Classical Composer Reaction/Analysis of YES: RITUAL (Live - Yesshows) | The Daily Doug (Episode 638)

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  • @douggottlieb
    @douggottlieb Год назад +104

    Close to the Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer. What a trilogy. Best. Band. Ever.

    • @chacob3380
      @chacob3380 Год назад +12

      and then add in Fragile on the one end and GFTO on the other.............an amazing block of music for ~ 6 years (not to mention the solo albums)

    • @ChromeDestiny
      @ChromeDestiny Год назад +5

      Wild to think of the quick back to back releases of The Yes Album and Fragile too.

    • @marcanglin7127
      @marcanglin7127 Год назад +2

      @@chacob3380 And The Yes Album.

    • @framundajohnson2186
      @framundajohnson2186 Год назад +2

      you forgot Awaken and Endless Dream. Two of their greatest masterworks.

    • @scottzappa9314
      @scottzappa9314 Год назад +3

      They're like buttah...

  • @bjwnashe5589
    @bjwnashe5589 Год назад +16

    Alan and Chris are incredible in this live performance. Can't believe they are gone. The music of course will live on forever.

  • @petergoddard1960
    @petergoddard1960 Год назад +58

    For me, back in the 70's, Tales was THE Yes album. Of course it was wide open to the criticisms it received at the time for being overblown, but for me those voices fell on deaf ears. An incredible work throughout, a journey (before that was a cliche) sweeping the listener along. I was lucky enough to see Ritual performed live back in the late 70's at the old Wembley Empire Pool in North London by the classic line up. I think I forgot to breathe throughout.

  • @mftubeyou
    @mftubeyou Год назад +37

    Love your closing comments on what this music brings and gives to you. I feel just the same and have done since I heard it for the first time in 1973, 18 years old. I'll be 68 tomorrow but it still gets me. YES is up there, together with the greatest symphonic composers. If Gustav Mahler had been born 90 years later, he would have been in the band. Thanks Doug for a great listen.

    • @JimReem
      @JimReem Год назад +7

      I'm a year older, but the same thing with me. I saw them do this when it was released, and still listen to it, especially lately, to see the joy on the reviewer's face, when they hear it for the first time and I can enjoy it vicariously.

    • @mftubeyou
      @mftubeyou Год назад +1

      @@lesblatnyak5947 Thank you!

    • @Rowenband
      @Rowenband Год назад

      Same for me, and I'm 65 since 4 days… 😀

    • @MarjieHarrison
      @MarjieHarrison Год назад +1

      I WAS there in person , at age 15 or 16. Live at Meadowlands arena in New Jersey-ran away from home on Long Island to be there. After that, was at every live tour till they dropped Jon. What were they thinking to be YES without Jon?

    • @robinwatson4282
      @robinwatson4282 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@JimReemThe guys a fake. He's not hearing this stuff for the first time. It is staged. Watch his other fake videos - I don't care how tuned someone's ears are: you wouldn't know details (the biggest giveaways are when he sings along to vocal lines - he knows this shit inside out but makes out he's hearing it for the first time and offers his 'first impressions' lol. "Y'all."

  • @uv77mc85
    @uv77mc85 9 месяцев назад +4

    amazing to think this was nearly 50 years ago! How can a modern band ever top these performances?

    • @emartc1
      @emartc1 7 дней назад

      It is really amazing indeed! Writting this incredible piece of music being so young...New bands could be called just that, new. But the actual modern and timeless music is the music of Yes and some others, do you agree?

  • @Wisesongs24
    @Wisesongs24 Год назад +12

    My Dad was there the night of this performance. He said it was an unreal experience.

  • @briantowey4121
    @briantowey4121 Год назад +30

    It's impressive that they can play such challenging music at all. More impressive that they can do it live, just the five of them, without a lot of studio layering and post-processing. Still more, as you say, that they can do it from memory without any sheet music. But wow, I never realized how FAST they played in this concert! They did all of the above, and cranked up the tempo just to flex their musical muscles. Incredible.

    • @GlobalWarring
      @GlobalWarring Год назад +1

      Steve can't even read music 🤷😊

    • @timbrown2971
      @timbrown2971 6 месяцев назад

      I believe the growling near the percussion section of the performance is Alan.

    • @simonthoben189
      @simonthoben189 3 месяца назад

      ​@@timbrown2971I believe it's Jon. If you watch the concert footage from QPR in 1975 you can kind of make it out.

    • @timbrown2971
      @timbrown2971 3 месяца назад

      @@simonthoben189maybe. I read somewhere years ago that it was Alan. But maybe not.

