Fairly how four-fifths of the basic Yes line-up landed up in battle with their bass participant who had the rights to the band title is simply one other chapter in one in every of rock’s biggest cleaning soap operas. Suffice to say it is a reside album from the 1989 ABWH tour that includes a pile of Sure glories from their 70s heyday together with some songs from their then-recent self-titled album.
The present was fairly the spectacle. After a mood-setting introduction of Benjamin Britten’s grandiose theme (truly by Henry Purcell) from The Younger Particular person’s Information To The Orchestra, Anderson drifts in with Time And A Phrase, accompanied by acoustic guitar, into which he weaves Owner Of A Lonely Heart which had revived Sure’s fortunes a few years earlier.
After Steve Howe’s Clap the present strikes ahead majestically, with new songs like Birthright slotting seamlessly between Lengthy Distance Runaround and And You And I.
As a two-CD/DVD package deal, nonetheless, there are issues. Recorded for a TV pay-per-view, the sound doesn’t do the band justice. Plus bassist Jeff Berlin is ridiculously low within the combine. Listeners will even have to just accept Bruford’s digital drum package and Wakeman’s synthesiser obsession which give it a dated 80s really feel.
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