YES - Sound Chaser - Live at QPR
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- Yes play SOUND CHASER live at Queens Park Rangers' Loftus Road stadium, UK on May 10, 1975
Jon Anderson: vocals, guitar, percussion, flute
Steve Howe: guitar, lap steel guitar, Portuguese guitar, classical guitar
Chris Squire: bass, acoustic guitar
Patrick Moraz: keyboards
Alan White: drums, percussion
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"Relayer" is one of my favorite Yes albums and "Sound Chaser" is one of my favorite Yes songs.
I hear something new every time I listen to Gates of Delirium.
@@gillrowley7264 ... and that's why you keep listening to it !
RELAYER IS MY FAVORITE YES ALBUM AND TO BE OVER IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG
This is the most complex song from yes. And The Best, after Gates Of D.
I wonder what a second Yes album with Moran would have yielded 😳
Steve Howe is literally the only guitarist I can think about getting so excited and pumped while solo playing clean guitar melodies without any distortion
There's a bit of crunch in there.
it has distortion. just not a ton. It is overdriven.
@@morbidmanmusic Precisely.
#CHA #CHA #CHA #CHACHA
While we're on the subject of RELAYER, we thought you might enjoy this clip of SOUND CHASER from the QPR concert in 1975 (although is NOT included on the *audio only* Definitive Edition BluRay or DVD-A).
***** im in high school and everyday I think of all the kids I pass by that have no idea of this heavenly music
***** You said it. The first Yes song I ever heard was AYAI. I was in 9th grade 1983-84. It changed my life forever. I saw EVERY tour from TalesFTO on.....I do not know of any other band that gave the same experience to their own generation
John Demarkis me 2
Is that Patrick Moraz on keyboards?
Len Bennati
Thought so. Relayer is one of their best albums. Came as a relief after Topographic Oceans.
Saw Yes on the Relayer tour at the Glasgow Apollo & this was the first song they played, nobody could believe it, no less complex or slower tempo song to warm them up. No, right into this 100 miles an hour, tempo changing all over the place, hugely challenging composition. That's confidence. Also, when they played a magnificent rendition of The Gates Of Delirium, as the last final notes of soon faded out completely, there were a couple of seconds of stunned silence, and then the loudest & longest applause I have ever been a part of. You should have seen the Band members faces, they were absolutely just looking at each other with huge grins of amazement , knowing that they had performed it superbly & astonished at the volume & sustained applause of their fans. A beautiful moment in a masterful concert, from start to finish.
Whoever worked the sound board for this concert should be arrested for murder.
i think it´s the other way around, we should be arrested for the things that we will do to this guy if we found him
There is clearly an issue with the guitar volume pedal and/or its wires connections
@@MrUsermister the issue was in the mix table, my friend. It is known fact among every Yes fan.
I saw Yes on Relayer tour four times, Nov 74 through July 75. This brings back priceless memories and is their best.
I watched this on the television when it was first broadcast a couple of days after the gig on an Old Grey Whistle Test special - I recorded it on a reel-to-reel tape recorder with the microphone held up at the telly whilst trying to keep family members from laughing and talking over the top - Ah, we had to work hard for our music in those days! Do I still have the tape - I dunno, who would want to listen to it anyhow . . .
The whole RELAYER Album seems to come from another Planet, and a remote one...
Patrick - hate to contradict you, but I went to this concert and I am sure it was about April time. I waited for the show to be broadcast, and it was quite a few weeks. I remember actually managing to phone up the BBC and got through to the production team, I was amazed, and they said it will be broadcast in August.
I saw this show when I was 13. Talk about a life changer for a very young proghead. The light and stage props were mind-blowing. I'm so glad this video exists. It literally takes me way back to the beginning of decades of live music all of the greats....I've seen most of them
Sound Chaser was an experimental track on an experimental album but I loved it all the same! it is more than mrely "sounding out" your instruments during a warm up as my brother had said, though his ears sometimes are preoccupied by his full of self attitude. I think it genious! particularly how Chris Squire and Steve Howe traded leads from bass to guitars in the interlude solos with those two!
