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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
Mark and I spent some time this week searching through both our memory banks and our shelves of Yes related records. We wanted to uncover and promote some lesser-known deep cuts on albums that Yes men have been involved with outside the main group.
We each came up with 3 songs you may not have heard or you may have forgotten about. We hope you enjoy revisiting them or discovering a little more of the breadth and depth of what Yes musicians have been involved with over the decades.
Of course, we would be delighted to have your own suggestions of what other deep cuts we can all benefit from hearing – leave your suggestions on the show notes for this week’s episode below.
- What are your favourite solo deep cuts?
- What do Mark and Kevin choose?
- Do you know all these songs already?
The Syn biography on Prog Archives
Details of the Chagall Project on Henry Potts’ website
Yes – The Tormato Story & Tales from Topographic Oceans – Yes Album Listening Guide
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Producers:
- Joseph Cottrell
- Wayne Hall
- Ken Fuller
- Jeffrey Crecelius
Patrons:
| Aaron Steelman | Lind |
| Al Dell’Angelo | Lobate Scarp |
| Barry Gorsky | Mark Baggs |
| Bill Whittaker | Mark James Lang |
| Bob Martilotta | Mark Slater |
| Brian Harris | Martin Kjellberg |
| Brian Sullivan | Michael Handerhan |
| Chris Bandini | Michael O’Connor |
| Craig Estenes | Miguel Falcão |
| Dave Owen | Paul Hailes |
| David | Paul Tomei |
| David Heyden | Rachel Hadaway |
| David Pannell | Robert Nasir |
| David Watkinson | Robert Vandiver |
| Declan Logue | Ronnie Neeley |
| Dem | Scott Colombo |
| Doug Curran | Simon Barrow |
| Fergus Cubbage | Stephen Lambe |
| Fred Barringer | Steve Dill |
| Gary Betts | Steve Luzietti |
| Geoff Bailie | Steve Perry |
| Geoffrey Mason | Steve Rode |
| Guy DeRome | Steve Scott |
| Henrik Antonsson | Steven Roehr |
| Hogne Bø Pettersen | Terence Sadler |
| Todd Dudley | |
| John Cowan | John Thomson |
| John Holden | John Viola |
| Jamie McQuinn | Tim Stannard |
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12 replies on “Deep Cuts outside Yes – 687”
I agree and love the Syn album, Rick’s Out There, Patrick’s Time Code, and the DBA. I have the Patrick on US vinyl and the DBA on vinyl, the others on cd. I’m glad you included the link to Tom’s solo album, which is not a progressive rock album, Tom calls it cinematic pop, but it really shows what a talented musician, singer & arranger he is. My suggestion for a deep cut album is by Days Between Stations called In Extremis. I love the entire album, but my deep cut is Eggshell Man, which features both Peter Banks & Rick Wakeman. It’s one of Peter’s last recorded works, and Rick does a very long Moog solo that must heard! Billy Sherwood plays drums on the album and sings lead, Tony Levin plays bass, and the cover is by artist Paul Whitehead. I have the original cd signed by Rick, Billy, Tony, Sepand, Oscar and Paul.
Thanks Doug. Yes, I need to listen to that album, featuring some of the greatest musicians in Yes world!
Billy Sherwood and Oliver Wakeman appear on our album:
The Madrigal Project- 11th Hour
Release date: Oct. 11th 2024
I think your listeners/ followers would enjoy this work
Sounds interesting – thank you for the comment. I’ll check it out.
The Syn album is fab, especially Cathedral. I managed to pick this up on vinyl as already had it on CD along with syndestructable.
Yes I have the vinyl version along with the vinyl of Trustworks which Steve Nardelli sent to me. I need to re-listen to that as well.
Perfect timing of this podcast as I am finishing up my Yes ReListening Project: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3216603008606331/posts/4027996857466938/
Some of these titles were not on my list. Good choices all.
Mark, to be honest, I started skipping over Wakeman solo albums after a while, for the reasons you stated here. Also, for those reasons, I do not feel guilty about listening to RW on Spotify… If I had purchased all of those terrible solo albums, I would have given up on him completely.
Thanks Jamie. Fascinating to see your project.
I enjoyed hearing about Mark’s and Kevin’s choices. I love deep cuts. I could give you 50 more! Let’s start with 8…
Gordian Knot: “The Brook The Ocean”, with Bill Bruford
pianocircus ft Bill Bruford: “Squiggle Zipper”
The Samurai of Prog: “She (Who Must be Obeyed)”, with Jon Davison
Producers: “Every Single Night in Jamaica”, with Horn and Downes
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: “A Moment So Close”, with Jon Anderson
In Continuum: “Scavengers”, with Jon Davison
Peter Machajdík: “Sadness of Flowing”, with Jon Anderson
Steve Hackett: “Turn This Island Earth”, with Chris Squire and co-written by Steve Howe
And if you want to get super deeeeeeeeeeeeeep, ocean trench deep, what about…
Geoff Downes: “March of the Ants”
Michael Sherwood: “Learning to Breathe”, with Billy Sherwood
The Glam Metal Detectives: “Everybody Up!”, with Trevor Horn
Keith Emerson: “Black Dog”, with Sherwood and White
Wow. There’s a lot there I haven’t heard so thank you for creating my next playlist!
A quick work on FFH with and without Benoit. I don’t think there is any great conspiracy (pun intended). It would appear that Frontiers have the rights to the original plus Heaven & Earth, the 2 Like it is albums and Live from Lyon. Looks like they managed to get the rights back to Live From Lyon back to include in From A Page but apart from that none of the above are on streaming services.
The band (or at least Trevor’s intentions) were made clear from the start.
If I was disappointed by any aspect of this re-release it is this – and happy for Henry Potts to verify in case my memory is false. At the time of the anniversary there was talk of a Quintessential Yes compilation that was agreed on by all parties. I remember the bees at that time was that a version of Go Through This with new Trevor Horn vocals was to be part of that album. The album never appeared. We know from the Rhino release that there is an instrumental version – so there is a Squire bass part. Maybe it was never completed – or even started!
Thanks Geoff. It always comes back to legalities, it seems. I wonder why Frontiers don’t make the original and those other ones you mention available on streaming services. Also, a nice re-release of FFH original should sell as many as Return Trip, surely?