The Best of Musikladen Live DVD

[dwdrums]

I stopped by www.amazon.co.uk and found a DVD called Yes- The Best of Musikladen Live, and there is no info or reviews of it. It says it was released January 2003, and I have never seen it before. Anyone who has any ideas what it is? (Please tell me it is Bill Bruford material...)

[gathernear]

It is 3 songs from German TV (Beat Club) 1969-71
No Opportunity Necessary...
All Good People
Yours Is No Disgrace

The first has Peter Banks, the last 2 Steve. It's short, but very good!

Larry

[yarstruly]

It is indeed...I actually found the VHS version of this at the $1.00 store recently...It has 3 songs on it from early German TV ("Beat Club") performances..."No Opprtunity Nescessary, No Experience Needed" in B&W with Peter Banks, "Yours Is No Disgrace" & the "All Good People" part of ISAGP w/ The Yes Album Line-up in color....It is a very high energy, though short video...I don't think the DVD version has any additional material, but am not sure. Great performances, worth having, but don't overpay....Hope that helps....

[Orbert]

I picked up the DVD a few months back, and have watched it a few times. The performances are great. The video quality is not so great, but pretty good considering the age of the source material. It was a $10 cheapo at Best Buy, and worth it.

The "extra material" is semi-lame, but okay. There's a "Pop-Up" feature which allows you to watch the same three video clips, interrupted occassionally by little factoid balloons that "pop up" on the screen. The problem is that if you're enough of a YesFan to buy this DVD in the first place, you know at least 95% of the facts. I never did finish watching this "feature" all the through, once I figured out what it was, but during the five minutes or so that I watched, I think there were one or two truly obscure bits of trivia that I didn't know.

The only other bonus material consists of previews of other DVDs from the same outfit, who apparently specialize in digging up old footage of prog bands and making cheap DVDs out of it. The previews themselves go a few minutes each, though, and are interesting to watch, and enough to make you want to go get the other vids if you're a fan. One of Rick's shows was featured (either "Journey to the Center of the Earth" or "King Arthur", I don't recall, with him in concert with an orchestra) and ELP's "Pictures at an Exhibition" was another. There were four in total, and probably nearly matched the main feature for total length. I don't remember what the other two were.

Sorry for the sketchy details. I bought it, watched it a few times, and it has sat on my shelf since. I'm not at home right now, so I can't check.

Orbert

[Faceintheplace]

I have two different versions of this. The Pioneer edition shows the Beatclub closing credits neart the end of YIND. The Classic Pictures version shows multiple angle footage of the band in splitscreen in place of the Beatclub TV credits. Pionneer just has the performances. Classic Pictures adds some clips and a few full length songs from other releases, all sourced from different German TV brodacasts (Beatclub, Rockpalast ect.)

[Yescelt]

I have both too, and I agree. Get the Classic Pictures version. "YES - EP"
It's £4.99 direct from their Website.
http://www.classicpictures.co.uk/product.php?ALBUM_ID=72&ALBUM_TYPE=DVD

Regards, Brian

I have two different versions of this. The Pioneer edition shows the Beatclub closing credits neart the end of YIND. The Classic Pictures version shows multiple angle footage of the band in splitscreen in place of the Beatclub TV credits. Pionneer just has the performances. Classic Pictures adds some clips and a few full length songs from other releases, all sourced from different German TV brodacasts (Beatclub, Rockpalast ect.)

[YesJen357]

The YES EP is the best quality you will see from that long ago.
It should be in every YESfans collection.