Hi, everyone!

[CattyKat]

Hi! I just signed up and want to introduce myself now. My name is Kathrin. Call me Kat if you want. I turn 14 on thursday next week. I learned to know Yes through my dad. Now I like them more than him. The first Yes song I ever heared was Future Times. I think that's why it is one of my favorite songs. The first time I heared it I got a little shock, cuz I never heared something like that before ( my favorite band was Queen at this time). But now that's an other thing. I live in Grünstadt, germany. A small town near the bigger towns Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Frankfurt... I am in the 8th grade of my secondary school. Last year I changed the school, cuz I wasn't so good there. Now I am better and it makes a little fun to go there. Okay, I think that's enough for now. Email me if you want to know more.

[nightliner]

Hi Kat, and welcome to the world of Yes. Its nice to hear from a member of the younger generation that appreciates Yesmusic. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions. Have you gotten any friends to feel the way you do?

[CattyKat]

Well, my friends like everything I like (or nearly everything). I think the only difference is that I love Yes and they don't know what it is. What I said about the other thing with Queen and all is that now Yes is the only older band I still like. But that doesn't matter. I mean we only talk about Yes here, right? Take care,
Kat

[Mike Park]

Welcome, Kat -
Hey, it's always been this way: I just turned 49 last Monday, and my first Yes concert was August, 1971 when they were the warmup for Tull. I don't know a lot of Yes fans but the ones I know are like me: Fanatics! You can't just be a casual fan with this group. And I don't know of any other group that's like that. It's like we're universal, but underground. We're very knowledgeable because we thirst for information about the members and their activities.

In the past thirty years I met my wife, had three sons, bought two homes and attended six Yes concerts in four states ('71, '75, '77,'78',91', '98). You could say they've been a part of my life for 60% of my life (and 100% of my kids' to boot!). Anyway, it's awesome to realize the breadth of ages Yes appeals to - Happy Listening, Girl!!
mp

[1yesfan]

Welcome to the site KAT. How did you find us?

[Randy Hiatt]

Welcome,

I have 2 kids 10 & 12 and they too have an advanced sence of what good music is all about. Keep up the quest, it never ends, there is much to learn just to understand what good music is.

[CattyKat]

Hi, people!
It's so nice to see that many of you write back to me. I found you, cuz someone put a message in the Yahoo club "Awaken Yes fans". He said we all should check out th is site. And it is really great (a big thank you to this person. Sorry that I can't remember the name). I guess I also know what good music is. But I think that is the music where adults say it's crap. I don't know why I like Yes besides Dream, A*Teens, Britney Spears, Eminem, No Angels and all. But I'm thankful that I do. Sometimes I get very sick of Britney Spears. And then I am glad that I have the other music. I sometimes still listen to Queen. (I guess that is only because I love to sing to that music.) Yesterday I went to the cinema with my friends and they asked me to sing something. Of course I didn't. I can only sing alone. But when I'm alone I can. Oh, there's one thing I still have to say about me. In my 14 years of life I already moved two times, visited three different schools (now I'll stay at the third) and went through all styles of music. But I'm sure I'll like what I like forever now.

[saj]

Hi Kat,
Funny you should mention Queen.
I saw Queen at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow in 1976 on their "Day at the Races" tour - it was one of the first, and best, concerts I ever saw.
I went to see Yes a couple of years later on their "Going for the One" tour. It was great to see Yes, but the concert didn't seem as special as I had hoped.
A couple of decades later I went to see Yes at the Playhouse in Edinburgh (also saw them at the Armadillo in Glasgow earlier in the same tour) and Yes blew the audience (and me!) away.
The band were absolutely awesome that night. Chris Squire was a man posessed, Alan White was on overdrive, Steve Howe was playing out of his skin, and Jon Anderson was in seventh heaven. Igor and Billy did their bit as well.

Since Queen in '76 I hadn't heard a band so 'up for it' than I did that night in Edinburgh with Yes. Yes beamed, and the audience beamed back!
I went to see them last year on "The Ladder" tour, (they were good - of course!) but it couldn't surpass the previous concert.

I'm delighted that Yes have stayed the course and that I was able to witness them playing at their very best. Although, like you, I like Queen, I prefer Yes and I'm pleased I can now that say they are the best band I've ever seen playing live as well as on album.

