Later Yes is still Yes and Yes can handle anything. Well said Chod! They added Trevor Rabin’s guitar and vocals along with his song writing abilities. Trevor also sing leads on a few songs.

Beautiful reaction. Thx 😊

Yes Is The Band! Yes it is.

Yes indeed, YES is YES.😎🙏

The drum tracks on the album this was from Big Generator were mostly recorded in a castle in Italy which provided some great acoustics and ambience. I believe at the time this was being made drummer Alan White had an endorsement deal with Tama. The track that really showcases the Big Generator drum sound the best is Shoot High Aim Low. Big Generator also has two longer tracks on side two that I think feature the 80's hit years line up of Yes doing a pretty good job playing in the older Yes style, Final Eyes and I'm Running.

Big Generator is an underrated album. "Shoot High Aim Low" and "I'm Running" are my fav cuts.

This song is a hit from their Big Generator album, which was released after their 90125 album, which contained Owner of a Lonely Heart. The title song, Big Generator also did well and is really hard sounding. It growls. I think you'll like it a lot. Normally, I don't care for Yes albums without Jon Anderson as their singer, but in '80 the band released the Drama album, and I really love 3 songs on it, including one that would now be considered Prog Metal, the amazing "Machine Messiah." You should react to that song, for sure. And "South Side of the Sky," from Fragile, which is amazing.

Chris Squire on bass - enough said. Miss him! RIP Chris!

Yup! Later Yes! Some 70s stuff you havent heard yet is Tormato from '78

YES is like poetry. They put it out there...and we interpret it the way we feel about the vibe!!!

Hey Chod! YES!!!!!! Big Generator was a good album. Should of been released a year sooner following 90125. Shoot High Aim Low is one to check out. YES is back! Thanks Chod!!

I Love this song!!! And this song is great in concert! We danced a lot...and they played it for about 10 minutes an really really jammed!!! Now.......I gotta get Big Generator!!! Wow....I forgot about this song! I Love the hard hitting Yes side!!! Totally Cool!!!

I liked when Yes came back with the later albums.. Owner of A Lonely Heart, Rhythm Of Love, Big Generator .. all great songs... both albums were great.

This is from 1987's "Big Generator". This is more 80s than some of the Yes fans like. But I love it. My first Yes album was "90125" from 1983.

Yes has a live version of this song, and others, here on KZfaq that is just outstanding.

Yes is the greatest! You've got to react to 'Shoot High Aim Low, you will love it!

I worked at a record store in MN when Big Generator came out. I played the HELL out of the album in that store! I still have it in excellent condition. I prefer old Yes's music and Bruford's Ludwig 6.5 x 14" Supersensitive snare over this plastic one, but this album and 90125 were ass kickers. Mad hats off to Trevor Horn for the incredible production.

Great song and GREAT drum play-along song.... happy drumming R2D! 🥁🥁🥁

I love all Yes up to this album. I loved Tormato. I even loved Drama. I also loved 90125. This album lost me so hard. I’ve tried, but I just can’t get there… so glad others enjoy it because I still have mad respect for the band.

YES fans thought YES had devolved, but they came through true to the heart of YES!

90125 and Big Generator where this song comes from are from the mid 80’s where Yes had to reinvent themselves on a more commercial basis as Genesis also did due to the New Wave, Punk and New Romantic influences at that time.

So this really defines my first week of college. My buddy had this new CD blasting from his dorm room in Oliver Hall at the University of Kansas.

The unmistakenly voice of Jon Anderson!!

I love the Yesfaces you make when you hear a particularly good part of the song. We all make Yesfaces; we just don't see them because we're not looking in the mirror.

Chod! Thank you for some Yes, even if it's not one of their more complex numbers. Great to see you back with with a smile on your face. Regarding the strikes, I do recommend you talk to Rick Beato. He's been there and was successfully able to remove strikes against him.

JP got me hear.. Im hooked already... Try Opeth, A Fair Judgement 😜 great song 👍

Fluttering flute reminded me of the intro of the J.P. Patches show.

Chod you have to react to Rick Wakeman and Jon Lord at the Sunflower Jam in 2011. I think this was Jon Lords last concert before he passed away. Two of the top key board players jamming together.

