An Evening of Yes Music Plus

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Actor: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Brand: MUSIC VIDEO DIST
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Voiceprint UK

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Movie Review: The "other Yes"
Summary: 3 Stars

After avoiding them for 20 years, I finally decided to give ABWH a chance. I knew I wouldn't like their album, but figured this DVD of a 1989 show might be OK. I was mainly curious about what Bill Bruford and his electronic drumkit had brought to the older Yes music that's on this video.

In all, it's not bad. Even the music from the ABWH album is passable, especially when it's broken up with the older Yes standards. The ABWH music is inferior, but it's not nearly as terrible as some others seem to think it is. My main complaints are that this material sounds kinda generic, and Jon Anderson's twee New Age lyrics do rather irritate. These same problems are found in nearly all the post-Rabin Yes music too, unfortunately.

What's with the extra players here? Aside from bassist Jeff Berlin, there is another guitarist and another keyboardist. With Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman onstage, who needs backup? These two extra players are barely noticeable in the mix and seem superfluous in the extreme. The cameras almost completely ignore them too.

The highlights are of course the older Yes music, and seeing Mr Bruford reunited with his old band. He seems to be enjoying himself somewhat at least, only looking bored when he has to play 4/4 sometimes. He clearly put lots of thought into what his contributions would be. You can really see how much Bruford improved as a drummer in all those years away from Yes; they don't call him World's Greatest for nothing. I liked the electronic drums a lot; they really freshened up the old music and brought an interesting texture to it. Usually e-drums scream "stale 80s", but here they sound really great and have aged quite well. Early in the show there's a radical take on "Heart of the Sunrise" that is basically a start-stop machine-gun duet between Bruford and Howe, sans vocals. Later on the band reprises the song in the "proper" way. The problematic absence of Chris Squire, for me, was largely compensated for by seeing Bruford's thrilling performance.

There's some very different takes on "Long Distance Runaround", "Close to the Edge", and "Starship Trooper". I guess in this configuration the band saw an opportunity to experiment with these standards a bit more than they usually do, and it made me wish they would do this more often. The version of "Your Move/All Good People" is likely the best one I've seen - very cool.

In all I would recommend this video to the experienced Yes fan who is prepared to be a bit open minded. If you're also a Bill Bruford fan, this show is indispensable. This video represents a one-off, historically unique version of Yes which deserves a look.

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Summary of An Evening of Yes Music Plus

This performance was captured on the American leg of the 1989 world tour and finds the band performing not only material from the self titled album but also classic material from YES including Starship Trooper, Close To The Edge and also And You And I. Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe made up of four fifths of the classic YES lineup from the seventies. Put together by Jon Anderson, the band recorded one self titled album released in 1989, and then embarked on an extensive and hugely successful worldwide tour filmed here.

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