Hello again, Yes Music Podcast listener. I am away on holiday in Wales this week so the next new episode will be next week.
10 points to you if you can guess exactly where we are and who this chap is:
Mark and I look forward to lots more Yes chat, onward towards the New Year.
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week, Mark and I continue our deep dive into The Syn by listening to the oldest songs on the compilation album, Flowerman – Rare Blooms from The Syn 1965-69. We discovered some fascinating music along with information about how it came about via the very good sleeve notes in the album. As with Yes, there are plenty of surprising twists to the tale of The Syn, even in the comparatively short spell they were active in the 60s. After our overview from Streve Nardelli last week, we enjoyed listening to the surviving output from those days.
I have included the YouTube videos of the whole album in the show notes for this week so you may want to listen to the music before putting up with Mark and me banging on about it.
Available now!
Producers:
Patrons:
| Robert Nasir | Declan Logue | John Thomson |
| John Holden | Jamie McQuinn | Stephen Lambe |
| Chip Palmer | Brian Husvar | Michael O’Connor |
| Geoff Bailie | Lobate Scarp | Ronnie Neeley |
| Hogne Bø Pettersen | Chris Bandini | Michael Handerhan |
| Peter Hearnden | Scott Colombo | John Viola |
| Mark Slater | Robert Vandiver | Paul Tomei |
| Brian Sullivan | Todd Dudley | David Watkinson |
| Simon Barrow | Steve Scott | Geoffrey Mason |
| Steve Dill | Tim Stannard | David Pannell |
| Thomas DeVries | Bob Martilotta | Brian Harris |
| Brian Harris | Paul Hailes | Ray Riethmeier |
| Henrik Antonsson | P.T. Wilson | Terence Sadler |
| Steve Luzietti | Barry Gorsky | Steven Roehr |
| Craig Estenes | Martin Kjellberg | Gary Betts |
| Fergus Cubbage | Bill Whittaker | Aaron Steelman |
| Lind | Mark James Lang | Steve Rode |
| John Parry | John Cowan | Miguelbass |
| Fred Barringer | Rachel Hadaway | Dem |
| Steve Moss | Douglas Caldwell | Steve Perry |
| David Phyrillas |
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week, Mark and I begin a mini-series in which we will explore The Syn, the band that is deeply-connected with the origins of Yes. The story will evolve as we go but, to set the scene, we had a conversation about our 2018 interview with The Syn’s lead singer, Steve Nardelli. Once we have finished talking about the parts of the interview that were the most interesting for us, I play the whole interview so you can make your own mind up.
In future weeks, we will be listening to all sorts of The Syn music, so if you’d like to follow along, just search YouTube – almost all the music we will be talking about is there.
Available now!
Producers:
Patrons:
| Robert Nasir | Declan Logue | John Thomson |
| John Holden | Jamie McQuinn | Stephen Lambe |
| Chip Palmer | Brian Husvar | Michael O’Connor |
| Geoff Bailie | Lobate Scarp | Ronnie Neeley |
| Hogne Bø Pettersen | Chris Bandini | Michael Handerhan |
| Peter Hearnden | Scott Colombo | John Viola |
| Mark Slater | Robert Vandiver | Paul Tomei |
| Brian Sullivan | Todd Dudley | David Watkinson |
| Simon Barrow | Steve Scott | Geoffrey Mason |
| Steve Dill | Tim Stannard | David Pannell |
| Thomas DeVries | Bob Martilotta | Brian Harris |
| Brian Harris | Paul Hailes | Ray Riethmeier |
| Henrik Antonsson | P.T. Wilson | Terence Sadler |
| Steve Luzietti | Barry Gorsky | Steven Roehr |
| Craig Estenes | Martin Kjellberg | Gary Betts |
| Fergus Cubbage | Bill Whittaker | Aaron Steelman |
| Lind | Mark James Lang | Steve Rode |
| John Parry | John Cowan | Miguelbass |
| Fred Barringer | Rachel Hadaway | Dem |
| Steve Moss | Douglas Caldwell | Steve Perry |
| David Phyrillas |
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week Mark and I spoke to Chris Braide from the Downes Braide Association about their new album, Trauma. Even if you don’t know Chris, you will know his work because he has written and/or produced songs for many of the world’s most successful artists. He’s been nominated for a Grammy and has won an Ivor Novello songwriting award. This is the 6th DBA album and we usually manage to speak to Geoff Downes about the duo’s output so it was great to have a chat with the other half of the outfit.
Chris’ Yes connections go further than Geoff, of course, as he was one of the original members of Producers, along with Trevor Horn. In fact, he has recently released new versions of the songs on the Producers’ 2012 album, Made In Basing Street. You can listen to that collection on Bandcamp.
Mark and I highly recommend Trauma, which is released today on Cherry Red Records, complete with another fabulous Roger Dean cover.
Available now!
Producers:
Patrons:
| Robert Nasir | Declan Logue | John Thomson |
| John Holden | Jamie McQuinn | Stephen Lambe |
| Chip Palmer | Brian Husvar | Michael O’Connor |
| Geoff Bailie | Lobate Scarp | Ronnie Neeley |
| Hogne Bø Pettersen | Chris Bandini | Michael Handerhan |
| Peter Hearnden | Scott Colombo | John Viola |
| Mark Slater | Robert Vandiver | Paul Tomei |
| Brian Sullivan | Todd Dudley | David Watkinson |
| Simon Barrow | Steve Scott | Geoffrey Mason |
| Steve Dill | Tim Stannard | David Pannell |
| Thomas DeVries | Bob Martilotta | Brian Harris |
| Brian Harris | Paul Hailes | Ray Riethmeier |
| Henrik Antonsson | P.T. Wilson | Terence Sadler |
| Steve Luzietti | Barry Gorsky | Steven Roehr |
| Craig Estenes | Martin Kjellberg | Gary Betts |
| Fergus Cubbage | Bill Whittaker | Aaron Steelman |
| Lind | Mark James Lang | Steve Rode |
| John Parry | John Cowan | Miguelbass |
| Fred Barringer | Rachel Hadaway | Dem |
| Steve Moss | Douglas Caldwell | Steve Perry |
| David Phyrillas |
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
Available now!
Producers:
Patrons:
| Robert Nasir | Declan Logue | John Thomson |
| John Holden | Jamie McQuinn | Stephen Lambe |
| Chip Palmer | Brian Husvar | Michael O’Connor |
| Geoff Bailie | Lobate Scarp | Ronnie Neeley |
| Hogne Bø Pettersen | Chris Bandini | Michael Handerhan |
| Peter Hearnden | Scott Colombo | John Viola |
| Mark Slater | Robert Vandiver | Paul Tomei |
| Brian Sullivan | Todd Dudley | David Watkinson |
| Simon Barrow | Steve Scott | Geoffrey Mason |
| Steve Dill | Tim Stannard | David Pannell |
| Thomas DeVries | Bob Martilotta | Brian Harris |
| Brian Harris | Paul Hailes | Ray Riethmeier |
| Henrik Antonsson | P.T. Wilson | Terence Sadler |
| Steve Luzietti | Barry Gorsky | Steven Roehr |
| Craig Estenes | Martin Kjellberg | Gary Betts |
| Fergus Cubbage | Bill Whittaker | Aaron Steelman |
| Lind | Mark James Lang | Steve Rode |
| John Parry | John Cowan | Miguelbass |
| Fred Barringer | Rachel Hadaway | Dem |
| Steve Moss | Douglas Caldwell | Steve Perry |
| David Phyrillas |