Ha ha ha..I love it! 1st part: "what the Hell this is way too crazy!" 2nd part:"Wow this is really climaxing now!" 3rd part: *crying* Welcome to Yes! I have to say, that made my day! 🤣🍺👍

Hi, all. As Nick and Lex mentioned, shortly after making this request, I had an A-fib attack, which ultimately led to open heart surgery to repair a valve. Good news is that the operation was a full success, and Im now going thru recovery, so thanks to you two for the prayers and positive thoughts;they worked! Looking forward to watching your reaction to this masterpiece; you only get to listen to something for the first time once. Enjoy yours! Jim

Soon was probably one of the most beautiful passages of music ever written in the history of history. If you don’t get emotional listening to it you aren’t human.

When Steve Howe is gone, you will never, never again hear anyone play steel guitar like him. He has his completely own style. Not Hawaiian sounding or Western sounding just totally Steve Howe / Yes sounding

a masterpiece of YES this whole album is amazing Patrick Moraz puts his keyboard stamp on Yes on this song.

Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' condensed into 22 minutes of tension, explosions, triumph and regrets. Some of Jon Andersons most direct lyrics ever - negotiations to avoid war ('the pen wont stay the demons wings, the hour approaches pounding out the devils sermon'), the decision to go to war ('burn their childrens laughter - on to hell'), fixing bayonets ('grasp metal to gun'), followed by the thrill of the cavalry charge and the chaos of cannons. An eventual triumph and victory march follows, but then a realisation of the cost of the victory (and defeat) dawns. For me this has the widest range of emotions of any of Yes's epics - it was wonderful to see your reactions to this. If you get the chance, I recommend you listen to the Steven Wilson remix of this - to my ears its a bit less cluttered, and improves the sound of the drums in particular. Thanks so much for doing this !

The "victory" scene after the battle scene, before "Soon", is for me, one of the most powerful and emotive sections ever in rock music.

Don’t be concerned about weeping…I’m 66 years old, have been listening to the masters since 1970 and still weep every time I listen to this masterpiece. It brings me to think of how lost and tortured the world has become….was The Gates of Delirium prophetic? Where did we go wrong?…..and yet….there is hope and energy that is indescribably beautiful and gives us a ‘Reason to be here’. ❤️

The first section is the build up to war, the "catastrophic" middle section depicts war and the heat of battle. Then comes the aftermath, both victory and devastation. Then, in the midst of all the rubble... the need for hope. Put simply, it's a masterpiece.

Bruford gets a lot of well-deserved credit for his earlier work with Yes. But can we all agree that Alan White absolutely kills it in this track. Amazing drumming.

This track is simply a cornerstone of prog rock. Brilliant and unmissable

The end is incredible and amazing 😍🧡 What a song and the voice of Jon Anderson is magnifying the music ... Que c'est beau 🤩 YES forever 😍

‘Gates of Delirium’ is the very reason I also love ‘Tales from Topographic Oceans’. When Yes does twenty something minute compositions, it’s pure bliss.

Nick, here's what Steve Hackett said once about how deeply music touched him: "Romanticism is a big thing for me. I express it musically. I am almost made naked through it, or I used to be. When I used to hear a piece of music that I really loved, I couldn't look at people, because I would go red in the face. It touched me so deeply that I was made naked by it."

Crying like a baby listening this masterpiece. Cheers from Brazil 🥰

I was the 17 year old in 1974 listening to YES and then finding Tales from Topographical Oceans then Relayer. I have listened to YES now for 51 years. Worn out albums and tapes and All. Thank you for your comments!

You're right, this piece does take several listens to get it. You also need to understand the War and Peace theme and the three separate sections of: Call To War,, The Battle, and Aftermath. One you get it, you realize it's one of the most dense, complex, and incredible pieces of music, with one of the most beautiful endings ever. It was cutting edge in its time and even so today. Glad to watch you react to it.

Brother ,I cry too YES all the time too and proud of it , the beauty of this song is amazing after the war comes peace and that is Patrick Moraz on keyboards, another virtuoso .

