Yesoteric: Non-Chronicles (20 parts) & Chronicles (14 parts)
What is "Yesoteric"?

The Yesoteric Tape collection was a most laudable effort started by fans, through the Notes From The Edge e-mail newsletter as a reaction to bootsellers, in an effort to get the music to fans without filling the pockets of people not connected to the band. You can do a newsletter archival search on it at www.nfte.org to see how it all came about. Its purpose was to attempt to collect as many rare live tracks, B-sides, remixes, and the like in one obtainable collection.

One could say that it was truly one of the first organized attempts by Yes fans to help each other out, help all this great music get heard by people, and also undermine the bootleggers who sell for profit.

It was set up as strictly a "trade", or "Blanks and Postage / cover the costs" deal. No money was to be made off of it. There were voluntary semi-official "regional tape duplicators" at one time who could be contacted for full or partial sets.

But Yesoteric was not without its problems.

First off, the project quickly became unwieldy as it quickly grew to 25 tapes and eventually grew to at least 29. There may be more for all we know. If a duplicator received 10 requests, that required making 250 tapes! (Later, organized efforts were made to circulate Yesoteric 6 tapes at a time via trading tress)

Second, the internet was still a relatively new thing. There were a couple of cases of duplicators trying to charge money for the tapes or duplicators not seeing their obligations through. Frankly, given the tasks the duplicators were taking on (although they DID volunteer), it's understandable how they could quickly just look at the pile of tapes ahead of them with utter despair!! :-)

Also, CDRs were not too prevalent at the time, so the media for circulating these were tapes, thus, the guy who organized Yesoteric (Jeremy Weissenburger, a first class gentleman) was getting at LEAST 2nd generation copies, which were then copied for the regional duplicators who then passed them on to others who often passed them on. Thus, most people
received at least 4th generation tapes, if not worse, because in some cases the original sources were already high gen bootlegs.

However, some truly rare GEMS were unearthed...

In an attempt to mitigate the problem of circulating these via tape, one or more of the tape duplicators went through the effort of converting most of the best Yesoteric had to offer to MP3s and upload them to a website, hosted by Southside.org.

Alas, the band was NOT happy about this turn of events, due to the circulation of demos that were NOT intended for public consumption and which were in at least one case, stolen from a band member's home. Their management threatened a lawsuit and the site was taken down.

When NFTE became an official band fan site, NFTE decided to disavow themselves from Yesoteric altogether, even to the point of censoring any further mention of it in their newsletter. Most circulation of it from that point on was conducted via the newsgroup alt.music.yes, which is
a completely un-moderated forum. Most of what is on there is obtainable through better sounding sources anyway.

Apparently, there have been attempts to organize the 25-29 tape mishmash of material and organize the best of them into a CDR set.
This version follows the transformation into 9 MP3 CDs by Simon Funnell (15 November 2000): 20 non-chronicle parts and 14 chronicle parts.

Volume 2 - CD3 - Non-Chronicles 09 - AnderSONIC Boom 1
01 Anti-drug message 1971
02 Spider
03 Untitled Instrumental
04 Hear It
05 All God's Children
06 Flower Child
07 Feel Your Love Flow
08 Inside Your Eyes
09 Secrets Of The Past
10 Golden Age
11 Every Day
12 I Hear You Now
13 Petrushka
14 The Sky And His Shadow

Volume 2 - CD3 - Non-Chronicles 10 - AnderSONIC Boom 2
01 Child Of The Lord
02 Two Old Ladies
03 Carnival
04 Your Message
05 Inside Your Eyes (alt. version)
06 Medley YIND/ST/Awaken
07 All In A Matter Of Time
08 Animation
09 Medley &U&I/LDR/HOTS/CTTE
10 Olympia
11 The Friends Of Mr Cairo
12 Roundabout
13 Universal Prayer

Volume 2 - CD3 - Non-Chronicles 11 - AnderSONIC Boom 3
01 Change We Must
02 Piano Solo
03 Indian Summer 01
04 Indian Summer 02
05 Indian Summer 03
06 Indian Summer 04
07 Indian Summer 05
08 Indian Summer 06
09 Indian Summer 07
10 Indian Summer 08
11 Indian Summer 09
12 Indian Summer 10
13 Indian Summer 11
14 Indian Summer 12
15 Indian Summer 13
16 Indian Summer 14
17 Indian Summer 15
18 Indian Summer 16
19 Indian Summer 17
20 Indian Summer 18
21 Indian Summer 19
22 Indian Summer 20
23 Indian Summer 21
24 Indian Summer 22
25 Shine (extended version)
26 Shine
27 Whatever You Believe
28 Whatever You Believe (live)

