PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby LMG » 10 Jun 2022, 21:38

John aka Josh wrote:
LMG wrote:I got this album in 1975, for my fourteenth birthday. I remember haw sad I was that great shows like these happened in the word, and there I was stuck in dull old Knoxville, Tennessee.

In fact, part of Yessongs was recorded in Knoxville, including this tune!

I howled with laughter when I learned that!





:lol: :lol:




Knoxville - isn't there a famous bridge there, connected to suicides and recorded in country songs?


Maybe:

"The Henley Bridge is mentioned in three novels by author Cormac McCarthy. In The Orchard Keeper (1968), a bootlegger's car breaks down on the bridge. In Suttree (1979), a homeless man known as "The Ragpicker" lives under the south end of the bridge. In The Road (2006), the Henley Bridge is the "high concrete bridge" the father and son cross near the beginning of the novel en route to the Great Smoky Mountains to the south."

My mother was friends with Cormac's first wife when they lived in Knoxville, and she often told me he and I would talk a lot when he came along for visits because we were both bored by proceedings.

But of course I have no memory of this because I was seven.

My sister once asked me if I ever thought I might be the boy the kid in The Road is based on, which gave me a chill.

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby Hightea » 10 Jun 2022, 21:39

C wrote:Squire......

oooooof!




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Sometimes he sounds like a guitarist instead of a bass player.

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby C » 10 Jun 2022, 21:40

The complexity of the vocals here is sterling.

The Squire/Anderson harmonies are excellent and we often take them for granted




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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby LMG » 10 Jun 2022, 21:42

Sound quality on this acceptable, and certainly variable.

The music is terrific, in any case.

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby Spock! » 10 Jun 2022, 21:42

LMG wrote:
John aka Josh wrote:
LMG wrote:I got this album in 1975, for my fourteenth birthday. I remember haw sad I was that great shows like these happened in the word, and there I was stuck in dull old Knoxville, Tennessee.

In fact, part of Yessongs was recorded in Knoxville, including this tune!

I howled with laughter when I learned that!





:lol: :lol:




Knoxville - isn't there a famous bridge there, connected to suicides and recorded in country songs?


Maybe:

"The Henley Bridge is mentioned in three novels by author Cormac McCarthy. In The Orchard Keeper (1968), a bootlegger's car breaks down on the bridge. In Suttree (1979), a homeless man known as "The Ragpicker" lives under the south end of the bridge. In The Road (2006), the Henley Bridge is the "high concrete bridge" the father and son cross near the beginning of the novel en route to the Great Smoky Mountains to the south."

My mother was friends with Cormac's first wife when they lived in Knoxville, and she often told me he and I would talk a lot when he came along for visits because we were both bored by proceedings.

But of course I have no memory of this because I was seven.

My sister once asked me if I ever thought I might be the boy the kid in The Road is based on, which gave me a chill.




Fascinating - thanks.
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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby C » 10 Jun 2022, 21:43

Absolutely fucquing fantastic!





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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby Spock! » 10 Jun 2022, 21:44

LMG wrote:Sound quality on this acceptable, and certainly variable.

The music is terrific, in any case.








Sound quality much better than I expected, music glorious.
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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby LMG » 10 Jun 2022, 21:45

C wrote:The complexity of the vocals here is sterling.

The Squire/Anderson harmonies are excellent and we often take them for granted




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Doooobs!

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby Spock! » 10 Jun 2022, 21:46

What a great band - I do hope that was pretty much live, not overdubbed.


Sterling work from Alan, especially as it sounds he didn't have long to learn the parts.




Many thanks for your company, a joy as always.






To Reap, Alan, Chris and other absent friends,


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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby LMG » 10 Jun 2022, 21:48

John aka Josh wrote:
LMG wrote:
John aka Josh wrote:



:lol: :lol:




Knoxville - isn't there a famous bridge there, connected to suicides and recorded in country songs?


Maybe:

"The Henley Bridge is mentioned in three novels by author Cormac McCarthy. In The Orchard Keeper (1968), a bootlegger's car breaks down on the bridge. In Suttree (1979), a homeless man known as "The Ragpicker" lives under the south end of the bridge. In The Road (2006), the Henley Bridge is the "high concrete bridge" the father and son cross near the beginning of the novel en route to the Great Smoky Mountains to the south."

My mother was friends with Cormac's first wife when they lived in Knoxville, and she often told me he and I would talk a lot when he came along for visits because we were both bored by proceedings.

But of course I have no memory of this because I was seven.

My sister once asked me if I ever thought I might be the boy the kid in The Road is based on, which gave me a chill.




Fascinating - thanks.


Much more likely to have been inspired by his own son.

Although there was that game we used to play when we were really bored, 'Let's pretend most people in the world are dead and no one makes food anymore, what would we do?'

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby C » 10 Jun 2022, 21:50

John aka Josh wrote:
Sound quality much better than I expected, music glorious.


Probably due to slagging it off for 50 years!

Still, it is what it is

Fantastic music played in maestro level competency

Awesome

A great album in great company

Check out Progeny Highlights

Thanks Steve
Thanks Chris
Thank John

To Reap and other absent friends

And Alan, Chris, Peter




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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby Hightea » 10 Jun 2022, 21:57

awesome album! GOod way to start the weekend!
Enjoy ALl!
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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby C » 10 Jun 2022, 22:04

LMG wrote:
John aka Josh wrote:
LMG wrote:
Maybe:

"The Henley Bridge is mentioned in three novels by author Cormac McCarthy. In The Orchard Keeper (1968), a bootlegger's car breaks down on the bridge. In Suttree (1979), a homeless man known as "The Ragpicker" lives under the south end of the bridge. In The Road (2006), the Henley Bridge is the "high concrete bridge" the father and son cross near the beginning of the novel en route to the Great Smoky Mountains to the south."

My mother was friends with Cormac's first wife when they lived in Knoxville, and she often told me he and I would talk a lot when he came along for visits because we were both bored by proceedings.

But of course I have no memory of this because I was seven.

My sister once asked me if I ever thought I might be the boy the kid in The Road is based on, which gave me a chill.




Fascinating - thanks.


Much more likely to have been inspired by his own son.

Although there was that game we used to play when we were really bored, 'Let's pretend most people in the world are dead and no one makes food anymore, what would we do?'


Interesting. Thanks



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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby C » 10 Jun 2022, 22:05

Hightea wrote:awesome album! GOod way to start the weekend!
Enjoy ALl!


Great to have you aboard!



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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby LMG » 10 Jun 2022, 22:27

Lovely album.

To absent friends - Reap and the departed Yessmen.

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Re: PSL: In Memoriam: Alan White/Yes, Fri 10th June @ 9pm [UK]

Postby kath » 10 Jun 2022, 22:51

oh heyyyyy y'all! guess what? my power came back on! isn't that lovely?

and jusssst in fucquin time for yessongs!

... isn't that wonderful?

(starts banging head against keyboard...)


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