I could watch this forever.
I'm 19 and I've just discover this... you really had great drugs back in the 70's haha
Magic, the best live act of all time! I saw this in 76 in Florida, my second gig and to the day the best concert I've ever been to :-)
RIP Alan White 🙌
June 14 1949 - May 26 2022
Arguably my favourite track by Yes from a purely instrumental standpoint, but what an absolutely butchered mix, especially when Moraz was doing his bit near the end! A pity. Relayer would have to be up there in my 2 - 3 favourite Yes albums, not least because Wakeman's absence brought Howe's guitar even more to the forefront. I don't think he ever shone as brightly as he did on this album. Alan White doesn't often get enough credit either for his wonderful drumming on tracks like this, with complex patterns and constant tempo changes that most drummers would never have to deal with. Very underrated. Of course, Chris Squire's bass also really drives this song along like nobody's business.
Well said, timbo - on all fronts! When Yes played at the Astrodome on this tour, Eddie Offord was mixing. Evidently he had this night off, and the task was taken-over by the janitor! Ouch! Is this the best "Sound Chaser" live available!? This song (and band) deserve so much better!!!
I LOVED Moraz on the album, but he just didn't have the same precision and focus live (IMO), like Wakeman tended to provide. And I always felt Wakeman and Howe had nice interplay (especially on Fragile).
I was never a huge White fan (I suspect because he didn't often jump into your face like many other prog greats), but he really is quite impressive when you examine his body of work with Yes - as a player and composer! An underrated master, indeed!
But this vid's better than nuttin', and I'm grateful to see it - sonic warts and all.
timbo wilderbeeste my top 5 has to be
1 Close to the edge
2 Relayer
3 The yes album
4 Drama
5Fragile
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@@harryflowers3433 Jon Davison.
The best of yes; wish they would have done more with Moraz.
The irony that this song is called "Sound Chaser" and that sounds exactly like what the sound engineer is attempting to do and is failing miserably
Haha, true
@@akarshrastogi3682 Yeah, what a shame.
It's what ruined this whole show, which would have been an epic document of them at their peak.
👍🏼
Yet despite that failure, the band's occasional rough patches and the song's technical complexities, Yes managed to pull off a performance of one of their more intricate compositions that clearly shows them at yet another of their creative peaks. So very thankful that this was captured on video, so I can come here on this day to remember one of rock's greatest drummers. RIP Alan White, 1949-2022
lol!
That is incredible music
Its more than incredible. One thing for certain, never again. Brilliant
Howe. The first Neo Classical guitar shredder
As we accelerate our days, to the look in your eyes!
What awesome music. They just don't make it like this anymore. No one, anywhere...anytime...makes it like this.
They were in a league of their own, all alone at the top.
This was about the time Return To Forever was at their height and I think Yes wanted to show they could do fusion too. Alan White opened on the vibes with a crazy Zappa-ish riff. Bruford was great but any who diss White haven't watched this video. I played drums in a Yes tribute and we got all the way through it in a practice but would NEVER dared to try it live. RIP Alan, Chris...
Steve Howe makes it look simple. Electric freedom. The band is just fantastic that is really what I think.
i love yes¡¡¡¡¡
Thank you so much for posting this gem, and what a strange feeling - having listened to the album version of this song for forty years - to finally see who does what.
Alan White playing parts I thought were keyboards, and Chris playing parts I thought were guitar or synth drums, and so on. Shame Patrick Moraz's contribution here is so hit and miss, because the album version's blistering from all quarters.
