One of the greatest things about youtube, being able to see all this old never-seen footage. Thanks for posting, just awesome.

Rick Wakeman is just a young chap of 25 here...

Two Master Prog legends who were then trail blazers and opened the way with so much skill and virtuosity as musicians. I saw that tour a few days after this interview in Montreal at the Forum, that event changed my life forever, thanks for posting!

It was like a competition for who could talk the quietest :-)

I saw Yes a month after this interview...in March, 1974 in San Diego....I was 14...my first concert ever...it changed me forever...still a Yes fan!🤗

Two musical genius rockers.

I was at that show at the Garden. It was great.

Wow, Rick spoke well of the show, and this was during the Tales tour.

Legendary artists.They were young &,probably shy,speaking above a whisper.Their music speaks for them.

This makes me smile. It seems like they are generally at ease in this interview.Even though the rigors of touring seem apparent they still manage to smile and laugh.Old Grey Whistle had a way of doing that. Love that show.

Ah! Steve Howe in his prime... the reason I picked up the instrument! Thank You.

I love that wakeman mentioned the Philadelphia spectrum !

Interesting to see how soft spoken Rick is here, compared to later years.

Rick on the cusp of enormous success as a solo artist...

Thank you so much for posting this. It’s fascinating. One of my favourite ever bands. Two of my favourite ever musicians

This is SO classic: whispering Bob Harris, Wakey drinking booze - or coffee - and The Maestro, who is obviously stoned and smiling up a storm! Thanks for the upload! 🎤 🎹 🎸

How nice. I saw them the following month, March 10 1974. The Tales tour. This brings back some great memories.

Thanks for posting saw Yes at least 30 plus times starting in mid-late 70s always professional on stage and came to play each time. Cheers to all members. Favorite albums: Close to the Edge , Relayer and of course Yes album. Be safe all

These blokes Opened up a great bit Of musical genius

I can’t fathom the talent between those two just sitting there casually shootin’ the breeze.

Steve can't stop to smile

I saw this tour in Los Angeles … my first YES concert ❤

Love this interview of two of my favorite incredibly talented musicians. 42 shows in 45 days, wow! The physical and emotional toll must be exhausting. Wakeman is hilarious, "I'm going home to try and convince my wife to get rid of the dog she just bought!"

Wow some of these comments. People age, you know? Even genius’s like Steve and Rick, it is allowed. Happier note: I didn’t get to appreciate them until the early 80’s but how cool it would have been to be able to see them live in ‘74. You’re so lucky if you did.

Such great instrumental virtuosos-so fortunate to have seen them twice in the 70's.

So cool to know that the implied album was to become Relayer, and that Rick was still a part of it at this point.

These are real musicians. Today, we don't have new entertainers of this caliber. Humanity goes through cycles...in the 1970s you had virtuosos like these gentlemen Kids today don't want to work as hard because the standards are lower. You can become famous by having very little talent. These gentlemen worked very hard for years and years to get as good as they are. And there was an industry that supported fine talent and creativity. An industry that was run by musicians or music afficionados. Today we don't have a real music industry. We have corporate executives that know nothing about music and keep new artists with new ideas out. They tell you what they want or you are out. That's why modern music is so simple and boring and sounds the same. We need a rebirth of the music industry..a renaissance. And industry where the executives get out of the way, shut up and give the artist's freedom to create and let the people decide what they like. and we need virtuosos like these gentlemen to be the heros for aspiring kids who want to be musicians. These gentlemen have inspired millions of kids to learn how to play the guitar and keyboard. We need a musical Renaissance. Today's music industry is in the dark ages.

Such pleasant young gents in interviews, but monsters on stage. 🎶

Wow two of the grandfathers of progressive music at the age of grandsons. Great vintage video, thanks for posting.

Great interview!

Yes compositions were complex. Amazing that they were able to play them live and pull it off.

Sooo young 😮

Wow! This is a great interview! Look how young they looked!

