Have you got anything else?’ and I’d play him another tune. “Jon would say to me, ‘What have you got that’s a bit like that…’ so I’d play him something and he’d go, ‘That’s great. “I’ve a lot of cassettes of Jon and I sitting in places like New York or Cincinnati recording songs,” recalls Howe. Over several post-gig evenings in candlelit hotel rooms, locked away from all the usual distractions from life on the road, they trawled through a huge accumulated array of musical sketches and motifs, searching for pieces to complement Anderson’s thematic ideas. “We were really up for the big, challenging things like, ‘Let’s do an album with four Close To The Edges,’” laughs the guitarist. With lights and staging, you could take them on a journey.” I wanted to create music that had length and breadth and adventure, that would carry the audience through this experience. “There were a lot of bands up there soloing forever but that wasn’t what I wanted to do. Anderson was determined their music should avoid showboating licks for their own sake. The punch Yes delivered came not from a single source but rather their collective force. An epic release, it meshed adventurous solo excursions with tightly knit arrangements. With Close To The Edge, they went bigger still. Always a band on a mission and in a hurry to push forward, Yes were keen to do whatever was in their power to be at the forefront of a musical movement where nothing that was worth anything stood still for very long.Ĭhris Squire observed that the build-up to Tales… had been going on for some time, with Heart Of The Sunrise marking the realisation of an ambition to produce something on a much bigger scale. But challenge is exactly what Yes thrived on. When the band played the four-sided opus live, many fans found it a challenge. Although achieving Gold status on both sides of the Atlantic, it received a mauling from many critics. “Crazy” turned out to be one of the nicer things said about the sixth Yes studio album upon its release in December 1973. Maybe we'll just stand awhile And surely we can call Dreams are said to blossom courage Constant to the soulĬhange we must as surely time does Changes call the course Held inside we enter daybreaks Asking for asking for The source The source The source Sent as we sing our music's total retainĪs we try and consider We receive all we venture to give All we say is our Soul constant sight listener We won't tender our song clearer Till we sail Then I will be there And I will be there As clearer companions Shall call to be near you They move around tell me that Move around surely sing As they don't seem to matter at all At all at all. Till we're coming home again Our life seems like Life seems like a Fight, fight, fightĬatch as we look and use the passions that flow As we try we continue We receive all we venture to give Maybe I'll just sing awhile And then give you a call Maybe I'll just say hello And say maybe that's all Hurry home as love is true Will help us through the night Let them run, let them chase Let them hid between Constant doors will open eyes As life seems like Life seems like a Fight, fight, fight Open doors we find our way We look we see we smile Surely daybreaks cross our path And stay maybe a while Alan and Chris present and relay the struggle out of which comes a positive source. Life is a fight between sources of evil and pure love. Tantras: The ritual seven notes of freedom to learn and to know the ritual of life.
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