Time and a Word

Occupation

• Jon Anderson - Vocals
• Peter Banks - guitar, vocals
• Bill Bruford - drums
• Tony Kaye - keyboards
• Chris Squire - bass, vocals
• David Foster - Vocals (Sweet Dreams and Time And A Word), Guitar ( Time And A Word)

Time and a Word is the second album by the British progressive rock band Yes. It dates from the year 1970.

Formation

In early 1970, the band retired to a farm in Devon, to work on their second album. Again soon became apparent that Atlantic Records would not invest a lot of money into production. Instead invested band manager Roy Flynn a large sum of private money in the album.

At this time many rock bands started to cooperate with orchestras ( Deep Purple, The Nice, The Moody Blues ), it was decided to follow this trend and record the new album together with strings ( students of the Royal College of Music) and some wind instruments. Keyboardist Tony Kaye and guitarist Peter Banks, however, were not very enthusiastic about this idea, but this meant a severe limitation of their role as instrumentalists. As the first voltages, especially between banks and the rest of the band developed.

Once again, failed to record continuously the album. Instead, the band worked between short tours and individual concerts. When producers were hired Tony Colton, the singer of the band Head, Hands and Feet and friend Jon Anderson, sound engineer was Eddie Offord, the Phil Carson, at that time knew at Yes' record label Atlantic Records, already from previous joint projects ago. Offord was responsible not only for the sound of the album, he became friends with the musicians in and convinced them of the vegetarian diet.

The new album contained eight pieces, including two cover versions ( No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed by Richie Havens and Everydays by Stephen Stills ), and two works by Anderson with his former bandmates (with the Warriors ) and friend David Foster (Sweet Dreams and Time and A Word ) in which this can also be heard as a singer and as a guitarist, Peter Banks which also displeased.

Title list

(UK / U.S.)

( DE)

Republication

The album was remastered in 2003 by Rhino Records and re-released. This edition contains the bonus tracks:

The pieces 9-11 had been heard until then only on the German LP edition of Time and a Word.

Notes:

• Once again contained a Yes album two cover versions (Yes played at this time at their concerts still then current hits): No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed by Richie Havens and Everydays by Stephen Stills. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed was a musical theme from the theme song to the Western movie The Big Country: supplemented ( the violin motif at the beginning of the song ) ( German title The Big Country )

• For the U.S. release Banks ' solo was cut out in Sweet Dreams and elsewhere remixed a little

• Tony Kaye quoted in the introduction to The Prophet the theme of the Jupiter - set from the factory The Planets by Gustav Holst

• Time and a Word leans aware of the Beatles song Hey Jew and Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon, which Anderson had impressed

• A Anderson / Banks song called Number 14 bus, worked on the Yes at this time, has not been on the album. Dear Father was only released as a B- side of the single Sweet Dreams

Cover

The simple black / white cover, the album was released in England, shows a naked woman lying in an abstract space with the legs toward the viewer and extends their head out of the room. The back lists the song titles and contains five portrait photos as well as the Yes bubble, the early logo of the band.

In the U.S. Atlantic is a recent group photo on the front, which his successor, Steve Howe shows instead of time- and-a- Word guitarist Peter Banks. The back cover of the U.S. is identical with the UK version.

For the German publication you choose for the U.S. cover of the first album, accompanied by the title "Time and a Word " added. The reverse shows a group photo in the Yes bubble, song title and cast list.

A recent Russian LP Repress shows the British art in full color.

Review

The second Yes album shows a band that is still looking for her later style. Working with an orchestra documented the attempt to extend the tonal range of the rock band, an effect that Yes have realized later mainly through the use of a variety of keyboards and guitars. Stylistically, the album moves between and is influenced by the Beatles pop (Sweet Dreams, Time and a Word), Jazz ( Everydays ) and early progressive rock (especially in the complex arranged Then).

Had Time and a Word, as well as his previous album, Yes, no success ( 45 in the UK charts), which caused further tensions within the band. Atlantic Records threatened to leave the band fall, Peter Banks, who saw under-represented on the album itself, fell out more often with his fellow musicians, and Roy Flynn, who was actually club owner and had little experience in managing a rock band that was soon after Posted replaced by a new manager. Human disappointed by a band in which he had invested a lot of private money, he broke off contact with the musicians, with the exceptions with his friend Peter Banks, who was thrown on the advice of Colton's out of the band.

Live

On March 28, 1970 Yes played a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, during its second half, they were accompanied by a small, 20 - piece orchestra under the direction of Tony Cox. During this concert they played Something's Coming, a Bernstein - adaptation of West Side Story.

To find this is on the following recordings:

• Yesshows
• An Evening of Yes Music Plus ... *
• Something's Coming
• House of Yes - Live from House of Blues
• The Word Is Live

Comments

• (*) Albums and videos that are marked with an asterisk have been issued under the band name Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe.