Yesshows

Infobox Album
Name = Yesshows
Type = Live album
Artist = Yes

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Released = December 19 1980
Recorded = August 17 1976 -
October 28 1978
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 78:54
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = Yes
Last album = "Drama"
(1980)
This album = "Yesshows"
(1980)
Next album = "Classic Yes"
(1981)
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:weapqj1boj0a link]
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Back cover
Type = Live album

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"Yesshows" is the second live album by British progressive rock group Yes. Released shortly after the appearance of "Drama", "Yesshows" comprises live performances ranging from the summer of 1976 to the supporting tour for "Tormato" in 1978. The album's release was supervised by bassist Chris Squire.

Like the group's previous live album, "Yessongs" (1973), "Yesshows" begins with a recording of Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite". Unlike the "Yessongs" version, the band members may be heard playing in tandem with the Stravinsky track on this recording.

Although Rick Wakeman is the keyboardist on most tracks, the 1976 performances ("The Gates of Delirium" and "Ritual - Nous Sommes du Soleil") feature Patrick Moraz. Moraz left Yes just before the recording of "Going for the One" (1977).

On the original double vinyl LP, "Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)" was split in two, with its second half continuing on Side D of the record. For the CD edition, it has been stitched back together, although each part has been allotted its own track number.

The album is also notable for showing photographs of the band's late 70s live stage performances - around 1977 they developed the idea of a circular rotating stage, known informally as performing "in the round", with Jon Anderson's microphone hanging from the ceiling of the venue.

Issued as Yes were about to disband (temporarily, as it turned out), "Yesshows" stands as a fitting live memento of their late 1970s era.

Track listing

#"Parallels" (Chris Squire) – 7:07
#*"recorded at Ahoy-Halle, Rotterdam. 11/24/1977"
#"Time and a Word" (Jon Anderson/David Foster) – 4:06
#*"recorded at Empire Pool, Wembley, 10/27/1978"
#"Going for the One" (Jon Anderson) – 5:22
#*"recorded at Festhalle, Frankfurt, 11/18/1977"
#"The Gates of Delirium" (Jon Anderson/Chris Squire/Steve Howe/Alan White/Patrick Moraz) – 22:40
#*"recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, 8/17/1976"
#"Don't Kill the Whale" (Jon Anderson/Chris Squire) – 6:50
#*"recorded at Empire Pool, Wembley, 10/28/1978"
#"Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)" (Part 1) (Jon Anderson/Chris Squire/Steve Howe/Rick Wakeman/Alan White) – 11:48
#*"recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, 8/17/1976"
#"Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)" (Part 2) (Jon Anderson/Chris Squire/Steve Howe/Rick Wakeman/Alan White) – 17:07
#*"recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, 8/17/1976"
#"Wonderous Stories" (Jon Anderson) – 3:54
#*"recorded at Ahoy-Halle, Rotterdam. 11/24/1977"

Chart

"Yesshows" (Atlantic K 60142) reached #22 in the UK. It also reached #43 in the US during a chart stay of 12 weeks.

The album spend 4 weeks at the Norwegian chart and reached #32.

Personnel

* Jon Anderson: vocals
* Chris Squire: Bass guitar, vocals, mixing
* Steve Howe: guitars, vocals
* Patrick Moraz: Keyboards (tracks 4, 6 and 7)
* Rick Wakeman: Keyboards (everything else)
* Alan White: Drums, vocals

Reissues

1987 - Atlantic - CD
1994 - Atlantic - CD (Remastered )
2001 - Atlantic - CD (HDCD remaster)

ources

* AllMusicGuide.com
* "Top Pop Albums 1955-2001", Joel Whitburn, c.2002