Totally dig this album. "Love Will Find A Way" from it is most excellent.

AMEN. Spoken like a true Yes fan. Real Yes fans love Yes. All eras of the band. I will admit that I prefer albums with Jon Anderson, but Yes always had a top notch lineup that usually had key members to keep the Yes sound intact like Guitarist Steve Howe or bassist Chris Squire who played on every Yes album from 1968 until his death in 2015.

That brilliant guitarist is Trevor Rabin!!

Yes was a band that had their own distinctive sound

We saw you there playing your air drums in your air pocket! :D

Yes is beauty

JustJP sent me. Already loving your music selections. Subscribed.

The Ventures - Wipeout came out in 1963, and everybody knew that song until recently. It has no vocals, and is a good beach vibe song. I think you will like the drums.

Like you, I like old/newer Yes, all Yes--followed since mid 80s and got into their whole catalogue ... Saw probably 60 times over the years. Unrelated, wondering, as a drummer, if you've seen/heard Todd Sucherman in Styx...Worth checking out.

I love it. I don´t have any problem with the later Yes music. It´s all great. Even the hated Union album is great.

We need more reactions from this album

Your Tuned In ….. WOW

BTW, Chod. I like the camera angle in this setup. I'm not seeing *any* O-ring light glare, which is appreciated. 👍

Omg! Haven’t seen anyone react to this yet! I love it!

Yes. This is the: Rabin-Yes/'80s Yes/more commercial variant. Definitely, more commercially successful, but "shorter-lived," really. The band was killer and did music from almost all the periods of the band (up 'til then -of course😛) -save the Peter Banks music (from the first 2 albums). The core of the band were there: Chris Squire on Bass {as ALWAYS!!!! 💜💜💜💜🤘🤘⚡] Tony Kaye [the original keyboardist from before Rick Wakeman arrived] Jon Anderson (of course) [lead vocalist] Alan White [the "2nd drummer": Who had come in to replace Bill Bruford] and (the one "outlier"): Trevor Rabin [guitarist] ...Rabin was, really, the component who had transformed "Yes," inserting his more "rock radio"/"radio-friendly sensibilities and style, in song-writing. ...Despite the radical shift in style, many Yes fans accepted him and liked him. It was after this period (in the very late '80s/early '90s) that the "classic line-up, MINUS Chris Squire!) did the: Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe project [or: A.B.W.H. - as fans often used to refer to the band, for short.] ...then all aspects of Yes went in hiatus, until they decided to do the: 'Union' project (and I forget what year that was). It wasn't a good album, at all, but BOTH versions of the band (the '70s "standard" and the '80s "Rabin-era") toured and played together. I believe they, even tried to include Peter Banks (but I can't recall the details, off-the-top-of-my-head, right now and don't think that he toured with them (but may have contributed to some of the tracks on the Union album. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️) -I agree: there are things to appreciate and enjoy about MOST eras of Yes. ...at least: the '60s-'70s version, the "fill-in" version, that recorded DRAMA (MY, personal, favorite YES album of ALL time! - Unexpected, but: PERFECT! - Trevor Horn (the later producer and former "Buggle"-YES! HIM!-sang Lead Vocals!!!! - in fact, Drama COULD be termed (amusingly) "Yes-Buggles" (as both members of said band: Trevor Horn AND Geoff Downes, played on it/became members of: Yes!!) and the '80s ["Cinema"] reunion, which became the Rabin-Yes. 👍👍 💥🔥

Love this album so underrated

Will you have to try Release, Release, BASSLINES GALORE

This is WestYes. This lineup recorded ‘83-’88 and ‘92-‘94. Classic lineup united again in mid nineties.

Try Tempus Fugit - Great song showing YES in transition from 70s to 80s.

I was a Trevor Rabin fan before he joined Yes. Check out his 3rd solo album,Wolf. This is Yes playing Rock and Roll in 1987. There’s no Prog on Big Generator yet I still prefer it to 90125. Fun fact about the title track, Big Generator Chris lowered his strings a whole step on his 5 string Tobias so the low B would sound a low A. When he played the chorus he blew out his speakers because they couldn’t handle the frequency. Final Eyes is my favorite because it sounds like Classic Yes.

