Yes-The Yes album

[gentletull]

Another ripper album :D. I wonder why they didn't use the studio version of the clap on the original album

[yesyadda]

Oh well. Yup- a most excellent album to say the least. Was (is) there a studio version of 'Clap'?

[Timmo]

I've relocated this thread from the "Gentle Giant" forum.

Say what?

[Scooty]

Another ripper album :D. I wonder why they didn't use the studio version of the clap on the original album

Im thinking because it doesnt sounds as alive and spontaneous as the live version they ultimately chose.

[JL]

I just, and by just I mean in the last 36 hours, got around to picking up this CD. I had it on vinyl years ago. I always went with live versions whenever I was in the mood for any of these songs.

I think YIND is better on this album than any live version I've ever heard, and it's good to have A Venture in my collection again. This is a fantastic album. I haven't gotten around to listening to the studio Clap yet.

[allpurechance]

...In a way,this is my favorite from the band.It has a joy to it that they've seldom captured,if ever,again.There is a shimmer,a light about the entire recording that only Yes has made me hear and feel.

The vocals here are as fine as they have ever done,and perhaps,as anyone has ever done.Vocally,Magnification is as close as they have ever gotten to this again(apologies to all Fragile,Close To The Edge-which was close!lol-Topographic,Relayer and 90125-which was ALSO close!-fans).

The sheer exuberance of Steve Howe's guitars were only equalled on Relayer...possibly surpassed there,lol...possibly,perhaps...

Unless you disagree with A Venture,there isn't a throw away moment on the entire album.I,personally don't disagree with A Venture,lol!It comes at a point on the album where,somehow,it's required.

Maybe it's a sentimental thing,because this was the album that put me 'over the edge',so to speak.From this point forward,Yes and I have been inseparable.I owned Fragile first,picked it up in late 1972.In the spring of 1973,I bought this,and then Close To The Edge over a two week period,and that was it for me.Ever since,I've been holding people kind of "Yes-captive!"-but that part of The Tale belongs more over there in the "What do you do with people who hate Yes"(or whatever it's called,lol) thread(-answer?lmaoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo-hold them Yes-captives!).

Yeah,The Yes Album.Yours Is No Disgrace(my brother-in-law,who passed away suddenly two weeks ago this past night,loved this song,and this entire album,and he was a known Yes-naysayer-see the above regarding captivity!lmaooOOO-we were slowly working on turning him on to the the remainder of the canon...lol-but he loved THIS!),'The' Clap(I'm sorry,Mr.Howe,but I love the story about how Mr.Anderson renamed this song-oh,& Mr.Howe became my hero for life when he dedicated this song to everyone in the audience under the age of 16 at the concert my sons and nephew attended with my sister and I in 2002...),Starship Trooper(such a great,great song-one of the Yessentials,as is much of this album-this whole "side" of the old LP...wow,truly classic),I've Seen All Good People(I actually heard Your Move in 1971 when it arrived as a single,and LOVED it,but the mental 'clicking' in hadn't occurred yet...it took hearing the album in it's entirety.I was also dimly aware of the longer version,the Your Move/All Good People medley we're all familiar with now,but again,it took listening to the whole to put the 'hooks' in!lol),A Venture,and Perpetual Change(which was kind of the template for what was about to come...!).

The final thing I have to say about this album concerns the time of year that I always associate it with.I bought it intially in May,1973(CTTE,too).It was a lovely spring,I remember,that year.So lovely,in fact,as was/is the music contained within this all-time classic album,that in my mind,the two are ever-intertwined.The Yes Album and springtime,inseparable for me.Know,All Good People,as spring appears,and once it arrives,that I shall be sending the strains of The Yes Album out into the air in my neighborhood again this year,as I have done wherever I have been,for more than three decades now,and that I will continue to do so,as long as I am able in this life.

Which may not mean much to you!LOL!...but,to me,it's a Rite Of Spring(thanks to Igor Stravinsky,again,lol).

...and in the middle of this long,LONG winter-the entire idea makes me smile!

...thanks for your attention,and patience-but seeing this thread appear tonight brought me back into those 'formative' Yes remembrances.This is how I got here!LOL!-for better or worse!...

...Frank

[starship_trooper]

I like the live version of Clap best. I feel like there's more energy behind it.

[vtchatman]

with clap and in most cases i like studio work the best, particularly if there are elaborate productions that can only be done in the studio with precision and can not be done live unless some material is canned which does not quite work as well, but in this case it worked better because you have basically one instrument being played and maybe this was one of the first times howe played live for a yes audience and he wanted to show his skills more.

[wolfhound]

I truly love this album. To me, A Venture fits in the Yes Album perfectly.
As the song fades out, Steve does the coolest lead ! There's been a lot of discussion about this song but I seldom, if ever, hear people raving about the fast cookin' runs Steve does on it. I just have the song on vinyl and I'm assuming the CD doesn't fade out too early. Hey, it'd be crazy if it did :D

[Nellsalot]

This album may be my 2nd favorite after CTTE. Steve's work on The Yes Album has always seemed to me to be the most classic, purest form of his playing. "Yours Is No Disgrace" contains my favorite guitar work on any song.