After hearing Moraz on Relayer...I was hooked. His use of chromaticism is what got me. Excellent blend of jazz and classical forms. The Story of 'I' is his best solo album.
I agree. I really wish things had worked out and he had done more with Yes. I love Wakeman, but Moraz had the edge I think. The Story of 'I' was also superb, but I was disappointed by his next release though.
Resonance and ESP are fantastic solo piano albums. Great playing! You should get the sheet music to 'Colloids bounce Around.' It's off of 'Resonance.' It's an exhilarating piece.
My favorite synth solo of all time; excellent work. I'm in the mood to address some of the comments about synths sounds. A synth should not try to compete with a guitar any more than apples try to out do oranges--they are different, though both can be major solo instruments. The advantage a guitar player has is that he/she can replace the strings, the pickups, the bridge, add or subtract a whammy bar, adjust the action, hardware, and so on. We keyboard players are stuck with the action, the texture of the keys, the feel, the electronics, pitch bend (wheel or lever?) and so on. Also, guitar players are known for their tone and style of picking and are pretty easy to recognize because the range of timbre is always, well, a guitar. Plus, we keyboard players have amps that suck. I've never found one that I liked. We synth players have far more variety of sounds, but also, the depth and claritiy and fatness has been lost because of digital circuitry which is not nearly as powerful as analog. Unfortunately, analog was not always stable. I had one of the early Arp Odysseys in the late 70's, early 80's and I'm telling you, that sucker cut through everything! And it was actually far more diverse in tonality than today's digital boards. Even though you may have a piano, clavinet, strings and pads and brass, there is a "sameness" that colors every sound. It's analogous to how they put a blue hue in films so that it has a consistent look no matter the scene. I saw Patrick Moraz do the Relayer tour with Yes and it was a breathtaking show. Years later I saw Alan White do a drum clinic in Colorado. Someone asked him why Yes never did music from Relayer. (Alan was actually very shy struggled to answer questions). So, I helped him out and said, "Patrick Moraz, that's why." A few people laughed, but Alan looked at me and nodded as if to say, "That's it; and thanks for helping me out with that one!" I know a singer who had a house gig in California. Moraz came in all the time and sat in with her band. She said he was awesome, but a bit of a weird dude. LOL. No matter, he is a giant and deserves all the credit he gets for Relayer; it's a breathtaking achievement. Thanks for reading.
I just noticed most of these comments. Im sorry it took me so long. Thanks everyone. I also love Drama. As for the sound, Patrick collaborated in Bob Moog. Bob would travel to see him and spend time at his house. Im pretty sure the Moogs patrick used were customs built by Bob. There is a YES video where they do Gates and you can see a single bed, mono board and a double bed on his left. I am guessing but they sound like Moog oscillators to me in both of these monsters. Yeah the guitar is much more raw, but if you find the right vintage or modern keyboard that is analog, they can be just as fat sounding. The Mini Moog gave keyboardist the first opportunity to solo live and actually be heard like a guitarist. It evened it out according to Rick Wakeman.
@riberto123 Thanks Robert. Moogs are the best since Patrick collaborated with Bob Moog. Its a narrow square wave with a bit of resonance and an open envelope.
I wonder if Moraz had been listening to Jan Hammer at all. Moraz's work on Relayer achieves a jazzy sound, and is quite unlike keyboard work on other Yes albums IMO. I am blown away by the phrasing and the constant thrust of the melody, not to mention the way the sound itself is shaped as it moves along. You have reproduced all these qualities very well.
As usual there are a few knuckleheads that vote down an excellent performance because they are either jealous or have no knowledge of music at all and the difficulty of the music. Great performance and sound. Nailed it.
awesome...i have 52 live versions(i know iknow im bad...) ...been way carried away with this stuff for 30+yrs... each version of this song has a different solo ...he busts into star spangled banner on some...he is the top shelf. he opened for coltane in the sixties w/patrick moraz quintet!