BTW, I took my 10 year old daughter to see them last year and she though they were brilliant. So you're not quite the 'youngest Yes fan' out there. :) Her favourites were "Yours is no Disgrace", "Owner of a Lonely Heart", and "Lightning Strikes".

Take care

Steven

[1yesfan]

CattyKat it was me that plugged the site on the Awaken club. PLEASE spread the word about this site to all that may be interested.

[CattyKat]

:cool: ;)
Hey, no problem. I'll tell the people about the club. And saj, well, about what you said to me. I would loved to have a dad that takes me to a Yes concert. But my father is too strange. He said he loves Yes, but he would never go to a concert. Perhaps he thinks he's too old (he is 42 years old). I call him an old man sometimes, but only because he makes silly jokes about my favorite bands when he buys the J-14 for me. That's a music magazine for teenager. But I mean what can I do? I love pop, rap and hip hop. But I also love Yes. I only listen to Queen now when I can sing to the songs (like Bohemian Rhapsody). I don't play the record only to listen to it, like one year ago. And people, I can tell you, it's not easy to talk with my dad about rap music, or try to talk with my friends about Yes, but when you separate it, like I do, it's not so difficult. Yesterday I saw "Save the last dance", a wonderful new movie with hip hop music, with a friend. And then I listened to hip hop all night. Today I can also listen to Yes again. I can't imagine to like only one music style. Take care,

[kh_khatru]

Hey
Im 45, and still go to concerts, I'd say the average Yes crowd is in their forties, but you do see younger. I took my son the Open Your Eyes show in 97 when he was 11.
At the last show here, the Ladder tour, their was a family next to us who brought their kids, though the kids didnt seem to interested. Tickets go on sale here today for Minneapolis.
kh
:cheers:

[CattyKat]

:rolleyes:
Oh, be glad. When the hell will they come to germany again? Sorry, too much Marilyn Manson today. Guess what I'm just listening to. "Awaken" after I listened to Destiny's Child. Today there was a music show on tv and they were there. Not Yes. Destiny's Child. The friend I was watching "Save the last dance" yesterday is such a great Marilyn Manson fan. I asked her if she still listened to him. She listenes to him every day when she goes to sleep. My mom said she must have very "great" dreams then.

[kh_khatru]

I saw In an interview,with Jon & Chris they were asked about what new prog bands were oput there, I think it was Jon who said he thought Marilan Manson was pretty prog at some points. I thought that quite ironic.
:eek:

[Thomas_Dachsel]

Hi everyone,
thanks to Tim I can finally post :-)
I really like this forum and it's great to be part of it
so early after its inception.
I've always found it VERY difficult to find new YES
fans after I lost contact to my best friend from
my adolescent days... we visited the 1977 YES
show of Going For The One in Heidelberg-Eppelheim
which was my first YES concert.
Last year I attended the Ladder show at
Stuttgart, March 13, 2000 - I got autographs
from all musicians incl. Igor & Billy after the show -
was soooo cool.
I even bought a Region 1 compatible DVD player
just to be able to play the DVDs of KTA and
House of Blues (the latter was not published
in Europe yet)... works great!
And I am going to fly over to California end of
July to attend the Konocti harbor show, a dear
friend of mine happens to live at Lower Lake
which is very close to the venue, she already
got tickets.
Looking forward to a LOT of interesting chats
around here :-)))
Thomas

Hi ,Kat

you are not the one to listen to Yes as young: I heard them first at 16, and now my son, (10 years old) is listening my Yes' records
everyday!
He likes KTA1 & 2 and Magnification ( but not Tormato!).
Really this is a record!

Ciao e a risentirci a presto (more or less 'Hi and see you soon)

[yesindeed]

My daughter is also 14 and a Yes fan (although not a fanatic like me..)

I took her to 4 Yes concerts in the last 2 years and it is always a great deal of fun.

Nice to have a member of the younger generation on board.

[Devotee]

My daughter is Tanbar on this site. I'm sure she'd love to chat with you about some of the other music besides Yes. I took her to her first concert when she was 12 - of course it was Yes. She wanted to see Korn for her 15th birthday, I didn't go, but she enjoyed it. This summer we followed Yes all over the West Coast of USA. It's fun to share these things. Tell your dad that "old yesfans never die, they just bring their kids with them to the shows!" FYI they will be in Germany in November!