    • @simonthoben189
      @simonthoben189 3 месяца назад

      ​@@timbrown2971Here's a link to the video ruclips.net/video/aeEqWLpcwiY/видео.htmlsi=dvcrSZtbRbmuhNaS I just watched the section in question. You can see Alan leaning back farther away from his microphone whilst Anderson is pretty close to his. (Must be after 16:45) The first couple of times I heard these live versions I thought that it was Squire, but I also remember reading somewhere that it might have been Alan. I guess you wouldn't expect these deep growls from Anderson, so I never even suspected it was him until I watched the QPR video.

  • @latheofheaven1017
    @latheofheaven1017 Год назад +14

    I realised something through Doug's comments at the end about my love of Yes. Often, I'm drawn to music with a dark or melancholy feel to it, but Yes is an exception. Yes' music is joyous. And like Doug, it brings me inner peace.

    • @chrisfeltman1902
      @chrisfeltman1902 3 месяца назад

      If you haven't heard The Ladder, you should give it a listen. It's the most joyous all the way through of all the Yes albums IMHO.

  • @ChromeDestiny
    @ChromeDestiny Год назад +2

    Remember too at this show there would have be a Dean brothers stage set that had a three headed mechanical crab that held light rigs with lasers and airport landing lights.

  • @martinhodgson2303
    @martinhodgson2303 Год назад +14

    I remember buying Tales on day of release when I was 15. It instantly became my favourite album and has been ever since. So pleased you have grown to appreciate it so much Doug! It really is very special. Love your analysis! Love your thoughts and sentiments about the music - you have cheered me up too!

  • @Russell_G
    @Russell_G Год назад +9

    It always seems to me that know one I know gets music like this, like I get it. It is life affirming, soul easing, it lifts me beyond myself. I'm so glad when I find a kindred spirit, you Sir are that kindred spirit, and I thank you profusely for sharing. after this listening; I am replete.

  • @luvjammin04
    @luvjammin04 Год назад +2

    The growling sounds are those of the 3 headed Crab Nebula stage designed by Roger & Martyn Dean (25:00). Look at any of his books from the 80's ... Magnetic Storm. Great channel Doug from a fellow prog rock fan!

  • @daveschlom4033
    @daveschlom4033 Год назад +14

    And experiencing this live several times in the 70s was pure magic. The percussion section was always powerful and you could sense how much fun Chris in particular had playing his timpani!

  • @tonygittins5980
    @tonygittins5980 Год назад +6

    So - not far off 50 years old, and the best band in the world is still affecting people; musically still relevant and still so amazingly beautiful! I'm glad you get so much from this band...these albums, Doug - it will all stay with you, as it has with YES fans for more than 50 years. Enjoy what will be some of your fondest musical memories, still ton come!

  • @bjwnashe5589
    @bjwnashe5589 Год назад +9

    I saw Yes in '75 or '76. They played "Gates of Delirium" and "Ritual" and "Close to the Edge." It was mind-blowing.

    • @mikeeckel2807
      @mikeeckel2807 Год назад

      July, 1975...I saw YES in Evansville, IN and they played these three epical pieces. The whole show was fantastic....3 songs were over an hour of the show. I think they played almost 2 1/2 hours.
      Ace ("How Long has This Been Going On?")was the opening
      act.

  • @legionofprog
    @legionofprog Год назад +17

    Gorgeous rendition of this song from Tales, which never fully got its due when released in 1973 (except from the Yes faithful).

  • @justinbaukus
    @justinbaukus Год назад +16

    Both of my parents are very into Yes. Ever since I learned to put a needle on a vinyl record in 1986, the music of Yes has been pretty much one of the only constants in my life. Their music always makes my soul happy and as someone who suffers from anxiety and depression, it is a true godsend. I have seen them live 13 times in various incarnations and while their studio albums are amazing, I've always thought that they sounded better live and the performances were more powerful.

    • @ChromeDestiny
      @ChromeDestiny Год назад +3

      Many Yes song lyrics are about aspects of mindfulness and self care and then there's the incredible music too.

    • @georgesonm1774
      @georgesonm1774 Год назад +1

      As a fellow depressive/anxious person I can very much relate! I find few things as calming and regenerative for my soul as lying down, lights off, and putting on Tales on my headphones (or maybe To Be Over or one of the other astonishinly beautiful jams). I feel transported and somewhat healed

    • @uv77mc85
      @uv77mc85 9 месяцев назад

      My mother liked Yes. My dad who is a musician is a bit baffled by them.

  • @daveschlom4033
    @daveschlom4033 Год назад +14

    I really enjoyed listening to this and your reactions. Very joyful. The music of my youth. In fact, my best friends were editors of the Grover Cleveland High School yearbook in 1977. The lyrics to this song were featured in the yearbook. Which may have perplexed some kids but sure was special for us Yes fans! Nous sommes du soleil to you Doug!

    • @SelfInstructor
      @SelfInstructor Год назад

      Some scammer is replying to messages here. What a knob.

    • @lymangreen5020
      @lymangreen5020 Год назад +1

      I remember writing “Nous Somme Du Soleil” in all my friends yearbooks at the end of 1976. To much confusion from my friends but it was a way of directing them to this album!!

