Yes Music Podcast
Established in 2011 - Two fans' exploration of the world's greatest progressive rock band
Episodes
July 4, 2025 • 21 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week I’d like to celebrate the release of my second book, Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes Album Listening Guide - a title almost as lengthy as the record itself. It’s been a very long and sometimes challenging process to prepare the book for publication - much like the record itself. However, it’s finally here and you can buy it from all the usual...
Mark as Played
June 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week, Mark and I enjoyed coming up with 6 reasons why the band’s third record, The Yes Album, is a great Yes album. As I’m sure you know, this was Steve Howe’s first album with Yes and also Tony Kaye’s last. It is correctly viewed by many fans, critics and Steve Howe himself as the first Yes masterpiece.
Clearly, we could have found dozens of reaso...
Mark as Played
June 20, 2025 • 37 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
R.I.P. Johnny Bruhns
https://www.youtube.com/live/QkQRiUdVUag?si=-VMIOIbSdCzLqNYU
https://johnnybruhns.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-kingdom
https://www.youtube.com/live/1wOQPyQMbE4?si=4rzlFs59JGG5RAsX
This week, Mark and I considered the Yes music of the new Millennium - 25 years after it began. In this time, the band have produced...
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June 13, 2025 • 38 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week, Mark and I returned to our occasional series on Yes concepts. This time we considered Yes audacity - those times when the band has done something few others would have attempted. We both came up with 3 examples and it proved to be a very enjoyable conversation, albeit with quite a bit of shameless self-promotion from me.
In the world of progr...
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June 6, 2025 • 80 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week we have a bumper, epic episode where Simon Barrow, Mark and I discuss AI and its impact, in the context of Yes music, of course. My daughter, Charlotte, also gives us her thoughts on the subject so many thanks to her. This topic was suggested by the appearance on YouTube of an album entitled 'YEP - On The Waterline (70's Prog Rock / Progressive R...
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May 30, 2025 • 46 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
It’s already been 3 years since Alan White died. To mark the sad anniversary, Mark and I discussed the iconic drummer’s adaptability this week. We each chose 3 different examples of his playing to highlight different aspects of his musical character. In addition, 4 YMP Patrons gave us comments to read out - Jon Pickles, Ronnie Neeley, Doug Curran, and Fred...
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May 23, 2025 • 33 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Ken Fuller and Jeffrey Crecelius
Unbelievably, it’s already 10 years since we lost Chris Squire. Tempus Fugit, but this time not in a good way. To mark this sad milestone, Prog Magazine has included 2 large articles about Chris in the latest issue, number 160. The person charged with writing the main piece was friend of the YMP, Stephen Lambe. Mark and I spoke to him this week about the g...
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May 16, 2025 • 54 mins
Mark and I really enjoyed discussing what Yes virtuosity means to us with the help of YMP Patrons Brian Harris, Michael OConnor, HB Pettersen, Jon Pickles, Dave Owen, Gary Betts, Mark Slater and Ronnie Neeley this week. Can you guess what we all chose for our examples of Yes virtuosity? You might be surprised, as Mark and I were.
There were some common themes that emerged which is always encouraging because it means we are not ...
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May 9, 2025 • 40 mins
This week Mark and I enjoyed thinking about what Billy Sherwood has contributed on bass to the last two Yes albums, The Quest and Mirror to the Sky. We each chose three examples of songs from those two records to talk about and shared our thoughts on whether Billy has continued the tradition of Chris Squire bass playing or gone his own way - or a combination of the two.
Is Billy channelling Chris?
What do we want from a 'new...
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May 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I are trying out a new concept - it’s a game called Yes connections. There will be chances to laugh at my ineptitude as well as chances to get involved yourself with a special Yes connections round for listeners - with a prize for the more creative - or maybe funny entry sent into the show. Hang onto your hat and test your Yes knowledge...
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April 18, 2025 • 51 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I were joined by Jon Pickles to talk about the latest (greatest?) Yes Record Store Day offering - Live at the Rainbow London, England 12/16/1972 - a catchy title if there ever was one. I haven't forked out the considerable amount of money for a copy - yet - but both Jon and Mark have, so at least they are speaking from a position of kno...
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April 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I had a think about the Yes songs we like that include contrasts - one of my favourite aspects of progressive rock - and Yes music. We both chose 2 songs to talk about in depth but also went on a bit about other songs that also fit this category. It was another very interesting conversation - at least I thought so.
What songs do we ...
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April 4, 2025 • 57 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Mark and I always enjoy ‘getting into the weeds’ and ‘geeking out’ about Yes kit so here is another perfect example of this. This week we both chose 3 pieces of YesKit that took our fancy and went on about them for a long time. If you don’t consider yourself a 5%er who loves hearing about the minutiae of music tech as used by Yes, then feel free to skip th...
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March 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I have been listening to the great live album by Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks - Live Perpetual Change. Listen out for our comments in a few minutes and do let us know if you agree or disagree with us by leaving a comment on the show notes for this week.
How does Jon Anderson sound these days?
Is this a cover band?
What are t...
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March 21, 2025 • 17 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Unfortunately, Mark has been unwell this week so best wishes to him for a speedy recovery. As we couldn't record an episode, I've been delving into the archive to uncover the first Yes Tracks Through Time episode I ever did. That was back in April 2013. Wow.
Here are the show notes from way back then:
Episode 200 with a new logo!
The seventy-n...
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March 14, 2025 • 49 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
In a bumper double-feature episode (or something like that), Mark and I compare the Empire featuring Peter Banks version of Something’s Coming with the Yes studio version and we also indulge in a little bit of speculation about the forthcoming Yes album - and who doesn’t enjoy these kinds of guessing games? Well if you don’t, feel free to use the fast forw...
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March 7, 2025 • 45 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I return to one of our favourite pastimes - listening to Yes tracks through time. We each chose 3 different live recordings of Awaken to listen to and then discuss. So it’s time to put your Roger Dean thinking caps on and see if you would have chosen the same versions as us.
Which versions did we choose?
Why did we chose those on...
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Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I enjoyed discovering the many delights of the Blu-ray version of the Steven Wilson remix set of Tales from Topographic Oceans. It’s packed full of obscure and unusual versions of the songs on the album - a delight for all Yes nerds fans everywhere.
Do you have a copy of the Blu-ray version? If not, you might want to find one as expla...
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February 21, 2025 • 40 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I consider 6 songs that were performed live really well by lineups of Yes that didn’t record them. With the revolving door policy of the band over the decades, there was a lot to choose from so see if we came up with anything you would have chosen yourself. Of course, as usual, we’d love to hear from you some of your own suggestions, so ...
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February 14, 2025 • 45 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week I’m feeding back on my trip to Trading Boundaries to see what Dave Watkinson has put on display alongside the permanent Roger Dean exhibition there. I made a video of Dave showing me around and we both enthuse about all the amazing items.
I then had a chance to chat with Mark about what he noticed on the video - of course it’s embedded into th...
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