When you leave a YES Concert you feel like you're floating on positive waves and HIGH as you've ever been before. It's an amazing experience.

There are no words to describe a performance like this. But "MAGIC" comes as close as anything..... YES

When you get to the song "Close to the Edge”.... Studio version first. Each of us only gets one chance to hear this magic the first time. Don't squander it on a live version. Same advice for the song "Awaken" And ”Gates of Delirium” Studio versions first, you won't regret it. Cheers! 😊

The virtuoso keyboard player here, Rick Wakeman, was a fellow pupil and used to play the organ each morning during the daily religious assemblies at my school in West London in the 60s. The inventiveness and sheer stunning musical skill is just stunning. On another planet from most other rock bands.

My absolute favorite Yes song.

21y/o here! These guys are my favorite group by far. Nobody sounds like them. If youre really enjoying these there are plenty of there 10ish minute prog songs but i highly recommend their epics! Close to the Edge, Gates of delirium, and Awaken. Enjoy the rabbit hole! :)

For some people, music is just a background noise they turn on while they get the dishes washed. For others, music run through their nervous system, wraps itself around their senses, imprints its paterns and rhythms, suprises them with unexpected wonders. It's so good to see someone genuinely experience music with joy.

One of my favourite Yes songs. I've seen them do this live. Jon's voice is angelic. They were wonderful and they didn't have a support act. Instead they showed the BEST, most hilarious Bugs Bunny cartoons on a big screen.. We were higher than the Empire State and laughed our asses off.

Been binging this band for 51 years!!! Keep going!!

You can still see Yes live, they are touring, , not what they used to be, different singer, but still cool. The singer is on his own performing yes and solo material, still sound great, on tour often with various musicians.

I saw them in 78 when I was 14-15 ish, they made an incredible impression on me and have been my favorite music since. Magic and art are two great ways to describe it. Their songs are like little music journeys to take you to another world for a bit.

Chris Squire on Harmonica.... COOL

It’s like a dream you have when falling asleep on a beach in Thailand while getting a massage. And waking up in St. Bart’s with Heidi Klum and Pam Anderson asking you who do you like more. And, you don’t what to say, except, “who’s hungry?”.

These songs brings back good memories from my late teens ❤

"You feel like you NEED to be there!" Yes!

Yes, always a work of art. Thx ✌️👌

"Works Of Art".... Glad you liked them.

The crowd cheers when they hear the first notes from that 12 string guitar.... we all know what's coming is a spectacle of amazing musical performance.

Ist time I saw them was in72. 51 years later their songs STILL gives this 68 year old man goose bumps.

I would also recommend. " long distance run around"

Yes is one of the best live bands ever. Their music is better live than on record. I've seen them 3 times live and they are unforgettable.

Jon Anderson's voice has been called the Sweetest Sound Ever Heard by any male rock vocalist... "Whimsical"... I agree

YES... It certainly was "CRAZY" to be there... 4 times. Once with Kansas opening... I saw the add and said.....ARE YOU PHUCKING KIDDING ME!!!. My third Favorite show I've ever seen. #1 Pink Floyd, #2 Supertramp.

Styx - "The Grand Illusion"

The body of work from YES could hold hundreds of Rabbit Holes. "Binge" says it fine...Jump down anyone of them.... "Wondrous Stories"

I loved your reaction with your facial expressions! And YES in my humble experience have been one of the greatest bands ever to perform in this wonderful Universe! Cheers bro!

The crowd just goes wild at certain points within the song. Yes, like Pink Floyd is one of those groups that are perfection when they play live. Lots of groups are really sloppy live

Jon Anderson - The Legendary Voice / Bill Bruford - Drums/percussion / Steve Howe - 3 different guitars / Tony Kaye - Keyboards/ Trevor Rabin- Fender Strat guitar/ Chris Squire- Rickenbacker Bass Guitar(Mom Made)-Harmonica / Rick Wakeman - Keyboard Master / Alan White - Drums..... I've seen most all the great bands. No Better Lineup ever assembled.

Great song👍👍

Our seats weren't that great when we saw Yes in the 70s, but it didn't matter much🎶💫

The Fender Lap/Pedal Steel Guitar Steve plays is legendary and Priceless on the collector market.

@JMBOYTV , I think @AliasMark69 nailed it when he said "MAGIC". I have also been to 4 YES concerts.... imagine this scenario during the "Close To The Edge" tour.... the band has transitioned into one of the instrumental only songs...the lights had gone down to focus on just Rick Wakeman and Bill Bruford, so it is pitch black... and out of nowhere Jon Anderson's voice starts singing, quietly at first....but you can't see him. Slowly a new spotlight starts shining on the top of the speaker tower, 50 feet above the stage, Jon had climbed the speaker tower and was sitting on the top speaker singing as the lights came up and the band goes full tilt. You float (not walk) out of their concerts, partly because of the music and partly because of the herbs you had brought to the concert.... INCREDIBLE!!!!!!

I'm an old fellow, having a jolly good time watching a new Yes fan in the making. Magic is one way to describe them -- they write music for the Soul, the Heart. They have a way of getting into your head. I will happily aid in your binging. Short and Sweet: Wonderous Stories, Holy Lamb, Onward, Hidden Gems: That, That Is, Homeworld, Turn of the Century (You mentioned paintings -- this one is based on Pygmailion & Galitea -- maybe my favorite of all Yes songs.) Yes Controversy: You only need side one and side four of Tales From Topographic Oceans -- but for sheer epicness, it's hard to beat The Revealing Science of God (side one) and Ritual (side four) Summary: Binge as deep as you want, wander wherever you choose. You''ll hit some duds on the side roads, but you'll also bump into Olias of Sunhillow. Happy journeys, my young Yes friend. Your smile as you listen brings many of us Yes fans back to the days when our hair stood on end when we heard Perpetual Change. Some of us miss the hair we had back then.