... i´m not kidding .... listening to this interview/document is for me like watching artists as talented as Mozart /Bach/ Wagner ...from the late XXth century ...

Love RW, love SH, love Yes!

Thank you so much for this! I’ve never seen an interview with them from when they were young.

Amazing how Rick is the center of piece. Thanks for posting.

I’m 34 and falling in love with this band. So ahead of their time. Tales from Topographic Oceans, Close to the Edge, and Fragile would be instant masterpieces in the modern prog world if released today. It’s insane to me those were made in the early 70s. No offense to that era. I personally think the late 60s to the late 70s was the best time period for music. Maybe a little early 80s stuff too. So many great tunes. Close to the Edge and The Revealing Science of God are my current favorite tunes by these guys. I think I found my new favorite band.

So good. Thanks for posting this!!!

Thanks for posting this interesting item!

This tv program always made good stuff

Wow! This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing! Happier days...

Whoa... young Steve Howe voice. So different from his later years.

Thanks for sharing this great footage

Enjoyed that - thank you very much.

My Heroes! Thanks for posting this!

Thanks!

The two best players in Yes. I have always wanted to see them together. Odd that this is Topographic Oceans days and Rick is happy with the tour.

What a blast! This apparently was in between the first two times I saw Yes in Feb 1974; saw them both nights (MSG).

man oh man. they were soooo young, and soooo BRILLIANT !

''l go hope and try try persuade Roz to get rid of the dog she bought'' Ha! He really was a living doll, and a _BRILLIANT_ technician/composer.

Damn. This is the youngest I’ve ever seen them. Sound pretty mature for such young guys. Great band.

Strange to that by the time Rick knew ie was going to leave ... We've got no impression here by their talking !

Wow! Thanks for such a rarity!

Thanks for sharing that! First time I saw yes live was Feb 7th of that year... first show of the Tales tour in Gainesville Fl. (i think I have the date right)

Such cool guys.

The power of KZfaq, seeing all this stuff hidden away.........but now for all to see, well done Google

keep the whispering down, bob is trying to whisper

Love the 'Starsky' cardigan! I still want one of those!

Those were the days - I was in high school and they changed my life. I learned to play from listening to Bruford and White.

Saw Yes on the Union show at Wembley early 90s. Excellent.

And later that year Rick had a number 1 album played Crystal Palace and the rest is history

Aww this is _beautiful!_ Fresh outa bed ..poor boys! They never even had a chance to brush their hair! Fabulous!

2:02 Steve Frog

Wakeman had informed the band after the completion of the recordings that he would leave after Yes and management had persuaded him to do the tour, this according to Chris Welch's book Close To The Edge, which means that in this interview RW and SH was well aware that their ways would soon part.

They sound like respected musicians. Exactly.

ASMR pioneers

Why is everyone whispering? Lol, its hard enough making out the accents. Nice to see Rick and Steve in their prime regardless and happy and smiling

They were just babies back then cracks me up

KZfaq is simply so good. Peace and Love.

I always thought Wakeman had departed by 1974. They were talking about a possible new LP that year (presumably what was to become Relayer) which he didn't perform on.

Wow, RW so serious back then

Thanks so much for this, its such a pity they're not friends anymore.

weird thing is.. Rick would leave soon after this as they worked on and released Relayer in the same year

Being that my 1st (And BEST) YES concert of x 10, would the evening show @ the Spectrum on 2/16/74. So Rick using the word FANTASIC to describe that show make it all the more satifying and prove as I was always saying that Rick was using the exuse of leaving the band not so much about the TALES LP itself but was more about him wanting to tour his new JOURNEY album that same year. Which I witnessed on 10/14/74 @ MSG, NYC PS: My 2nd YES, also in '74 for there RELAYER Tour, on 11/20/74 @ MSG, NYC. '1974 was the year YES became a SUPERSTAR band after selling out two major in the larger US venues. '1974 was the "YEAR of YES"!!

