JustSayYES
11-22-2005, 05:33 PM
Hey everyone, my name is Charles and as you have probably guessed, I'm new here ha.
I'm never good with introductory posts, but here goes anyway. I never had the benefit of growing up with rock music, instead my childhood was filled with the subtle ambiance of Gansta Rap with it's repetitive beats and gloomy, agressive lyrics. As I grew up, I grew disillusioned with this music, and for quite a lengthy period of my life, I didn't listen to much music at all. I didn't much care for contemporary albums, and the radio was never a good source of groundbreaking music. I suppose it was about a year ago that it all begin to change, a chance happening which proved to be the moment of my enlightenment.
I was sitting in Art class one day in between bouts of staring into space, when I noticed that a good friend of mine had left his iPod at his desk while he stepped out of the room. I picked it up, and decided to listen to a song, any song, the result of which gave me my first dose of Progressive Rock: Pink Floyd's "Eclipse". There was something undeniably enticing about this song, and though I couldn't quite ascertain what was special about it, I found myself enthralled. From that moment on, the rest is, as they say, history. I became (and still am) an enormous Pink Floyd fan, though as one person would tell me, they were merely a stepping song. From them stemmed Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, The Eagles, The Beatles, Cream, King Crimson, and essentially anything else I could get from the era. But none of this could compare to what I most recently discovered: Yes.
I can't describe the feelings listening to so-called "Classic Yes" evokes within me, but I am certain that it resides within every Yes fan. The band is undoubtably home to the foremost musicians of their era and respective genre across the board, and their ability to make full use of this fact is nothing less than astounding. Despite their virtuosity, the band always seems to be in perfect harmony, delegating themselves to the grandiosity of the music and never becoming overly indulgent with personal agendas. Of the albums I have listened to in the last month or so of realizing the band existed (The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Yessongs, Tales From Topographic Oceans, and Relayer with a bit of Time and a Word), Close To The Edge, both the album and its namesake, are the personal pinnacle of my Progressive Rock experience.
Hmm... I feel like I should have tossed in something about myself amidst that little rant ha. Quckly - I'm 18, live in San Fran, aspire to be a Game Designer (video games, of course), and I'm looking to learn how to play the guitar.
I'm never good with introductory posts, but here goes anyway. I never had the benefit of growing up with rock music, instead my childhood was filled with the subtle ambiance of Gansta Rap with it's repetitive beats and gloomy, agressive lyrics. As I grew up, I grew disillusioned with this music, and for quite a lengthy period of my life, I didn't listen to much music at all. I didn't much care for contemporary albums, and the radio was never a good source of groundbreaking music. I suppose it was about a year ago that it all begin to change, a chance happening which proved to be the moment of my enlightenment.
I was sitting in Art class one day in between bouts of staring into space, when I noticed that a good friend of mine had left his iPod at his desk while he stepped out of the room. I picked it up, and decided to listen to a song, any song, the result of which gave me my first dose of Progressive Rock: Pink Floyd's "Eclipse". There was something undeniably enticing about this song, and though I couldn't quite ascertain what was special about it, I found myself enthralled. From that moment on, the rest is, as they say, history. I became (and still am) an enormous Pink Floyd fan, though as one person would tell me, they were merely a stepping song. From them stemmed Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, The Eagles, The Beatles, Cream, King Crimson, and essentially anything else I could get from the era. But none of this could compare to what I most recently discovered: Yes.
I can't describe the feelings listening to so-called "Classic Yes" evokes within me, but I am certain that it resides within every Yes fan. The band is undoubtably home to the foremost musicians of their era and respective genre across the board, and their ability to make full use of this fact is nothing less than astounding. Despite their virtuosity, the band always seems to be in perfect harmony, delegating themselves to the grandiosity of the music and never becoming overly indulgent with personal agendas. Of the albums I have listened to in the last month or so of realizing the band existed (The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Yessongs, Tales From Topographic Oceans, and Relayer with a bit of Time and a Word), Close To The Edge, both the album and its namesake, are the personal pinnacle of my Progressive Rock experience.
Hmm... I feel like I should have tossed in something about myself amidst that little rant ha. Quckly - I'm 18, live in San Fran, aspire to be a Game Designer (video games, of course), and I'm looking to learn how to play the guitar.