Volume 2 - CD3 - Non-Chronicles 12 - Trevor Rabin 1989
01 You Know Something I Don't Know
02 Promises
03 Sludge / Drum Solo
04 Can't Look Away
05 Owner Of A Lonely Heart
06 Love Will Find A Way
07 Changes
08 Lift Me Up / Cover Up
09 Heard You Cry Wolf

Volume 2 - CD4 - Non-Chronicles 13 - Yessplices 1
01 Your Move
02 America
03 Long Distance Runaround (edit)
04 Roundabout
05 Going For The One
06 Don't Kill The Whale
07 Into The Lens
08 Run Through The Light
09 Owner Of A Lonely Heart
10 Love Will Find A Way
11 Rhythm Of Love
12 Brother Of Mine (short edit)
13 Brother Of Mine (long edit)
14 Order Of The Universe (short edit)
15 Order Of The Universe (long edit)
16 Lift Me Up (edit)
17 Take The Water To The Mountain
18 Make It Easy (short edit)

Volume 2 - CD4 - Non-Chronicles 14 - Yessplices 2
01 Make It Easy (long edit)
02 The Calling (single version)
03 The Calling (original version)
04 Walls (single edit)
05 Be The One
06 That, That Is
07 Open Your Eyes (radio edit)
08 Save All Your Love
09 Hold On To Love
10 Far, Far Cry
11 Space Oddity (single edit)
12 When The Heart Rules The Mind (long edit)
13 Be A Good Friend Of Mine
14 Song Is

Volume 2 - CD4 - Non-Chronicles 15 - Neurotrend
01 Young Hearts
02 These Eyes
03 Loneliness
04 Youngblood
05 You Can't Do That
06 Endless Nights
07 Away
08 Sharp On The Attack
09 Listen To The People
10 Running The Human Race
11 This World Is Big Enough For All Of Us
12 Young Hearts
13 Hungry Warrior

Volume 2 - CD4 - Non-Chronicles 16 - The Chris Squire Experiment
01 Open Your Eyes
02 The Lonesome Trail
03 You're The Reason
04 One World Going Round
05 Days Of Wonder
06 Follow Our Dreams
07 Say Goodbye

Vol.2-CD3
09 - AnderSONIC Boom 1
1 Jon Anderson Anti-drug message 1971 Miscellaneous 0:00:33
2 Jon Anderson Spider B-Side 0:02:47
3 Jon Anderson Untitled Instrumental Demo 0:01:43
4 Jon Anderson Hear It Demo 0:01:58
5 Jon Anderson All God's Children Demo 0:01:26
6 Jon Anderson Flower Child Demo 0:02:22
7 Jon Anderson Feel Your Love Flow Demo 0:01:55
8 Jon Anderson Inside Your Eyes Demo 0:02:23
9 Jon Anderson Secrets Of The Past Demo 0:03:08
10 Jon Anderson Golden Age Demo 0:03:53
11 Jon Anderson Every Day Live Sheffield 01-01-80 0:03:41
12 Jon Anderson I Hear You Now Live 0:03:32
13 Jon Anderson Petrushka Live Sheffield 03-12-80 0:08:36
14 Jon Anderson The Sky And His Shadow 0:30:01
1:07:58

Vol.2-CD3
10 - AnderSONIC Boom 2
1 Jon Anderson Child Of The Lord Demo 0:03:31
2 Jon Anderson Two Old Ladies Demo 0:07:06
3 Jon Anderson Carnival Demo 0:05:06
4 Jon Anderson Your Message Demo 0:01:50
5 Jon Anderson Inside Your Eyes (alt. version) Demo 0:02:37
6 Jon Anderson Medley YIND/ST/Awaken Live 0:10:54
7 Jon Anderson All In A Matter Of Time Live 0:03:40
8 Jon Anderson Animation Live 0:10:25
9 Jon Anderson Medley &U&I/LDR/HOTS/CTTE Live 0:05:54
10 Jon Anderson Olympia Live 0:05:24
11 Jon Anderson The Friends Of Mr Cairo Live 0:04:37
12 Jon Anderson Roundabout Live 0:04:35
13 Jon Anderson Universal Prayer Live Yesfest 1994 0:04:31
1:10:10

Vol.2-CD3
11 - AnderSONIC Boom 3
1 Jon Anderson Change We Must Demo 0:03:27
2 Jon Anderson Piano Solo Live Yesfest 1994 0:02:44
3 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 01 0:01:34
4 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 02 0:02:01
5 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 03 0:01:21
6 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 04 0:00:47
7 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 05 0:01:17
8 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 06 0:00:35
9 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 07 0:01:25
10 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 08 0:01:09
11 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 09 0:01:10
12 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 10 0:01:09
13 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 11 0:01:19
14 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 12 0:01:52
15 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 13 0:01:10
16 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 14 0:00:54
17 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 15 0:01:52
18 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 16 0:01:09
19 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 17 0:01:14
20 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 18 0:01:09
21 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 19 0:01:32
22 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 20 0:01:22
23 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 21 0:00:22
24 Jon Anderson Indian Summer 22 0:01:21
25 Mike Oldfield & Jon Anderson Shine (extended version) Single 0:05:03
26 Mike Oldfield & Jon Anderson Shine Single 0:03:17
27 Anderson, Harley and Batt Whatever You Believe Single 0:05:03
28 Anderson, Harley and Batt Whatever You Believe (live) Single 0:06:19
0:53:37