@blormp1 The SC intro adds a definite flavor to the track, plus it has some of Alan's jazziest/(most Bruford-like perhaps?) drumming... Also it has what is prob Jon's only woodwind contribution to a Yes song! (Until just a few years ago I thought his tin-whistle was another synth sound.)
thx and - yes - this comes close .... to me the spice of that sound is the very nice modulation stuff going on how is that done? and what ist happening at 1:10? (if I may ask) Robert
Don't know how I missed this one, James. FANTASTIC. Spot-on, note-for-note perfect! When are you gonna post some more MUSIC videos? (Hope you're still playing.)
@FairDealDan That's odd because Relayer is my fave Yes album, and Presence is my fave Zep album! This video is top notch playing well done ifly65 you nailed my fave Yes keyboard solo.
I think Patrick credits Ray Gomez......a guitar playing freind as his solo playing influence....particularly for Pitch bends and Modulation...you can hear Gomez on some of the Moraz solo work......Sound wise, I saw him play it on the now retired Dual Minimoog as well as a Minimoog slaved to a Micromoog...I can get that sound using my Studio electronics SE1....its the playing..not so much the sound.....thanks for "laying it down", James ...a real delight.
Ive always been fascinated with synthesizers. Whenever I try to play one though, I feel very empty. I guess keyboards dont have the same feeling as guitar. Oh well. My band will have a keyboard player for sure. :) By the way, does anyone know what this particular synth sound is?
Try playing a better synth. Cheap synths have cheap keys and they feel terrible. Some people prefer piano style weighted keys, and those can feel really luxurious. I like a nice fast synth/organ style action. Perfect for fast stuff like this. Also play better patches, or use FX. Many synth presets are just the cheesiest thing ever on their own but through a bit of reverb and delay or some chorus they can be super fun to play. You would be surprised at how many famous keyboard sounds come from presets; Tony Banks of Genesis used presets exclusively for many years, Vangelis used presets for Blade runner, Jump by EVH is a preset.
Seems Yes, or at least Jon wanted to go in a 'Mahavishnu' direction. In the Relayer tour program it was, under most influential LPs, Jon lists MO's Inner Mounting Flame alongside Sargeant Pepper, Simon & G's Bookends etc. Only in Relayer does it really come out.... in a major way at least. Maybe that's why Brian Lane suggested Moraz...
Darn tootin'! And you've got the sound down to a tee. Apparently Yes had this at least partly written before Moraz came onboard. Wonder how much? How my favorite pieces came together is an endless fascination, (esp. I guess because so many of the questions can't be answered) Did Pat just add his notes over an already fixed structure, did they adapt, alter things, as inspiration flowed? Did Steve have some of the phrases already to which Pat added his own?
I heard speculation that Oliver Wakeman would not be able to handle performing a jazz influenced solo like this and we can expect to never hear anything from Relayer again. I so much want to hear To Be Over again before I pass into the void.
Nord Lead 2 producing a Monophonic (one key only plays at a time) 'Moog' like sound. One reason for your 'empty' feeling you may have...stock sounds generally SUCK. Learn to program sounds by utilizing the fundamentals of synthesis. Keywords: Oscillators (you choose different waveforms like 'square, triangle, sawtooth...etc), Envelope filter, Cutoff, frequency, resonance, ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release).
I hate when people say I'm not a real Yes fan When I say Relayer is my favorite LP. And my favorite LZ LP is Presence so I guess I'm not a true LZ fan either
@FairDealDan hang on, admittedly I only know two or three other yes fans (seeing as I'm 19 it's probably not that surprising), but all of them like Relayer. I never knew it was a frowned upon album, it's right up with "Close to the Edge" and "Fragile" in my opinion. Then again, I openly admit to liking "Tormato". Make of that what you will...
I don't agree. I think you could say they lack the imagination that soloists like Keith Emerson or Steve Howe had, but there is content in there. I think some of it may be a classical background influencing the choice of melodic structure, which would explain why they sound fairly derivative, but I've always thought that Wakeman's solos were very effective at handling the musical tension, and this solo by Moraz, while quite brief and repetitive, fits in perfectly with the rest of the song.
