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The Syn Deep Dive Part 2 – Early Songs – 741

Post author By Kevin
Post date October 8, 2026
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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.

How much music was officially released by The Syn in their initial period?
Does it sound anything like early Yes?
How successful were the band?

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Tags Chris Squire, Peter Banks, Steve Nardelli, The Syn

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Deep Cuts outside Yes – 687

Post author By Kevin
Post date September 5, 2025
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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?

Steve Nardelli on the YMP

The Syn biography on Prog Archives

Details of the Chagall Project on Henry Potts’ website

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Wayne Hall
Ken Fuller
Jeffrey Crecelius

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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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Tags Billy Sherwood, DBA, DBA IV, Jon Anderson, Patrick Moraz, Rick Wakeman, The Syn

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What did they do next part 24b- Chris Squire – 490

Post author By Kevin
Post date July 9, 2021
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Produced by Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius and Preston Frazier

This week there was some fairly significant Yes news – The Quest is the new studio album which will be released on 1st October 2021. Mark and I will be talking about this, as you can imagine, in our two pence later in the episode.

Before that, we finish off our examination of The Syn’s 2005 album, Syndestructible which we are taking as what Chris Squire did next in the Yes hiatus period. Stay tuned for our thoughts on that and get involved yourself by adding your comments on the show notes for this week.

What did Chris Squire do in the hiatus?
Why was it a return to former times for him?
What was the result and was it worth it?

Listen to the episode and let us know what you think!

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Doug Curran	Robert Nasir
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Michael Handerhan	Tim Stannard
Jim	Todd Dudley
John Cowan	Tony Handley
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John Parry	Keith Hoisington
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What did they do next part 24a- Chris Squire – 489

Post author By Kevin
Post date July 2, 2021
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Produced by Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius and Preston Frazier

This week I am officially on holiday from the day job but that didn’t stop Mark and me discussing the next person in our What Did They Do Next series – it’s Chris Squire. He never really left Yes but during the hiatus period he did get up to some interesting things…

What did Chris Squire do in the hiatus?
Why was it a return to former times for him?
What was the result and was it worth it?

Listen to the episode and let us know what you think!

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Order the unique Full Union art print – available now

Show notes and links:

Join us in August to record episode 500 here:

Sadly, this trip has had to be cancelled due to travel restrictions. We hope to be able to reinstate the event next year.

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Producers:

Jeffrey Crecelius
Preston Frazier and
Wayne Hall

Patrons:

Aaron Steelman	Dave Owen
Mark James Lang	Paul Tomei
Joost Maglev	David Heyden
Martin Kjellberg	Paul Wilson
Bob Martilotta	Lind
Michael O’Connor	William Hayes
Brian Sullivan	David Pannell
Miguel Falcão	Lobate Scarp
Chris Bandini	David Watkinson
Neal Kaforey	Rachel Hadaway
Craig Estenes	Dem
Paul Hailes	Mark ‘Zarkol’ Baggs
Doug Curran	Robert Nasir
Fergus Cubbage	Scott Colombo
Fred Barringer	Scott Smith
Geoff Bailie	Simon Barrow
Geoffrey Mason	Stephen Lambe
Guy R DeRome	Steve Dill
Henrik Antonsson	Steve Perry
Hogne Bø Pettersen	Steve Rode
IanNB	Steve Scott
Jamie McQuinn	Steven Roehr
Ken Fuller	Terence Sadler
Michael Handerhan	Tim Stannard
Jim	Todd Dudley
John Cowan	Tony Handley
John Holden	Joseph Cottrell
John Parry	Keith Hoisington
John Thomson	Barry Gorsky
Alan Begg	Michael Askounes

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Some rather unusual Yes and Yes-related items we got for Christmas – 366

Post author By Kevin
Post date January 11, 2019
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What did we get for Christmas?
What’s unusual about the some of the items?
What’s an obi strip?

Listen and let us know what you think!

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