    • @daveschlom4033
      @daveschlom4033 Год назад

      That is awesome!

  • @cottontails9003
    @cottontails9003 Год назад +7

    Doug just discovered your channel and im so pleased I did. Am 34weeks pregnant with twins, your music seems to settle them down. Thank you.

  • @janmichael4510
    @janmichael4510 Год назад +32

    after being a Genesis fan for 35 years I always wondered what it is that draws me to Genesis and I kept listening to other prog rock bands, especially Yes, and especially because apparently they are Doug's favorite. I always thought it's the bit of beauty in Genesis that I miss in yes, But here there is the beauty I missed. What a masterpiece.

    • @klausschlichting1591
      @klausschlichting1591 Год назад +4

      For me the music of the traditional line-up has the secret combination, so the result is bgger than the sum of its Part.

    • @georgesonm1774
      @georgesonm1774 Год назад +2

      There's much, much beauty in Yes - at least to my ears! Songs like To Be Over, And You And I, Awaken, The Remembering, Turn of the Century. I love Genesis as well (my fav bits are probably Guide Vocal, The Lamia and the flute part in Supper's Ready), but I don't find as much beauty of this magnitude there as in these Yes songs

  • @peterstokes8631
    @peterstokes8631 Год назад +24

    My two favourite Yes albums, Close to the edge and Tales. A lot of folk never got Tales which I always thought their masterpiece.

    • @guidenredhawk
      @guidenredhawk Год назад +2

      Took me a bit to get into Tales, but once I did, I completely fell in love with it. Definitely one of my favorites from YES.

    • @bookhouseboy280
      @bookhouseboy280 Год назад +3

      Those for me are Yes' twin peaks. Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree on Tales: "I worked on and off for about 3 years on this new mix in my quest to do it justice. I hope it will satisfy the people who agree with me that it may just be Yes’ pre-eminent masterpiece.”

    • @AlanWeissaltz
      @AlanWeissaltz Год назад +2

      I'm a slow learner it only took me 48 years to fall in love with tails now that's not the way you spell it Siri it is spelled TALES😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 15:28

    • @kjdarch1
      @kjdarch1 Год назад +1

      Doug, thanks for sharing your thoughts and analysis. It brings me back to my basement gathering place/ 1974 a wide circle of consciousness raising friends would regularly listen to all four sides....talk meaning, share their own illustrated booklets of the album. Despite humanities unavoidable instinct to "relayer" and the call to "fail safe Now!" As you shared, would end with that common peace that elevated my life each time we listen...."Cominnnng Home"❤

  • @JoseSantos-eg2oz
    @JoseSantos-eg2oz Год назад +22

    The Symphonic Yes version is the best live rendition of Ritual. Excellent bass, drums and guitar performance.

    • @TheKarmicguru
      @TheKarmicguru Год назад +2

      Absolutely agree, unfortunately, that came way after Chris made the selection for this reviewed album track

    • @jmporter34
      @jmporter34 Год назад +1

      You should check out the version of Ritual at the Baltimore show by Jon Anderson with the Band Geeks earlier this year. They knocked it out of the park! Richie Castellano's bass playing is incredible. Chris was smiling in bass Valhalla.

    • @deoTS1
      @deoTS1 Год назад +7

      the 2001 symphonic live version is great, but i personally prefer the raw energy of this yesshows version.
      richie castellano hinted that a recording of their recent tour with jon would be made available. knowing richie and crew, i can't to hear that version of ritual and others.

    • @joemcmorrow3183
      @joemcmorrow3183 10 месяцев назад

      I prefer the Songs from Tsongas better.

  • @tonymusolino2369
    @tonymusolino2369 Год назад +1

    Saw them @ Rosevelt Stadium in NJ…1976. What a show. Yes took me on my first and last musical spiritual journey. No matter how many times i listen to this, it never gets old.

  • @barrypeirson3710
    @barrypeirson3710 Год назад +6

    Yes!
    Such a great version.
    I love the cover art from YesShows!

  • @stephenwarnsby9701
    @stephenwarnsby9701 Год назад +16

    When I was younger (late teens) I went through a couple of dark periods when I couldn't see anything positive. Listening to this full album on headphones would leave me feeling drained but optimistic. Jon's lyrics are usually opaque but occasionally a sentence pops out and strikes a nerve, on this track for me it was: "change we must as surely time does, changes call the course". You know you've found the right music when you get goosebumps listening to it. I find it amazing that music can cause physical changes to your body and I'm thankful I found the source.

  • @SanpoWorld
    @SanpoWorld 5 месяцев назад +1

    This was a particularly enjoyable reaction… so perceptive and heartwarming. Thanks, Doug.
    And I agree with your opinion of Jon Anderson. He has the voice and persona of an angel.

