1.01 Firebird Suite (3.08)
1.02 Close To The Edge (18.52)
1.03 And You And I (11.20)
1.04 Siberian Khatru (10.47)
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2.01 Going For The One (7.20)
2.02 Turn Of The Century (8.35)
2.03 Parallels (6.30)
2.04 Wonderous Stories (4.40)
2.05 Awaken (17.35)
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3.01 Yours Is No Disgrace (11.30)
3.02 The Clap (3.45)
3.03 Starship Trooper (10.45)
3.04 I've Seen All Good People (7.30)
3.05 A Venture (4.35)
3.06 Perpetual Change (9.50)
3.07 Applause & Band Introductions (2.49)
3.08 Roundabout (12.34)
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Yes "Three Album Tour"
Cain Park
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
7 August 2013

recorded & mastered by 'Wedge-Guilala'

possible title-"Olivia's 1st Yes Show" (my 12-year-old Niece's 2nd-ever concert)
aka- "Three Generations of Yes Fans, Together" (my dad, my sister, my niece, and me were all their, seated together & Rocking Out!!)

ok, heres my capture of Yes on this night. recorded on my phone, rather than my trusty cassette recorder.
tested out my old cassette deck last night, and it would do Anything but record sound. ARGHHH!!!
i've never recorded anything on my phone before, so i was nervous, to say the least.
the rustling you hear, every now and then, is me checking my phone to make sure it was still recording, and moving the unit around on top of the blanket i was seated on, to make sure the mic was pointed directly towards the stage. but that's only during breaks between songs.
there we're some annoying 'talkers' seated around me, who were more interested in
checking their phones to update the status of the local baseball team's game going on this night, and some 'personal' issues that they talked loud enough for everyone to hear. and now its all recorded, for the world to eventually hear. hope you both are happy for annoying me during the show!!!
and they can be heard pretty well during the quieter parts; especially during "And You And I" and the "Going For The One" portion of the show. why anyone would pay $40+ for a ticket, and then pretty much ignore the band playing, and annoy those who are/were trying to enjoy the show...a bummer...
and all the subtle "PFFT-Clicks!!" you hear at times, are people seated around me opening their canned beers. those are tough to hear, though. the only time that really happens was when a lady standing directly behind me fell down on the plastic tarp she was standing on; a bit too drunk to stay standing up i guess, and fell towards me,
kicking the blanket my phone was propped-up on. i just smiled at her. she was just Digging the show!!
Yeah, there was a REALLY Strong Party going on in the audience!!!

although the sound level is quite a bit low, this really sounds as fantastic as it did at the venue; once the sound crew turned the levels up after "Close To The Edge". maybe The TooleMan or Relayerman can provide some sort of 'volume boost' to this one and EQ the talker's down a bit, assuming they ever get their hands on it.
i do not have the ability to torrent, and this recording is only being sent to/shared with with 2 specific Yes traders i have been in contact with over the past few years. how it distributes further, or gets circulated after that, is entirely up to them (Chris Doughty & Remy Menting).

if torrenting, please give credit to me, Wedge-Guilala, as the recording source, and please keep the .ffp file intact for the next recipient.

SHARE & SHARE , ALIKE!!! :)

and, i really lucked-out getting this recording. a lot of people sitting close to me were attempting to capture video bits 'n' pieces of the show on their cell-phones, only to have venue security swoop in, and shut them down; almost immediately. i guess they didnt notice my phone, propped-up on a wadded-up blanket, strategically aimed directly towards the stage :)

But here it is, Yes Live, to a VERY enthusiastic 'sold-out' audience; probably 2000~2300 in attendance. which is saying quite a bit. last time Yes played in Cleveland was over 2 years ago at House Of Blues. and that place has a capacity of around 800. and it was, maybe, half-full on that particular night. Maybe.

i'm going to make 2 masters of this show. one will be a 'raw feed' directly to my Pioneer PDR-509 component CD-R deck with the volume as far high as it will let me go.
the other will be going the same route to my Harmon/Kardon DC-520 cassette deck onto fresh,brand-new, pre-'stretched' Maxell XLII-110 cassettes (that i had hoped to capture the show with, originally), with Dolby B used on the recording. then i will attempt to
boost the sound a bit during playback,with the dolby turned off, and record it to the same stereo component CD-R recorder. this way, i can increase the sound without,noticably,adding much noise 'bottom'; outside of a very small bit of added Analog Warmth and compression.

THIS IS THE RAW MASTER!!! all track-ID's done on the 'fly' while recording from my phone.

Yes on this night were-

Jon Davison - Lead Vocals, Mini-Moog, Acoustic Guitar, Electronic & Acoustic Percussion
Geoff Downes - Keyboards
Steve Howe - all other Guitars
Chris Squire - Bass
Alan White - Drums

disc 1= (44:11)

1.01 Firebird Suite (3.08)
1.02 Close To The Edge (18.52)
1.03 And You And I (11.20)
1.04 Siberian Khatru (10.47)

disc 2= (44:52)

2.01 Going For The One (7.20)
2.02 Turn Of The Century (8.35)
2.03 Parallels (6.30)
2.04 Wonderous Stories (4.40)
2.05 Awaken (17.35)

disc 3= (63:25)

3.01 Yours Is No Disgrace (11.30)
3.02 The Clap (3.45)
3.03 Starship Trooper (10.45)
3.04 I've Seen All Good People (7.30)
3.05 A Venture (4.35)
3.06 Perpetual Change (9.50)
3.07 Applause & Band Introductions (2.49)
3.08 Roundabout (12.34)

total time on my phone recorder is 2:31:08.
by the time i 'break it up' into individual discs with minor fades, it may be a few seconds longer.

my personal review of the show (just my opinion, nothing more, nothing less)-

Yes, as they now are, were Spectacular!!! that being said, i think they played about 90% perfect. there are some really rough parts in specific portions of "Close To The Edge", "Siberian Khatru", "Awaken", and "Perpetual Change" where the playing was weak & sloppy during some solo's/insturmental breaks, but...whatever. these guys are in their 60's, and even when they were young & HOT, that shit was hard to play. and being older & tired after damn-near 100 shows on this tour... who could blame them. hell, they wrote the songs, and they can do whatever they want with them at this point, and its still 'authentic' . my only real complaint was the way Steve played his guitar breaks in "Roundabout"...really hurried & frantic; not in a good way, though. he must have really wanted to get out of there, or had a hot-date waiting for him back-stage, or something. that was really noticable, and really detracted during Roundabout.

but, all in all, it was a Great set, and the entire audience had a great time...and so did I!!!

and i gotta trash the OG file on my phone after i put this to CD-Argh & cassette.
its been a week after the show, and my phone is really effin' up from this recording
taking up the memory on it. but my transfer is complete, with no noise added, and the fade-ins are repeating a few previous seconds, while changing discs during copying,
so nothing from this night is lost. it's all there!!!

lineage=

Huawei HB5K1H 'smartphone' > "Smart Voice Recorder" free software app > stereo-cable via the audio-out on the phone >
Onkyo TX-8211 stereo receiver > Pioneer PDR-509 stand-alone component CD-R recorder with analog recording input levels maxed-out >
Maxell 'Gold Top' 80-minute CD-R Music discs > WAV via EAC secure mode > FLAC level 8 via Traders Little Helper.

please share this recording freely; NEVER sell it. please only encode to mp3 for personal use; if you must.

Wedge Guilala 13 August 2013