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This week Mark and I attempted to choose 3 Peter Banks era Yes songs each. As you’ll hear, we turned out to be thinking along similar lines but it was still a very enjoyable experience listening to the earliest days of the band and discussing what made Yes unique even at that stage.
This topic was partly in response to a tweet or X post or whatever they are now called from Phil (Primarily_Prog) @primarily_prog who posted a photo of Time and a Word and said –
Continuing tonight with perhaps the most undervalued album in the Yes discography.
— Phil (Primarily_Prog) (@primarily_prog) April 21, 2024
I seldom hear it mentioned, yet the interplay between Banks, Bruford, Squire and Kaye is quite something.
And Jon’s voice to top it off … pic.twitter.com/tiO0ZlZQ5E
- What was special about the Peter Banks era?
- What are our favourite songs from way back then?
- What can we learn about how Yes music developed?
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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. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from: archive.org