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Episode 59 – Keys to Ascension DVD – Part 1

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DVD purchased circa. 2000 (click to enlarge)

The fifty-ninth episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring the live DVD – Keys to Ascension.

Listen and see if you agree with me, then let me know by contacting me via any of the different routes on the right hand side or by leaving a comment below!

  • What does a DVD add to an audio recording of a concert?
  • What was DVD production like in 2000?
  • Would we rather not see how the pieces are put together?

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Episode 58 – Mabel Greer’s Toyshop

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The Yes family tree

The fifty-eighth episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring the pre-Yes band, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop.

Listen and see if you agree with me that this band gives a fascinating insight into the development of Yes, then let me know by contacting me via any of the different routes on the right hand side or by leaving a comment below!

  • Are any of the surviving recordings of Mabel Greer’s Toyshop worth listening to?
  • What clues are there to the early sound of Yes?
  • Why should we bother to remember bands like this?

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Episode 51 – The Yes Alphabet – ‘C’

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…brought to you by the letter, ‘C’.

The fifty-first episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring the letter, ‘B’.

Listen and see if your letter ‘B’ choices are included. Then let me know by contacting me via any of the different routes on the right hand side or by leaving a comment below!

  • Which tracks and aspects begin with ‘C’?
  • What links Yes with classical composers such as Vaughan Williams and Brahms?
  • Is Tales from Topographic Oceans the definition of the concept album?
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Episode 49 – The Yes Alphabet – ‘B’

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…brought to you by the letter, ‘B’.

The forty-ninth episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring the letter, ‘B’.

  • What can you think of for the letter, ‘B’?
  • Band members?
  • Songs?
  • Albums?
  • What else?

Listen and see if your letter ‘B’ choices are included. Then let me know by contacting me via any of the different routes on the right hand side or by leaving a comment below!

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Episode 48 – Keys to Ascension live tracks – part 3

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CDs purchased 1996 and 1997 (click to enlarge)

The forty-eighth episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring the live tracks from ‘Keys to Ascension’.

  • What do the last live tracks here have in store for us?
  • How do these performances differ from earlier ones?
  • Overall, how good is this collection?
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