This is awesome, man! I always loved this solo. Moraz definitely has a different style from Wakeman but I love them both.
My first YES concert was in 1976 and I hadn't listened to Relayer yet. I remember the "cha cha cha" section freaking me out a little. I love it now.
Sounds fantastic Patrick would be proud of you.
Thank you its much appreciated! If you are near St. Louis please check out my yes tribute YESSONGS STL.
A great example of a great solo ! Wonderful watching it played. Saw them on this tour and was totally blown away.
After hearing Moraz on Relayer...I was hooked. His use of chromaticism is what got me. Excellent blend of jazz and classical forms. The Story of 'I' is his best solo album.
I agree. I really wish things had worked out and he had done more with Yes. I love Wakeman, but Moraz had the edge I think. The Story of 'I' was also superb, but I was disappointed by his next release though.
Resonance and ESP are fantastic solo piano albums. Great playing! You should get the sheet music to 'Colloids bounce Around.' It's off of 'Resonance.' It's an exhilarating piece.
This solo was all done with one hand?! Simply amazing!
My favorite synth solo of all time; excellent work. I'm in the mood to address some of the comments about synths sounds. A synth should not try to compete with a guitar any more than apples try to out do oranges--they are different, though both can be major solo instruments. The advantage a guitar player has is that he/she can replace the strings, the pickups, the bridge, add or subtract a whammy bar, adjust the action, hardware, and so on. We keyboard players are stuck with the action, the texture of the keys, the feel, the electronics, pitch bend (wheel or lever?) and so on. Also, guitar players are known for their tone and style of picking and are pretty easy to recognize because the range of timbre is always, well, a guitar. Plus, we keyboard players have amps that suck. I've never found one that I liked. We synth players have far more variety of sounds, but also, the depth and claritiy and fatness has been lost because of digital circuitry which is not nearly as powerful as analog. Unfortunately, analog was not always stable. I had one of the early Arp Odysseys in the late 70's, early 80's and I'm telling you, that sucker cut through everything! And it was actually far more diverse in tonality than today's digital boards. Even though you may have a piano, clavinet, strings and pads and brass, there is a "sameness" that colors every sound. It's analogous to how they put a blue hue in films so that it has a consistent look no matter the scene. I saw Patrick Moraz do the Relayer tour with Yes and it was a breathtaking show. Years later I saw Alan White do a drum clinic in Colorado. Someone asked him why Yes never did music from Relayer. (Alan was actually very shy struggled to answer questions). So, I helped him out and said, "Patrick Moraz, that's why." A few people laughed, but Alan looked at me and nodded as if to say, "That's it; and thanks for helping me out with that one!" I know a singer who had a house gig in California. Moraz came in all the time and sat in with her band. She said he was awesome, but a bit of a weird dude. LOL. No matter, he is a giant and deserves all the credit he gets for Relayer; it's a breathtaking achievement. Thanks for reading.
WOWWWWWWWWWW still my all-time fav Yes song. Superbly done!
Great! 🎶👍🌞
I just noticed most of these comments. Im sorry it took me so long. Thanks everyone. I also love Drama. As for the sound, Patrick collaborated in Bob Moog. Bob would travel to see him and spend time at his house. Im pretty sure the Moogs patrick used were customs built by Bob. There is a YES video where they do Gates and you can see a single bed, mono board and a double bed on his left. I am guessing but they sound like Moog oscillators to me in both of these monsters. Yeah the guitar is much more raw, but if you find the right vintage or modern keyboard that is analog, they can be just as fat sounding. The Mini Moog gave keyboardist the first opportunity to solo live and actually be heard like a guitarist. It evened it out according to Rick Wakeman.
that was pretty rockin'. I can't imagine what life would be like without pentatonics (and the uplifting music of Yes)
I couldn't imagine this being any more perfect.
Obrigado pela postagem. Pude apreciar mais ainda o trabalho de Patrick neste solo. Well done James Wolfe.
Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant
Absolutely Perfect!
You improve my standard of living.
@riberto123
Thanks Robert. Moogs are the best since Patrick collaborated with Bob Moog. Its a narrow square wave with a bit of resonance and an open envelope.
That was phenomenal. Respect.
Excellent!.
Awesome!
Thanks!
Nicely done, indeed !
Wow...I have to relayer my mind now.
Superb😀
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
NAILED IT.
Soooo funky.... ❤
Moraz is still my #1 favorite. I have zero abilities to write like these guys did back then.
@ifly65 I hope you enjoyed the story of I as much as I did too.
@@randlerobbertson8792 Yeah one of the best solo albums ever...that and Zinc Eddie Jobson.
I wonder if Moraz had been listening to Jan Hammer at all. Moraz's work on Relayer achieves a jazzy sound, and is quite unlike keyboard work on other Yes albums IMO.
I am blown away by the phrasing and the constant thrust of the melody, not to mention the way the sound itself is shaped as it moves along. You have reproduced all these qualities very well.
As usual there are a few knuckleheads that vote down an excellent performance because they are either jealous or have no knowledge of music at all and the difficulty of the music. Great performance and sound. Nailed it.
awesome...i have 52 live versions(i know iknow im bad...)
...been way carried away with this stuff for 30+yrs...
each version of this song has a different solo
...he busts into star spangled banner on some...he is the top shelf.
he opened for coltane in the sixties w/patrick moraz quintet!
dude.. WOW!!!!! loved it.
Bravo!
Thanks!
@blormp1 The SC intro adds a definite flavor to the track, plus it has some of Alan's jazziest/(most Bruford-like perhaps?) drumming... Also it has what is prob Jon's only woodwind contribution to a Yes song! (Until just a few years ago I thought his tin-whistle was another synth sound.)
Flawless
nice!
Amazing!!! Thank you
Thank you! I didn't even realize this video was still up. Now I need to re-learn it!
Cool! I think Relayer is highly underrated. Gates of Delirium is a masterpiece IMO.
This is great. My favorite electric keyboard solo I think, studied and executed so expertly. What got you so interested in this particular specimen?
Wicked...awesome job
Fantastic playing - you really need Moraz's double minimoog for the final part, which is at Cantos in Calgary, Canada.
Dude, I swore that you were Rick Wakeman combined with Patrick Moraz for a second!!!!
nice. Relayer is my favorite.
thx and - yes - this comes close ....
to me the spice of that sound is the very nice modulation stuff going on
how is that done?
and what ist happening at 1:10? (if I may ask)
Robert
Well, you nailed it. Are you still playing Yes solos? Nice job.
nicely done!!!
Don't know how I missed this one, James. FANTASTIC. Spot-on, note-for-note perfect! When are you gonna post some more MUSIC videos? (Hope you're still playing.)
@FairDealDan
That's odd because Relayer is my fave Yes album, and Presence is my fave Zep album!
This video is top notch playing well done ifly65 you nailed my fave Yes keyboard solo.
You Relayer freak, you! Nice job!!!
very amazing what you are doing there
could you give me some Info how to program, that kind of sound?
greetz
Robert
I think Patrick credits Ray Gomez......a guitar playing freind as his solo playing influence....particularly for Pitch bends and Modulation...you can hear Gomez on some of the Moraz solo work......Sound wise, I saw him play it on the now retired Dual Minimoog as well as a Minimoog slaved to a Micromoog...I can get that sound using my Studio electronics SE1....its the playing..not so much the sound.....thanks for "laying it down", James ...a real delight.
Sweet!
Ive always been fascinated with synthesizers. Whenever I try to play one though, I feel very empty. I guess keyboards dont have the same feeling as guitar. Oh well. My band will have a keyboard player for sure. :)
By the way, does anyone know what this particular synth sound is?
Try playing a better synth. Cheap synths have cheap keys and they feel terrible. Some people prefer piano style weighted keys, and those can feel really luxurious. I like a nice fast synth/organ style action. Perfect for fast stuff like this.
