Hey Right On for some Mention of Yes and Alvin Lee.
Fragile, Close to the Edge and Songs from Topographical Oceans are Great Albums.
check out YES symphonic on dvd. for not having rick wakeman, it's awesome. they play close to the edge, gates of delirium and ritual: nous sommes du soleil and you still get and you and i and starship trooper. the new songs, 3 of them, are pretty catchy too. it's almost the best yes album there is, even though seems that impossible w/o rick. but the keyboard player they use is not bad at all and the symphony really helps fill it in for rick not being there.
plus there's some really good yes and ten years after boots.
humble pie complete fillmore has the best peter frampton you'll ever hear. it's why he quit the band. management was making them play really hard, like all the time. they don't even play their own stuff on it. there's only 1 pie original, stone cold fever. so they take some stuff that isn't rock, and pretty much kick the crap out of it. steve gets to be a bit much, but 4 versions of gilded splinters, unedited, is great. that's how they snuck slow music into their sets. they just speed up and slow it down all
throughout the song. i've been listening to the 1st cd for 8 months straight now. there's a zillion screw ups, but that just makes them play harder. pete's guitar breaks and steve can't get near the mike after 15 minutes. he gets shocked so many times he just starts laughing and starts singing about it. (after a few ...'s!!) to make up for it all, they just rock the place apart. the original fillmore record sounds really sterile compared to this. (and almost too "perfect".) they edited it too much. this has no editing. just like a boot. it's my favorite live cd now and yes symphonic gets
thrown on at least once a week.(cuz the symphony makes gates of delirium and close to the edge sound really, really tasty!)
I haven't heard any Tull for many years! Now I have to go and find a CD! - (love the album cover from Catfish rising!)
