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In a bumper double-feature episode (or something like that), Mark and I compare the Empire featuring Peter Banks version of Something’s Coming with the Yes studio version and we also indulge in a little bit of speculation about the forthcoming Yes album – and who doesn’t enjoy these kinds of guessing games? Well if you don’t, feel free to use the fast forward button.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun listening to some very early Yes and what Peter Banks did when he revisited it himself in 1979. Videos of the 2 songs are available below of course.
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Theme music
The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts.
6 replies on “Something’s Coming – Peter Banks and the new Yes album – 665”
Hi Kevin and Mark
Just enjoyed your podcast on a long drive this morning. I was most particularly pleased to hear the weather updates from you both, but the discussion of Yes music was an added bonus..
After the show I listened to the two recordings of ‘Something’s Coming’ with interest. I hadn’t heard the Yes version for many years and had never hear the Pete Banks version at all. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.
I must confess I agreed with both your comments. The Yes original sounds much more coherent and engaging, with the latter more of a guitar/jam improvisation for Pete. To be fair, as one of you commented, this recording was probably never meant to have been made and publicly circulated, and was probably just a practice session. With editing and post production and vocals it would doubtless sound very different.
I will be interested to give the forthcoming ‘Yes’ album an unbiased and sympathetic listen.
Looking forward to the release of Kevin’s TFTO book…
Thanks for another great show
Thank you for the comment! We aim to please, and to provide useful meteorological information. Something’s Coming is a great, underrated song.
Troika is Russian word derived from the number 3. In the case of Prokofiev’s piece it should be the traditional vehicle- group of three horses that pull a sled through the snow.
Yes indeed! It’s a great piece of music that I have had the privilege to conduct!
Nice to listen to the latest episode this morning. However, I feel Kevin understates the progressive nature of “Unknown Place”, with its lengthy instrumental section from about 3 to 7 minutes in. And Mark overstates the progressive nature of the Prog Collective! Dark Encounters has some nice playing, but over pretty straightforward compositional forms.
Well, I knew someone would pick me up on my comment. I should have prepared more carefully. You are, of course, correct. I didn’t mean Unknown Place at all. Thanks for pointing it out!