YES

Set 2
all images © Chuck Bryant

(Remarks continued from Set 1.)

Through the personnel shifts and the audible differences of Relayer, Going for the One, and Drama, I still felt a special affinity for Yes. Much of their music through the 70's linked itself emotionally to key relationships and evolving ideas in this uniquely rich emergent period as I continued sorting out my view of the world. I began understanding the cosmos and my place in it in ways very much unlike what I'd grown up with. As challenging and sometimes distressing as some of these changes were, they helped me open my eyes and ears.

The 90125 album obviously showed a blatant desire to connect with more lucrative commercial airplay. Okay, I can't fault the guys for that. Even so, Owner of a Lonely Heart and a few other pieces still impressed me almost as much as the 12 to 20-minute pieces that typified the 70's catalog. I had tickets for 90125's February 1984 concert at the Hollywood Sportatorium. A hospitalization forced me to miss it. My only other time to see Yes in concert came on the 8-member Reunion tour, at the Miami Arena in 1989 or 1990. I haven't bought any of their subsequent new material.

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