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I miss her🥲

This is ……just true…

I think my mutual need listening to this.

Jon Anderson tells a story about Yes in Argentina during the 90125 tour (1985)

Link to the performance

Link to the interview

Ricki Barbie superstar 🥰

҉P҉҉i҉҉n҉҉e҉҉a҉҉p҉҉p҉҉l҉҉e҉ ҉C҉҉r҉҉u҉҉s҉҉h҉

-w-

Let me in, where do I sign up

support group for young people with primarily middle aged man music taste

"Finding [Jamie] Muir's approach far outside his experience, [Bill] Bruford quickly realised that he was now operating in a new world of serious music-making."

"For Muir, this meant widening Bruford's musical horizons, partly by exposing him to records by Nigerian drummers and sessions in Muir's maisonette, with the pair crawling around on hands and knees, "playing" household appliances and domestic furniture..."

"Bruford outlined the modus operandi... 'We define the various areas in which we play - for instance, a lot of the time he's playing non-kit instruments... There's a lot of different ways we can employ it; we can even phrase together which gets very heavy. Basically, Jamie skims along the top of the music most of the time, while John and I anchor it down.'"

"Despite the confident tone, however, this transformation was not achieved without some personal pain and soul-searching, reducing Bruford to tears on one occasion."

From In the Court of King Crimson by Sid Smith

So cute

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS VIDEO OF ADRIAN BELEW FUCKING AROUND WITH A GUITAR SYNTHESIZER SO HARD THAT IT STARTS TO BECOME SENTIENT AND HE APPEARS MILDLY CONCERNED

☺️

Jon and Rick's height difference plus them being slightly in sync :)

It’s…wonderful……

i found some wonderful gifs

An excerpt from Chris Squire's interview in his car

The infamous “Adrian Belew granted Tony Levin with hair” scene.

This shit belongs in the library of congress

Need a sip on Monday morning.

Steve and Chris smoking a joint

Constantly providing entertainment for us :)

i love progarchives i hope they never shut it down

There’s literally nothing I can deny in this post.

in other news, this is the masterpiece that came out of the prog gc I was in on twitter

Oh Jon…lol

source

😂😂😂

unhinged yes stories: topographic oceans edition

ok so a friend asked for more unhinged band lore and i am obliging with yes because i know them best (except for pmodel but anyway)

-most of the concept of topographic was written by jon and steve while they were touring. late at night. by candlelight. in their hotel rooms together. these sessions are remembered (by howe i think howe said this) as leaving them "exhilarated for days". this definitely doesnt sound hilariously gay

-jon wanted to record topographic in the middle of the woods. rick is jon's #1 enabler so he backed up jon in this venture but everyone else wanted to stay in london. so they did

-so someone decided to decorate the recording studio like a barnyard to cheer him up. black sabbath stole one of their cardboard cows.

-supposedly rick pranked steve somehow and locked him in a closet while they were recording. predictably steve was incredibly unhappy about this.

-speaking of rick he got LICE IN HIS KEYBOARDS because they were all propped up on haybales. this meant he had to send them away to be serviced and delayed recording.

-the master tapes almost got run over by a bus because eddy offord (the band's sound engineer) put them on top of his car and then forgot about them and drove away

I need to reblog this, I just need to.

Jon Anderson & Chris Squire of Yes

Rikichita!!!!

sorry rick

No youtube I don't want Captain America trailers I want live performances of the best song from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds goddammit

Hope this finds the right audience