Great live show in Van. My sis and i rated it 9.5.🇨🇦

A solid 6 on the Yes scale.

Chod........ Check out " The Ice Bridge " from their new 2021 album called THE QUEST.

As usual you nailed it it’s late 80s Yes just jamming and being generally triumphant.

JustJP brought me here. Awesome channel!

That riff though....

Check out the album Talk by Yes. Same line-up, but this album don't get credit it deserves. I am Waiting is a gem.

Check out the video for this song directed by Alex Proyas. It's a lot of fun.

According to Alan White (the drummer), the basic drum tracks were laid down something like 18 months before the track was finished, if I recall correctly from the YesYears documentary. Trevor Rabin was such a perfectionist that it took forever to finish the tracks on Big Generator, which caused a lot of friction among the band members.

Two more relatively short songs by Yes that you have not heard yet, Chod, are “Survival” and “Time and a Word”. Both are from their first two albums.

I like this album more than 90125, which, at the time, felt a bit too "pop-ish" to me compared to the earlier era. Big Generator, IMO, began to bring back some of the complexity that we love in the earlier albums but in smaller doses. Though I've been a huge Yes fan since the early 70s, I never saw them live until the tour for Big Generator. (I really hated stadium concerts due to the extremely poor sound quality of those shows back then.). I've seen them many times since and almost all of those shows have been superb. TLDR; I agree Chod - all eras of Yes are super.

Sacred Ground 😎

Shoot High Aim Low ......next....😀

I had a Yamaha snare that popped like nobody's business! Recorded a lot of stuff with that. Let a friend have it. Always a bad idea

I first heard Yes in 1973. I first saw them in 1974. And I have loved all their incarnations. Though I will admit the more recent stuff doesn’t seem very inspired to me. But Jon always envisioned a band that would carry on past its individual members. A lot of people try to dis the Rabin era. But he was just what Yes needed to put the band back on the charts and Big Generator is an excellent album. So is Talk. Of course I prefer the classic Yes lineup and the 70s era prog. But everything that came after is also Yes. Ideological purity is antithetical to Jon’s vision. I agree with you… this too is Yes.

"For greatness, you must be patient." Confucius Chod

😊👍

Shoot High Aim Low

have you done "Perpetual Change" yet....1971 yes

Check out the title song, big generator….

"Big Generator" was released in 1987. "Drama", "90125", and "Big Generator" are products of a dramatically changed YES band after the release of "Tormato" in '78. In ways the changes with the music of YES are comparable to how Genesis changed when Phil Collins took over on vocals/writing after Gabriel left. Not the same band exactly, and it was hard at first with both these bands, but each iteration of these bands was still top notch musically. The chain that linked all variations of the personnel in YES was Chris Squire. At points everything changed around him, but his bass and songwriting still stood out. The soul never went from the band. Chris Squire was their soul. It's funny when you say "later" YES. It is a bit later, but they still had many albums to come. To my mind the best album of "late" YES is "Magnification", released in 2001, yet another 14 years after this album. "In The Presence Of", "Dreamtime", or the title track "Magnification". Blessings. Keep hangin' in there!

All groups need to change or they become stagnant and dull. Only by evolving can they continue to challenge themselves. They may have altered their sound, but they are still Yes. 😎

Hey brother what about DAYS OF THE NEW song PHOBICS OF TRAGEDY.

lol, yeah, i'm one of those that don't care as much for the later Yes. But, I ain't mad at ya if you like it.

hmm... Maybe it's time to go back and relisten to Owner of a Lonely Heart if you haven't already, Chod. I seem to recall as your first reaction to Yes, you did not appreciate it. Maybe now you might hear elements in it which will appeal to you.

Another good one even if it was driven by Trevor Rabin and was more like zcinema!

So Chod, how do you react now, when you ask someone if they have heard Yes, and they say No?

This is late 80's Yes, same line-up as the 83' album 90125. Very strongly helmed by Trevor Rabin. Big Generator isn't one of their better albums, but still pretty good, it sounds great live.

lacks the imagination and innovation of the earlier stuff, but still a competent song

like your chaThe song for me is a bit out of the different Yes time, its okay but its not....you know!?