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marky
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 9, 2008 - 01:50am PT
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dude who made those kick-ass Yes album covers circa 1971-76. I always found these covers evocative of the things I like to do in the world: explore wilderness with -- and sometimes without -- friends.
like my favorite, Relayer: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Relayer_full_cover.jpg
Fair use respected here. Here on the Taco.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Dean is truly awesome!!!
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dogtown
climber
Where I once was,I think?
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Yeah, Very cool stuff !!
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Mar'
Trad climber
Santa Fe, NM
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I remember when I first started climbing and got turned on to Yes and bought the Fragile album. Check out the liner art. There's a cool illustration of a solo climber trailing a hank of cord for protecting dicey sections!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Listening to Yesterdays right now.
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2Grovel
Trad climber
Hangtown
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Fragile was a great "album" to listen to on the way to the crags...
Correction all Yes is great to listen to anytime.
Mar' can you still play "The Clap" on guitar?
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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I have the "Close to the Edge" gatefold posted above my door at school. Total Power, Total Cool.
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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The original inspiration for more than one climbing career, I'm sure.
"A million miles away, it seemed from all of eternity."
Yeah.
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marky
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2008 - 11:03pm PT
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hey - from what album does that last illustration come?
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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It was the back cover of the insert booklet that came with the Fragile LP.
I bought it for three bucks from the kid who sat next to me in chemistry. "This record sucks," he said. Heh. No accounting for taste.
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marky
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2008 - 11:25pm PT
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I got gipped
I have "Fragile" on LP -- no insert booklet
what bullshitt
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Tom Hanson
Trad climber
Castle Rock, CO
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Sep 10, 2008 - 11:55am PT
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YES is still my absolute favorite music, in a league with no other. Even by today's standards their music is so progressive.
My favorite album of theirs is Relayer and the Relayer concert was spectacular.
It's funny that the two songs of theirs that get the most airplay (Roundabout and All Good People) are my least favorites.
The three songs from Relayer: Sound Chaser, To Be Over and The Gates of Delirium, never get any airplay.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Sep 10, 2008 - 01:34pm PT
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I am a confessed YEShead and proud to be. YES music will always be apart of my life.
Roger Dean images bring to me a hope of the future in another land. I climb these landscapes in my mind and sometimes in reality.
Hello, to all fellow YESheads!!!
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wbw
climber
'cross the great divide
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Sep 10, 2008 - 03:04pm PT
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I don't know how many times I found myself doodling in a high school class, trying to reproduce the perfect Yes logo ala Roger Dean.
The reason you won't hear any of those Yestunes on the air is because they are too long and complex for the average listener. Four chords and 4/4 time is what sells, unfortunately.
I've seen Yes in concert a half dozen times, met Steve Howe at the Kentucky State Fair in 1979, stood next to Jon Anderson (the dude is really tiny), and been inspired by their music for 30 years. I was once in a band where we played (probably not very well) Heart of the Sunrise (my favorite Yestune of all time. Even though I don't play as much as I used to, I even have a Gibson ES-175. I worhshipped those guys!
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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Sep 10, 2008 - 04:40pm PT
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With Fragile I think it was just the first couple of pressings or so in 1972 that got the booklet. They must have sold millions of copies. It was everywhere. Did the stonemasters listen to Yes in between Hendrix jams?
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Sep 10, 2008 - 05:09pm PT
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I second that question. How many of the Stonemasters listened to YES or for that matter the PMB or "Poway Mountaineers"?
Personally, for me it was a constant in the 70's and to this day it still is. Maybe I play a YES CD every 4th CD on the home 5.1 Dolby Surround Home Theater system.
All of their music is superlative. It gives me escape from this mad world.
Roger Dean was supposed to make a feature length film using YES music. They were raising money for this project. Hope someday it happens.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 11, 2008 - 10:56am PT
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We (a couple of the junior Stonemasters/assorted wannabes) where way into Yes by '77. 'Went to my first Yes concert directly after my first trip to the Valley.
In '78 I asked Largo what he thought of the band, as he was pretty much into jazz fusion by then, playing drums with a rippin' jazz gutarist up in Idyllwild at the time: "That group Yes, they're pretty hot don't you think John?"
"Yeah, when they were happ'nin' " he said.
It was almost dismissive...but not entirely.
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