Lately I've been enjoying this guy (Rick Beato's) videos. In this "What Makes This Song Great?" series he listens to the original song tracks to hear the various elements in isolation. In this episode, he looks at the Yes single "Roundabout"
If you like this format, check out the episode for Toto's "Rosanna".
Showing posts with label Yes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yes. Show all posts
Friday, July 27, 2018
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace
Here's "Yours is no Disgrace" if you have 11 minutes free.
"On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place..."
The interplay between the main theme on keyboards and the guitar in this song is just magical, in my opinion.
The album version is available on youtube so I could have posted that. But then I figured, "Fellas, you're really gonna want that rotating mannequin head on the track."
Steve Howe says in an interview that the intro was rhythmically inspired by a "famous television series" but doesn't say which. There seems to be a lot of different theories. My money would be on the Gideon's Way Theme:
"On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place..."
The interplay between the main theme on keyboards and the guitar in this song is just magical, in my opinion.
The album version is available on youtube so I could have posted that. But then I figured, "Fellas, you're really gonna want that rotating mannequin head on the track."
Steve Howe says in an interview that the intro was rhythmically inspired by a "famous television series" but doesn't say which. There seems to be a lot of different theories. My money would be on the Gideon's Way Theme:
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