AT THE VETERANS MEMORIAL (2CD)
by YES
Compact Disc Double
UN2CD039
Label: UNICORN
STUNNING BROADCAST YES SHOW FROM 1974
DISC ONE
1. Firebird Suite 2:51
2. Sound Chaser 9:44
3. Close To The Edge 19:18
4. To Be Over 8:58
5. Gates Of Delirium 15:52
DISC TWO
1. Soon 7:31
2. And You And I 10:38
3. Ritual: Nous Sommes Du Soleil 26:20
4. Roundabout 9:26
One of the most successful of all the progressive rock bands to come out of the UK, Yes is featured here in their 1974-1976 incarnation, with Patrick Moraz on keyboards during Rick Wakeman’s "sabbatical." It was 1974 and the band was at its commercial peak with albums like Fragile and Close To The Edge dominating the charts in the UK, in Europe and in the USA. As with their contemporaries ELP and King Crimson, Yes had taken the musicality of prog-rock and brought it to the masses. In retrospect, the prog movement of the '70s was the fore-runner to the popular "jam band" movement of the late-'90s and early-'00s. • Vocalist Jon Anderson is in fine form and was probably at the peak of his vocal prowess when this performance was recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour in December 1974, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Hartford Connecticut. • This line-up of the band, which featured original members Anderson and bassist Chris Squire, as well as guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Moraz remained intact until Wakeman returned to replace Moraz in 1976. • The Close To The Edge-era line-up later reformed in the late-'90s and has toured on-and-off since then, until the premature death of Chris Squire in May 2015.