  • @martinmay8919
    @martinmay8919 Год назад +10

    I got to see them on this tour, Parallels, in De Mountford Hall, Leicester, here in the UK. It was the first big band I ever saw, so had no idea what to expect, and boy, did they blow me away! I can vividly remember them doing Ritual. During the percussion section they had what I can only describe as giant clam shells the suddenly lite up and started to open and close in time to the music. As well as Ritual we got Gates of Delirium, the whole of Close to the Edge, and quite a few off The Yes Album.
    What is striking listening back to these live recordings is how clear the sound was, no mean feat back in 1976.Very complex music that sounded like the album, played and sung by brilliant musicians that to me, were and still are, the best live band ever to grace the stage.

  • @hansmoerenhout
    @hansmoerenhout Год назад +3

    Brilliant performance of a brilliant epic. Love your words about it reflecting on the whole piece. Amazing it is. Yet. You gotta go back another time Doug. The Symphonic live version for me is the all time best rendition. Awesome to see the band, to see Chris on bass ánd timpani, awesome to see the expressions on the faces of the orchestra during the drum ritual, awesome guitar work by Steve. Yeah big recommendation to go back a 3rd time and see the Symphonic Live version! It’s superb.

  • @Jeffrey.Seelman
    @Jeffrey.Seelman Год назад +1

    I saw this tour live in 1976 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I was just 16 years old. Doug, just imagine the incredible light show with lasers that went along with this song. Also they played it very very loud and crystal-clear. It was more of an event than a concert. If you get a chance, someday study the light show that went along with this tour. It's a story in itself. My high school friends and I were totally stunned.

  • @richardbrannin7368
    @richardbrannin7368 5 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome! Thanks Doug. I'd like to recommend In The Presence Of, from the Magnification album. Beautiful song. I think you'll like it.

  • @marcjdt5796
    @marcjdt5796 4 месяца назад +1

    Doug, don't forget : it's just Chris singing from 21:32 to 21:40 AND playing bass at the same time... This track is a masterpiece played live. I heard it when i was17. I'm 54 today and still amazed by this performance

  • @songsmithy07
    @songsmithy07 Год назад +1

    It's easy to imagine how amazing it was to be at this concert in Detroit in 76, because I was at the one in Cleveland 2 or 3 days later... and I also saw them earlier on this tour, July 8, 76 in Cincinatti. Both were amazing indeed.

  • @bookhouseboy280
    @bookhouseboy280 Год назад +28

    Howe on Topographic Oceans: Jon and I had this idea-the band did need some persuasion and a lot of encouragement. And when it came out, everybody was a bit like, everybody was a bit in shock, like, "What kind of album is this?" It got a few slatings, and of course Rick was affected by some of these UK press slatings, because there were all these friends writing about his record! (laughs) ... But a really great thing happened-the bookend of side one and four are really the whole strength of it. But the middle, sides two and three, is really Yes in experimental mode. I was playing lute on side two, and we were playing this really weird stuff we had never played before ... we had never been quite that adventurous before then ... but going back to one and four, they are really very powerful and well-arranged music, but what happened with the reception is that we got out on-stage and played it, and people got to really like it.
    So we had a new vibe, but it really grew ... Fewer people are critical of it now than, say, when it first came out. It’s become a specialized classic-it’s the only double-album project we ever did of new material, so it does stand out in itself, and it does take a very big nod to what we were fundamentally, which was a progressive rock group ... So I love it, just love it, but mainly one and four. On two, Yes was stepping out of being the group we were before. There were lots more sides on things like "And You And I" that were more in line with new age music, if you like. And three, with its strange sounds and unusual instrumentation, we tidied it all up on side four and made it something solid.

    • @danielortega8718
      @danielortega8718 Год назад +4

      Was lucky to see them for the first time 73 in Chicago Amphitheater two nights in a row.Oh my God they were great. They did all of Topography tales!.Got to talk to Rick Wakemen and got Alan White drum sticks which had paint on them from playing the steel drums on the Ancient. The greatest!!

    • @georgesonm1774
      @georgesonm1774 Год назад

      All sides are equally great, in my opinion, Side two in particular

  • @donturnock5176
    @donturnock5176 Год назад +2

    Something that is rarely mentioned..... Having seen yes at least 6 times back in the day, their live sound was amazing, compared to the rest of the bands back the day. Their sound engineer(s) have to get a lot of credit, they allowed the musicianship to show through. Saw the tour 'in the round ' in Noter Dame's basketball arena, best sound I had ever heard back in the day. That says a lot coming from a live sound engineer.

  • @ornorra
    @ornorra Год назад +4

    Wow, you feel exactly like me when you describe this at the end. Magical music

  • @wendellwiggins2900
    @wendellwiggins2900 Год назад +1

    OMG DEEPLY EMOTIONAL AT EVERY MOMENT on every point! Lush personified!!! No word can describe this Live then at 20

  • @ZalMoxis
    @ZalMoxis Год назад +1

    YES are truly amazing and never cease to amaze..... still after all these years ....

