Yes Music Podcast
Established in 2011 - Two fans' exploration of the world's greatest progressive rock band
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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
I’ve had no time to put together any news this week but I still managed to speak at length to Mark about both my experiences seeing Yes at Birmingham Symphony Hall. It was a wonderful experience and not just because of the quality of the concert itself.
We’ve also enjoyed listening to the new music from Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks that fans have captured from l...
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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week we had a great conversation with the delightful Pete Greenwood about his recollections of the Tales Tour when it visited Manchester for two concerts in 1973. The gigs spurred Pete on to pursue his own bass playing and that eventually led to him performing all four sides of Tales himself with the Yes tribute band, Seyes. Fortunately for us, the Tales concerts...
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May 24, 2024
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
ANderson, Trevor Horn and Trevor Rabin. It’s an area we seldom look at so it was very enjoyable to examine a different aspect of the music of Yes and I definitely learned a lot from what Mark said about his choices. I’m sure you will as well. As always, we’d love to see what your suggestions are for great 80s Yes lyrics so do leave your choices on the show notes for t...
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May 17, 2024 • 50 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I take our cue from the recent announcement of the Talk deluxe box set to be released at the end of this month. It contains a live recording of a 1994 concert in Canandaigua, New York (interestingly seemingly misspelt on the adverts) that includes 5 songs from the recently released album. So we were wondering how the latest songs sounded in 1994 in...
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May 10, 2024 • 49 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I climbed aboard our state of the art time machine to visit the past of the world’s greatest progressive rock band. We each chose 3 Yes tours we would love to be able to visit and gave each other clues to guess which ones we were thinking of. You’ll get the idea I’m sure.
Do play along yourself and see if you can guess the tours in question bef...
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May 3, 2024 • 45 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Mark and I had a great time this week thinking about interesting or unusual Yes musical textures. We both came up with 3 examples that we thought were surprising or different so do have a look below to hear the clips we are referring to and add your own examples to the comments section. You may be surprised with some of our suggestions - that’s somewhat the idea, afte...
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April 26, 2024 • 36 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I attempted to choose 3 Peter Banks era Yes songs each. As you’ll hear, we turned out to be thinking along similar lines but it was still a very enjoyable experience listening to the earliest days of the band and discussing what made Yes unique even at that stage.
Yesterdays label
This topic was partly in response to a tweet or X post or whate...
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April 19, 2024 • 49 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Geoff Bailie and some other bloke
It was lovely to welcome back onto the YMP our friend and patron, Geoff Bailie this week. Mark and I spoke to him about the recent news that Yes will be on tour with Deep Purple in the US and Canada this Summer. What do you think of that idea? Well, self-confessed Deep Purple fan Geoff shares some thoughts with us and we discuss pr...
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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
It seems like a long time since the last episode but it’s not.
Anyway, it was delightful to speak to a warm and friendly unsung hero of Yes last week. As you will hear, despite being very keen to be involved, Mark wasn’t able to join in the conversation due to timing and technical issues but he will be back next week. Genaro actually contacted me quite some time a...
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March 29, 2024 • 26 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
I'm publishing this episode on Good Friday so there's been no time for the usual news roundup. However, Mark and I did manage to talk about 'Talk' receiving the box set treatment.
We discuss what's going to be included - and what doesn't seem to be included as well.
It one of our favourite Yes albums so there's plenty to be excited about in this release.
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March 20, 2024 • 31 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
We were delighted to be able to speak to Jay Schellen this week about the upcoming Yes UK and Europe Tour and many other topics, particularly his relationship with the late, great Alan White. As you will hear, Jay's connections with Yes are numerous and he is a truly talented all-round musician, not 'just' a drummer.
Stand by for surprising stories, tennis and visi...
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March 15, 2024 • 2 mins
This week Mark and I were due to have a conversation with Jay Schellen about the forthcoming Yes tour of the UK and Europe. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen for reasons outside our control. We will be speaking to Jay on Monday instead so I’m afraid you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for that.
In the meantime in this very short episode, I thought I’d mention some of the interesting things I have found out about the (re...
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March 8, 2024 • 48 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week would have been Chris Squire’s 76th birthday. To celebrate his legacy, Mark and I chose 3 of our favourite Squire bass lines and also chatted about his signature sound and how he achieved it. Make sure you add your own selections to the comments on the show notes for this episode and let’s celebrate the legacy of the world’s greatest bassist together.
Wh...
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March 1, 2024 • 47 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Mark and I had a fun time this week re-watching the ABWH Brother of Mine video and the new Mirror to the Sky one. Listen out for our thoughts in a few minutes’ time and see if you can count how many times I call the song Long Lost Brother of Mine by mistake. Also, do check out the show notes below before or during listening to Mark and me banging on because I’ve added...
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February 23, 2024 • 28 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
After a short break, Mark and I are back to consider what Geoff Downes was doing before being asked to rejoin Yes for the recording of Fly From Here, released in 2011, shortly before the Yes Music Podcast was established. We have been listening to the John Wetton album, Raised in Captivity which includes many prog rock heroes so listen out for our thoughts on that and...
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February 8, 2024 • 23 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I talked about the situation in Yes at the time Geoff Downes rejoined for Fly From Here - around 2010-11. It's a contentious time - but then again when isn't with Yes? Oliver Wakeman had to make way for the return of Downes who had worked very closely with Steve Howe in Asia for many years and, when Trevor Horn was brought in to produce the new alb...
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February 2, 2024 • 53 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I had a great conversation about Yes ephemera - what do I mean by that? Well it’s stuff that would certainly have disappeared if it wasn’t for people like Steve Sullivan, Pete Whipple and Geoffrey Mason over at forgotten-yesterdays.com who collect and share all sorts of items on that amazing site. As on other occasions, it’s best if you take a look...
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January 19, 2024 • 46 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
As you will hear, the title of this week’s episode is a bit misleading. Mark and I have been choosing some of our favourite slower, calmer songs or parts of songs from the extensive Yes catalogue to talk about this week. There are plenty to choose from given the remarkable ability of Yes to create contrasting musical experiences within an album or even a single song, ...
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January 12, 2024 • 50 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week's episode is a rather visual one so you will probably want to listen after (or concurrently with) looking at the images below. Mark and I discuss some of the most instantly identifiable (for Yes fans) images which don't include the name of the band. We start off with a quiz for Mark using the first set of images below and then we head off down Yes, Jon Ander...
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January 5, 2024 • 27 mins
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Happy New Year to you. I hope you had a great time whatever you were celebrating in mid-winter or mid-summer or something else depending on where you are on the globe.
This week, Mark and I return to the second part of our discussion around why Rick Wakeman wanted Larry Fast to help him out on Tales from Topographic Oceans. We listened to Electronic Realizations Fo...
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