The Word Is Live

There are the great bands that the younger people have discovered, Beatles, Stones(which I’ve never been big on)etc, but I always felt this band somehow slipped through the cracks even to those that were around at the time they played. These guys are such supremely gifted musicians on every level. This album is a great bargain being that it’s offered on Amazon for $50.00 used. America is an amazing cover that obliterated the original version. These songs are live unaided by studio gimmicks and further proof of just how brilliant these musicians were. Listening to this album reminds me of the quality of music of my youth and the nosedive it has taken through the years leaving us to what passes for music today. Bittersweet:)

Great set of songs by YES live! It's so exciting to hear live songs from the Chicago, IL show I attended in 1979. They had the circular stage and the show was AWESOME!!

To be blunt-- this thing sounds like it was recorded on my IPhone from outside the concert hall.

Yup..it is a good album. Yes live is nothing like the yes albums...more power, more drive, more energy and more bass :) GO YES

This is a great collection of live tracks spanning the rise of Yes, masters of progressive rock music. The other live Yes albums are each centered upon a short period of the Yes experience. This collection provides a nice sampling of music from 1971 to 1988, including music from the Drama tour, featuring The Buggles, who replaced Jon Anderson and Rick Wakemen in 1980. The production quality here is as good or better than you'll get on a bootleg, and the price is good. What I would like to see is a box-set of albums, each covering one tour during the same span of time.

The songs that I want are Album only and I refuse to buy the album for a handfull of songs. Yes needs to let us Troopers download what we want and stop forcing the post 1980 Trauma on us and of course lets not forget the Trevor mess.

For those of you who have never seen Yes live this album demonstrates the energy of a Yes experience. The recording quality on disk 1 is not crystal clear, but the strength and energy of the music blasts through. I have never heard a stronger version of "Yours is no Disgrace". I love the Tormato stuff too, these are songs you don't normally find live. This compilation is missing a couple songs from the packaged box set though. I highly recommend you find a copy of "For Everyone" a never before released song from 1970.

As the reviewer noted there isn't much new here, unless of course, you know a little bit more about Yes than the opines expressed above, which is that these songs are the top, illegally downloaded, here-to-now unavailable Yessongs, from the Internet. I have previously either traded for or downloaded every song here, not to get something for free, but because some of these classic performances (and moments) have not been available any other place. While on some of these songs the quality is dated by it's analog source, all of these are way better than the versions floating around the internet, and the soundboard remasters kick magor-butt over the audience recordings I've had for some of these for almost 20 years. These are classic performances. The Big Medley and Circus of Heaven from the Tormato tour, Moraz versions of Siberian Khatru and Soundchaser, Trevor Horn singing Tempus Fugit, and on and on. And what about the Bill Bruford on the drums on the 14 minute version of America in 1971? Sweet! These are professionally remastered soundboard versions of all the crappy bootlegs you've learned to love. What a nice present to their fans. It isn't allways about the money. This is a nice present from a great band to its fans. Buy it all.

I wanta say that this collection is by far one of the best I have ever bought. The songs, the concerts, the arrangments are really quite amazing. Astral Traveller- Graet version. You get to hear Steve Howe make Pater Banks's guitar part more rockin'. Everydays- Awesome! Yours Is No Disgrace- FINALLY!!! A version of this song, live, with Bill Bruford on drums. Amazing take I will say! I've Seen All Good People- Full Of energy! America- Quite the cover. Way better than the version off of Keys To Ascension. It's Love- A cover, written by the Young Rascals. Good take. Siberian Khatru- I dont like Patrick Moraz's keyboard playing on this one, but it works. Sound Chaser- It's amazing to hear how they pulled off everything in this song, Live! Sweet Dreams- A little sloppy, but definately full of life! Future Times/Rejoice- Almost sounds like the actual recording. Circus Of Heaven- Its interesting how this song sounds live. I like it! The Big Medley- This is a good enough reason why you should buy this album. An absolutely amazing medley, definately worth the 25 minutes to listen too. Roundabout- The Classic Yes version is a lot better than this one. Heart Of The Sunrise- Way better version than the Yessongs version! Way better!! Awaken- It wasn't mixed well, this version, but its decent I guess. Go Through This- Great Song!!! I wish this saw the light of day for the Drama album. It's definately a rocker. We Can Fly From Here- Really Good Song by Trevor Horn. This song shouldve seen the light of day as well. Too bad it didnt. Tempus Fugit- An even more amazing song live then recorded. Too badd Jon Anderson doesn't want to sing songs from that album, casue they should at least do this one. It's sooo good! Rhythm Of Love- I like it! Hold On- Great drum solo before the song. Good version of this song as well. This song always sounded good live. Shoot High, Aim Low- I got bored, because it sounds excatly the same as the studio version. Make It Easy/Owner Of A Lonely Heart- This song always sounded good live as well. Definately a good buy!

Unfortunately for me, the only show in this compilation I attended was the Inglewood 1978 show (at the Fabulous Forum!). Too bad "The Big Medly" can't be downloaded separately...I'd like to have it because I was there. Also, there are a couple of jams in there that were memorable.