YES - RITUAL - LIVE 1976 - REMASTERED - SOLO ALBUM 'CRAB NEBULA' TOUR
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- In terms of live performance, sound quality and production, this seminal track, originally released on 'Yesshows' in 1980 was the absolute pinnacle. Chris Squire's original mix gave the live tapes real 'ooomph' as he was able to apply extra emphasis on the amazing bass lines without detracting too much from the top end. Well, while it is hard to improve on such perceived perfection, this remaster has slightly redressed the balance; accentuating the guitar, drums and keys and smoothing out some of the harder edges. Squire's bass lines are still all there but the track is now more polished while retaining all its potency. Play it loud - ideally on decent audio gear - and enjoy the band as they enthrall us with their incredible talent.
The ULTIMATE live performance of this utterly brilliant song.
Tales from Topographic Oceans is a MASTERPIECE!!
I do not share your opinion that TALES.FROM TOPOGRAPIC OCEANS is a masterpiece - but I admit that this brilliant 'Ritual' paved the way to 'Gates of Delirium' on RELAYER
Holy Toledo 35 times, I have seen them 8 times. LB Arena, The Forum and Angel Stadium all in the SoCal area in the 70’s-80’. I was 20 years old and I’m now 70 and the music still moves me to this day.😮
I first saw Yes on the 76 "crab nebula" tour as a wide eyed 16 year old, about one year into my journey into bass guitar. I had learned a few Yes songs (none of the epics like Ritual, Gates, etc.), probably learned several parts wrong. To hear and see this AMAZING music played live in an arena, with that amazing stage setup as a teenager absolutely cemented me in my path as a player and is a huge part of my identity still. To say the concert was life changing shortchanges the experience. We miss you Chris and Alan!
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth. The Relayer tour was my first blessing of Yes I was so impressed I saw Chris and Yes 35 more times until Squire's passing. I'll never forget a diminutive frail looking Anderson stepped to the mic and the voice of an angle come out singing Nous Somme Du Soleil.
Great memories indeed! I didn't see them live until '77 and I will never forget that night.
@@ianhartley2158 this was the song set
Sound Chaser
Close TTE
Gates of Delirium
I've Seen All GP
Mood for A Day
Long Distance Runaround
Moraz solo
Clap
And You And I
Ritual !
Roundabout
I'm Down
Holy, ..., 35 times. Where? Maybe we've met... Dehard, not Sears. Piece of peace, please.
The Relayer Shows are Unforgettable as well as Outstanding
Jeez! How good were they? I don't think I've ever heard a better live performance, this band was unreal, only Genesis came close. The energy, it's like you are there with them. This is utterly brilliant
Yes live. It was like nothing else you could see or hear. Genius musicians all masters of their own craft. All of them under 30 years of age on this tour. Enough said.
The Crab in Atlanta was my first time seeing Yes. Overtaken by the stories and the songs. High for days, never looked back. Think I'm up around 18 shows now. ❤❤❤❤❤
I so wish they would officially release this full show. They must have it all surely? It's been a while since Progeny now, official releases of 70s show(s) are well overdue
We did the full show. Maybe I'll put the whole thing up soon.
I’m such a fan of this recording. Everyone is on fire here. It sounds like everyone is sweating buckets for the sake of the song. I get a sense of urgency in the performance. I even love how it’s not the best mixing job. Jeez I could go on and on.
Best version of this performance I have ever heard! Thanks!
Nice. I feel in general that Chris was mixed too low.
That's why I like things like Miguel playing bass more loudly on top of a recording.
Plus it's amazing to see what Chris was actually doing. As a non-musician, I can't map sounds to fret board antics, so I get another dimension watching him. There's also another guy who puts bass sheet music on top of Chris' (by way of Miguel) and that's even more amazing.
Musicians at this level are superhuman.
i know that this song had been released first on YESSHOWS with the entire tracks mixed by Chris Squire himself
This sounds good man. This album and Relayer changed the way I see/hear to music, when I was like 18 in '09.
Absolutely,. the same for me, I first heard them a few years after they were released, aged thirteen in 1978/79, and they were and are deeply formative to my understanding of the power of music, and how it works. Bought the Tales double album in the summer of 1979, and the Rhino remastered edition thirty years later.
I found these albums in 1989 aged 17 and they changed my life too. I couldn't believe how good they were and got to see them in 1991 in London. I did a lot of acid back then which seemed to really make the music make more sense.
That detroit gig was amazing. Gates of delirium and Ritual both much better than the albums. Wish they had filmed that night
Fabulous performance. It sounds awesome, great remastering job, balanced the sound beautifully. They're really tearing into Ritual on this!
I saw them in Madison Square Garden late 70S or early 80S with this stage set. Amazing concert including there Argon laser show.
My favourite side of an extraordinary and mould-breaking album
Thanks for doing this. This is the only live version of this song I've ever enjoyed. As someone who saw this tour, this is the closest to how I remember it sounding, thanks x 10!.
I was there, too! AT the show that this purports to be!
@@markrhoads9283 epic stuff
Now integrated in my spirit as part of this life soundtrack.
The beginning part , with Steve Howe's solo guitar blending each of the Topographic themes , and then the vocal part , seems to convey a peacefulness . If this is about a ritual , sign me up .
To split this song into 2 parts on vinyl IS A CRIME!
Just amazing!
I was there!
Do tell , please ... How was your day ?
Solo albums: Jon: Olias of Sunhillow Chris: Fish out of Water Bill: Feels Good to Me Steve: Beginnings Wakeman: Six Wives of Henry VIII Peter: Two Sides of Peter Banks Alan: Ramshackled
Stunning!! X
Wait til you hear what this guy has done to Yessongs
I saw the Relayer tour in December 1974. I didn't get to see the Solos tour with that Crab Nebula thing...
