps right now, my friend!
The best YES album. Wish they’d shown more of Chris Squire though. Been listening to them since 1972. Still one of the best bands ever. Love the boots.
Fragile , Close To The Edge and Relayer my 3 favorites albuns by Yes . I love Yes music ( 69/78 ) .
Why Steve is so under rated? I' ve never seen him mentioned as a great guitar player. He is a genius!
He won many awards for his playing in the 70's. He was a darling of Guitar Player magazine.
because it was 2020 when you posted, and Yes was over in the 70s, in any meaningful ways.
He means nowadays Steve Howe isn't as remembered as he perhaps should be. He's not a household name here in America like Hendrix, Page or even Clapton. Its a shame
@@campfortson4387 Depends on who you talk to I guess... I'm in my 60's and Steve Howe is definitely a household name in my house!
@@josephvengen9989 I'm generation Z. I know for a fact the average music nerd my age still won't know who Steve Howe is
The musical talent this group had has never been matched.
My favorite alltime Yes recording.
I saw the Relayer tour before the album was released and it was amazing! I have been a fan since 71. I will be 65 this year and still love listening to Yes!
Joseph Durbin Same here. I saw this tour in NY on Nov 20th , my 16th birthday, and was wondering, what was this song they were opening with? It being Sound Chaser, but to take that album in without knowing it was a lot. Who knew we’d still be loving it 46 years later. I think I saw them tour for this album in ‘74, ‘75, and ‘76, the last two in Englishtown, N.J. I remember them all promoting their solo albums in ‘76.
Same!!
i really like jons voice here
אדר וודיסלבסקי he's screaming like a metal vocalist at times, so intense!!
@@jonnykhatru Yeah!! Really ballsy, people forget that aspect of his singing, guess you can't keep that up your whole life!
Incredible performance. This is the most lively YES performance I've ever seen live. Anderson as a multi-instrumentalist is also the most energetic I've ever seen him - he's truly rocking out instead of being the usually reserved, Zen, spiritual guru type :)
favorite yes album, favorite record of all time.. a true experience GET IT KIDS SOON THE LIGHT.. WE ALL MAKE IT TO THE LIGHT SOMEDAY
I saw them perform this song in 1976 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego. Their performance blew my mind. I went out and bought the Relayer album the next day and still have it in my collection. I think that I'll pull it out and give it a spin.
A truly masterpiece. I really love this band and his music. RIP Chris.
And now beloved Alan as well 🙏💔☮️😔☮️💔🙏
The last 6 minutes of this piece send me to the sky, outside our planet, to the infinite space. At the same time, it send me back on the time, wen I was young, listening this for the first time with a group of friends from high school, almost on the bush, as far as we can go from my bedroom with the turning table, plugged with the cables and extension cord that everyone brought...❤
That’s awesome. All my friends thought I was a nerd for listening to Yes and others.
Their loss
18:50 I was almost sure this recording was overdubbed until Jons mistake. Their musicianship was insane. It all sound so tight
Song gives me chills. Absolute favorite song 🎵 1975 was my first concert, love love love Jon's voice!!!!
One of my favorite songs. Love Chris' work on this. This one has it all. It rocks, grooves and has a beautiful touching end.
There will never be music as beautiful as Yes'.
Awesome... Great to see this performance... One of my all time fave YES songs... Yes, the sound is what it is, but just sit back and watch real musicians playing together, in the moment... Freaking excellent, thanks for posting.
What a rockin' band! Too complex for a lot of folks, but mind blowing for those who get it. Glad they finally let the guitar out. lol. Damn. I still can't get used to Chris being gone. That man was a master.
Alan White looks like a metal drummer here - particularly Chris Adler from Lamb of God. I'm even seeing similarities in their playing style. Both great drummers!
+Mike N haha yeah all he needs is the pony tail
The music masterfully takes to the furious battle they paint with their words.
Amazing to see again, I was there that Saturday afternoon all those years ago, magic days. Thanks for this.
phildowsing I am SOO JEALOUS right now.
Me too, first time I saw Yes. Certainly not the last though.
Well now you have to go listen the “Turn of the Century” off of Going For The One. The last words of the song are “All those many years ago.”
Great YES Music. Mr. Alan White: amazing Drummer
Un-frickin' real!!! I've been a Steve Howe fan since the age of 10. But I've never seen this live performance. He can play anything. I won't talk about the rest of the band, because they're all incredible.
Nothing he did out side of Yes was any good, and after 2003 it's been all down hill.
@double1935 live a lie then, that's an option too.
Diese Band ist einfach grandios .Ich bewundere es wie jeder einzelne Musiker seine Passagen behält .Das sind Künstler
Yes were the most diverse and musically talented band of their or any other time, I saw them live back in the day and still listen to them to this day.