Anyway, I will lay happily on my deathbed for having been alive in the era that produced this band and its wonderful music. Thank you, Yes, in all your incarnations. :-)
I think you might be mislead by the video direction regarding "Alan White playing parts I thought were keyboards" if you mean the intro where Moraz indeed plays the Electric piano but we see Alan White at the same time playing tuned percussion. Most of the sound that is coming out from the mix is Moraz.
RIP Alan White. Prog's most under-rated drummer. This track showcases his power. Listen to the album version for the full impact.
The keyboard solo in insane!
Curti muito esta música na época, através do LP. O solo de Howe é bonito, intensamente melódico, quebra ao meio o riff de mão direita virtuosistica do baixo e guitarra. Nesta gravação os teclados estão com volume muito alto escondendo a base. Moraz passou pelo Brasil e iniciou um trabalho no RJ com a banda Vimana.
RIP Alan White. From a time when great musicianship was fully appreciated by the album buying / gig attending public. Now any old busker with an acoustic guitar, cheeky grin and a handful of chords can pull a big crowd in the UK at least. Go figure?
Can't get enough sound chasing...Cha cha cha cha cha
I have been in two Yes Concerts one in Boston whith RicK Wakeman and one in UK many years later and I am still completely covinced that an unique Band like Yes never had a music engineer that could match nor have the ability to reproduce the music they perform live. It´s a shame
Not even Eddie Offord. Saw him at TTO tour where they also played Cote in Glasgow in 72 poss 73......Faultless
When they had Clair Bros. Sound in the states..it was great ..
Son mi grupo favorito de esta y la otra vida!
Happy Birthday Alan White born on June 14, 1949. He is an English drummer and songwriter best known for his tenure in the progressive rock band Yes. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_White_(Yes_drummer)
Uno de los temas más “jazzeros” (ó jazzísticos, como guste más) que compuso YES !!! En el inicio se nota una “atmósfera” tipo RETURN TO FOR EVER”... 🙌🏻 🎶 🎵 🙌🏻
wow... they were so great.. the brilliance shines through the horrible and random mix of parts... Just a great band. A great time in music.
As an astrologer, I just had to take note of Jon Anderson wearing his Zodiac sign of Scorpio around his neck :-) I've read his horoscope and love that he has an Aquarius Moon and a Libra Ascendant. I know this probably doesn't contribute much on a musical level, but if you are into the mystical side of Yes, you would find this fascinating.
Yes, you noticed it! I do understand the connection and it makes perfect sense! The combination is tailor-made for Jon's approach to music and the arts. It also explains how he might have encountered some subsequent rough patches with his band mates. Regards from Libra sun, Aquarius moon & Gemini rising! ♎️♒️♊️
@@lindazee Aquarius Moon's are my favorite. They are the natural celebrities of all the Moon signs. And natural mystics and spiritual leaders. I'm a Taurus Sun ♉, Aries Moon ♈ Virgo Rising ♍
I used to like to do the slower violin-like parts of Steve's solo with a volume pedal and the reverb turned up on my Fender Twin Reverb amp. I saw this song live before i bought the album and I remember the cha cha cha section amused the heck out of me at the time. Love Relayer.
Chris Squires!!!!
How they pulled that off live is mathematical + human feel! Genius!
I was at this gig. It was Steve Howe who inspired me to take up the guitar. Later Jon Anderson inspired me to take up choral singing and I still do those now.
My guess about the mix is that this was the show's opener, so there were adjustments being made throughout. Almost every concert I've ever been to got better sounding throughout the first couple of songs... no amount of sound-checking can result in a "perfect" mix... especially with the old analog synths which were vulnerable to fluctuations in the electrical power... not sure if they had power conditioners back then.
... speechless ...
Yes at it's best, mid 70's total psychedelic style Sound Chaser and Gates of Delirium, musical masterpieces.
Best performance: 1974 Roosevelt stadium with laser light show and the sound of Moraz' underrated unusual yet extremely fitting Yes synthriffs shooting of with surround effect into space. Do you guys have footage of that concert?