Also play better patches, or use FX. Many synth presets are just the cheesiest thing ever on their own but through a bit of reverb and delay or some chorus they can be super fun to play. You would be surprised at how many famous keyboard sounds come from presets; Tony Banks of Genesis used presets exclusively for many years, Vangelis used presets for Blade runner, Jump by EVH is a preset.
@marmas58ink
i know moraz wrote entire intro...he had credit on all tunes and wrote some sections on each
like theTBO keyboard break etc...
You didn't capture it
Seems Yes, or at least Jon wanted to go in a 'Mahavishnu' direction. In the Relayer tour program it was, under most influential LPs, Jon lists MO's Inner Mounting Flame alongside Sargeant Pepper, Simon & G's Bookends etc. Only in Relayer does it really come out.... in a major way at least. Maybe that's why Brian Lane suggested Moraz...
@Moonchild042
Thank you. Yes I play by ear.
exelente video... 5 y más si pudiera...
Darn tootin'!
And you've got the sound down to a tee. Apparently Yes had this at least partly written before Moraz came onboard. Wonder how much? How my favorite pieces came together is an endless fascination, (esp. I guess because so many of the questions can't be answered) Did Pat just add his notes over an already fixed structure, did they adapt, alter things, as inspiration flowed? Did Steve have some of the phrases already to which Pat added his own?
@FairDealDan
I get the same thing when I say I like Drama, the first concert I ever saw.
@ThruTube1
Thanks! How can I hear your material? Where are you located?
I heard speculation that Oliver Wakeman would not be able to handle performing a jazz influenced solo like this and we can expect to never hear anything from Relayer again. I so much want to hear To Be Over again before I pass into the void.
Actually, pretty good idea to leave in the mistake, otherwise it sounds like it was the album recording.
sick.
Nord Lead 2 producing a Monophonic (one key only plays at a time) 'Moog' like sound. One reason for your 'empty' feeling you may have...stock sounds generally SUCK. Learn to program sounds by utilizing the fundamentals of synthesis. Keywords: Oscillators (you choose different waveforms like 'square, triangle, sawtooth...etc), Envelope filter, Cutoff, frequency, resonance, ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release).
Patrick? Is that you?
I hate when people say I'm not a real Yes fan When I say Relayer is my favorite LP. And my favorite LZ LP is Presence so I guess I'm not a true LZ fan either
FairDealDan hey those are my two respective favs aswell. Theyre simply amazing
A true YES fan knows how ground breaking Relayer is, it is also my favourite as well. The haters are not true fans.
They are my favourite albums by those bands, too.
Such a better improviser than Wakeman.
He cant play anymore which is sad. Yes he had much more depth to his modal jazz work vs. copying relic'd classical music.
wow
Cha cha cha cha cha
@FairDealDan hang on, admittedly I only know two or three other yes fans (seeing as I'm 19 it's probably not that surprising), but all of them like Relayer. I never knew it was a frowned upon album, it's right up with "Close to the Edge" and "Fragile" in my opinion. Then again, I openly admit to liking "Tormato". Make of that what you will...
Did we finally find Patrick's long lost brother?!?!
Why did you walk away from it? Finish the damn song!
~ Loud clapping noises!
Bad ass
Now if someone would only play the guitar intro for me.
Sick... that's all I have to say on this one...
@ifly65 dude, i love Drama
slsk bring me here
not bad - but the original solo is lousy
Moraz´ and Wakeman´s solos mostly consist of a lot of fast notes about nothing. No great ideas, no inspiration, no content.
I don't agree. I think you could say they lack the imagination that soloists like Keith Emerson or Steve Howe had, but there is content in there. I think some of it may be a classical background influencing the choice of melodic structure, which would explain why they sound fairly derivative, but I've always thought that Wakeman's solos were very effective at handling the musical tension, and this solo by Moraz, while quite brief and repetitive, fits in perfectly with the rest of the song.
then go listen to some Taylor SwIft and stay the FUCK off commenting about shit you know nothing about