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Posted: January 08 2013 at 04:38
History says Squire since he is the one single consistent element, but I say Anderson. Athough the two albums without him so far are quite good, they sound different enough to sound a little strange. Not off, but different from the core Yes sound.
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Bill Bruford is the most integral one to Yes as I like them best. I prefer TYA, Fragile and CTTE to anything that came afterwards by miles, and I do think Bill Bruford's presence is one of the biggest reasons for that. They were a much tighter and cleaner band with him than without him, so I assume he kept some of their excesses in check. Or maybe his playing was so busy that he didn't leave the others any room to "noodle around". However, I do have to acknowledge that Yes without Bill Bruford were still very much Yes, so I will have to go with Jon Anderson. He was their main creative force and "ideas man", and the albums without him feel markedly different from the ones with him.
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Posted: January 08 2013 at 03:26
Wanorak wrote:
Anderson's voice is what makes Yes' sound unmistakeable.
Honestly, everyone is replaceable! If you're listening to Trevor, Chris or Benoit (and theoretically Jon Davison, although he hasn't release any record with Yes) - they're all very close to Anderson's typical timbre.
What makes the real full and heavy Yes sound, is definitely Chris Squire!
(What I can't understand, is the inclusion of some marginal members of Yes: Kaye, Rabin, White)
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Posted: January 08 2013 at 03:11
Ambient Hurricanes wrote:
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.
We can get a feel for that with ABWH.
Squire for me although Jon's voice was essential to their trademark sound. Even for Drama Trevor Horn sang with a similar style and when they have had to replace Jon they have gone for his clones Benoit David and Jon Davison.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 22:18
Anderson of course
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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 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 21:26
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 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 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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