About YES

I see my mate HughesJB4 has been here as positive as always.

Jaja - I first heard Yes as a teenager and the album was Relayer - it stunned me. To this day I rate the album as one of my all time favorites. I enjoyed Yes up until the time that Trevor Rabin joined them and almost single handedly destroyed all that I loved about their music.

Now I know Rabin personally and he is a very good guitarist although his style did not suite the image of Yes that I had. He is not a Steve Howe because although he is technically proficient he doesn't have the touch and the feel of his instrument that Howe does.

Trevor Rabin came from a Pop / Rock band in South Africa called Rabbit and one of his fellow musicians in Rabbit joined "the Bay City Rollers" (says it all doesn't it). Trevor almost took Yes down the same road that Phil Collins took Genesis.

Love Yes without Rabin - "Roundabout" anyone?

 

 

Yes is my favourite band. I love about anything they did in the seventies, as well as the debut album from 1969, and 90125 and Keys To Ascension.

My favorite prog band.  

Forgot to add one thing: If you're new to a forum there's a world of difference between discussing a topic with other individuals and reading past threads non-interactively.

Yes! I do like Yes! 

FIrst off, JaJa Macca welcome to PA.  I am glad to see your enthusiasm for participating in the forums here at PA.  It is good to see such enthusiasm from a new member.  However, as Hughes mentioned each of these big bands do have an appreciation thread within this section of the forum.  I definitely recommend that you check these threads out to read members thoughts on these bands, as well as post your thoughts on these bands within those threads.  The fact that you have already started all of these threads falls under "What's done is done", but I would definitely recommend that in the future you use the search function or just browse the threads to find previously created threads that fit the discussion that you would like to have.  I realize that I'm not adding anything different to what Hughes already said, but I just thought it would be good to restate what was said a bit.

AlexUC wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Just as a note, I tried a search on Yes, and in the last 6 months alone in Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation, there is like, 10 topics. I think it needs about half a calorie of energy to scroll to the top of the screen and click search function. On the first page of Prog Bands, Artists and Genres alone there is the new Steven Wilson album, there is the PostRock/Math rock/Post Metal thread, the Tech/Extreme. One of which (the Wilson thread) is one about a new album that has barely been discussed yet, and the other 2 are threads that are always about finding the latest bands and discussing them, or bands that at the very least, are only a few years old and haven't been discussed to absolute death like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd etc have. If you're a collab, then you should never refer like that to anybody. This kind of behavior of some people in there just polarizes the site making it unreachable for new people. If you feel uncomfortable with an opened topic, just stay away from it, there's always someone in there that wants to discuss about the classic bands, which is perfectly fair.

Yes, I understand your point, but don't fool yourself.
A topic like this isn't going to really be anything substantial.
There was a thread a while ago, where there was an argument about symphonic sound vs symphonic structure.
One posted talked about Yes not having a great deal to do with Baroque music and it's lack of contrapuntal devices, talking about the harmonic structure.
That was a really cool debate going on there, a really cool topic that actually......well, was substantial and brought something new to progarchives I believe.
I admit, despite being a musician myself, I never really pondered whether Yes was far more influenced by the Romantic period than the Baroque. I learnt something there, even if it was something that I may have been able to learn myself eventually had I thrown on Yes and thought "hmmmm, there is a lack of counterpoint here".

But instead, we have to resort to these shallow, rehashed discussions of "Favorite album, favorite band member, favorite era etc".
That's all cool if the band if say, it's a very recent band that we haven't had much opportunity to discuss.
But in some form or another, whether inside this forum, or elsewhere, Yes, Genesis or whatever, the "favorite album, favorite band member" etc thing has been done to absolute death.

We can still discuss these bands, but how about looking at things like a  more in depth, musical analysis/dissecting the music piece by piece so we get a clearer idea of the music (like some of the interesting posts in the Symphonic Sound Vs Symphonic Structure for example) just as an example perhaps.





Edited by HughesJB4 - December 03 2008 at 00:58

Thanks, guys.

Edited by Jaja Macca - December 03 2008 at 00:28

forget yes, you made a new person feel bad, to me this is a NO, now you might want to argue about it, I am 60 years old, I don`t care to argue