Yes - Open The Gates (Bootleg - 1976)

Vuelve el Mago Alberto para traernos una maravilla de la época de Yes con el genio Patrick Moraz, grabado durante la extensa gira de "Relayer", esto es quizás el mejor bootleg de Yes. ¡Que semana llena de sorpresitas! Aún queda mucho para presentarles.

Artista: Yes

Álbum: Open The Gates
Año: 1976
Género: Rock sinfónico
Duración: 119:00
Nacionalidad: Inglaterra

Lista de Temas:
Disc 1
1. WNEW / WMMB DJ’s Introduction
2. Intro / Apocalypse
3. Siberian Khatru
4. Sound Chaser
5. I've Seen All Good People
6. Gates Of Delirium
Disc 2
1. Long Distance Runaround
2. Patrick Moraz Solo
3. Steve Howe Solo – Clap
4. Jon Anderson Solo – Exerpt From Olias
5. Heart Of The Sunrise
6. Ritual
7. DJ Chatter #1
8. Roundabout
9. DJ Chatter #2
10. I'm Down
11. DJ Outro

Alineación:
- Jon Anderson / Vocals
- Chris Squire / Bass
- Steve Howe / Guitar
- Alan White / Drums
- Patrick Moraz / Keyboard

¿Y qué podemos decir de la obra que ahora nos ocupa? Es escuchar a los dinosaurios progresivos, exclusividad del blog cabezón. Este disco fue grabado y transmitido en vivo por la radio estadounidense el 17 de junio de 1976 en la ciudad estadounidense de Jersey y transmitida por radio y más tarde volvió a mezclarse y aquí tienen el resultado. Punto culminante para un rendimiento impecable del teclista Patrick Moraz dando una tremenda demostración en todo el transcurso de la presentación. Pero mejor los dejo con el comentario del Mago Alberto que para algo arma los contenidos de sus tremendos post...

Aquí el comentario del Mago que trajo este material:

El año pasado luego de postear la edicion de Relayer de Yes version Steven Wilson, alguien en el chat hizo mencion de esta producción de los Yes, y acá está para el disfrute de algunos, (siempre pongo lo mismo pero es una verdad recurrente) al que no le gusta Yes este posteo le chupa un huevo.
Una grabación realizada por una emisora de radio y tomada directamente del PA. y que por ser de una época donde la tecnología todavía no vencía al corazón, van a disfrutar de versiones en vivo realmente admirables, y que suenan de puta madre, "The Gates of Delirium" y "Ritual" suenan con una polenta exquisita con paneos en estereo realmente inéditos para aquellos años, en síntesis un "en vivo" como Yes se merece. Y quiero detenerme acá con un concepto bastante cierto para definir un poco esto; es muy raro conseguir grabaciones en vivo de los dinosaurios del progre que sean respetables y que verdaderamente SUENEN bien, la net esta repleta de conciertos tomados de audiencia otros mitad/mitad y algunos zafan pero encontrar este tipo de registros es realmente un trabajo antropológico. Tampoco crean que es muy fácil conseguir estas gemas, por lo tanto aprovechen que la vida es corta y quizás la vida de este blog también, por eso amigos cabezones no lo piensen mucho, y denle curso que Tomorrow Never Knows.
Tomense el trabajo de escribir los tracks. Tarea para el hogar de La Escuelita de Moe.

Alberto

Y vamos con algunos comentarios que nunca han de faltar en un buen post cabezón!

A live broadcast from the brilliant prog rock summer of 1976, Yes performs it's best work with it's best (IMHO) line up. I saw them just before at JFK in Philadelphia, and this show was a classic. Well worth finding, if you can and listening.

mburgh

The 1976 Summer Tour began May 28, 1976 in Roanoke, Virginia. The Roosevelt stadium concert was number 16 in a tour that would include 54 shows. The band members had recently finished solo projects and had reconvened to begin their biggest American concert tour to date. At the time there was still an enormous interest in the material from their most recent album Relayer. Gates of Delirium and Soundchaser, both from that album, were played in Jersey City that night. From one that was there:
“We were there in 6 inches of mud in ‘76 at Roosevelt stadium in New Jersey for RELAYER”.
–Notes from the Edge
“Gates of Delirium is a war song, a battle scene, but it’s not to explain war or denounce it, really. It’s an emotional description with the slight feeling at the end of ‘do we have to go through this forever?’ There’s a prelude, a change, a victory tune, and peace at the end, with hope for the future….” –Jon Anderson
“Sound Chaser is like this madman from hell…an indescribable mixture of Patrick’s jazzy keyboards and my weird sort of flamenco electric, which I’m sure has never been done before and will probably never be done again!” –Steve Howe
Strangely enough, “To Be Over”, the last of the three songs from “Relayer” had been dropped from the set list for reasons unknown, perhaps to allow the band to include a few more of the old stage favorites like “Siberian Khatru” and “Heart of the Sunrise”.
“The concert was originally broadcast on WNEW from New York. According to former WNEW-FM DJ Richard Neer in his book, 'FM', there was no mixing of the show being done by the radio station engineers; the feed going out
over the air was what the guy doing Yes' sound sent out. (This was because the manager of WNEW at the time was too cheap to pay Neer and a sound engineer companion of his the few hundred bucks extra they would have
charged to do an on-the-fly broadcast mix). Hence the rather interesting variations in sound quality as the show progressed.” –Forgotten Yesterdays.com
Another enthusiastic fan recalled: “It was 100 degrees that day. When we finally got to the stadium, there was about a battalion of police off to one side. The line of fans was about 10 abreast and went around the stadium.
The police had bullhorns and were telling people "no glass inside the stadium". When we got inside, there was a hot air balloon tethered over the stage, with the cover FROM TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS on it!
The opening was the Poussette Dart band. Between the opening and Yes, there were fireworks. One of the rocket stands fell over during launch and a rocket shot across the infield and blew up under a car! Finally, true dark fell around 9:00 PM and Yes began to play. During the battle scenes in "Gates of Delirium", the laser (electric green, dark blue) was shot into the audience in random, staccato bursts. Later, during "Soon", the laser fanned out and spun over the audience, who craned up hands over their heads to touch the light. -Notes From The Edge.
It is with great pleasure that we now bring you this remaster of a legendary performance by a legendary band.
Enjoy this great 1976 moment with Yes.

PRRP Staff

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