Pete Interview about his Marquee Club days.

[TheMiz]

There is a nice interview Pete did a month or so ago that has now been posted.

http://www.themarqueeclub.net/



http://www.myspace.com/guitaristpeterbanks

[MikeYESfan]

Very cool.
Lots of History, Pete!

[YesJen357]

Some very good nostalgic reading to be done there.
Especially liked the bit about Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend arguing all the time with Keith Moon egging them on with "go on hit him, hit him...."
Very funny.

[ctask]

It was a great read, agreed. Also, about half-way through, there's a link to a Yes documentary. If you follow it, it refers to the Impact films documentary as coming out in the spring of this year - I don't recall that being stated in the other thread soliciting pictures, videos, etc.

[muff]

Very good interview George,

I enjoyed reading it, :D

[Hugh Shiebler]

Here's a great, in-depth Peter Banks interview that sheds a great deal of life on the mid - late '60's (and early '70's) music scene in London. A lot of keen insights into the early days of Yes, The Syn, Mabel Greer, as well as impressions of early King Crimson and Genesis.

My favorite quote concern's Crimson's very first concert in early 1969: Peter Banks and Bill Bruford were at the bar:

Peter Banks: "I think that was the very first gig King Crimson ever did, certainly the first night I saw them, and it was absolutely amazing! And I was standing at the bar with a drink and I never touch my drink throughout the whole set, I just stood there in total amazement. Bill (Bruford) was standing next to me, I think, and we just stood there kind of open mouthed and... I think all of us were there. And we just watched them and immediately we were just amazed about how tight they were, and how good they were, and how good the composition was, and how original they sounded, and we just realized immediately... We thought that we were the best band around, and we probably were. We were pretty confident, as far as London bands went, that Yes were the one. We thought that nobody else was better than us. Crimson tore all that apart. I think we actually said that night we needed to rehearse a lot more."

interviewhttp://themarqueeclub.net/interview-peter-banks-yes

[muff]

I do not understand why you started another thread when there already is one about this interview, :D

http://www.yesfans.com/showthread.php?t=35976

[Hugh Shiebler]

Sorry, Muff - I didn't see the other thread! It is a very interesting interview, though, isn't it? That was kind of a magical time - late '60's, early '70's, for many reasons. What I really like about that piece is the sense it gives me of the "passing on of the torch" - as from bands like the Who & Cream, to then new bands like Yes.

As for the Crimson connection, various current and ex-Yes members (Bruford, Howe, Banks) have commented on how totally blown away they were by that initial burst of Crimson energy in early 1969.

[BrianD]

I have merged the threads.

This interview is one of the most informative about that era that I have read. Highly recommended.

[TheMiz]

The interview took place about the same time Pete was interviewed for the up coming YES Documentary .


This may all led to a up coming book on those days.

http://www.myspace.com/guitaristpeterbanks

[About The Round]

That was revealing, thanks.

"Well, I knew them all obviously and then with Yes we did a few gigs together. And I was an admirer of Keith (Emerson)'s playing who was playing with a band called Gary Farr, and I used to watch Keith's playing. He was a very good Hammond organ player, he was very visual and I would pick up some of the things that Keith used to play, some of the musical little tricks like quoting over other songs in a solo, like quoting from another pieces of music, and I picked up that on guitar very quickly and I was doing similar things. So after watching him I started playing little keyboard flicks, which is quite unusual cause usually guitar players are doing what other guitar players are doing, and all the guitar players were becoming more and more bluesy and everybody had a thing about (Eric) Clapton and about Hendrix."

ATR

[True Believer]

Excellent and very interesting interview. Thanks for posting.

[ToBeOver]

That's a really good interview, G!

Very in-depth and detailed... it must have brought back a lot of memories for Peter.


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[Jackaranda]

Good interview!