I was 16 years old in 1986 lying on my bed with my headphones on listening to this and I started crying at the exact same spot when the guitar came in. I had no idea why but I just started crying. This video blew my mind. I can’t believe it. I thought I was the only one lol. Wow…This is the best reaction I’ve ever seen. Note: Rick Wakeman wasn’t on this album. He left after Topographic Oceans. The keyboardist on this album was Patrick Moraz. Love you guys Edit: I knew why I was crying lol. It was the most beautifully sad melody I’d ever heard.

Played the "soon" section at my Mum's funeral, sounded amazing in the old catholic church, echoing around the building.

I feel so blessed that I was able to personally let Alan White know how much I appreciated his drumming on Gates. He was so gracious an approachable. For me this song takes 1st place with CTTE a close 2nd.

Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth. You have to remember in 74 a fifteen yr old understood symphonic music so in effect Yes was the ultimate symphony but on rock instruments. And God bless them for it. Onward to Going For The One or Tormato for a rock Yes.

When these albums were released there was no internet where one could read a review. You just bought the LP, took it home, put it on the turntable and gave it a spin. I remember being thoroughly confused by CTTE and Tales on first listen and the same with Relayer, but this one soon became one of my favorites of all time. The 'battle' sequence still blows my mind. There are places where half the band seems to be in one time signature and the other two a different one. The talent to come up with this music is incomprehensible.

It was so cute when you guys broke down emotionally at the same time during the Soon section of the song 😂

No shame in crying to the ending of this song. They perfectly captured the stages of going to war, fighting the war, and dealing with the aftermath of having done so. The music is so emotive in the last third of this song, with its appeal to having an open heart, following the sun and the light, giving us a reason to be here, it breaks me every time. When they played "Soon" as part of the Big Medley my first time seeing Yes in 1979, I was sitting in the arena with 14,000 other people, with tears running down my face. As a band, they just have the ability to reach into you and play your emotions so well.

Amigos,en este LP no estuvo Rick Wakeman.Estuvo en los teclados Patrick Moraz! Otro grande de los teclados y sintetizadores.Me gustó mucho su reacción,porque significa que se conectaron con esta loca y bella música de mi banda favorita,desde que la descubrí como a los 17 años. ❤️Saludos y un abrazo desde Chile🇨🇱

Rick Wakeman rebelled against the excesses of Tales from Topographic Oceans and quit Yes. He did not play the keys on "Relayer". That's Patrick Moraz on keyboards. I think he's a Swiss guy with a massive Afro who had a bit of an unorthodox style rather that the classical background of Wakeman. This is the only album upon which Moraz played. He eventually became the keyboardist for the Moody Blues.

When this album came out I excitedly purchased it and took it home (to my dorm room) for a first listen. It was actually my first and only purchased Yes album since my suitemates in college owned and played the previous Yes albums a lot so I didn't ever buy them. I remember that my first listen to Relayer was overwhelming as I feel it is by far their deepest, most complex album, with liberal use of dissonance and purposely challenging tonality. I also feel it is, as a whole, their masterpiece album. Others of course have brilliant moments throughout and I am by no means criticizing them, but to me Relayer is just such a fantastic journey that is best experienced in it's totality. From wild, dissonant mayhem, to quiet, heart wrenching beauty, this album has it all. Thanks for the memories!

The best part of that time was to not only have these masterpieces of Yes music being released....but to be able to go see it live every year.....multiple times......and to be able to smoke during the concerts! Love them 70s!!

This song was inspired by Jon Anderson reading Leon Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Fun facts:Relayer is the only Yes album that Steve Howe used his Fender Telecaster on every song. He uses the Fender Pedal Steel and the Coral Electric Sitar on To Be Over but this I dubbed the Telecaster album. Jon introduced the song to the band by playing it on the piano. That last pause where Nick said it was the most progressive Yes he has heard so far; did you notice the bass guitar tone changed? It’s because Chris switched from the Rickenbacker to his Guild Fretless which has murky sound. Musically Jon said they were listening to: Mahavishnu Orchestra Return To Forever Weather Report Relayer is brimming with those band’s influences.

These masterpieces still bring tears to my eyes. The absolute genius of these folks that allow one to paint scenes in your mind. Keyboards on this album were Patrick Moraz. Bless you two. Be happy.

