1.01 Firebird Suite - Yours Is No Disgrace (17.48)
1.02 Rhythm Of Love (5.52)
1.03 Shock To The System (5.59)
1.04 Heart Of The Sunrise (11.41)
1.05 The Clap - Mood For A Day (7.30)
1.06 Owner Of A Lonely Heart (6.56)
1.07 And You And I (12.12)
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2.01 Drum Duet - Hold On (13.01)
2.02 Tony Kaye Solo - Changes (8.34)
2.03 Solly's Beard (7.54)
2.04 Long Distance Runaround - Whitefish - Amazing Grace (14.01)
2.05 Lift Me Up (8.25)
2.06 Wakeman Solo (5.20)
2.07 Awaken (20.31)
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3.01 Roundabout (9.34)
3.02 Starship Trooper (13.47)
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Yes
A Union in Worcester

Jon Anderson- vocals
Rick Wakeman- keyboards
Tony Kaye- keyboards
Steve Howe- guitar
Trevor Rabin- guitar
Chris Squire- bass
Alan White- drums
Bill Bruford- drums

The Centrum
Worcester, Mass. U.S.A.
April 17, 1991

performance quality: A! Very good show
recording quality: Somewhere between B and B+, pretty nice.

The applause gets rather loud between songs but stays mostly reasonable during the music.

source: master audience tape (last song from 1st gen. Sony D-6 recording)

total runtime: 169:12

lineage:
Realistic mini-mikes > Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) > Maxell XLII-S cassettes > played on Naka. 125 into soundforge > flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.

disc 1: (1st set 68:01)
1.01 Firebird Suite - Yours Is No Disgrace (17.48)
1.02 Rhythm Of Love (5.52)
1.03 Shock To The System (5.59)
1.04 Heart Of The Sunrise (11.41)
1.05 The Clap - Mood For A Day (7.30)
1.06 Owner Of A Lonely Heart (6.56)
1.07 And You And I (12.12)

disc 2: (2nd set 77:49)
2.01 Drum Duet - Hold On (13.01)
2.02 Tony Kaye Solo - Changes (8.34)
2.03 Solly's Beard (7.54)
2.04 Long Distance Runaround - Whitefish - Amazing Grace (14.01)
2.05 Lift Me Up (8.25)
2.06 Wakeman Solo (5.20)
2.07 Awaken (20.31)

disc 3: (encores 23:21)
3.01 Roundabout (9.34)
3.02 Starship Trooper (13.47)

Do not sell this recording (that makes yes say no), share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

comments:
This one is a fine concert from the Union (of lawyers) tour. It is the whole concert. All but the last song is from my master and the last song from 1st gen of almost same source quality so you may not even notice any difference. (all from Sony D-6 recordings.)
This is a (very) full show from the Union tour, and it's a very strong performance all the way through. This was about my tenth or so time seeing Bruford in some sort of arrangement and he's always been hot whenever I've seen him, no matter who with (and well appreciated). They were all on for this gig. Since their last show at Boston Garden (1984, which I was told was a fiasco), Yes had basically moved their Boston Garden concert barbecue over to Worcester in the 80's, who did get a good 1984 concert, and probably a good 87 one too. I was supposed to go to the 87 but didn't because I couldn't find any microphones. 89 was a series of recording fiascos, finally after many tries, I got 1 good recording of Yes with Jon Anderson (and in this case, the full package.) before an enthusiastic crowd. All of this is from my master tape, except the second encore, and it is all here, no cuts or gaps or recording problems, and while not a Naka. recording, it sounds pretty nice. As always (now that I know how), a sound sample is attached. The first time this was posted in 2008 it was from the same recording, but it had a CD > CD extractor step in the lineage, because it was a bit of a project to get it to sound good, and I didn't want to do a new transfer, but... this is a yes show. This is a fresh transfer from the original master tapes, to remove that extra step. The first one came out pretty well, this one sounds a little better and more balanced. I decided to do this partly because I found out the levels in the 1st post were a little unbalanced in a few parts, and that's just not acceptable to me. they are balanced in here. I did some clap reduction in the 1st one but it still sounded pretty clappy. some of that is still true in here too, but I think this one is a little less clappy, especially between the songs where the loudest claps have been reduced in volume by 3-4 db. there were a few short sections that had to be monoized, and one long one in most of "heart of the sunrise", due to mike chord problems, but most of it sounded good and now there are no jarring interruptions or loud noises other than the concert and the welcoming response to it. I also monoized a few short sections in Awaken where there was a loud scream in the right side during the quiet part, because that seemed the best way to reduce the scream volume without reducing Rick's quiet keyboard solo at the beginning of it. It's almost all a "masters of rock" production. There's a fade in for the beginning of each set, and a fadeout at the end of the 1st set. Otherwise it is a "seamless recording" (the previous one had a fadeout after roundabout and a fade in before starship trooper).