  • @kenhendricks2124
    @kenhendricks2124 Год назад +6

    Love Chris’ bass solo on this!❤

  • @brucefournier2391
    @brucefournier2391 Год назад +2

    When I finally got to Maui, 15 years ago, we arrived at night. I had a plan. In the morning, the first thing I did was go by myself down to the ocean view at the condo, put on the headphones, sat back, and I took the experience of that beauty all in, while listening to Tales From Topographic Oceans. Yes, Ritual is a special track. Thanks Doug.

  • @dana_brooke_27
    @dana_brooke_27 Год назад +5

    I saw them June 16th 1976 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale NY. My second concert ever following David Bowie. I was 15yrs old and totally blown away. Tix were $5.50.. Believe that one. They had 3 heads that extended over the stage with green lazers for eyes. I was mesmerized from the moment they entered the coliseum. I loved it so much it was like a dream to me. I still have my "YESSHOWS" T-Shirt from the show. My first concert T-Shirt. Needless to say I have seen them countless time. Like you said Jon is like an angel. He radiates spirituality love and peace. Just a wonderful band.
    Btw.. I saw them in 2000 and 2001.. I'm not sure which show they did "Ritual" but the percussion section was different then this. There was everyone playing and no vocals at all.

  • @RodPenman
    @RodPenman Год назад +8

    Doug, PLEASE, PLEASE do listen to (and watch) the YES 2001 Symphonic Live video version of Ritual. If you were moved by this Yesshows rendition - which clearly you were - the Symphonic Live rendition, accompanied by the orchestra, will blow your mind. Please, do yourself a huge favor and give it a go (even if just on your own and not on the show). John, Chris, Steve, Alan and Tom Brislin on keyboards.

    • @sigil5772
      @sigil5772 Год назад +2

      Agree, Alan and Chris utterly owning the whole thing

  • @estefaniasucre6966
    @estefaniasucre6966 Год назад +1

    Your deep reflection at the end is what I did not know how to express with words about how this song, and Yes music, makes me feel. Thanks for this, Doug.

  • @RaspySquares
    @RaspySquares Год назад +6

    Oh yea baby. Great live record.

  • @Theresa939
    @Theresa939 2 месяца назад

    I was at this show ❣❣ I saw Yes about 15 times thru the years. They were all incomparable musicians!

  • @allybev1647
    @allybev1647 Год назад +5

    I have followed YES from the release of The Yes Album. Seen them numerous times Live in Glasgow Scotland..

  • @oiramsq73
    @oiramsq73 Год назад

    I can still remember the little cassette boombox I had... taking this cassette home and listening to it... in the basement. I think it is totally awesome that they are about to play a 28 min. piece of music and they count it in! Doug - thank you. These videos help recapture special moments. I've heard it a million times... but thinking about that first time is really special. Thank you!

  • @backofthecup1
    @backofthecup1 Год назад +2

    Thanks! The Gates of Delirium on this album is out of this world. Steve Howe is so much higher in the mix on this live album. It really shows!

    • @Doug.Helvering
      @Doug.Helvering  Год назад +3

      Thank you, I need to check out The Gates of Delirium from this album. Sounds amazing!
      I am thankful for your support, appreciate you, friend.

  • @efcaldwell
    @efcaldwell Год назад +1

    I was at this show! Junior year in high school!

  • @jasonshort1437
    @jasonshort1437 Год назад +3

    Love this version. Chris scatting along to his bass solo/theme and Alan doing the unhinged vocalizing during the drum part. This band was tapping into some otherworldly magic at this time.

  • @timbrown2971
    @timbrown2971 11 месяцев назад

    Seeing them do this in person on the Symphonic Tour was absolutely incredible. I still get chills thinking about it. Amazing stuff.

  • @Galahad-hk4bb
    @Galahad-hk4bb Год назад +2

    My first,of many, YES concerts, in Boston, Mass. was late summer ‘77 was a solid 3+ hours of musicianship heaven !!!
    They played 5 sets with everyone playing a solo between sets to allow the 4 other musicians a break.
    Most AMAZING show I’ve ever seen and heard !!!
    Almost forgot to mention…the concert was “in the round”. Basically, it was an extremely slow-turning carousel stage. Everyone has a great seat !!!❤❤❤

  • @johnstevenson5405
    @johnstevenson5405 Год назад +5

    A fabulous version of a fabulous piece. When Yesshows was released it never left my turntable. Alan is totally outstanding on this......probably the best percussion from any drummer at any time. A masterpiece of skill and musicianship from all.

    • @cmichaelanthonyimages2197
      @cmichaelanthonyimages2197 Год назад +3

      Alan seems to always be underated when you read best drummers selections, being a number of them out there, and he is nowhere to be found. He in my mind should be in at least every top 20 list. He is truly missed.