Alexia you're a tough cookie for sitting in on this timeless masterpiece. Woohoo! Sending positive vibes to Jim, keep on keeping on brother! I hate to hear a fellow Yes lover is ailing, here's to a speedy recovery!This indeed was a great session. Thanks Nick and Alexia for being YOU! Love and respect! ✌️❤️☺️

I was 14 when this came out, but after "Tales From Topographic Oceans" it wasn't a great stretch once you understood the war theme of the track, and the means of conveying a battle through instruments, with the peaceful conclusion at the end. It gets better with repeated listenings, so much so that it's still my favourite prog. rock track after nearly 50 years of listening to it. And Wilson's recent surround mix adds even more detail to an already very dense stereo separation.

Great reaction to a great piece of music. It’s actually Patrick Moraz on keyboards on this one. Rick had left temporarily (comes back on the Going For The One album). And Nick, you are right on about this being close to fusion: Yes had recently seen Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer and Rick Laird in concert and they were blown away and inspired to push their music in that direction. Relayer was the result of that. Steve Howe is playing pedal steel, an instrument usually associated with country music. But he created a whole new approach to it and it added so much to Yes. And crying to beautiful music is one of the great pleasures in life. It’s like laughing to comedy. It’s natural. Anyone who doesn’t have that pleasure, well, that’s their problem. I got to see this album performed live when Yes was touring it back in 1974, I think it was. It was also broadcast live on WNEW-FM in NY. I have that bootleg, which is available all over the place. The DJ’s who were hosting had pretty much the same reaction that you both did. As did I. Moraz and Bill Bruford collaborated together on a very cool concept album, “I”. Highly recommended.

My favorite vocalist for 45 years straight - no question.

Only Steve Howe can produce a lap-steel guitar sound that Transends almost as a master violinist ? amazing.

I am not a religious man but I think I am a spiritualistic man there are moments in YES and Jon Andersons music that are so moving they do bring me to tears .

The coda section is one of the most beautiful pieces in the history of recorded music. Patrick Moraz did the keyboards on this album.

In this thing we call progressive rock , it's incredible how you get so much of an emotional impact at the end of a side of music , after all the bombast and crazy soundscapes , that we all know is just timeless virtuosity of the very highest order. We YES fans are truly blessed. 😍 Thanks Nick and Lex.

Don't feel bad Soon always makes me cry too 😁

The difference of course is Patrick Moraz replacing Rick Wakeman on keyboards. This is the only time they sounded like this. When Wakeman came back for the next album, the sound got back to the classic Yes sound of say, Close toi the Edge etc. Peace, Ken #nicknlexrequest

Amazing reaction both of you. You got it Lex . The chaos and futility of war followed by the most peaceful and loving end that is “Soon”. Straight to your soul Lex. And Nick, it is a beautiful , caring and peaceful soul that can cry and share openly when something touches you. Pure Love….this is what the Sacred music that is Yes is all about. Love, Light and Peace to you both.

Saw this performed in Memphis in 1975. It's hard to speak about it because it was such a mind blowing experience.

It's great to see you two discover this music for the first time. Many of us grew up with YES, and it's good to see their music remains timeless

Relayer is definitely the deep end of the Yes swimming pool. It's a grower that rewards repeat listenings. This album is top 5 Yes for this listener with The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to The Edge and Drama taking the other four spots. Top rank stuff. Also, keyboardist Rick Wakeman had left the band before this album was recorded. Patric Moraz was his replacement. This was the only Yes album he was part of. Rick Wakeman returned for their next release.

Patrick Moraz was the keyboardist for this album, he influence Yes into Fusion Jazz. Jon Anderson wrote this song as a musical representation of War and Peace. You can hear the build up at the first part of the song when the tribes are discussing if to go to war, then you hear the battle with the sword clashes and them there is Victory and finally Peace.. Soon o Soon the light!

Guys. I was 13 years old when I got this album. My parent could not support it and could not understand how I could listen to it day after day. I had to use headphones when people were at home because the Stereo was on the living room for the use of everyone. I will never be tired of listening to it and I think that this is the definition of a classic: Its capacity to transcend to other generations. I am glad to see you go with openness to visit and embrace it. Thank you.

Soon gets everybody with a soul. It is the sound of redemption for all mankind.

Bought this in the month it came out. One of the finest slices of sound ever put to tape 👍 Patrick Moraz at his best on keyboards - his solo album ‘The Story of I’ is also a lesson in the execution of fusion - top job guys and all the best from the UK.

