Jobson on Yes

Valdez wrote: The violin does nothing for that particular song posted and I think it simply doesn’t fit anywhere as far as YES is concerned.   The little solo piece is great but not the YES sound IMO

Hi,

I think, and often wonder, if Eddie Jobson had a more interesting musical pedigree that would change/uncenter a lot of the work that YES did ... I don't think YES wanted a violin, and they made sure that the keyboards covered that, as one could easily say that one thread by RW would be the "violin" part, for example.

Eddie, probably being a bit of a purist, probably gave the idea that the violin should be used more, which I'm not sure YES was comfortable with, and yo kinda can see it ... in later years Jon travellend with Jean-Luc Ponty and the sad part? He was not used properly and was left with just adding a touch here or there, and I would suggest he was grossly mis-used despite most of it being his band. I think he deserved better, but I'm not sure that Jon was comfortable having Jean-Luc have a run of songs to play and do ... it had to be all Jon!

richardh wrote: I've never liked that period of Yes anyway but maybe Eddie could have made it something interesting perhaps. Moraz was dumped out the band 8 years earlier so that should have already been a 'red flag' as he puts it so getting involved was risky. Even Wakeman had to seemingly fight for his place in the band.

Hi,

I mainly got RELAYER because of Patrick Moraz as I had enjoyed REFUGEE a heck of a lot, and still played it. Sadly, I'm not sure that he was strong enough in that album, perhaps brought on a bit late and he tried to fit in ... or similar idea.

When I heard that he was dumped, was, really, the time I really dumped YES ... it wasn't about the music and its meaning and strength at all ... it was about "let them eat cake" ... and they may have had a hit song, but it has never moved me, and I find it sad and poor for what the band had done for many years, a definite change, which even they did not keep!

Confusion was their epitaph ... but for me the European scene was vastly superior. Take away one album or two albums, none of the rest dances as much as so much stuff out of Europe.

I still have Jobson's stuff with Roxy Music, Curved Air, and some other things. I never got into the "super group" thing with UK, or even with Asia, though they had some nice stuff. Again, the European scene was vastly superior by that time.

Edited by moshkito - 17 hours 4 minutes ago at 09:36

Maybe we can get some idea of how it would have sounded like by listening to this:



Yes + electric violin = must be even better

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