Well at least you should feel thankful you experienced the 74 show. I didn't see them until 1977 !
@@ianhartley2158 Oh I am. I will never forget that Roger Dean stage set up. Ha ha the couple sitting next to me at the concert thought one of those stage "creatures" was going to take flight and attack the audience. (they were tripping on something).
I always thought that it must have been one hell of a gig - Ritual and Gates on the same set list
And the crab nebula set with the lasers was unreal. saw this tour in Tampa followed by a week at Disney I was a very happy 18yo 😀
NOBODY CALLS the YES 1976 stadium tour/ ( sometimes " SOLO tour ")
" The crab Nebula tour!"
Erm, gosh. That was the name we gave to the remaster project here. Sorry if it offends. Blimey!
Poderiam fazer isso com todo o álbum ....ficou ótimo
Was that Mr Moraz on the keyboards???
Correct
@@ianhartley2158 Thank you! Just wanted to make sure!
Ian - these are absolutely fantastic, well done! Yes really should have curated their musical legacy properly, in the way that Floyd and Crimson do. In the ongoing absence , any chance of producing 74, 75, 76,77 and 78 tour concerts? I've tried to do this based on bootlegs and official recordings and whilst some of it is good SQ ( Wembley78, Boston Dec 74, latter QPR 75) , sadly much isn't and it is put into the shade by your incredible efforts. Please keep it up. Cheers, Phil
Phil, thanks very much for the kind words. I can confirm that Professor Idle (not I) has done some wonderful remasters for Tales tour 74, Summer US tour 76, US tour 77 and Tourmato 78-79. (He is currently remastering Yessongs which will blow everyone's mind). Checkout my other vids for the other shows he has done so far.
@@ianhartley2158 Yes, superb recording/remastering and of course a phenomenal night! It's great that they were able to pull this stuff off live and make the fire and immedicay come through - but then we've all heard Yessongs and know what they were capable of as a live act! (I never got around to actually seeing them live while Jon Anderson was still with them - narrowly missed a gig in 2004 - but have clocked many hundreds of hours over the years enjoying live albums and dvd's with the band)
Sounds so great - intense performance - just HAD to try it on the QPR footage - almost workks! If this is a violation of anything, please let me know, and I'll pull it down. (I have zero interest in causing hassle or whatever..) Just the intro bit anyway, so I don't suppose anyone cares. Still, it's great to see some half-decent footage of this with this kind of audio - really puts you there..
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Is this an actual release; as in can I buy the CD? TIA. BTW this sounds fantastic !!!
If you can find it this is on the Yesshows album…
@@benjaminhatcher9846 off to Ebay...
please do the whole Yesshows album with this treatment! BTW, have you ever revealed your process? There are so many things I'd like to fix in this way!
I hated the Squire mix of this album. I also didn't like them mixing three tours on one disc. Never played this album more than a few times. There were always much better bootlegs in the 1970s.
Interesting viewpoint - what are/were your fave boots?
I thought it was part of "Tales of Topographic Oceans".
IT IS A LIVE PERFORMANCE
the 1976 tour was to promote the solo albums and is sometimes known as the Crab Nebula tour which refers to the incredible Roger/Martin Dean stage design - sorry for any confusion there
no worries. I had to end my session for work but now I get to listen. Thank you.
Still peeved the Crab Nebula Tour never came to the UK or Europe, but I suspect the staging would have posted problems for most UK venues at the time.
@@asharmstrong6730 Personally never forgiven them! Sa them at QPR and Reading in 75, so it could have been done. I suspect Punk etc also had something to do with it!
Nice work. It definitely benefits from the guitar and cymbals fighting back a bit. I always find that period of Yes a bit of a wasted opportunity. It was, in one sense, their stupidest, noodliest, lost-plottest period (the solo albums for god's sake) when, if the evidence of the versions of Gates and this from Yesshows is anything to go by, they were also at their best (if the idea of the band was to sound like a symphony orchestra they never were better than this). The thing is, though, Gates and Ritual, for me, both benefitted enormously from being taken out on the road and performed over and over. The Yeshows versions are vastly superior to their studio counterparts. The mind boggles at what the Moraz version of Yes could have achieved had they been able to make an album that they could have spent 6 months road testing. Alas...
I agree to an extent but in the main I thought the solo albums were quite interesting and showed how much music the guys had in them at the time.
Fish is the best solo album ever made by any member of any band. In my opinion!
@@ianhartley2158 I agree, and in particular Moraz' album ("The story of i", originally just "i" or his personal logo sign, a title the record label were not very keen on I figure!) ;) is superb, brilliantly written, played and arrranged. Very exciting with an unruly mix of Brazilian/samba influences, jazzy keyboard cascades, killer druming and some remarkably tender love songs.
It would have been great if Yes had managed to make another studio album with Moraz though. That was a lost opportunity, even though Going For the One is not a bad album at all.
Enjoyed this live version but it was missing the main man Wakeman. I bet Igor could have done better than Moraz
Certainly not.
@@pierre-emilebertona3331 Tony Kaye?😆
@@sfel10Tony would try and play the whole 20 minutes one handed on the Hammond 🙄🤭
@@davidw5993 Tony Kaye has a swastika tattoo on his chest, just saw his pic. I think Tony is right up there with Ron Mael from Sparks!
Bullshit. This is is not "Crab nebula" tour of 75' This is from yesshows recordings from 77'-78'.
I'll leave it to others if they wish to respond to this one