You Know What I'd Like To See?

[Steve St Thomas]

I haven't bought the latest DVD's of Yes product, since at least Symphonic. This is only because I guess I feel I don't need another version of this song or that song. No offense meant. It just means I'm spending some money elsewhere.

But what I would honestly love to spend some money on, and would love to see developed, is an animated Yes movie. I was just watching Daft Punk's Interstella 5555, which was an anime version of their album Discovery. The animators actually gave the songs a theme and concept which ran over 65 minutes of a pretty stunning visual and audio piece.

And I'm trying to figure out why Yes, whose visual association of their work is aligned with Roger Dean almost wholesale, haven't invested some time into presenting Yes music in a new way other than this song on tour, and that song done with an orchestra, and this song done acoustically. I'm not slighting them and their ventures, and this stuff does please the fans.

But I can honestly see works from Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer turned into an animated Dean movie. Particularly Gates of Delirium, which would make an incredible animated 20 minute film. Expanding other longer pieces, or even shorter ones like Heart of the Sunrise, South Side, to tell a story, would be such an interesting project, and I'm sure presenting Yesmusic in this thoroughly new way could expand not only the visual aspects of their music, but even their presence in the media. It may change their whole Internet site design. Maybe this has been thought of in the past, and maybe there's not enough money or time to put into it. I don't know.

Your opinions?

[Steve St Thomas]

and apologies for not noticing the Roger Dean Scenario Thread. Honest, didn't see it. Just treat this thread as an opinion gatherer on the enterprise in general. Not exactly what you'd like to see within it.

[RABARKS]

Isn't Dean's Floating Islands project exactly what you're describing? But with the current coma-state that Yes is in, it won't get off the ground for some time.

But it's a great idea. I've often thought whilst watching nature programmes on TV: Wouldn't these pictures of floating streams and deserts and polar landscapes etcetera make excellent illustrations of yes albums like TFTO?
I could just see them in my minds eye. You could have those pictures and then in the corners of the image there would be the four instruments, a bit like in the Every Breath You Take video by The Police! And underneath the lyrics, without a bouncing ball, obviously! Scenes like that...

But Yes and animation hasn't worked yet. On the Symphonic DVD I like the stuff they did for CTTE, but the GOD animations are very poor. Maybe some kind of (music) director should have a go at it... :headset:

[Steve St Thomas]

There's a project already? Hey thanks for letting me know -- I didn't know that.

There's a story there on that Fragile album I'm seeing. I can't describe it yet beyond sense impressions. But I see a story. With the Space Ark.

You know, a great place to start would be Japan. Whether or not someone dislikes their 'human character' style, Japan Anime has absolutely stunning backgrounds. And if you look at the horserider on Relayer, there's quite a bit of Japanese or Chinese artistic style just in the way it was drawn/painted. I've always thought the Yes art Dean did had a little bit of Japan & China in them.

I was going to kind of sift through the 4 albums I think could really form a theme or concept --- Fragile, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer. They all seem connected for some reason. But other things happened today.

[Buglunch]

I enjoyed watching the Symphonic animations a couple of times but I'd rather see them playing so I can tell how they do parts and enjoy their happiness and see the gear.

I'm easy to amuse............................................. ....................... rather see animation done from the start as that- Roger Dean movie should be great and special Yes/solo like Jon in Metropolis.

[BrianD]

You can see more about Floating Islands here on Roger’s website http://www.rogerdean.com/floatingislands/intro.html

[neilius]

Roger Dean = Cool!!