How did it start?

[ChicaLatina90125]

Hey, guys!
How did you all become Yes fans?
Let me tell you my story: I was pretty young, I think something like 7 years old, when my dad, who was already into Yes since his teenage years, bought the Tormato album. I remember walking around in the living room when "Future times" started. First of all I got a shock because the music was so loud. And after the first two songs I began to love it. Next time I went to my dad I asked him if I could copy the record. He also gave me some other records then, and when I listened to them I remembered all the songs from the days when I was 2 years old or something. But I just didn't hear the music for years. So I really grew up with it. Ok, gotta go now. See ya
Kat

[BrianD]

Welcome to Yesfans Kat

There is a whole generation of Yesfans that have been turned on by their parents records from the 70s (and possibly early 80s). Then later they have explored the music for themselves.

Hope you can stay around and post often.

[cinderella]

Hi Kat!
Welcome to Yesfans. Nice to have you here.
Have fun and enjoy the site.

Cindy
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[Dances w/PURPLE]

Hola Chica!

Welcome to YESFANS and so glad to have you here.

[Flo]

Hola Kat ! Bienvenida !

¿ De qué país eres ?

That was nice to read your story.

Come back and post often !

[Sheerah]

Hola Kat!

Welcome to Yesfans! We all love Yes here, and lots of other bands as well.
Although I've been a Yesfan for over 30 years, I just bought Tormato 2 years ago.
So, I guess I'm still growing my Yes collection.
Has your Dad taken you to a concert yet?

[ChicaLatina90125]

Hi!
No, my dad would never take me to a concert. I'm gonna go there alone next time they'll come on tour. (I could never go to a concert with my dad. That would be too embarassing). I guess I am a real Yes fan while he only likes to listen to them.

[yesyadda]

Welcome to the site Kat. I first heard Yes on the radio when Roundabout was released. I thought it had some really different and special sounds. Then I heard All Good People on the radio. One station even played the Close to the Edge album (those were the days!). I was 16 at the time. My little brothers bought CTTE for me that Christmas. 34 years and 27 shows later I'm still a big fan. Can't get enough!

[Deliriumyes]

Hola Kat...Que Tal?

Nice thread! My dad bought Yes' first album when I was just 2 and me and my brothers kind of took it from there. I hope that you get to experience a live show soon. Whenever I get a single ticket, it's always a good one!

Hasta Luego

[SallyKhatru]

Hey Kat,
your storry sounds pretty much like my story sometimes:-) I'm also fan since I'm 8 or 9 - not quite sure about that. I first heard Open your eyes in the car and asked my dad fpr the disk. later he gave my the Ladder and then I asked my godfather for all the other CDs. My dad took me to every concert we could get. I've been to 4 Yes concerts so far. Last year we even drive to Prague which was awesome. I really hope you get the chance to see them next time. Maybe we'll meet at the concert. I'd really love that.

[Earl Grey]

...I'm an old fart (Not THAT old garshdarmmit!) who discovered YES on Top 40 Radio.

How boring is that?

But true, the double-headed 45 rpm single of 'Roundabout'/'Long Distance Runaround' grabbed me by the ya-yas, 'Yessongs' was a vision, and TALES 'live' at The Great Los Angeles Forum sealed it.

And now I'm an obsessive with autographed posters and stuff all over my apartment...

Loving it bye the way! Happy as the proverbial insane clam.

:ele:

[Sheerah]

...I'm an old fart (Not THAT old garshdarmmit!) who discovered YES on Top 40 Radio.

:ele:

Earl, Earl, Earl, you are not an old fart. Banish the thought. ;)
After all, you are only a year older than me, and you made it abundantly clear that I am not an old fart.

[Jack D]

Sadly to say, I was born just after the release of Fragile in 1972, so I did not see the rise of Yes. I became a Yes fan after 90125, some friends turned me on to OOALH and with its video on MTV a listened to more of the songs. I eventually bought my own copy and discovered that Yes was not a new group, they had been around for some time. My next purchase was Classic Yes, followed by Fragile, The Yes Album and CTTE.

Since then, I have purchased every studio album in at least two formats (cassette, LP or CD), plus many of the compilations. Have seen Yes on the following tours: Big Generator, Union, Talk, OYE, Magnification (Incredible!) as well as two ABWH shows in Philly - one with Tony Levin, the other with Jeff Berlin. Tony Levin and Bill Bruford were incredible together; their solos were numbing. It's a shame the CD - A Night of Yes Music Plus did not include Tony, or for that matter Chris Squire.

I have spent most of the day listening to Yes; Yesshows (1972 concert tour), Magnification, Talk. I have the VHS tape of Yesshows, but the sound is not so good, plus the tape is short. I wish I could have seen some of those shows!

[sunburstbasser]

Gruss Dich Chica!

The first time I heard Yes was when a friend played "Roundabout" for me.

In 2001 or so.

It was on a Best of the 70s collection. I'd just gotten into the Chili Peppers and was a bass player, so I was blown away. I kinda listened to that and two or three other songs for the next year, then bought Close To The Edge. I've listened almost exclusively to Yes for the last two months now. I just love them more everyday. I've got Drama on right now in fact.

Welcome to the forum! I'm a relative noob here too!

If I may enquire, why is your screenname ChicaLatina, but your location Germany?

[Buglunch]

I was 18 in 1971 and heard an interview of Steve Howe and "Your Move" on University of Alberta AM radio on a balmy August night in Edmonton in the car parked high over the North Saskatchewan River out on the Quesnel Heights: bright moon and no wind. They announced a contest to write 500 words on Edmonton music scene, any aspect.
I wrote on folk scene: I was a bassist in trios and musicals at 17 and on.
Winners got to choose between vinyl LP of Fragile and Some Other Band Thing, Don't Ask Buglunch. ;)
Guess which one I asked for and picked up downtown??
:D