    • @johnstevenson5405
      @johnstevenson5405 Год назад +1

      @@cmichaelanthonyimages2197 It is easy to argue that Alan was not technically the best drummer, however he was without doubt the best at getting the "feel" of the piece. That's why he was one of the very best, he didn't need to do a Neil Pert or a Thomas Lang. He blended with the room and powered things forward from the back exactly as a great drummer should.

  • @pablokalaka
    @pablokalaka 11 месяцев назад

    You know, i love to see these reactions of YES, because this is the music i found in my teenager years. Now with 48 i can say still is my music, among other way different, and still find new things and interpretations each time i come back to them. I love the way you discover this music and get fascinated for them, is a way to go back to them as my first time, so so long time ago.

  • @mikerawlins5856
    @mikerawlins5856 Год назад

    Wonderful start to a Saturday morning. Smiley Yes face. 😊

  • @fernandotor3266
    @fernandotor3266 Год назад +5

    Glorious band. Saw classuc line up 12 to 15 times.. great performers. Looks like someone is conducting..amazing

  • @petervandersluijs9256
    @petervandersluijs9256 Год назад

    memory lane for me. Like you said, quite remarkable!!

  • @2407paul
    @2407paul Год назад +2

    Love your video again Doug, its my Bible for the last 50 years, Now it should be about time for the happy sports rock and roller "Going for the One" the title track, a full Band blast with a floating superb Jon Anderson

  • @johncase2408
    @johncase2408 Год назад +1

    My gosh that bass sounds like it's emanating from a canyon. Great fantastic review!

  • @duanesmith1523
    @duanesmith1523 Год назад +3

    The version from YES Symphonic is awesome. Masterpiece

  • @lazydada1062
    @lazydada1062 Год назад +4

    I'm going to see them in October. Steve Howe is my favorite guitarist, so pretty excited :) This is a great performance. Thanks for sharing your Yes journey with us!

  • @chucklogan3133
    @chucklogan3133 Год назад +3

    Doug, I'm so happy you love "Ritual" as much as I do! Probably the sweetest love song Jon has ever written. Loved your thoughts too on the role of ritual in our lives. 😊

  • @TsunamiBeefPies
    @TsunamiBeefPies Год назад +1

    Thanks, Doug. I saw Yes on this tour, in Cincinnati. It was electrifying. Gates of Delirium practically blew me out of my seat. Ritual was the closing selection of the concert, and a more perfect finale they couldn't have picked. The "...don't seem to matter at all, at all..." part, and that glorious end section never fail to give me goose flesh from head to toe. There's a lot of power in this live performance (but the studio version is still the best).

  • @chrisbarnden9177
    @chrisbarnden9177 Год назад +1

    Dear Doug - as mentioned by others I BEG you to find the Yes Symphonic Live dvd and watch Ritual. I know you enjoyed the orchestral version of Awaken with Todmobile (which gets me every time) and this is along those lines BUT with the classic Yes line up (with an accomplished keyboard player in place of Wakeman/Moraz). These are musicians at the absolute top of their game - Anderson’s voice as good as ever I’ve heard and Squire, god rest his soul, the genius showman he always was. I saw this tour and spent almost every moment smiling and crying. I know it would be crazy to review the same song three times on your channel - but please watch it and feel your soul and spirits fly !! ❤️

  • @soundofflute
    @soundofflute Год назад

    Beatiful thoughts, Doug. Yes...what a miracle..

  • @giorgioceroni3008
    @giorgioceroni3008 Год назад +1

    Dough, I'm following you since we were 20.000. This is by far the best analisys I heard, ever. Thank you for what you're doing. ❤👍👏

  • @songsmithy07
    @songsmithy07 Год назад +1

    At this concert, they also played "Gates of Delerium," of which the "Soon, Oh Soon..." section was indescribably beautiful. They projected Lazer lights above the heads of the audience, and people were reaching up so that the lazers illuminated their palms. It was among the most transcendental experiences of my life at that time. I close my eyes, and I'm there.

  • @Antman-cy8ch
    @Antman-cy8ch Год назад +3

    There is a great version of Ritual in the Yes Symphonic Live dvd.

  • @svartmetall
    @svartmetall Год назад +5

    This and 'The Gates Of Delirium' from the same album were my real gateway drug into Yes in the first year of my degree (someone randomly gave me a copy of 'Yesshows' on vinyl) and I've never looked back. Would've been wonderful to have a full-show live album from the tour that gave us those two performances...

  • @swinedog712
    @swinedog712 Год назад +2

    If I had a time machine, I think I would skip going back to kill Hitler, and instead, go back to 1976, Cobo Hall, Detroit, to be at this Yes concert. The performance of Gates Of Delirium from the same show is also amazing.

