Yes sound-alikes - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Originally posted by Big Ears

Originally posted by Slartibartfast

Yes actually sounds like Yes sometimes these days. Tongue

Agreed, but not as often as Glass Hammer.

cosigned.

Thinking Plague's 'In extremis' owes a lot to Yes :

and as I mentioned some pages before, Argent's 'ring of hands' reminds a lot of Tony Kaye era Yes.

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)

Two groups that sound like Yes mostly because of the vocals - Step Ahead and Clepsydra. Also, I have played AMENOPHIS first eponymous album to a couple of people who felt it sounded like YES

One of my favourite Yes alike bands is ABBHAMA from Indonesia:

This is the song that sounds less than lkike YES, but there are very few samples in Youtube

Still you can listen the voice Iwan Madjib (Male) is similar to Join Anderson's

If you notice, even the logo uses similar letters to the ones by Roger Dean.

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 02 2012 at 16:05

^Say what?

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

Can i join on that what?

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M

- Glass Hammer (They are good though)

Iván

And that's why they win.

Glass Hammer's only good/tolerable album is Shadowlands, imo.

Persuasion deflowers your sympathy.

Magenta clearly channels Yes....I like the use of a woman's voice in place of male countertenor.

Yes blew a marketing opportunity by passing by a qualified female vocalist for Benoit David. They could have opened up a new audience demographic (besides fat, white, aging, balding 70's Yes fans like myself!). Let's face it, female vocalists are hot these days.

Originally posted by akaBona

Originally posted by cstack3
Yes blew a marketing opportunity by passing by a qualified female vocalist for Benoit David. They could have opened up a new audience demographic (besides fat, white, aging, balding 70's Yes fans like myself!). Let's face it, female vocalists are hot these days.

You're absolutely right!

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i thought the same thing.

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy

Oh, and let's not forget Genesis. Yes's influence on their early sound is well documented. :)

What?

Iván

You are far too knowledgeable about Genesis to say what here, Ivan.

I wasn't around the London scene at that time (damn it!), but it appears that these bands "cross-pollinated" each other with musical ideas, instrument selections etc.

I've never specifically read that Genesis was influenced by Yes, but stranger things have happened. Bob Fripp and Peter Banks were flat mates, as were Ray Bennett & Chris Squire! I think that, by hanging out at each others' shows, lights went on.

Banks' comments in this interview make me wonder if this old Syn act might have influenced Gabriel a bit?

(Interviewer) The Syn has been credited for being the first band to play a rock opera onstage. In 1967, you presented 'Flowerman' at The Marquee, which included a performance with flower costumes and stage props. What happened to Chris Squire during one of the mock fights?

(Banks) Oh that!, I've told this story many times... We actually did an opera before that, the gangsters one, which ended up in a pretended fight onstage. I can't remember what the gangster gang was called, I remember some of the songs, it was all pretty embarrassing. It was written by Andrew Jackman, the keyboard player, and I think Steve Nardelli did some of the lyrics. '

The Flowerman' was basically the same idea, except we had different color suits to match the flowers, and then my suit was a yellow, horrible double breasted suit, and still like a kind of gangster suit, you know, from the 1920 Chicago and... I was a buttercup! (laugh). And I don't know what Chris Squire was, I can't remember.

http://www.themarqueeclub.net/interview-peter-banks-yes

I dunno, could The Syn's "Flowerman" have ultimately inspired THIS??

Edited by cstack3 - April 04 2012 at 23:23