Talk (Yes album)

Occupation

Jon Anderson - Vocals
Trevor Rabin - guitar, vocals, keyboards
Tony Kaye - Hammond organ
Chris Squire - bass, vocals
Alan White - drums

Talk is the fourteenth studio album by the progressive rock band Yes and was released in 1994. It is the third and final album, Yes published in the cast of the successful 1980s. It is the first album of their career, not the band released with Atlantic Records and Arista Records. Talk appeared in Phil Carson's independent label Victory Records.

Prehistory

In December 1991, Bill Bruford, drummer in the then eight-member Yes line-up, after a concert was asked with his jazz band Earthworks in Japan after the announced for March 1992 Yes concerts. Bruford had no idea that the band's management had planned concerts in Japan. Although he played during this Nachklapps the Union tour, but left after the band, especially because of the chaotic organization of the tour and her previous work on the same album.

In order to hold the large cast, struck guitarist Steve Howe, supported by Roy Lott and Clive Davis of Yes' record company Arista Records, to subsequently propose that in the future four musicians should form a kind of core band that was responsible for the songwriting and would have been supported in the recordings of several guest musicians from the various Yes line-ups. But with the other musicians joined this suggestion did not love. Especially guitarist Trevor Rabin, Alan White drummer and bassist Chris Squire wanted to reform the cast who had been with singles such as Owner of a Lonely Heart and albums like 90125 and Big Generator so successful in the 1980s, Rabin, Squire, White, Kaye, Anderson. Then also left Howe Yes, and Arista terminated the contract with the band. Yes, however, remained with their manager Tony Dimitriades and the East End Management. Phil Carson Then took the band for his new label Victory Records, however, under the conditions that a new album would be recorded by the 1980 occupation and produced by Trevor Rabin. Rick Wakeman should remain member of the band because of his friendly relations with Rabin.

Steve Howe first joined his old band Asia and then pursued a solo career.

Formation

Rabin, Squire, White, singer Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman and Tony Kaye were now on the development of the next album.

As Anderson and Rabin had clashed several times in the past due to musical differences, which thereby were partly caused that Anderson was to hit late to a new project and finished songs Rabin had only to sing on yet, the new album from the beginning, in close cooperation both arise. First, the two musicians began, in Rabin's studio The Jacaranda Room ( and in Anderson's hotel room) in San Clemente in Southern California to write songs. Here, Anderson sang to Rabin's demos that were played from a portable cassette recorder, while a second recorder music and vocals recorded. The ongoing musical differences could be initially largely resolve, but the work on the new songs still extended by the different modes of operation of the two musicians.

In the meantime, Wakeman went on a solo tour, and Squire was in August 1992 along with Alan White and Billy Sherwood few concerts under the name The Chris Squire Experiment.

At the same time, rumors were circulating that Tony Kaye had left the band. But news from the Yes camp were rare at that time and in November 1992, Rick Wakeman could only confirm that he was a member of Yes. He was planning to fly to the U.S. to work on his some keyboard parts. On March 26, 1993, but was released a press release stating that Wakeman and Yes were separated. Status Tony Kaye, the only one kind of guest musicians had already been since his return to the band in 1982, but remained composed.

At that time undertook Jon Anderson solo tour of North and South America.

On 23 April 1993 announced Victory that five of the seven pieces are finished on the new album. But the work should take a whole extra year to complete. To bridge the waiting time, appeared on 26 October 1993, the rehearsed with an orchestra symphonic album The Music of Yes, the Howe and Bruford developed and Anderson had sung.

The sessions were held in Trevor Rabin's studio. The five participating musicians played but hardly ever together, through the innovative recording technique used Rabin, this was not necessary: The band recorded the album as one of the first in the history of music entirely on digital storage media. Rabin used to the computer program Digital Performer, which made it possible to manipulate individual contributions of the musicians as desired and mix. Ultimately, the data took 10 gigabytes of space on four Macintosh computers to complete, for at that time an immense amount of data. Only in a few exceptional cases, with some vocal harmonies, tapes were still used. He was not only a songwriter and singer, but also an arranger and producer and also played most of the instruments himself (especially guitar and keyboards ). Dissatisfied with Squires bass parts he played an even this novel.

The effect of such technology, it came to the unfamiliar Yes situation that the band's new songs only rehearsed together, as one preparing for the tour to the album.

At that time was not even fixed the title of the album. We traded Blueprint and History of the Future, before they agreed to talk. Talk then appeared about 18 months after the start of work on 21 March 1994.

Cover

For the design of the cover is dedicated to the successful U.S. pop art artist Peter Max, who has designed a new logo and a predominantly white held Cover designed that accommodated the modern sound of the band. As the only member of the classic Yes logo Roger Dean he took over the flowing intertwining colors.

