Forgotten Yesterdays
Concert |
 | Yes |
Date
| Friday, March 23, 1973 (45 years, 6 months and 3 days ago) |
Location
| Melbourne, Australia |
Venue
| Melbourne Festival Hall |
Lineup
| Jon Anderson (Vocals) |
| Steve Howe (Guitars) |
| Chris Squire (Bass) |
| Rick Wakeman (Keyboards) |
| Alan White (Drums) |
Setlist
With:
| Home |
Videos |
Memorablilia | Total: 1 |
 Flyer Andrew Munro |
Reviews |
HOME FOR YES TOUR
Sydney group Home have been signed to appear with English group Yes at their Melbourne concert on March 23. It has also been announced by Sunrise Management that Home will be the first group to record for that agency's label with WEA.
Sydney group Home have been signed to appear with English group Yes at their Melbourne concert on March 23. It has also been announced by Sunrise Management that Home will be the first group to record for that agency's label with WEA.
Andrew Munro:
GO-SET
Discovering Yes
by David Pepperell
Saturday, April 7, 1973
At the Melbourne Yes press reception there was a definite chance of speaking to the group members at length, a rare occurrence for such functions. The reason for this was probably the easting and drinking habits of the band. -- Four members of Yes are totally health food orientated, easting only whole foods and grains and eschewing completely the use of liquor and other liquid stimulants. The odd man out is Rick Wakeman who drinks in a the manner of a true Englishman. I was told he only sees the rest of the band at gigs because of their dislike of hotels and bad food.
I was able to chat with the group's guitarist, Steven Howe, for some time unimpaired by the usual problem of inebriated conversation.
Steven Howe has been with Yes for the last three albums -- "The Yes Album", "Fragile" and "Close To The Edge" in collaboration with the vocalist Jon Anderson. He had been playing guitar for many years in various bands before joining the group and had been active in studios.
Steven has had some formal training but like all member of Yes is largely self taught (Rick Wakeman is the only member to go to musical college but his schooling only lasted six months). What impressed most about Howe was his positive attitude to everything he was involved in. He saw Yes in a constant state of change and exploration, rejecting the idea that the band is cold and technical and made the point that if he wasn't enjoying what he played there would be no point of him playing it.
He said that the group was reactive to all that went on around it and in the world as a whole that Yes were concerned with pollution, war destruction, disaster, disease and all the problems besetting humanity at large.
INSIDE YES
"Close to the Edge" was a suite based on the premise that Man was on the verge of a universal disaster, brought about particularly by overpopulation.
The music of Yes, according to Steven, is a result of the whole philosophy, spirituality and creativity of all its members, a music with a message and a music that had deep considerations for all the people on the globe. Yes thinks of itself as very much a band of "now". Indeed the equipment it sues and the sound it produces would not have been possible at any other point of time in history.
Their music is a vocal as well as an instrumental entity employing a huge public address system to get across the words of their songs.
Howe could not any definite musical influences. He disclaimed any classical influence, remembering their lack of formal training. He did say however that he like the groups that played a similar music to Yes-groups like King Crimson mainly and perhaps ELP.
He criticized the press in Australia strongly for a lack of professionalism, a negative attitude and a lack of preparation -- he remarked that American journalists do much to "alleviate the intensity" of group members and are also fully versed in the workings, music and individual characteristics of the band that they are writing about.
Their new three LP live set is due for release world wide in April and has, Steven says, definitive live version of all their best tunes. At the outset of the band, some two years ago, there were many requests for a live album so the group decided to record all their performances. At the end of a considerable period of time they discovered that they had so much that was good that it would have been a Philistine act to omit many of the tracks. Since their popularity had skyrocketed throughout the world in the intervening time they decided to keep as much as possible and release a three LP set thus bringing the whole group up to date with itself and also enabling Yes to work on new projects with its past completely chronicled.
Yes did not stay at the reception long (except for Rick Wakeman once again) as it had little to offer them. Jon, Alan
Discovering Yes
by David Pepperell
Saturday, April 7, 1973
At the Melbourne Yes press reception there was a definite chance of speaking to the group members at length, a rare occurrence for such functions. The reason for this was probably the easting and drinking habits of the band. -- Four members of Yes are totally health food orientated, easting only whole foods and grains and eschewing completely the use of liquor and other liquid stimulants. The odd man out is Rick Wakeman who drinks in a the manner of a true Englishman. I was told he only sees the rest of the band at gigs because of their dislike of hotels and bad food.
I was able to chat with the group's guitarist, Steven Howe, for some time unimpaired by the usual problem of inebriated conversation.
Steven Howe has been with Yes for the last three albums -- "The Yes Album", "Fragile" and "Close To The Edge" in collaboration with the vocalist Jon Anderson. He had been playing guitar for many years in various bands before joining the group and had been active in studios.
Steven has had some formal training but like all member of Yes is largely self taught (Rick Wakeman is the only member to go to musical college but his schooling only lasted six months). What impressed most about Howe was his positive attitude to everything he was involved in. He saw Yes in a constant state of change and exploration, rejecting the idea that the band is cold and technical and made the point that if he wasn't enjoying what he played there would be no point of him playing it.
He said that the group was reactive to all that went on around it and in the world as a whole that Yes were concerned with pollution, war destruction, disaster, disease and all the problems besetting humanity at large.
INSIDE YES
"Close to the Edge" was a suite based on the premise that Man was on the verge of a universal disaster, brought about particularly by overpopulation.
The music of Yes, according to Steven, is a result of the whole philosophy, spirituality and creativity of all its members, a music with a message and a music that had deep considerations for all the people on the globe. Yes thinks of itself as very much a band of "now". Indeed the equipment it sues and the sound it produces would not have been possible at any other point of time in history.
Their music is a vocal as well as an instrumental entity employing a huge public address system to get across the words of their songs.
Howe could not any definite musical influences. He disclaimed any classical influence, remembering their lack of formal training. He did say however that he like the groups that played a similar music to Yes-groups like King Crimson mainly and perhaps ELP.
He criticized the press in Australia strongly for a lack of professionalism, a negative attitude and a lack of preparation -- he remarked that American journalists do much to "alleviate the intensity" of group members and are also fully versed in the workings, music and individual characteristics of the band that they are writing about.
Their new three LP live set is due for release world wide in April and has, Steven says, definitive live version of all their best tunes. At the outset of the band, some two years ago, there were many requests for a live album so the group decided to record all their performances. At the end of a considerable period of time they discovered that they had so much that was good that it would have been a Philistine act to omit many of the tracks. Since their popularity had skyrocketed throughout the world in the intervening time they decided to keep as much as possible and release a three LP set thus bringing the whole group up to date with itself and also enabling Yes to work on new projects with its past completely chronicled.
Yes did not stay at the reception long (except for Rick Wakeman once again) as it had little to offer them. Jon, Alan