Fast paced, extremely well played, quadrophonic sound stage, hippie filled audience, laser show visuals...
Can't we redo the 70's so I can say I was there ?
Yes brought this tour to Nashville in 75'. I love this band. Have tkt's for the ARW show this Nov.! Last time I heard Jon sing was the Masterworks tour in 2000. Looking forward to it...
GRANDES!! MAGNÍFICOS!! ÍCONOS DE ÍCONOS!! ✨✨🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹🎶🎶🤘🏻🤘🏻😍😍🖤🖤❤️❤️
When Howe and Squire were tight it was magic.
Incredible song!
Another masterpiece
This was their monster riff piece on the album.
One of the few if not the only time I've ever seen yes fuk up.
Yes or the mixer?
OK, there are lots of technical problems with the sound/mix, and yes,, it is a shame....But jeez people! - The many moments of brilliance that WERE captured far out-weigh the negative! I just wish I had been there!
Steve and Chris !
The Best.
Trying to recall when last this sad. Bonham 35 years ago? Difficult to say. Difficult to cope.
Under The Sun Same here brother :(
I concur. R.I.P. Fish :-(
Great Performance.
Far out, man! What a band!
I remember seeing YES @ The Hollywood Bowl during this tour and Patrick Moraz was sensational !! The rest of the band weren't too bad either ;-) Great show . . so much energy !
Me encanta...me encanta...los adoro...
Très bien ❤
I saw this show in July 1975. It was an incredible performance. While the vid's audio mix wasn't good for me, I felt the brilliance of their playing and how this song swirls musically around the stage. And the vid is taken in daylight; the show was visually amazing in indoor arenas. One of the best live acts I've ever seen.
Patrick Moraz is to Yes what ChatGBT is to society. So close, yet so far.
Apparently the band did have a sound recorded direct from the mixing desk which went AWOL. The sweet dreams recording on the official website is better by far which incidentally is a brilliant album by Caravan
As nature relays to set the scene....
IN-CRE-DI-BLE SONG!
This would really be good with a nice mix, the balances are waaaay off. Hope they have a tape somewhere still?
Brian Kehew
1975, man! Stone Age mixing technology fighting superb music. What can you do but weep?
Brian Kehew I think this is not at all the mix going in the monitors for the people there. It is probably a "rough" balance made too quickly (may be a sub mix) for the vidéo ...
+MrVitalmusique yeah, usually they work the monitors and the house first and there's a whole separate thing for archival bits like this that has to be done on its own, usually after the rest is perfect, if at all. so yeah, thankfully things probably sounded a heck of a lot better in person.
@@PinkFloydrulez - I was there and it sounded nowhere near as bad as this. I thought it was great. We did not expect a lot in those days knowing no different, but it certainly was not this for sure.
I can only imagine the compromises that were made to even create this recording at the time... I'm glad it exists lol
Nightmare song to have to mix live. Didn't affect the guys one bit. They where unstoppable.
8:15 Patrick chasing that sound
Tragic mix of an amazing performance. Tip your engineer. Don't let this happen to you!
I think the audio engineer actually ODed during the making of this.
How dare you put a commercial in this song!!!
The suite Sound Chaser
perfect sound
アルバム"Relayer"はこのメンバーだからこその作品ですな。すごいアンサンブル。並のバンドだったらただの雑音にしかならないよ。
This was Yes at their musical and creative peak. Bill Bruford should have stuck around for this.
Bill had to left Yes after Relayer IMO
Bill Bruford already left before the release of "Close To The Edge" and joined King Crimson.
@@TheAmarok87 Yes I know Bill Bruford had already left to join King Crimson in 1973 and wasn't even there for _Close to the Edge_ tour which was when Alan White was hired to replace him. But I still think _Relayer_ is way more of a musical milestone for the band and would have been that much richer if Bill had remained with the group.
7:23 fuck eargasm!!!
Moraz was super synthy.
