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18 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: soon, yes
Yes: “Soon” (1974)
“Soon”, an excerpt from the 22-minute “The Gates of Delirium” epic from 1974’s Relayer LP (truly Yes epitomized “long-player”) was one of the most gorgeous moments the English progsters created, despite the fact that as a single it failed to chart. This song didn’t seem to be formed from the same elements as those which occupied the Hot 100 that year, or really any other.
Like one of their Roger Dean-designed album covers, their best music evoked other worlds entirely.
11 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: steve howe, yes
(via Guitar Player) by Joe Bosso
There was no such thing as progressive rock, explains Howe. It was just that their sound needed a bigger canvas.
Steve Howe has no idea where the term progressive rock came from, but he makes one thing clear: It certainly didn’t start with him. “I never called us ‘progressive rock’ or ‘prog-rock,’” he says. “As I recall, when I first joined Yes, we all used to call our music different things.
“There was ‘orchestral rock’ and ‘cinemagraphic rock.’ We never argued about it, but there were a lot of names and terms being tossed about.” So what term did he use to describe Yes’s music?
Howe laughs. “I often called it ‘soft rock,’” he says. “I thought what I wrote was a sort of soft rock, but the phrase didn’t catch on, at least not with what we were doing. But progressive rock? Where that got started, I don’t know. I think it might have come after the fact.”
29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: yes
10 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: jon anderson, yes
(via Prog Magazine)
Jon Anderson will take to the stage and perform with Yes at their induction ceremony into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame next month.
He’ll be honoured along with Steve Howe, Alan White, Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye and Bill Bruford on April 7 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York.
Billboard report that they’ll play Roundabout and are also contemplating I’ve Seen All Good People and Owner Of A Lonely Heart.
Read more: http://teamrock.com/news/2017-03-09/jon-anderson-to-play-with-yes-at-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame
