Hi Frae Bonnie Scotchland

[Altres]

hello,

I'm a longtime fan/non-fan of that which is Yes. Love their Early albums including the first couple up until a few tracks on Tormato. Actually there are a couple of not bad tracks on Trauma too. Kind of dismissed everything until those Keys to Ascention albums, which I enjoyed, and have taken a small interest since.

I have seen them twice. Once when they were totally "buggled" in Edinburgh 25 years ago, they were pretty diabolical; and once a few years back when they did their Open Yer Thighs tour in Glasgow. They were fantastic that time!

Seeing they are back in the hit parade I thought I'd catch up once more with this popular beat combo. I may even try out Magnification and the Ladder, both of which I missed. Any recommendations beyond that?

I play guitar/tape effects/odd bit of synth in a band myself if anyone is even remotely interested. We play absract electronic/guitar based instru-mental krautrock style improvisational music. Our other guitarist Mike is a Steve Howe styled person, without the good looks though. :/

the band is called Altres.

http://www.altres.co.uk

or

http://www.myspace.com/altres

I think. Free downloads at both if you can be arse annoyed.

Good to be here,

Brian

[BrianD]

Hi Altres - or namesake Brian - welcome to Yesfans.

That Owner remix is a pleasant surprise to be in the charts.

Both Magnification and The Ladder are good albums - possibly Magnification is the better and many rate it as the best since the 70s. You should also get a copy of the Yessymphonic DVD - that is pretty special.

Hope you stick around

[Altres]

Thanks BrianD. I am actually part Australian on my fathers side and often visit Sydney. My father was from Newcastle. I have many relations there and am over often with my family. A friend of mine sings with the fabulous band the Church (you know, Under the Milky Way) and lives in Bondi.

Thanks for the welcome,
Brian

[brotherofmine]

Welcome Altres / Brian......I think I welcomed you also on one of your first posts. But here is a welcome again. I hope you stick around and catch up on what you missed..I agree with the other Brian ..Magnification and The Ladder are excellent albums. There is plenty that you have missed..but rather than recommend any more beyond the two previously mentioned...wait till the live box set ('In a Word Live) comes out..and you will then get an idea of what you might like to listen more to.

[yes_angel]

Enjoy the site!

[Altres]

What a friendly and welcoming site. Thank you.
Brian

[yesyadda]

Hi Brian! I very much like the Ladder and Magnification. You didn't mention Tales From Topographic Oceans which is one of my favorites. I've been fanstruck since 1971.
I'll check out your web sites from my work, where I have a high speed connection.
Welcome welcome!

Gary

[illusion]

I'd recommend the YesSymphonic DVD, it's great.

I like Magnification, opinion is more divided on the Ladder but I like that one too.

Open Your Eyes is awful. Don't waste your cash (cue jokes about Scots being tight...).

[smatt]

Hey Brian, welcome to Yesfans! Yes you should certainly try out Magnification as well as the Ladder. Mag. is a great album with some shades of the past. You do know that Chris Squire and Stephen Nardelli have started a new record company Umbrello Records, and are also launching a TV station called ThatTV, which will be the first Scottish based TV station! The programming will be split between new music aimed at the 35-60 crowd as well as other relevant programming. It's due to launch on SKY Netwrok in the Mid-Summer.

Anyway, glad to see you found Yesfans!

[JaneEyre]

Welcome!

I hope you have a bonnie bricht day! (And I hope I spelled "bricht" correctly.)

[Dances w/PURPLE]

the thread title was wonderful.

Welcome Brian.

[Silent_wings]

Hi Brian

Welcome to Yesfans

[smatt]

You know Brian, I might add that Umbrello records focus will be on "PROGRESSIVE" style music. You might watn to send your contact to them at www.umbrellorecords.com ............

[yesyadda]

Cool website! I checked out some song clips too. I like the synth-spacey sound.

[nous_sommes87]

hello fellow country man, welcome to yesfans..

[Altres]

OK, you are all very kind, I feel I should tell you more. I started listening to Yes at the age of 12 I think. This was 1975/6 ish. A friend had a copy of Tales From Tobies Graphic Go-Cart (didn't Wakeman call it that?) his big sisters boyfriend had left at their house. We nicked it and listened to side two by accident first. As far as I was concerned it possibly wasn't even recorded on this green and beautiful Earth. It sounded like a gateway to another world, and this turned out to be correct.....it was.

After that I got it myself, followed by Fragile, Close to the Edge, the Yes Album, Relayer and Yessongs. Then I got Yesterdays and discovered I loved their early songs. Then Going for the One (known as Going for the Bum in punk scarred Dundee) came out and it was an embarrassing album to own in Scotland. Wandering through school with a record sleeve with a man's arse on it could get you a good kicking very quickly. Luckily I was a scary enough bugger myself. It was a great album. I really wanted to go to London to see them but was only 14 and therefore not allowed. Then Tormato came out and disappointed me somewhat for being so fragmented; flashes of greatness but also great big cracks in the overall structure that the music was falling though.

Then video killed the musical stars and that tour left them dead in the water. Then they went AOR and MTV and to my ears not worth the listening space. Union was a patchwork quilt of mostly nonsense too. Too many cooks etc

The Keys to Ascention was a good return however and the Open Your Eyes gig I went too was great but the album was weak. That was the last one I gave a listen to.

Apparently last year at Glastonbury they blew the audience away and my interest returned, although the BBC ignored them totally. John Peel desperately trying to remain "cool". I have been listen to their early work quite a lot lately however and decided to seek out some newer things. :)

Here I am. Thanks for the wonderful reception, I'm quite stunned. And thank you also for the advice and things, I'll check out those links.

Brian

PS. I was on the Isle of Skye the other week and the mountains do just come out of the sky and stand there! It's true.

[InverYes]

Hi Brian, nice to see another saltire on the site.

If you're a musician you might want to check out the threads where we're putting together a fundraising CD made up of members own music. So long as you don't do anything too scary and have moved on from Dundee punk, you might want to makwe a contribution?

Stick around and enjoy the musical threads ( but if you want a real laugh- get stuck into the politics threads. Great fun if you've got your asbestos simmet on )

[Altres]

Stick around and enjoy the musical threads ( but if you want a real laugh- get stuck into the politics threads. Great fun if you've got your asbestos simmet on )

Given I'm slightly to the left of George Galloway I'd best not really. :D
Brian

[smatt]

:lmao: Well given the wide range of opinions there, you shouldn't worry to much about such things Brian......

But don't join in unless you've got thick skin. Although things are usually pretty friendly. At times they can get a bit testy.....

[InverYes]

And forgot to say....best to keep out of the football threads too....for obvious reasons

:wall:

[smatt]

Seems to me that the football threads could be far more danerous then ANY political thread. You blokes are serious about your football....... ;)

[brotherofmine]

Seems to me that the football threads could be far more danerous then ANY political thread. You blokes are serious about your football....... ;)
Dead right Smatt I'll see you outside :Itchscrat ;)

[smatt]

All right then.....

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[Sheerah]

Howdy!

[YesScots]

Hi Brian,

From another Brian & me, Alison.

Greetings from Alva.

[PO]

Welcome, and Erin go braless, or something. ;)

[cinderella]

Hey Brian! It's nice to meet you. Welcome to Yesfans.
Have fun and enjoy the site.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Cinderella528/Dolls/YesDolly.gif

[tuke]

Welcome, Brian/Altres.
It's been 150 years since my great, great forefather emigrated from Caledonia, but I feel obliged to salute you. Indeed, the milk of human kindness is welling up in my bosom as I contemplate the generations that have passed since my family sundered its ties with kith and kin and braved the vasty deep. . . :)
My ancester belonged to the Queen's Highlanders (I believe that was the regiment), and emigrated just in time to join the Union for our Civil War.

[Eclipse_chaser]

(...) I am actually part Australian on my fathers side and often visit Sydney. My father was from Newcastle. I have many relations there and am over often with my family. A friend of mine sings with the fabulous band the Church (you know, Under the Milky Way) and lives in Bondi.



Hi Altres and welcome to Yesfans - I look forward to reading more of your posts - your first one was fun. I too got into Yes in the '70s and I lost touch with their more recent music, except that I will go see them live every time they come to my city (Vancouver).

I just wanted to tell you that I am NUTS about Under the Milky Way by The Church. Please pass along my greetings to your friend in Bondi.

By the way, I have some Scotish blood in me somewhere. My left knee perhaps.

8-) . . . Laurel

[Deliriumyes]

Hello there, Brian. I just wanted to welcome you to the site, and to tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your posts! You have a twisted sense of humor, which I quite enjoy. Have fun and post often!

~Karen

[True Believer]

Hi Brian
There's lots of Scots on this site - I'm originally from Glasgow but now live in sunny Sydney.
Welcome!
Anne

[Yescelt]

Thank you for your sensitivity Inver...
,,,and Welcome ANOTHER Brian from Scotland.

You might like to check out www.scottishyesnetwork.org/

Regards, Brian

And forgot to say....best to keep out of the football threads too....for obvious reasons

:wall:

[True Believer]

Brian (Yescelt)
Wouldn't want to start a fight or anything, but ...

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[InverYes]

ohhhhhhh, there's trouble brewing here !

[Altres]

Wow, this must be the most active site I've ever visited. Thanks again for all the welcomes. I am a strange beast in the fact that I am Scottish and have absolutely no interest in football what-so-ever. Eleven guys I've never met kicking a ball about with another eleven guys I've never met. I guess having an Australian father excluded me from getting taken to the match every saturday. Ah well, maybe just as well, being from Dundee and all. ;)

[ham]

Fáilte agus................. There's more of us about ye know..... Even if exiled in Sassanach Land.....
This board is a great place and has some "interesting" characters a'boot.....
Some, I'm sure are time-warped permenantly in 1973 but hey.......

:dog: :cannabis: :beer: :smksml: :bncsmls:

[Poppy]

Hi - News that Steve Howe is playing The Kirkmichael International Guitar Festival on 4th June - three day event in Ayrshire. Check out the website - it's really good www.kirkmichael.org .I'm going along as there are some fab guitarists. :rightG: :git[1]:
There is also a Scottish Air Guitar Championship thing going on - mad or what!

[Altres]

Thanks Poppy. I saw a poster for that in a local music shop in Dundee last week. Unfortunately I doubt I'll make it (I'm not much of a muso type) but I'd love to see Steve live again solo. Maybe I'll have to post about his amazing gig in Dundee a few years back at the Whitehall Theatre.
Cheers,
Brian

[hughmacph]

Given I'm slightly to the left of George Galloway I'd best not really. :D
Brian
I salute your indefatigability in arriving here. No lickspittle, drink-soaked popinjays here, well not that I know of.......!!

Anyway, you might like to know that tickets for Jon's show (14-Oct-05) at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh are now on sale (box office 0131 668 201). A very rare Scottish show from Jon.

Welcome from another Alva based Yes-fan!

- Hugh

[Altres]

:D Actually, although I am possibly to the left of him, I'm not exactly a big fan of his. Anyone who claims to be unable to live on less than £150,000 a year ain't exactly a stunning example of a socialist. Still, it was funny when he gave the Senate "both barrels". Not oil obviously. :D

Last time I bought tickets to a Jon Anderson solo gig in Edinburgh he failed to appear. That was when Song of Seven came out. I may go through to see this however.

Thanks for the info Hugh

Brian