He was great
I was there
The sound here is dreadful. I was there in 1975. It was quite something
Jehst - City of Industry
I wonder what it sounded like to the audience on the day? Rock music usually sounds better out of doors, in my experience.
This was a strangely dis-jointed piece, yet contains some amazing bits and could have been one of their greatest numbers IMO.
2:03 Moraz jumpscare
i love YES, but there's not much at Gag-bit Vinyl in Bushwick NYC, which you might dig for 80s/post punk/new wave ~ :-D
Oh, how is possible at this level, to butcher the mix of channels ? This song is a state of the art, a masterpiece. Too bad...
lsd maybe?
Despite the atrocious soundboard mix, it's a privilege to be able to check out a live performance of this song by the lineup that created it. This song is so off-the-charts brilliant and groundbreaking!
But, I gotta say, the one thing about the Relayer album that has always bugged me is Steve's horribly annoying guitar tone. I love the stuff he plays but the sound of his guitar on this album is absolutely nauseating, which kills me because, musically, this is my second favorite Yes album (Close To The Edge will always be #1). And having watched this video I realize what's different. He's playing a Fender Telecaster instead of the Gibson 335 that he's normally associated with.
He sounds fantastic on the 335 but this Tele really ain't working for him. I mean, I blame the mixing engineer more than anything but, all I'm saying is that he gets great guitar tones on every single Yes album but this one. And it seems that there's just something about the way the Tele responds to his style that really doesn't work. Maybe that's why he stopped using it.
Coincidentally, I have a custom telecaster style guitar that is currently being built for me. And Steve Howe is one of my biggest influences. Hope it all works out!
Telecaster is Leo Fenders Masterpiece, then there's the strat.
Jonno piccolo hell yeah
The sound man needs to be flogged for an entire afternoon ....
That's a Partick Moraz!
ha, first 2-3 min the mixer is SEARCHING!
And never recovers. I'm thinking LSD may have played a role here.
He's *chasing*
"Moraz isolated part" ahahah
Jon sounds like naruto in the ‘cha cha cha’ part lol
パトリック・モラーツには、やっぱりビル・ブラッフォードのドラムのほうがいいな、と思う。
アラン・ホワイトが悪い訳ではないんだけど、『リレイヤー』はビルにやって欲しかったなぁ。
mic's a bit off though
sound issues at this show here early on - guitar cutting in & out mix is out of whack
wow what the heck happened? I love Yes but this is Spinal Tap.
Did I just stumble onto a Mahavishnu Orchestra cover or did Jan Hammer sit in this time? 😆
Terrible, terrible sound quality. Like listening to an old stereo with one speaker that keeps cutting out.
Here you have the video repaired by my brother Lluís, with live sound from 1975!
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Happy day!
I don’t think Patrick Moraz performed as well Live as he sounded in the studio. It’s one of the bands greatest albums and there’s isn’t a decent Video or DVD of the Relayer tour. The band was Great...Moraz was not.
but i think moraz sounds better in this live in my opinion lol.
Where are the guitars? Crappy mix...
It's very nearly note-for-note what you would hear on the studio album, so just use your memory.
@@banjopink4409 No need to use memory anymore: here you have the video repaired by my brother Lluís, with live sound from 1975!
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Happy day!
I would not have wanted to be the person responsible for Steve and Patrick's sound....brutal failure.
This is probably my favorite Yes song, but what in the blazes is up with sound. This is impossible to listen to. OUT
es una lastima que no se oiga bien la guitarra
El idiota del sonido hizo todo mal está noche, fue una de sus mejores noches pero se vio totalmente desperdiciado.
Aquí tenéis el vídeo reparado por mi hermano Lluís, ¡con sonido en directo de 1975!!
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¡Feliz día!
@@cerclequadrat3600 wow. Esto es lo mejor que me ha pasado este año y no creo que lo superen. Gracias!!!