  • @mellotronin54
    @mellotronin54 Год назад +2

    So glad you are spreading the love for Topographic. It is a great album which I can always listen too. One of the greatest albums ever.

  • @leonardmoorey1146
    @leonardmoorey1146 Год назад +1

    Doug does get it with his final comments. Art is only art if it makes you feel something. Nous Sommes Du Soliel is a special piece of art.

  • @johnjanovsky
    @johnjanovsky Год назад +3

    I’m so glad you’re finally doing this version! Gates Of Delirium is also great on this album.

  • @markdrechsler5660
    @markdrechsler5660 Год назад

    Wonderful commentary at the end, Doug. It is good for the soul.

  • @stevelayton1271
    @stevelayton1271 Год назад +1

    I love the energy as it bolts out of the intro with Alan holding nothing back and Chris in lockstep!

  • @AlanWeissaltz
    @AlanWeissaltz Год назад

    Thanks Doug I'm glad I came upon this right before bedtime I'll sleep easy tonight😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @jean-francoisferland9183
    @jean-francoisferland9183 Год назад +4

    Great reaction, Doug!
    From 21:30 to 21:44, it is Chris who is singing. Not only was he a great bass player, he had a great voice.

  • @TheRealTomWendel
    @TheRealTomWendel Год назад +2

    I was lucky enough to catch them for the first time in June of 1976 in Cincinnati, just a couple of months before the Cobo Hall show featured here. It was all festival seating in those days, so my buddy and I parked about four people back from the edge of the stage in front of Chris Squire. They had an outstanding pod, spaceship Roger Dean designed stage set. Encore was The Beatles “I’m Down”- McCartney’s homage to Little Richard. Worth every bit of the $6.50/ticket we paid for general admission! 😊
    “Ritual” wraps around in a way that carries ‘nous somme du soleil’ through chaos/exorcism/ritual and brings us back ‘flying home’. Steve’s final solo ties together multiple thematic references and brings the song to a masterful conclusion- nicely tied together in a very gratifying way- a mind blowing connective finality. ✌🏻

  • @n-Chantreuse
    @n-Chantreuse Год назад +2

    Back in the early 2000s, Yes performed both Gates and Ritual live at the same show, I think as part of their symphonic tour. The various releases of Magnification included live versions of both.

  • @oriyan2
    @oriyan2 Год назад +2

    I've always loved Yesshows. The gates of delirium was played with so much energy in that detroit concert. One of their best moments ever.

  • @stevenhollingsworth733
    @stevenhollingsworth733 Год назад

    A friend loaned me this 8 track tape back in 1975 I was 14 years old. YES has given us many masterpieces but Tales is very important. When I saw you pull out that pipe I had to hit the subscribe button.

  • @2407paul
    @2407paul Год назад +2

    From Tales I also adores side 1, what a adventure to listen

  • @scottlp802
    @scottlp802 Год назад +3

    This is my favorite version.

  • @BrianBakken
    @BrianBakken Год назад

    I was fortunate to see YES the first time days before this recording. Of all the times I saw YES from then on, this show/tour has always been something very special. The stage, the sound, (the Bugs Bunny cartoons before they came on!), and the music was uplifting. Gates, Ritual, Sound Chaser, a slow acoustic version of Long Distance Runaround..... This music has consoled and made my life richer. I'm slowly giving my original albums to my youngest daughter who has discovered vinyl, Yessongs and Yesshows are two that I have parted with. She has the understanding that when she puts on a side, the phones go off, the lights turn down as the volume goes up with the album close by. Maybe some day, she'll pass along to the following generation - "here, this is what Grandpa used to listen to, it's pretty cool and makes you feel good."

  • @eurz9188
    @eurz9188 Год назад +4

    Steve Howe is a true master of all things guitar. His combining of various types of guitars including the pedal steel guitar gives a very special sound to these tracks.

  • @timbrown2971
    @timbrown2971 6 месяцев назад +1

    I believe the growling in the percussion section is Alan.

  • @stefanmartelius9552
    @stefanmartelius9552 Год назад +1

    Tales has always been my favorite Yes album. There is something very special about it. I think your closing words explained it perfectly!

  • @timbaldwin5580
    @timbaldwin5580 Год назад +2

    Doug, youve done a great job of summing up what is so great for me about this music as it is for you. You will never have the perspective of someone such as myself (and I wish that you could) who first heard this live in 1973 even before the album was released. The whole album live, Jon introducing and explaing each movement in turn. That was a concert in which the first part had been a complete performance of the Close to the Edge album, beginning with Siberian Khatru after the Firebird opening. Imagine that! Since then I've heard it played by all the line ups who have done so except Masteworks with Igor, only toured in the US. Orher highlights - the 35th anniversary tour with the classic line up and Symphonic on which it was played beautifully with the orchestra, an added joy seeing the young orchestral players so loving it. And, Close to the Edge, Gates and Ritual all in the same concert - another expefrience for you to imagine!

