Essentially Yes

Infobox Album
Name = Essentially Yes
Type = Box set
Artist = Yes


Released = December 2006
Recorded = 1993 - 2003
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = ?:??:??
Label = Eagle Records
Producer = Yes, Trevor Rabin, Bruce Fairbairn, Tim Weidner
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Last album = "The Word is Live"
(2005)
This album = "Essentially Yes"
(2006)
Next album = "Live at Montreux 2003"
(2007)

"Essentially Yes" is a box set by progressive rock band Yes. It was released in 2006 by Eagle Records. It contains five discs, four of which are previously-released studio albums; "Talk", "Open Your Eyes", "The Ladder", and "Magnification", though not in chronological order. The fifth disc is a single CD version of what was later released as the 2CD live album "Live at Montreux 2003".

Track listing

Disc 1

* "Open Your Eyes"

Disc 2

* "The Ladder" (includes Homeworld preview)

Disc 3

* "Magnification"

Disc 4

* "Talk" (includes 2002 bonus track)

Disc 5

* single CD version of "Live at Montreux 2003"

Personnel

* Jon Anderson: Vocals on all discs.
* Chris Squire: Bass on all discs.
* Steve Howe: Guitar on discs 1, 2, 3, and 5.
* Trevor Rabin: Guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, and string arrangements on disc 4.
* Tony Kaye: Hammond organ on disc 4.
* Rick Wakeman: Keyboards on disc 5.
* Igor Khoroshev: Keyboards on disc 2.
* Billy Sherwood: Guitar and keyboards on discs 1 and 2.
* Alan White: Drums on all discs.

with

* Steve Porcaro: Keyboards on disc 1 track 2.
* Larry Groupé: Orchestra conductor on disc 3.

Packaging

The previous disc, "The Word is Live" contained an exhaustive set of liner notes and made use of plastic hubs which intersected each other. "Essentially Yes", by contrast, was packaged with no liner notes in a black cardboard box featuring cover art by Roger Dean. Each disc was given an individual mini-LP (non-gatefold) sleeve.