One snippet for those that really like Jon Anderson's voice that don't know...Jon is a guest vocalist on the King Crimson track "Lizard" from 1970. The song takes up an album side and, to me, is one his best vocal performances. The music on that track is outstanding throughout. Maybe one day a track for NicknLex to explore on Patreon.

The emotion of Soon is overwhelming. No human is immune to it.

Of the 49 times I have see YES live, this tour ranked right up there. Was unbelievable. YES is one of a kind.

Yes performed this song, and all their long masterpieces, in NYC, Radio City, two nights before 9/11 when the gates of delirium, for reals, crashed down all around us. Jon's being there, and the loving very real exchange of baraka between band, orchestra and audience was palpable, and kept us in good stead during our worst nightmares. G.O.D. therefore has a particular meaning for me. Once, when they played at an outdoor venue in Charlotte, I decided, even after it had started, to go and listen from the parking lot. On the way there, a large lightning storm parked itself, knocked out the streets, all in conspiracy so that when I did arrive I would get to hear the middle war section in the midst of a lightning storm. These are the days of miracle and wondrousness. Make Jimbo get well, and thanks again for making my day...twice.

I was in my Freshman year of art college living in the dorm in 74 with other YES fanatics & we would have monthly music listening parties on LSD/SHROOMS before going off to explore the park & NATURE on campus. Hey, I loved that you all were ONLY a 4th into it but were already SO OVERWELMED not yet knowing what MADNESS was to come!!! LOL !!!! NOTE: This album was more FUSION because of PATRICK MORAZ on KEYS. (Rick left after TALES only to return on their next LP, GFTO. Patrick's Solo album, "The Story of i ' (released just after RELAYER), also demonstrates his Jazzy contribution which I consider a 'companion' LP to RELAYER. Like most YES Epic masterpieces this takes several listens to truly comprehend all the aspects comprised throughout this stroke of genius. Jon's lyrics here are comprehensible yet even the music alone tells the story of marching towards the HELL that is WAR which we hope leads us to PEACE & enlightened WISDOM that we ultimately seek. It NEVER ends without bringing me to tears... as do the endings of CTTE, RITUAL & AWAKEN

I share your ability to emote while listening to this song. It's a very moving piece. It never fails to bring me to tears. Particularly rhe SOON section of this masterpiece.

Beautiful reactions both. I've been listening to this music for almost 50 years and it still has me in bits when I listen to it.

Really pleased you finally did this. My favourite piece of music of all time. I remember rushing to record store on day of release. It cost the princely sum of £3:49!! As you say Nick, took a couple of listens to really get all that’s going on but ever since then has never sounded old or dated. The concept of the song being the stupidity of war etc… then going into the battle sequence coming out into ‘Soon’ this wonderful hymn for peace. Never bettered in my humble opinion and gosh, I’ve been listening to this song for 48 years now!!

I just want to say that this album would have been impossible to make without Patrick Moraz. Wakeman is fantastic, but Moraz burns and blazes with unquenchable fire. Also, the Brazilian stuff came directly from him.

Besides the pedal steel guitar on the Soon track, what's amazing is that Howe recorded the rest with a Telecaster. In my sophomore year in college, we were anxious because of Wakeman's departure and how Moraz could fill in. Needless to say the fears evaporated.

Headphones existed in the 70’s but most music lovers had a component stereo system (separate AM/FM receiver amp, Turntable, tape deck, EQ and BIG SPEAKER cabinets made of wood separated in the room.) We listened loud in hi-fidelity.

This was a very special reaction… I had a similar experience when I heard this for the first time in 1976. It took several listens to really start to “grasp “ this extraordinary piece, but the transition from chaos/war/victory to realization of the impact of war, to the crying out to the Higher Power for peace and hope… gets me every time. Over 45 years later and tears still well up when I listen to this. Please re-listen uninterrupted a few times, and it will open up in ways you can’t imagine… blessings to you for your great work of keeping this music alive.

Anyone who blocks their own emotional response and never allows themselves to shed a tear, is out of balance and headed for trouble, imo... I got teared up watching your reaction, I knew it would touch you the way it did me all those many years ago when I first heard "Soon". You'd have to be a robot not to feel some emotion at this song. The lyrics for "The Gates of Delirium" seem to get more relevant everytime I re-listen. Love you two, the sweetest couple on KZfaq with a very informed and caring group of subscribers.

