Just got back from seeing Yes performing at Radio City Music Hall, on tour as the Yessymphonic Tour.
These dudes oughta be worn out, aged out, incapable of making sounds they first imprinted onto vinyl 25 to 30 years ago. They ought to sound pathetic when they play their old stuff, and irrelevant when they bring out the new. I guess someone forgot to tell them that!
Damn they’re good! Howe Anderson Squire and company can still conjure up sounds to expand your skull and blow it apart with ecstatic wow-blasts of texture and pulse. It is a rare band that can perform live the material that they recorded in the studio and have it come out sounding every bit as good, and that’s true enough for ensembles that did their studio versions just a few months ago. Most of the material they did tonight dates back to an era when Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were modern bands and the breakup of the Beatles was current news.
If a Yessymphonic tours album happens to appear (including bootleg:)), get yourself a copy.