YES DVDs

[Ktrek]

Anyone have a complete list of YES DVDs? I'd be interested in a list of "official" releases but if someone wants to post unofficial ones in a separate list I would be interested.

Kevin

[Sonoacustico]

this is the list of official dvds I can remember:

Live DVD's

Best of Musikladen - 20 mins of yes from the Time and a Word/ the yes Album era
Yessongs - Well known footage from the CTTE tour
Live at QPR - Double dvd with a full concert from the relayer tour
Philadelphia 1979 - 50 mins from the tormato tour, not very good quality recording.
9012live - This one is supposed to be released soon. There has been a brazillian bootleg version around. from the 90125 tour
The Union Tour live - Japanese only release from that tour. My All time favorite Yes dvd
Keys To Ascension - Poor dvd footage from the fantastic San luis obispo 1996 shows
House of Yes - Very good concert footage from the Ladder tour 2 hours long app
Symphonic Live - Excellent full concert from the Magnification (Symphonic) tour, almost 3 hours long
yesacoustic - 30-min feature of a few acoustic versions of yes classics
Songs from tsongas - The definitive 35th Anniversary tour footage (2004)


Documentary/videoclip releases.

Greatest Video Hits - Compilation of music clips from the Going for the one era to Big generator. it does include 2 Drama tracks.
Yesyears - Extended history of the band for the 1967-1991 era. Very cool UNION footage
Yesspeak - 3-hour documentary showing Yes on the road for the 2003 tour. it does include as a bonus an audio-only of the fulls etlist from that tour.

That's as far as I can remember.

Live long and prosper!! ;)

Claudio

[Ktrek]

Thanks ever so much Claudio!

Kevin

[Sonoacustico]

you're welcome Kevin!

the unnofficial DVD list is Endless, I'm Aware that there are footage from the folowing tours:
Fragile (pro)
Going for the One (1 cam, tripod)
90125 (pro)
Big Generator (pro)
ABWH (pro)
Union (pro)
Talk (pro)
SLO 1996 (audience)
Open your Eyes (pro)
Ladder (pro)
Full Circle 2002 (semi pro: 2 cams, soundboard sound)
Full Circle 2003 (pro)
35th Anniversary (pro)

All those footages are NOT official releases.
There is a thing about the ABWH official DVD (An Evening of yes Music plus). It was released on DVD in 1994, when nobody had dvd player. they put a very limited quantity available (a few thousand copies) and then deleted it long before the format was accepted worldwide. Now you can eventually find used copies of it on ebay for no less than a couple hundred dollars.... (ouch!)
The Laserdisc version of that concert was more popular, however the DVD version was more complete, and it's like 3 mins longer. The LD version cuts all the in-between-songs talking, not like the DVD, and the DVD also features Anderson speaking just before the concert, as he gets prepared to walk onstage.

Greetings!

Claudio

[Ktrek]

Very interesting information. I wonder if YES would ever re-release it now that DVDs are more common?

Kevin

[MindDrive]

Actually, I have the LD release of ABWH and it contains the pre-concert footage of Jon talking (to the camera) before the show. Perhaps there was a second LD version (pirate/bootleg) put out afterward?

[YesJen357]

Just my 2 cents.
The very best of the unofficials, - which I believe should be in every Yes collectors list;
Would have to be Montreux Jazz Festival 14 July 2003 and Lugano Festival 8 July 2004.
These are both pro-shot and show the band in all their brilliance!

[Yesterdaze]

this is the list of official dvds I can remember:

Live DVD's

Best of Musikladen - 20 mins of yes from the Time and a Word/ the yes Album era
Yessongs - Well known footage from the CTTE tour
Live at QPR - Double dvd with a full concert from the relayer tour
Philadelphia 1979 - 50 mins from the tormato tour, not very good quality recording.
9012live - This one is supposed to be released soon. There has been a brazillian bootleg version around. from the 90125 tour
The Union Tour live - Japanese only release from that tour. My All time favorite Yes dvd
Keys To Ascension - Poor dvd footage from the fantastic San luis obispo 1996 shows
House of Yes - Very good concert footage from the Ladder tour 2 hours long app
Symphonic Live - Excellent full concert from the Magnification (Symphonic) tour, almost 3 hours long
yesacoustic - 30-min feature of a few acoustic versions of yes classics
Songs from tsongas - The definitive 35th Anniversary tour footage (2004)


Documentary/videoclip releases.

Greatest Video Hits - Compilation of music clips from the Going for the one era to Big generator. it does include 2 Drama tracks.
Yesyears - Extended history of the band for the 1967-1991 era. Very cool UNION footage
Yesspeak - 3-hour documentary showing Yes on the road for the 2003 tour. it does include as a bonus an audio-only of the fulls etlist from that tour.

That's as far as I can remember.

Live long and prosper!! ;)

Claudio
Yes, Thank You very much Claudio, may have to make a few purchases.