  • @neilculshaw7855
    @neilculshaw7855 Год назад

    After some 50 odd years of listening to Yes music, I can still only agree with you Doug, in that Jon's voice & Yes still takes me to a happy place. Inner peace & love. A wonderful critique of Ritual. Thank you.

  • @gilsorger6548
    @gilsorger6548 Год назад

    Thank you, Doug. This version of Ritual still is one of the most beautyful pieces of music ever played live. Tales is my favorite Yes album.

  • @araguet
    @araguet Год назад +2

    Thanks to share this with us, I listened this version when the álbum was edited and I have the same feelings from this date to today. May be you want to check the Ritual version in Yes Symphonic 2000, where you can see the band performing this piece with an little orchestra. And you can appreciate the grate musicianship of all, specially Chris, who plays the bass, sing and also plays the symphonic cymbals during the percussion part. Saludos desde Buenos Aires.

  • @tentruesummers9043
    @tentruesummers9043 Год назад +3

    I've seen this performed live many times, but sometimes, like just now, I'm amazed that 5 people can create such precise music on stage, never ming in the studio!

    • @georgesonm1774
      @georgesonm1774 Год назад

      Do you know who does the weird growling noise on the Yesshows version? Is it Alan?

  • @CanGeeSky
    @CanGeeSky Год назад

    Loving another of your videos, good friend!

  • @JeffreyTheTaylor
    @JeffreyTheTaylor Год назад +9

    The timeline is Yes weird. The breakup of the classic lineup started in 1979 when Jon started working w Greek keyboard legend Vangelis (they made some good stuff), by Nov ‘79 the band was in Paris to record a new album but the sessions were a disaster; they tried again in London after Xmas, failed and by March 1980 Jon and Rick were gone. Shared management brought Chris in contact with the Buggles, and long story short, the Drama lineup was born. That criminally under rated LP was recorded in 3 months and released in August 1980, three months BEFORE Yesshows was released. In essence Yes was put in a position of competing with itself and with its past. Drama featured a leaner, meaner Yes that still sounded like Yes. It essentially was the germ of two massive early 80s “pop prog” successes - Howe and Downes work in Asia and Yes’ own 90125 rebirth.

    • @marcjdt5796
      @marcjdt5796 4 месяца назад +1

      Sure, Drama is a f****in good album of Yes, the best for the 20 next years after, till "Magnification" or "Fly from here" IMO

    • @chrisfeltman1902
      @chrisfeltman1902 3 месяца назад

      @@marcjdt5796 Don't forget The Ladder

  • @Yes_Jorge_Yes
    @Yes_Jorge_Yes Год назад +10

    I love Patrick’s fills on this version of Ritual, also this is the only song I know where they used Timpani played by Chris during the drum ritual. When I first listen to the drum ritual it transported me to Australia imagining seeing an aborigine ritual. Alan does an amazing job no just playing the drums but also doing the vocals during the drum ritual

    • @philjones8097
      @philjones8097 Год назад +3

      Listen to the symphonic version. Slightly different lineup with Tom Brislin in for RW. On that you'll see all band members bar SH on drums. It's superb

  • @projekt9759
    @projekt9759 Год назад +2

    Those bas lines.... omg ❤

  • @estefaniasucre6966
    @estefaniasucre6966 Год назад

    My favorite Tales song... such na beautiful, profound, and haunting melody. Thanks for reacting to it again, dear Doug!

  • @fredkrissman6527
    @fredkrissman6527 Год назад

    Tales has always been my fav YES (double!) album, with Relayer a close #2... But never heard the YesShows stuff, and Ritual sounds absolutely fantastic! Thanx Doug

  • @BarrySanchez
    @BarrySanchez Год назад +1

    Doug that’s exactly how Jon is in person a very loving man who has time to spread that love, & your right he’s truly an Angel. Chris was also a very personal man too, my brother & I saw them in Murfreesboro, Tn. the night after they’re Russian keyboardist Igor had gotten in trouble in Virginia Beach & we & another couple were standing in the parking lot getting ready to drive back to Atlanta when a van pulled up & out got Chris who shook our hands & thanked us for coming to the show!!! Now we weren’t a couple of hot women we were two middle age men & we couldn’t see in the van so to us it could have been the caterer, but he thought enough to stop & thank us for coming to the show. I can’t tell you how much that meant to us then & still to this day. The Positive Nature of YES Living Up To They’re Name, it’s was one of the most awesome concert experiences I’ve ever had to say the least!!!

  • @markmerella3894
    @markmerella3894 2 месяца назад

    Man, when you said Jon Anderson is an angel and no matter what mood you’re in you feel immediate comfort and love from him, that pretty much sums up Yes for me.

  • @kevinhunton-young4833
    @kevinhunton-young4833 Год назад

    My first and favourite Yes album. Cheers Kev