Nick, I can't sspeak for other teens in the 1970s, but looking back, I think I can now explain why Yes resonated with me so much when I was 13 in 1973 and Yes became the first Rock band whom I closely followed. When I grew up in the 60s and 70s, music was very integrated into the school system in California. A Music Appreciation/Music history class was mandatory in elementary school and playing an instrument and taking a band class were strongly encouraged. During time period, these classes focused primarily on the various periods of development of European and Western music with an emphasis on Classical music. We listened to Gregorian chants, tg3 Renaissance period, Baroque, Classical and Romantic period and early 20th Century with an emphasis on early Jazz and Swing. Remember, this wasn't a music class. This was just what we covered in music appreciation. If you took band, you were also encouraged to learn and listen to Classical and Jazz music. I took trumpet, but I never learned much and I sucked at it. I did however listen to the records in class. Also, teachers would sometimes play Jazz or Classical music softly in the background during Art class or English class. In high school, the "cool" teachers English would let student bring in their Rock albums and we would analyze the lyrics as a form of modern poetry. I remember getting a few of my teachers to listen to Prog Rock albums in Junior High school, under the premise that they could point out the connections to Classical, Jazz, Country, Blues and Rock 'n' Roll. Most of my teachers instantly connected with Prog Rock, because the older generations at the time mostly listen to Jazz or Classical music and only the younger teachers grew up with Rock 'n' Roll. Basically, we were being groomed as kids to appreciate the music of our parents, even in school and we enjoyed it, but it did seem very old fashioned. When I discovered Prig Rock in Junior High, the lights suddenly came on. I could tell that these were formerly educated musicians. Suddenly, all of the interesting but semi-boring music that we were forced to listen in school, became instantly cool, because now I was hearing it in a Rock format and it seemed new and fresh. It never seemed too "dense" complex, complicated or noisy to me. It made perfect sense too me. These guys were taking all that stuff that we learned about in school and mixing it into a Rock 'n' Roll stew or Gumbo. I think that many young people are missing music history from their education today. This explains why you, Nick, can listen to a piece of Prog Rock and you'll hear Bach or Beethoven or Jazz or Country chords or Spanish guitar, because you know something about music. Other young people on other music restriction channels will point out the Classical organ and piano parts and they'll call it "Funeral music" or "Church music" or "Horror" or "Halloween" musician, because they have never heard a pipe organ or chamber music or anything in the Classical genre. They're not used to hearing polyrythms or polyphonic sounds. Now, this is not to say that evert teenagers in the 70s got Prog music. Many of them didn't like it. Therefore it was preferred by a more select crowd. I remember seeing Journey during their Progish period (first albums, before Steve Perry). The concert was a total sausage fest. One year later, I saw them with Steve Perry when they played more Pop oriented music and the concert was a sea of screaming, crying, swooning little teenage girls. Prog was not super popular with the ladies. It was music for nerds.

I'm 59 ... music often moves me to tears (of joy)

I must be weird and out there also because this is my absolute favorite music 🙂❤ 70"s Yes, particularly Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Going for the One are the albums I never tire of. Nothing else really compares with it.

:) not everyone listening to Yes had to chemical help! The music is enough of a trip... And we all lapped it up, not difficult. We wanted complexity, an excuse to listen to it again and again...

I feel an avalanche of emotions falling over me when I listen to this incredible piece of music. Always ending with a feeling of bliss when the music fades away.

Saw this live in Louisville in 1976. Mind blown. Sounded this good and even better in person.

Yes has always timed with Chris Squire and not the drums. They are the masters of complex Heavenly/Celestial symphonic interludes,complicated riffs and drastic and sudden time changes and no other group comes close. 🎯 Cris Squire,Bill Bruford,Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson are and we’re the best there ever was on the base,drums,keyboards and vocals in that order. Soon is unbelievable ! Been into r&r since the Mid 60’s and a Yes fan since 1968 and this is the most beautiful ending to any song I have ever heard in my 70 yrs.on this Earth ! 🥰

The first part of the song before the "Soon" part, to me, is just a devious and very effective set-up to that very poignant part. "Soon" then hits like a laser beam. "Soon" is truly one of the most beautiful pieces of music from the 70s. Another album you must listen to is Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'. Now that album will stir some emotions.

