Yes (Yes album)

Occupation

Yes was the first album the group Yes and was released in 1969.

Posse Up

1967, the bassist Chris Squire and guitarist Peter Banks, the band Mabel Greer 's Toyshop had founded. The other members were Clive Bailey ( guitar, vocals) and Bob Hagger (drums). As a member of this in comparison to its predecessor band The Syn less successful band learned Squire in 1968 in London La Chasse club in Soho the singer Jon Anderson, who delivered there with a part-time job on the water. The club manager Jack Barrie introduced them to each other. The two musicians discovered that they had similar tastes ( The Fifth Dimension, Simon and Garfunkel ) and began to write songs ( including " Sweetness ", which would later be heard on the first Yes album ). Mabel Greer 's Toyshop Anderson stepped in, and the band changed at the suggestion of Peter Banks its name to " Yes". When you shortly thereafter sought a replacement for the drummer Bob Hagger, the new band through an ad in Melody Maker took the jazz drummer Bill Bruford. Together with keyboardist Tony Kaye, they played on August 4, 1968 their debut concert in Essex, England.

Emergence of the debut album

During the first year of its existence, the band played almost daily concerts in London and throughout England. The live set consisted of original compositions and cover versions of current hits such as I'm only sleeping, Eleanor Rigby Every Little Thing and The Beatles, Paper Cup by The Fifth Dimension and Heaven is in your mind traffic. Among them was an arrangement of Something 's coming from Leonard Bernstein's musical West Side Story. The band proved to be very oriented to the Fifth Dimension and Vanilla Fudge, who had developed a special style with the Development alienated cover versions.

Yes found in the wealthy club owner Roy Flynn their first manager. Flynn and Anderson organized initially on concerts, including in the prestigious London clubs like the Marquee, but also at the Royal Albert Hall, then Flynn began to interest record companies for Yes. Initially interested in Robert Stigwood of RSO for the band, then acted inexperienced in music management Flynn Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records with a contract for 14 albums out. He and the equally inexperienced band thought this was initially for an unexpected vote of confidence from the record company, but in fact the contract was set up so that Atlantic was able to release the tape at any time if the hoped success would not adjust. Conversely, the income of the musicians remained the same from the beginning. Only Yes' second manager, Brian Lane would renegotiate this agreement a few years later.

First, the young band went into the studio with her material. However, a continuous work on an album was not possible because the only source of income was in the concerts, the Yes still had to play regularly. Atlantic Records hardly supported the band since high investments in a not yet established on the record market band posed too great a risk for the record company.

The work in the studio designed just as amateurish. Yes had no experience with the studio technology and did not even know such basic things like the fact that you can change the mix in the headphones. On top of that the producer Paul Clay had collected only experience with film music till then, and did not know how to produce a rock album. Clay and the band took three days alone to figure out how to record a Hammond organ. The sound is accordingly until now flat and undifferentiated, and the musicians involved are still unhappy with their debut. Yes had originally speculated, Paul McCartney to win as producers, but this did not happen.

Yes participated, according to their set list, in addition to their own songs and two cover versions, I See You by the Byrds and Every Little Thing by The Beatles. Beyond And Before and Sweetness, however, dated from the time of Mabel Greer 's Toyshop.

On July 4, 1969, the first single Sweetness / Something's Coming appeared in England and France. Shortly after the album was released on 25 July 1969 under the simple title Yes.

Track list

Notes:

  • Beyond And Before and Sweetness date from the time of Mabel Greer 's Toyshop.
  • I See You is the cover version of a Byrds - piece
  • Harold Land is named after the jazz saxophonist Harold Land, the song has nothing to do with this musician. Bruford said the name when Anderson was going to think of a title for the song.
  • Every Little Thing is originally by The Beatles.

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

Important Singles

Notes:

  • Noteworthy is the B- side of the single Sweetness, the cover version Something's Coming. Although this title anticipated the further development of Yes, he did not land on the album.
  • The publications in England and France, each containing mono mixes on the B-side. Something's Coming In 1970 he published in Holland as an A- side in stereo with Dear Father on the B - side, first with Yesyears (1991 ) it was released on an album.

Cover

The album receives in England a black Faltcover with a speech bubble in gaudy bright orange, in which the word is Yes. This speech Logo guitarist Peter Banks had designed, in which lie the copyright for it. Thus, this logo was also used exclusively for recording with Peter Banks. Interior includes some notes of the Melody Maker editor Tony Wilson, the song list and a group photo (supplemented by five portraits).

In America, where the record company Atlantic has its headquarters, it resorted to a classic cover concept. A group photo by David Gahr and the group name can be found on the front of the simple cover. Just at the back there is a small picture of the balloon.

Occupation

  • Jon Anderson - Vocals
  • Peter Banks - guitar, vocals
  • Bill Bruford - drums
  • Tony Kaye - keyboards
  • Chris Squire - bass, vocals

Songs of Yes on later compilations

  • 2 Originals of Yes
  • Yesterdays
  • Yesyears
  • Yesstory
  • Highlights - The Very Best of Yes
  • In A Word

Live

Liver versions of some pieces of Yes, see themselves

Yes (1969 ) | Time and a Word (1970 ) | The Yes Album ( 1971 ) | Fragile (1972 ) | Close to the Edge (1972 ) | Tales from Topographic Oceans (1974 ) | Relayer (1974 ) | Going for the One (1977 ) | Tormato (1978 ) | Drama (1980 ) | 90125 (1983 ) | Big generator (1987 ) | Union ( 1991 ) | Talk ( 1994 ) | Keys to Ascension (1996 ) | Keys to Ascension 2 (1997 ) | Open Your Eyes (1997 ) | The Ladder (1999 ) | Magnification (2001 ) | Fly from Here (2011)

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