Yes - Live at Montreux
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Artist: YesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-04
Music Label: Eagle Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Siberian Khatru
- Magnification
- Don't Kill The Whale
- In The Presence Of:(i) Deeper(ii) Death Of Ego(iii) True Beginner (iv) Turn Around And Remember
- We Have Heaven
- South Side Of The Sky
- And You And I: (i) Cord Of Life (ii) Eclipse (iii) The Preacher The Teacher (iv) Apocalypse
- To Be Over
- Clap
- Show Me
- Rick Wakeman Solo Medley
- Heart Of The Sunrise
- Long Distance Runaround
- The Fish
- Awaken
- I've Seen All Good People (i) Your Move (ii) All Good People
- Roundabout
Free Music Notes for Live at Montreux
Free Music Review: Stravinsky's favourite band delivers and dazzles!
Hit: 5 Stars
As if to silence any doubters, YES delivers in this disc and the accomapnying DVD what is perhaps the best concert of their 39+ years, and I have listened to, and attended, a lot of YES concerts, good and bad. Montreux must bring out the very best in performers, jazz, blues, rock, whatever. There is a special place in the musical heavens for Claude Nobs. His collection of Miles Davis concerts are among the best ever by Miles, particularly in the electric mode. This YES concert is a tour de force on so many fronts, it is hard to know where to begin, except the beginning.
As Howe strikes the first notes and chords of Siberian Khatru, I wasn't quite sure I was going to be happy with this. You figure at a certain point, it has to be tiring (listen to any Nash version of Our House post 1974). But a clean and sober Wakeman is a formidable beast to reckon with and when he launches in a few beats later, this concert takes off and never stops. The intensity and the power and the commitment to the music is so incredibly strong, I do believe that this is the very best concert they have ever performed.
On the CD, Anderson's naft pattering is at a minimum, and so the music moves from strength to strength all the way through for 2 1/2 hours over two discs. I felt exhilarated at every turn n the music. And there is nothing here by rote. One of the real hallmarks of a band's musicality for me is how successfully they end a tune. With each and every selection from SK through to Roundabout I felt like leaping out of my chair or car. In ensemble mode, YES breathes new found fire into their performances. The interplay in the rhythm section between Squire and White has never sounded so astoundingly driving, nuanced and creative. As I mentioned, a clean and sober Wakeman dusts all comers. He is lit on fire and his precision and explorative use of new technologies gives new dimensions to tunes you have heard a zillion times.
Howe makes up for a tentative start with an acoustic reading of To Be Over that is even more poignant than the stunningly beautiful rendition from his Natural Timbres CD. He rounds out the first disc with such a spirited rendtion of the Clap that you'd swear this is the first time you ever really heard this tune. There is something to be said about YES when Wakeman, Howe and Squier are absolutely spot on, precise and creative. Nothing is slurred, blurred or played to the gallery. There is a focus I have not heard in this band since 1972 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. These musicians came to Montreux aware of Montreux's status in the world of music and they came to prove a point.
It is a career defining point, and the settle the case against all detractors. I can think of no other badn except Miles in the late 80's who took their canon someplace else altogether at a time when they had virtually been written off. Not so fast, Kowalski...
Alan White is the only drummer to have ever successfully succeeded Bill Bruford in the drummer's chair of any band, and it is abundantly clear on this disc why. I don't know if they knew that this would be it for an extended period of time, if not forever, or not, but White plays like it is the last night of his life and he wants to leave his legacy. He is just brilliant. I would tell you that there would be no way for Bruford to follow this performance.
Jon Anderson is a remarkable elf. God knows what mothership left him off here, but there is no one I know who still has that register in their voice at his age, and the man is genetically hard wired so that it is impossible for him to hit a wrong note. As out-there as YES lyrics can be, Anderson sings them with such passionate conviction, you can't help but believe you are hearing the Oracle at Delphi, or the first note in Tolkien's Silmarillion. Whatever, he is on cloud 9 with the music and his irrepressible joy is infectious. He presents his own looped take on We Have Heaven that is also one of the great surprises on the disc and segues beautifully into South Side of the Sky. Later with Long Distance Runaround he delivers it all with a profound ability to maintain his breathing. If you have had the misfortune to purcahse any of the recent Peter Gabriel WarmUp discs from his summer tour, you know what an embarrassing thing it is when a geezer loses his breath and can't remember either the correct lyrics or when to come in. Anderson is just the opposite and makes the delivery of those very convulted layers of lyric abstracts perfectly impassioned and believeable. Squire to his credit is in better voice than I have ever heard him. It is almost reason enough to buy this set. That and his re-imagined take on The Fish is the very best performance of that piece ever. The Fish displays all that is especially brilliant about YES as a band. The music takes unconvential leaps. The band jumps in and jumps out at just the right accent or timing point and then when you are sure he has summed it all up, Squire delivers the well-known chorus with more gusto and surprise than you would ever have expected.
The liner notes state that YES finished this not knowing if YES would ever re-assemble. It would be tragic if they didn't. For all the knee-jerk punk reaction to progressive rock, the fact is that no one played as creatively and as imaginatively as YES did, not just in its glory years, but even in the dreadful Trevor Rabin epoch. This live set covers 8 albums from the well known through Magnification and what comes through strongest is that this band matters.
If this is their coda, it is as beautiful and magnificent a gift as they could ever give back to Music.
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Yes is one of the most innovative and successful rock bands of all time with a career that now spans five decades. In 2003 the band made their first appearance at the Montreux Festival, despite having a long association with the town itself (they recorded there frequently in the seventies). It was a triumphant night and is regarded by both the band members and fans as probably the finest Yes gig ever to be filmed. It has been much in demand and is now finally cleared for release.Classic Rock Music CDs
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