And when I say trivia, I really mean it!

[briser]

Ages ago I bought my son a computer game called Tuneland, its a sort of point and click world with a bear that uses the name of a real guy Howie Mandell. (You probably know him in the US but no-one in the UK has ever heard of him).

Anyhow there are many well known kids songs and nursery rymes on the CD and believe it or not, one of the singers was .....

Jon Anderson.

Now I could not tell you which songs he sang because they are all stylised, funny voices etc but if that's not Yes trivia, what is?

[weebl]

http://www.cdaccess.com/html/pc/tuneland.htm

[In Limbo]

I don't know if this can be classified as trivia. But as you all know Rick Wakeman left the band after the release of Tales from topographic oceans. After Yes released Relayer (the followup) they toured with Patrick Moraz. As part of the setlist Yes included songs from both Close To the Edge, and Relayer. Which by the way Patrick Moraz pulled off really splendidly.

Well, Rick Wakeman made one of his many returns to the band following the tour. To this day he refuses to play songs from the Relayer album.

[stevepenn]

I really wouldn't consider that trivia at all. After all, it is pretty well known that Rick actually doesn't care for TFTO and certainly has no love (or reason to) for Relayer. Sorry. Try again, though!!

[stevepenn]

And pardon my lack of manners. WELCOME to the site. (I just noticed the newbie reference.)

But do try again, LOL!!!

[Andy56]

Ages ago I bought my son a computer game called Tuneland, its a sort of point and click world with a bear that uses the name of a real guy Howie Mandell. (You probably know him in the US but no-one in the UK has ever heard of him).

I've heard of him. He was a stand-up comic and he used to play a doctor in St. Elsewhere.

Here's a bit of real fluff. If you listen to the final few seconds of the wind up of Roundabout on House of Yes, just at the end of the "Yes is in the House of Blues" bit you can hear either Steve or Billy Sherwood playing the opening chords to Astral Traveller.(Time 6:40 onwards)

[Professor Yessor]

Ok. My attempt. I've heard it mentioned but nobody ever knows the particulars.

Way back when, according to some obscure guitar book I was reading at the MSU
library, Steve and Chris used to do a bass guitar duet called "Bass Odyssey".

[johnv]

think ihave got it iam new to this here is my trivia question
the tv prog fools and horses, when dels son is born,del is looking out the window talking to his new born boy. the backgroundis by steve howe but what piece

[pianozach]

how do i read a post etc

how do u read a reply

Actually, you're doing both.

No one has answered your trivia question. Maybe none of us know the answer. I don't.

Welcome to the site! Just keep on at it. All the details of how to work it all out will eventually come to you. Just keep pointing and clicking and you'll eventually get into the swing of things.

[johnv]

can some one send me a private meesage on how to open threads ,posts etc its driving me nuts that i cant read the replies. also what does johnv has a disabled reputatation mean please help

[slamsound]

I've got one:

The first 5 seconds of Roundabout - what is the instrument and how is it played?

[umgekehrt]

Geoff Downes is the only Yes member who has a music degree from college.

[pianozach]

can some one send me a private meesage on how to open threads ,posts etc its driving me nuts that i cant read the replies. also what does johnv has a disabled reputatation mean please help

Hey johnv,

:teach: Just access your User CP (Control Panel) and go to your "Options" button. then "enable" your reputation points box.

[pianozach]

can some one send me a private meesage on how to open threads ,posts etc its driving me nuts that i cant read the replies. also what does johnv has a disabled reputatation mean please help
again thanks but where is the control panel

John, we can't send you any messages until you enable your email, also in your control panel.

Your control panel (User CP) should be the first item in your menu bar, near the top of the page. Click there. Or click anywhere, for that matter. You'll either get your control panel page, or a pop-down menu. If all else fails, try a different browser (I use both explorer and safari; they both have their faults, different ones of course).

Or click anywhere, for that matter. Explore. Experiment.

Z

[fovman]

I've got one:

The first 5 seconds of Roundabout - what is the instrument and how is it played?

It is a sustained grand piano chord recording played backwards.

[Earl Grey]

I don't know if this can be classified as trivia. But as you all know Rick Wakeman left the band after the release of Tales from topographic oceans. After Yes released Relayer (the followup) they toured with Patrick Moraz. As part of the setlist Yes included songs from both Close To the Edge, and Relayer. Which by the way Patrick Moraz pulled off really splendidly.

Well, Rick Wakeman made one of his many returns to the band following the tour. To this day he refuses to play songs from the Relayer album.

I once asked Rick to sign my copy of TALES, and he asked me, 'What's THIS Shyte?'

I retorted, 'Ah come on Rick, it 'aint all THAT bad!'

He signed it like it was some unclean thing, and pushed it over to Alan, who signed it without a pause mind you.

After that, I had the coolest exchange with Jon, we talked about Hawaii and how it seemed to fit YES, that they MUST play there again.

TALES is a wonder, and Rick is wrong. But we love Rick.

url:yesbird:

[Earl Grey]

Patrick Moraz: 'I did write much of the keys for GFTO, I LOVE YES, I would never speak ill of YES. It was one of my favorite times...
I DID come-up with the modulated-bit of the middle-eight of Awaken.'

Wow.

Moraz told me this q/uq, in the Galaxy Theatre parking lot last year...

A rich tapestry, and always another wonderous story.

eg:yesbird:

[Bugeyes]

Hey Earl, I learn something new everyday. You spoke to Moraz last year!

What song during recording was it that they made everyone drink wine, not allowing anyone go to the bathroom, until they could record the *tinkling* into a big brass bathtub?

I'm serious. This info was brought up recently and I'm really looking for the answer again. I know Wakeman was involved but I'm not sure if it was a YES song, and I know everyone believes it is a waterfall.
:dog:

P.S. Men laugh at the crassness of being human.

[Internaut]

It was at the end of "The Maker" from NEC

[Bugeyes]

That's what I was looking for! Thanks tecladista2. It just cracks me up and I think it's unbelievable! But here it is, right in the Notes from Rick's perspective:

The sound of the waterfall, (and I'm not telling you where it is on the album), was created by making the band and crew drink copious amounts of wine all day without being allowed to go to the bathroom and then were all marched down to the echo chamber which was actually a cellar in the old French Chateau and where they stood on a long bench and all weed simultaneously into an old metal bath tub. It was recorded with 2 microphones in stereo. For years people have believed it was a sample from a famous waterfall.