Such majesty and beauty all wrapped up in daunting virtuosity. This piece among many others from these incredible people always brings me to tears.

Patrick Moraz has the be the most underrated and underappreciated keyboardist in all of prog. Comes on to fill the impossibly big shoes of Rick Wakeman, and introduces himself like *this*. Perfection.

You two are amazing. First off though, Rick Wakeman isn't on this album. The keyboard player is Patrick Moraz, a Swiss keyboardist who was known primarily as a jazz/jazz fusion artist. He took over for Wakeman who didn't like the direction the band was going in. He returned for the followup album, "Going for the One." Nick hit it on the head when he referenced Jazz Fusion. It's definitely here. -- I don't think this is actually their. most "prog" song, though it is the most successful musically of their "out in left field" works (along with Sound Chaser...) I think that honor goes to side 3 of Tales from Topographic Oceans - "The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun.)" ...but back to "Gates" - it is a definite journey and the lyrics are some of the boldest most biting that Jon ever wrote. The pain and anger of oppression, the eruption of war, the delirium of battle, the anthem of victory, the realization of the devastation of violence, and then the rays of the sun piercing the clouds, smoke and ash to lead us through to a realization of who and what we are, guiding us toward a better life. Truly magnificent. And tears? Yes, Nick, if a man cannot shed tears either due to sadness or from overwhelming beauty, something is wrong with them. The true strength of any person, woman, man, or everything that lies between, is shown in their courage to release and surrender. ("After all, your soul will still surrender. After all, don't doubt your part be ready to be loved.") When I heard this for the first time back in the mid 70s my brain couldn't sort it out. It took more than a few listens because there was NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT, either in modern music or in classical music. One has to learn to hear it. These days, it may take less time to decode and parse it all out, but all the effort is worth it. And to this day, there is nothing else like it. A masterpiece amid a field of masterpieces. My best to you both - healing energy to Lex and kudos to Nick. Cheers. (oh...P.S. Steve uses a pedal steel guitar during the last part "Soon" which he uses on many other tracks: two sets of six strings set up horizontally, played with a metal slide and pedals to help control attack, sustain, etc. I'd love to see you react to some of the better live footage of them performing - I got to see the play this one twice and each time I could not believe that it was possible for anyone to perform it live...amazing..............)

They don’t call it the Gates of Delirium for nothing.

In my teens, when Yes was beginning, I was in band. Trumpet then French horn. I developed an appreciation for classical music. Yes was a bridge between rock and classical music for me and yes, my family didn't understand why I liked it. You could call this tune Opus 74 and it would work.

I still cry EVERY TIME! I bought the vinyl when it was first released ❤ I’m old ✌️

Huge Prog fan! Rush, Yes, ELP, Floyd. Hands down this is my favorite Prog song of all time. Complete perfection.

tengo 67 años y jamás he conocido un grupo mejor y más genial que yes. la voz de Anderson es de otro mundo, un mundo aparte. musicalmente, son lo mejor que jamás haya conocido. gracias YES.

I know this late. The Son will lead us, our reason to be here. As a believer in Jesus , so affirming and beautiful. I know He is listening and happy someone is giving Him props.

I was so lucky to see Yes at the Loftus Road Football Stadium in London in 1975, on their 'Relayer Tour'. They played this epic of course, and it was amazing.

Alan White is on fire in this song. In my opinion his best work. Great reaction guys!!!

Your reaction to this brillant piece of music mirrors very much my own: I was 14 years old listening to the vinyl (yes, I'm that old ...), wearing some very nice headphones. It was early summer, just as the sun was setting - I was overwhelmed sonically and just flabbergastedly in awe by the experience, so the next day I went to the local library, handed the nice people back the record and told them to listen to it, if they hadn't already. Then I went straight to the nearest record store and ordered a copy of Relayer, Close To The Edge and Going For The One, all of which have pretty much been my Holy Yes Trinity ever since. Now I own all their studio releases, except the two newest ones and have seen the band live twice. During my late teens I was one of two drummers in an eight man band which did a handful of progressive rock shows, covering amongst others Close To The Edge, Kashmir and Carouselambra (LZ), Minstrel In Tne Gallery and Farm On The Freeway (Jethro Tull) and the Duke suite by Genesis (Behind The Lines, Duchess, Guide Vocal, Turn It On Again, Duke's Travels and Duke's End). The Encore consisted of Epitaph and Starless by King Crimson. ...