Amazes me...just how different British and American speech behaviors are. The British are basically humble whisperers...whereas Americans...are just loud. Obnoxious even. I can barely hear Steve or Rick...lol. I think I prefer it that way.

Good stuff

Rick Wakeman's accent has become noticeably broader over the years. Cor blimey gov, ain't you a proper geezer?

You can tell here Wakeman was on the road to his first heart attack, which would happen a few months later. He looks like he'd put on about three stone here compared to what he looked like a year earlier. Combine that with chain smoking, vast amounts of booze daily, and a schedule that would put a healthy person on their back after a few weeks, it's no surprise he had health problems in the mid 70s

And 4 months later, after Wakeman's solo album Journey To The Center of the Earth debuted at Number 1 on the charts he gave his notice to Yes and went off to do his own thing. He came back 3 years later because he was skint and living on park benches.

I thought this was Spinal Tap when this showed up in my feed.

two of the greatest ever and they don't speak anymore----big time prog tragedy.

Jesus, they just looked like tall boys at that time. So young! I was only 11 in 74, I only saw them in 2002 live, they were still very good. They seemed more relaxed then.

Interesting moment at 4:00 - 4:07 when Rick says "things perhaps you wanted to do on the album" - watch Steve ;)

They were both exhausted, Wakeman especially so. He was already complaining about the band's insistence on playing all four sides of 'Topographic' live, saying it was 'killing him'. Also, the reaction of audiences to this musical bombardment was unnerving him. He could easily see, from the stage, the boredom and restlessness on the faces of many in the crowd, the shouts of 'Roundabout!!' that echoed periodically amongst the crowd. To Wakeman, it was clear that playing the entire album live to the exclusion of all else was a mistake but, since the other members wouldn't listen, he soon quit the band.

Kind of hard to believe they did that tour - the first one with an elaborate Roger Dean stage set - with 'only' 22 crew. And this is only 2 weeks into 6 weeks of touring almost nonstop... of course, they did that in part because it was 'cheaper' to not take days off (and not have to pay crew for doing nothing) in between. Still - consider those 22 people had to move all of the gear from one city to the next, put everything together, run the show, take it all back down, pack it back into the trucks and head on to the next city _every single day for six weeks_ with only 3 days off.

Steve smiling!!

Bill Bruford left Yes because he felt the band couldn't record a better album than Close To The Edge , and joined King Crimson instead . Rick hated Tales From Topographic Oceans, feeling it was way over the top , and that Jon Anderson was losing the plot with his long winded tantric themes etc . When he re-joined the band after Moraz left , it was no coincidence that Going For The One was a return to the more rockier style of Fragile .

Nice shirt Steve

They are all "...Good People..." Do you love everyone you've ever worked with?

I believe they're aliens...too much talent and creativity to be from here

Rick thought "digital watches were a pretty neat idea..."

I think I saw them on that tour. Did they have giant pods on the stage? Those things that are shaped like segments of an orange or a tangerine? I was on gympsun weed and was really flying . . . REALLY flying! Friends told me that I was talking to myself. I don't even remember going into the arena.

They talk about the spectrum which is located in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Yes fans were the best that they played in front of in America. From the very beginning the Philadelphia area embraced Yes from the very beginning. Tales from Topographic Oceans is my favorite Yes album. It is my favorite line up. Things would take a bad turn when Rick Wakeman left the band.

The Phila Spectrum was great for sound in it's day. Many happy memories from there.

Nowadays, Rick Wakeman looks like Whispering Bob - and Steve Howe resembles Norman Tebbit!

How old are these guys here?

I attended the show they are talking about at Madison Square Garden. It was my first Yes concert. Unfortunately I partook of the old lysergic and remember very little of the show.

Rick was just about to leave at this point, a cool point in Yes history, Relayer just around the corner

SPEAK UP BOB!!!!