Jon, The Voice of an ANGEL...ALWAYS.... he'll be 78 October 25th.
Makes me sad that this kind of music will never be produced again.
Scott, there's a whole wealth of great modern progressive rock music available on line. There are so many young musicians producing fantastic compositions these days that you will be spoilt for choice. Just login to Spotify, put 'progressive rock' into the search engine and get adventurous. Brother, I guarantee you won't be dissapointed! So much choice. By the way I attended this concert at QPR. It was awe inspiring!! Still gives me chills. My very best wishes to all of you, my fellow proggites. A lifelong prog fan.❣es!
Absolutely epic! 1-day after my 7th birthday and still enjoying now.
This album made me look at 9 minute songs as short songs.
This, and close to the edge, and Animals, and ESPECIALLY Tales.
From a musicianship standpoint, take a moment to ponder the talent required to pull off the battlefield sequence, night after night, to such perfection as this. Given today's (2022) landscape, this feat is unthinkable.
12:39 - A closeup on that mad bass line Chris is playing would have been nice around that point!
More footage of the Fish anywhere during this song would've been nice. Bassists get no respect.
@@markhunter8554 It's so bad you wonder sometimes if John Paul Jones only played for Led Zeppelin in the studio and they hired someone else live that they couldn't show for legal reasons.
@@DrTomoculus Yeah it's bad enough when they wouldn't put camera on Jones and Entwistle but even a showman like Squire couldn't get any camera time.
Fingers of steel playing those fast bass triplets. Incredible.
Noone absolutely noone can duplicate these guys .i saw them live in the 80s and what you see and hear is what you ,outstanding .just incredible.
Gracias. Hermoso momento de la historia de la música lleno de inspiración. Geniales
Just saw Jon Anderson a few weeks ago with a School of Rock ensemble. The musicians were incredible and the voice was clear and strong. Great show.
Conhecer essa musica aos 21 anos, no Brasil, eu me sinto tão feliz por ter escutado isso antes de morrer. Obrigado!
Miss these guys so much❤😢. This was epic, memorable, and everlasting when you saw them play this live that year.
So beautiful.... at 15:49.
Silence... with just a few chords.
Saw them many times since '75... captivating.
When "Soon" starts it's quite beautiful, a heartfelt song...the longing for peace.
Relayer I think is my answer to the proverbial question: you're stranded on a desert island and can take 1 album only: what do you take? Sure this footage has some tech problems; good lord, it was recorded aeons ago. But the performance is incredible; I'm speechless at the conclusion, and in love with You Tube for being a repository of this stuff!
👌🇦🇷
There were technical problems with the sound mix when I first saw the gig on the telly back in 1974/5. Everything seemed out of kilter; drums and bass too high or guitar and keyboards muddy then clear, then too loud or too soft. Such a shame. Probably the BBC showing their ineptitude.
Remarkably so close to what it sounded like on vinyl which had just been recorded in 1974.
@@pettra1 this was a BBC broadcast? That I didn't know! I still have this on VHS picked up from a dodgy bootleg dealer from a record fair back in the 90's
@@ednewton4455 Yes indeed, it was. I remember watching it on the BBC and how they fouled up the sound mixing! Lol. I think you can get the concert on DVD on Amazon. Search Yes QPR or something like that.
Timeless classic
Patrick Moraz is such a talented keyboardist!
When I (try) play this song, I always find myself playing the keyboard lines in the guitar!
Brilliant sound mix just like I remembered
I was a little kid when I fell in love with this entire record, which I had on a pink plastic 8 track tape!!!...
I also love the album art on this one. It's been 47 years since this video. If you go back 47 years from 1975 you'd be in 1928. And, honestly it does seem that long ago.
If everyone else's channel was turned up as high as Jon's guitar, the mix would be fantastic.
thank goodness we have recordings of these artists
A brilliant masterpiece.
I have loved Yes since I was 14. 46 years later the music still moves me.
This album blew away more of my friends, than any other LP I owned...and I owned close to a 1000 lp's.
Just me who noticed jon's voicecrack at the end? Love his response to it; really shows how professional and serious these guys were and are on stage! Huge inspiration!
The ability to change time signatures with such perfection is unequaled outside of bands such as gentle giant
Beach Goat...Agreed but add Dream Theater to the list, their song Dance of Eternity has 108 time signature changes (6 minute 14 second song).
What an amazing band. Never was and never will be another YES. Unfortunately only seen them 3 times at the Tower theater in Upper Darby, PA, outside west Philadelphia. I lived a block away for 37 years.
To me Relayer is the best album.
Yes one of the all time great bands 🔥👍