When you look at live sets through the years, Yes never really did too many medleys - Unlike Genesis, who made the medleys of older material a highlight of their shows in their later years. The In The Cage/Slipperman/Afterglow medley, the 1991 Old Medley, Genesis knew how to stitch them together where each bit naturally flows into each other, rising and falling, creating build-up and resolution.
Yes did have the 1978 or 1979 'Big Medley'/Ten True Summers medley with Time & A Word/Long Distance Runaround/Fish/Ancient-Survival/Perpetual Change/Gates Of Delirium. Perpetual Change seamlessly goes into Gates/Soon, on par with some of their contemporaries' medleys. That was Yes' equivalent to the Genesis Cage medleys I suppose. They also had Magnification into Don't Kill The Whale as a mini-medley. Any other medleys from Yes in a live set that really worked that I forgot about or don't know about?
Genesis were great at the medley, and even created new passages to link the bits together. IQ had some nifty medleys from what I gather from live releases. Some classic bands like Queen or Rush did some cool medleys, but those were really snippets of larger songs that they might have played half of before launching into the next bit, with only some kind of feedback or sustained chord to link them together. The Big Medley and the Genesis ones were different in that they were constructed almost as a long piece made up of existing songs and new joins rather than a long 'spot the song' rock medley like others might have done. But the 1979 Big Medley certainly gave Genesis a run for their money with the medley format.
I wouldn't mind Yes revisiting material in medley form, especially lesser played tracks. But with 'Album Series' being their thing in recent times, a lot of classic era lesser played things have certainly resurfaced. Perhaps a medley of 90's material: New Languages/Homeworld/Open Your Eyes/Footprints/Endless Dream closing section, with Steve playing pedal steel for the solo during the long 'Talk, talk, In a silent spring...' jam section. That would shake things up slightly, a new 20 minute medley of forgotten gems.
What do you think? Is it time for another Big Medley from Yes?
Yes did have the 1978 or 1979 'Big Medley'/Ten True Summers medley with Time & A Word/Long Distance Runaround/Fish/Ancient-Survival/Perpetual Change/Gates Of Delirium. Perpetual Change seamlessly goes into Gates/Soon, on par with some of their contemporaries' medleys. That was Yes' equivalent to the Genesis Cage medleys I suppose. They also had Magnification into Don't Kill The Whale as a mini-medley. Any other medleys from Yes in a live set that really worked that I forgot about or don't know about?
Genesis were great at the medley, and even created new passages to link the bits together. IQ had some nifty medleys from what I gather from live releases. Some classic bands like Queen or Rush did some cool medleys, but those were really snippets of larger songs that they might have played half of before launching into the next bit, with only some kind of feedback or sustained chord to link them together. The Big Medley and the Genesis ones were different in that they were constructed almost as a long piece made up of existing songs and new joins rather than a long 'spot the song' rock medley like others might have done. But the 1979 Big Medley certainly gave Genesis a run for their money with the medley format.
I wouldn't mind Yes revisiting material in medley form, especially lesser played tracks. But with 'Album Series' being their thing in recent times, a lot of classic era lesser played things have certainly resurfaced. Perhaps a medley of 90's material: New Languages/Homeworld/Open Your Eyes/Footprints/Endless Dream closing section, with Steve playing pedal steel for the solo during the long 'Talk, talk, In a silent spring...' jam section. That would shake things up slightly, a new 20 minute medley of forgotten gems.
What do you think? Is it time for another Big Medley from Yes?
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