This video is of a Reunion Tour! Many members here: Jon Anderson of course- Steve Howe & Trevor Rabin(90125 & Big Generator albums), Chris Squire -Bass Rick Wakeman & Tony Kaye(original keyboard player for Yes) And Both Bill Bruford (original drummer-Amazing) and Alan White-incredible drummer who was with them for the longest and passed away recently-along w Chris Squire passing as well😔)

Excellent reaction. Never saw this live version, but it 's even as good as the studio version. The next song on that album is a treat, really. It's called "Siberian Khatru" - and it's another adventure, but much more upbeat. I'd suggest you listen to the studio version. It's mere perfection.

Now you know why we INSISTED you see this band Live. There is nothing else like them. Welcome to the YES Fanatics Fan Club.

Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth

"And You And I' A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes As a foundation left to create the spiral aim A movement regained and regarded both the same All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed Between the picture of time behind the face of need Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid Emotion revealed as the ocean maid All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you, oh Coins and crosses never know their fruitless worth Cords are broken, locked inside the mother earth They won't hide, oh, they won't tell you Watching the world, watching all of the world Watching us go by And you and I climb over the sea to the valley And you and I reached out for reasons to call Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid Emotion revealed as the ocean maid As a movement regained and regarded both the same All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you Sad preacher nailed upon the colored door of time Insane teacher be there, reminded of the rhyme There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify Political ends, as sad remains, will die Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you Ooh, ooh I listened hard but could not see Life tempo change out and inside me The preacher trained in all to lose his name; The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same In the end, we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalize That the truth of the man maturing in his eyes All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid As a moment regained and regarded both the same Emotion revealed as the ocean maid A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning And you and I reach over the sun for the river And you and I climb, clearer towards the movement And you and I called over valleys of endless seas

The Evolution of Yes ( 1968-Present )

"YOU GUYS" say.... TOO COOL, again. Thanks 156

The Union tour. Unforgettable

Good video and good review. Lets see more!

Journey - "Lovin' Touchin" Squeezin'

I would listen to the album versions of Yes first, or the live versions from the albums Yessongs and Yesshows, as these are far and away the best versions of any of the classic Yes material.

Chicago - "25 Or 6 To 4"

Sir Elton John - "Funeral For A Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding"

I saw the Union show - AY&I was the high point.... When Howe, Wakeman, and Rabin played that main theme in unison, it was unreal.

You picked a video with a lot of the yes family tree on stage at the same time. That's an incredible amount of talent. I saw this tour at msg in nyc..

You still my have a chance to see YES live.

The name of the vocal styling you are trying to describe is "Call and Response."

I saw that tour in Cincinnati, They kept that rotating stage for som time. it was nice cause no matter where you sat youi had a goode view

Boston - "Foreplay/Long Time"

They called him..."GOD"... Eric Clapton - "Layla"

I usually suggest (imho), most songs by Yes listened to the studio version but -Dam if their not Incredible LIVE! (50+ times 🥰)

Where are you gonna see a performance like this anywhere today?

Santana - "(Back to back) 'Black Magic Woman/Oye Como Va"

This performance is from the 1991 Union tour, which combined the two competing versions of Yes after the highly successful Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe album and tour from 1989. Musically they pulled it off, but there were tensions on the tour after a listless album, both of which were the result of a compromise between the two camps. I don't know how they managed to perform so flawlessly with so much chaos onstage, with two drummers, two guitarists and two keyboardists. Yes has a very interesting history, but it is generally agreed that their best albums are from the 1970s. They put out some fantastic music after that but most post-1980 albums were hit-and-miss. Some of the band members' solo albums are more interesting. Glad you found Yes! It's a deep rabbit holes with many wandering warrens. Enjoy

I suggest "Awaken".

Check out Siberian Khatru studio version, please!

Trevor needed to sit down on this one and get out of the way of Mr Howe, doubling the steel part sort of cancels it out…

If you had this song in your music collection on the following...Vinyl Album, 8-Track, Cassette Tape, Compact Disk CD, MP3 Player/Digital Files....???? Like this comment if you did, like I did.

Genesis=Firth of Fifth please

I would also like to suggest two "alternative" live videos of this song (for your private pleasure): From 1973, so to speak the "original version": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsiDaJmhmb7YZH0.html and from 2018 (this is "Yes ARW", Anderson is about 74 years old): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpaoqbplv7muaYE.html

Hey JMBOY glad you're reacting to YES but I always advise newcomers to any artist not just YES to *always* listen to the *original* and official *studio* recordings of an artist work before listening to any live reinterpretations. It's my opinion that newcomers should get acquainted with the originals first then live. LIve should be the second step *not* the first.The studio is where they spent time crafting and perfecting the material.Also sometimes there are things that can be done in studio that aren't replicated as well in a live setting. I'm not against live but I don't feel it should be the introduction. That all being said I would love to see you react to the studio versions of "Yours Is No Disgrace' 'Starship Trooper' "South Side of The Sky' 'Heart of The Sunrise'. Take care and keep up the great work ! Subscriber here.

You need 😊to hear Birthright live

Looks like the video is from the Union tour. Not a fan of Rabin or YES without Howe. Too dramatic for my blood. Glad you liked the tune, but if you want to see the masters play this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsiDaJmhmb7YZH0.html

I forgot something in my first comment. A suggestion for a song that some Yes fans won't like because they say this band isn't Yes anymore. But I think it would be great if you would listen to the title track (Mirror to the Sky) from Yes's 2023 album Mirror to the Sky. i love this song

Worst footage ever. Completely ignored Steve Howe's slid solo.