Vol.2-CD3
12 - Trevor Rabin 1989
1 Trevor Rabin You Know Something I Don't Know Live 0:03:44
2 Trevor Rabin Promises Live 0:05:43
3 Trevor Rabin Sludge / Drum Solo Live 0:07:35
4 Trevor Rabin Can't Look Away Live 0:10:03
5 Trevor Rabin Owner Of A Lonely Heart Live 0:05:53
6 Trevor Rabin Love Will Find A Way Live 0:04:45
7 Trevor Rabin Changes Live 0:06:20
8 Trevor Rabin Lift Me Up / Cover Up Live 05-12-89 0:06:56
9 Trevor Rabin Heard You Cry Wolf Live 05-12-89 0:05:28
0:56:27

Vol.2-CD4
13 - Yessplices 1
1 Yes Your Move Single 0:02:50
2 Yes America Single 0:04:02
3 Yes Long Distance Runaround (edit) Remix 0:03:11
4 Yes Roundabout Single 0:03:21
5 Yes Going For The One Single 0:03:20
6 Yes Don't Kill The Whale Single 0:03:19
7 Yes Into The Lens Single 0:03:40
8 Yes Run Through The Light Single 0:04:08
9 Yes Owner Of A Lonely Heart Single 0:03:41
10 Yes Love Will Find A Way Single 0:04:17
11 Yes Rhythm Of Love Single 0:04:21
12 Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Brother Of Mine (short edit) Single 0:04:37
13 Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Brother Of Mine (long edit) Single 0:06:32
14 Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Order Of The Universe (short edit) Single 0:04:50
15 Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Order Of The Universe (long edit) Single 0:06:03
16 Yes Lift Me Up (edit) Promo 0:03:59
17 Yes Take The Water To The Mountain Promo 0:03:04
18 Yes Make It Easy (short edit) Promo 0:02:49
1:12:04

Vol.2-CD4
14 - Yessplices 2
1 Yes Make It Easy (long edit) Promo 0:04:03
2 Yes The Calling (single version) Promo 0:04:44
3 Yes The Calling (original version) Promo 0:08:04
4 Yes Walls (single edit) Promo 0:04:17
5 Yes Be The One Promo 0:03:54
6 Yes That, That Is Promo 0:03:20
7 Yes Open Your Eyes (radio edit) Promo 0:04:14
8 Jon Anderson Save All Your Love 0:03:07
9 Jon Anderson Hold On To Love Single 0:03:43
10 Jon Anderson Far, Far Cry Single 0:03:16
11 Bowie, David with Rick Wakeman Space Oddity (single edit) Miscellaneous 0:03:07
12 GTR When The Heart Rules The Mind (long edit) Remix 0:04:00
13 Jon & Vangelis Be A Good Friend Of Mine 0:04:15
14 Jon & Vangelis Song Is B-side 0:05:51
0:59:55

Vol.2-CD4
15 - Neurotrend
1 Neurotrend Young Hearts Demo 0:05:30
2 Neurotrend These Eyes Demo 0:03:52
3 Neurotrend Loneliness Demo 0:03:39
4 Neurotrend Youngblood Demo 0:04:06
5 Neurotrend You Can't Do That Demo 0:03:47
6 Neurotrend Endless Nights Demo 0:04:00
7 Neurotrend Away Demo 0:04:43
8 Neurotrend Sharp On The Attack Demo 0:03:16
9 Neurotrend Listen To The People Demo 0:03:43
10 Neurotrend Running The Human Race Demo 0:04:33
11 Neurotrend This World Is Big Enough For All Of Us Demo 0:03:40
12 Neurotrend Young Hearts Demo 0:03:53 13 Neurotrend Hungry Warrior Demo 0:04:22
0:53:04

Vol.2-CD4
16 - The Chris Squire Experiment
1 Chris Squire Experiment Open Your Eyes Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:06:23
2 Chris Squire Experiment The Lonesome Trail Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:07:23
3 Chris Squire Experiment You're The Reason Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:06:15
4 Chris Squire Experiment One World Going Round Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:12:50
5 Chris Squire Experiment Days Of Wonder Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:05:58
6 Chris Squire Experiment Follow Our Dreams Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:09:55
7 Chris Squire Experiment Say Goodbye Live San Jose, CA 25-08-92 0:07:14
0:55:58