Born in 1992 but Gates of Delirium is my favourite Yes epic- and Yes undoubtedly peaked in 1974.

This amazing reaction proves one thing: You were both born for Yes! Much love to you both and your continuing journey.❤😢

"Almost a caucophony" that is EXACTLY the words I use to describe the best Yes works. Seemingly discordant avante garde tracks that somehow merge from the chaos into one beautiful, sublime whole. You get it.

I remember when I first acquired the album. I was familiar with some of the earlier Yes and I had been listening to Wakeman's solo efforts - Six Wives of Henry VIII and Journey to the Center of the Earth. I had been so immersed in Wakeman's classically-influenced style that I found Gates of Delirium very jarring because of his obvious absence. I think I listened to this track three times before it kind of sunk in what Jon Anderson was saying and came to the conclusion that I really did like what I was hearing. Mind you; I was sixteen and listening with a less-mature ear than I came to have over time. Today, I view it as a slight departure from 'classic Yes' but very sophisticated and ultimately satisfying.

I've been to 13 Yes tours from '73-'99. Tuesday evening, July the 8th in '75... I was so stoked!!! I had received my driving permit that afternoon and 5 hours later it off to the Relayer Tour with mt best friend and Yes cohort (Row 15 on the floor). That was my second Yes show. During Steve's epic steel parts in GoD (not a slide guitar), his audio feed went out and he was sitting there hollerin' expletives that I'd never heard before! Roadies finally got it fixed and the transition to "Soon" was flawless. BTW, Rick left the band in '74 after Tales, Patrick Moraz (EXCEPTIONALY BRILLIANT musician - no cape) took his place for two years until Rick came back.

Hola. My name is Toni Costa from Barcelona (Catalonia). I am 64 years old and have been listening to "Relayer" for 50 years, especially "The Gates of Delirium", my favorite song by my beloved Yes. The ending "Soon" will play at my funeral. And yes, I liked it from the first time. Thanks. A hug

We used to drop L.S.D. and listen to this. The most spiritual experience I ever shared.

You really should react to the LIVE version of the symphonic tour. It's amazing. 😘👍

First, happy to hear that Jim Wilde is recovering. I could watch you two react to Yes for hours and hours and I almost knew there would be tears. I'm 68 years old and have listened to this song numerous time. Still brings tears after appx 50 years of listening to this, my favorite band.

I'm always in tears by the end. This is an epic creation and should be heard by all!

Great reaction guys! This is the epitome of progressive YES! The emotions that this song takes you through is truly a trip. When you get a chance and you're in the right "mood", put your headphones on, lay down on the couch and listen to this again. You will hear something you missed and have an even deeper understanding of the song the next time you listen to it...I promise. YES...the greatest prog group ever! Enjoy!

I bought Relayer when it was released back in 1974, I had other Yes Albums, this one was on another level. My first time seeing Yes live was in 1975, when I was about to turn 17, when they toured on this album. Hearing this live was amazing. Thanks you both for the great reaction.

I saw Yes play this live during the Relayer tour, '75 or '76. Anaheim stadium. Yes played for three hours or so. A huge crowd of 70,000. When they played the "Soon" section that closes this track, the whole stadium was silent, hypnotized.

You two are amazing. You have my heart. Yes is my favorite band. There were a few of us back in high school in the early 70's who got it. Yes was special. Yes will always be special. Saw the Relayer tour my freshman year in college at the Coliseum in Madison, WI back in 1974. I'm so glad you both get it. Their music will always inspire and move me. RIP Chris and Alan.

The first time I heard "Gates" was in concert, Cleveland Stadium in 1975. It transformed my taste in music instantaneously... soooo mind blowingly beautiful.

And don't forget folks they performed this piece live... think about that ❤ it is madness they are putting the insanity of war into music

It's incredibly powerful watching two lovely people break down in tears at exactly the same moment you have so many times... so many times...

Still gets me all these years later.. can play it and hear some different part each time.