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Topic: Most integral member of Yes Posted: January 07 2013 at 19:29
I am sure this has been done many times but what the hell it's 2013 so here we go.
I have purposely left out several members who contributed their talents for a few albums here and there, who although I admire their talents I personally don't consider them as integral to what defines Yes.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 19:50
I feel it's a close call between Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, and Steve Howe. However, whenever he's been in the band, I guess the most important member for making the Yes sound has been Anderson.
Say what you want about Chris Squire. Drama is a damn good Yes album and Anderson wasn't on it. Time and a Word was a damn good Yes album and Steve Howe wasn't on it (on the cover maybe, but not on guitar).
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 20:05
It's hard to determine Squire's importance, because he's played on every Yes album, so we don't have any albums without him to judge what impact his absence would have had.
I'm going to have to go with Steve Howe; the band made at least one good album (90125) without him, but it didn't sound like Yes. Whenever he's been a member, the band sounded like itself.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 20:23
I suppose for me it's Anderson and Howe. If I recall my band history they were the most responsible for the creation of Topographic, which for me is the single greatest achievement of the band.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 21:26
Epignosis wrote:
Say what you want about Chris Squire. Drama is a damn good Yes album and Anderson wasn't on it. Time and a Word was a damn good Yes album and Steve Howe wasn't on it (on the cover maybe, but not on guitar).The Fish it is.
Indeed, Squire was part of every album. And those albums may be very good indeed. However, the best, most important, most popular (in the prog perspective, we don't care so much about 90125 here in PA, for the most part) had Anderson in the line-up, and as far as I understand, the chief director of those particular albums was Anderson. Not the only one, and he wouldn't have been able to create such albums by himself, but he is the one whe gave those albums most of their soul (I would be thinking about the albums between The Yes Album up to Going for the One). Still, Squire is a very fine choice too, and I am actually not certain about who contributed to what, so I might be wrong in my perspective.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 21:43
Howe---Yes would not sound like Yes without him----Anderson a close second, but it doesn't help his case that 2 fairly decent Yes albums are without Jon.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 21:58
The question itself is different from, yet somewhat similar to, "which member made Yes stand out". I would have to say JA.
Finnforest wrote:
I suppose for me it's Anderson and Howe. If I recall my band history they were the most responsible for the creation of Topographic, which for me is the single greatest achievement of the band.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 22:18
Anderson of course
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