Title list

I.Silent Spring - 1:55
II.Talk - 11:55
III.Endless Dream - 1:53

Comments

The work on The Calling started with Trevor Rabin's guitar riff around which the song has been removed. From the piece a single version and a little over eight minutes long exist " Special Version ", with an instrumental middle section, this can be heard on one published in 2002 remastered version of talc as a bonus track.
I Am Waiting existed largely as a finished song, as Jon Anderson in a single day, wrote the text and the final vocals einsang.
Real Love goes back to the idea Chris Squires on a bass riff.
Walls was a remnant of Rabin's sessions with former Supertramp singer Roger Hodgson ( who had been in 1990 as a replacement for Jon Anderson in conversation, see Union), who had not led to a publication. Phil Carson wanted the song to Talk, a decision that Rabin regretted later.
Where Will You Be was originally intended as a melody for an Australian film.
Endless Dream was composed by Rabin and Anderson, because Phil Carson wanted to have an epic long track in the style of the old Yes on the album. Although Rabin consented reluctantly, he was satisfied with the result. Rabin used for the central part of an orchestral piece called October, he had already written, and which he translated for Yes in a very synthetic sound.
In November 1994, the CD -ROM Yes Active with demo versions of State of Play, Endless Dream, instrumental versions of Walls and Where will you be and live versions appeared from I am waiting and Walls. The demo version of Endless Dream was created during the very first sessions with Rabin Anderson in Anderson's hotel in San Clemente.

Occupation

Jon Anderson - Vocals
Chris Squire - bass, vocals
Trevor Rabin - guitar, keyboards, vocals, production, arrangement
Tony Kaye - Hammond organ
Alan White - drums

Chart positions

Talk reached # 20 in the UK and # 33 in the U.S. charts. It was thus the first Yes album that missed the gold status in the U.S.. It sold only about 300,000 copies worldwide - had hoped to be about 5 million sales. Victory Records went bankrupt as a result.

The reason for the commercial failure of the project was given by the band as of the record company with fragmentation, especially the American radio landscape and the immense popularity of grunge at the time. Many rock musicians who had sold albums in the tens of millions since the 70s, were able to achieve six-figure sales in the early nineties at best.

Tour

Before the start of the concert tour was for some time in question, whether a founding member Chris Squire would remain with Yes. A few days after one of his binge drinking, a heart attack was found with him, he had fortunately at Mount Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, where he had gone recently, because he was not feeling well. As the insurance company Lloyd's, which should assure the planned Talk tour, heard about it, they refused. Then you thought about going on tour without Squire. Similar processes it had already given several times at Yes. However, Squires Manager Jon Brewer was able to solve the problem, Squire recovered in time and Yes started in the summer of 1994 their tour despite the ongoing alcohol problems Squires.

The tour for this album lasted from 18 June 1994 until 11 October of the same year and included 76 concerts. The Talk tour, which should re- establish Yes mainly in America, went through the United States, Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Argentina) and Japan. After Europe, the band did not come, because, given the low success of Talk no promoter willing to take the financial risk.

Billy Sherwood, who had already worked on Union with Squire, played on a proposal Rabin, who has pondered the end of the work on the studio album, whether he should not leave Yes, as a second guitarist with Yes.

Concert Sonics

At the concerts of Talk Tour Yes introduced a new sound system, the Concert Sonics. It enabled a higher sound quality due to the transmission of the live music in stereo on a portable FM receiver with headphones, which the listeners were able to bring their own or rent them at the concert. This should in particular allow concert-goers in acoustically unfavorable areas of the halls the same sound experience that has the audience in the vicinity of the mixer. Concert Sonics was developed by Clair Bros. Audio in collaboration with Yes. The Talk Tour was the first tour of a band in which this system was used.

About the headphones advertising programs were also broadcast with sweepstakes.

Yes used this sound transmission system only on the Talk tour. One problem with the Concert Sonic system was that the broadcast of the concert was optimized for each a specific area in the hall. The audience in other areas could also be received while the broadcasting, but this was asynchronously there easily.

After the tour

At the end of the relatively short talk tour, the band took a break. On May 23, 1995, appeared a statement to the press, said that Rabin and Kaye had left the band after 13 years. Rabin, the band had already want to leave earlier, but this had been talked him out of Squire first. Ultimately, gave renewed disputes with Anderson decisive for its decision. Inspired by the new technical possibilities that came with the work of talc applied to Rabin turned to film music, he wrote in the years to music for a few Hollywood movies. Kaye gave the music business at the moment and opened a restaurant in California. Yes reformed in the summer of 1995 in the classic line-up with Anderson, Squire, White, Wakeman and Howe. Billy Sherwood remained in the background of Yes active until the band in 1997 joined as a full member.

Sherwood (bass, vocals) and Kaye ( Hammond, keyboards), founded in 2006 along with Alan White ( drums, vocals ) and the Union - musician Jimmy Haun (guitar, vocals), the band Circa:.

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