The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) – 20:25
Side two
The Remembering (High the Memory) – (Lyrics by Yes) 20:38
Side three
The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun) – (Lyrics by Anderson/Howe/Squire) 18:35
Side four
Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) – 21:37 (Lyrics by Anderson/Howe)
Tales from Topographic Oceans
The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
Shrutis: The Revealing Science of God can be seen as an ever-opening flower in which simple truths emerge examining the complexities and magic of the past and how we should not forget the song that has been left to us to hear. The knowledge of God is a search, constant and clear.
Posted in QPR '75 on October 13, 2009 by shadowolf
Also known as QPR ‘75, the concert took place at Queens Park Rangers Football Ground, London on 10 May 1975 (on the Relayer tour).
There are intermittent sound issues in the videos which are the fault of the original recordings, not of these versions. That being said, there are versions which have been improved and I’m trying to find the best ones available.
Unfortunately, the first song is among the worst with respect to technical sound issues. It actually sounds like the wires were loose or defective in parts — the sound suddenly fading out completely for awhile, or becoming terribly distorted for a few seconds now and then. It is the large amount of such problems that makes it almost unlistenable.
There are also volume and tone issues in this song (especially with Moraz) and miking problems in the second half of To Be Over (Howe and Squire undermiked; Anderson too loud) and at the beginning of Your Move (Howe). I haven’t heard most of these tracks for several months so I don’t remember all of the flaws.
Note: I’ve never seen videos of Yours is No Disgrace or Sweet Dreams from this concert. I did see Ritual, I think it was complete, from QPR about a year ago but have been unable to find it recently.
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1. Excerpt from Firebird Suite – Sound Chaser
a. to near the end of Steve Howe’s solo – 8:21. See the note above about the sound issues on this song. Better off skipped in my opinion.
b. remainder of Sound Chaser – 5:46. – Continued sound issues mar what could have been a great performance. Especially the sudden loss of sound during an important Howe feature. But later it gets worse: near the end the sound becomes for awhile focused entirely on Moraz, though it isn’t a solo, where his keyboards sound very…harsh and dissonant.
3. Close to the Edge
a. From dailymotion.com. This library usually has better video quality than google. In this case google’s picture is better (following video, marked “b.”). – 19:31
b. From google – 20:00
4. To Be Over – 9:31 – Beginning at about the 5 minute mark Steve Howe’s guitar becomes barely audible while Anderson’s guitar seems overmiked. I can’t hear the bass either. This is another one better skipped. Awful.
5. Gates of Delirium
a. fragment - 15:40 – no full screen but I took this one because it’s so long. However, it is cut just as the conclusion, Soon, is about to begin.
b1. part 1 of 2 – 10:59
b2. concluding section – Soon – 6:16
6. Your Move/Mood for a Day – 5:17
7. Long Distance Runaround (acoustic)/ Patrick Moraz solo – 5:24
YESSONGS, length 75:55, on a single vid (from onru.ru, a Russian site). You can gain access to the full screen by clicking on the video and going offsite (to onru.ru).
I’ll see what I can do about enabling the full screen feature. The video appears to go into a buffering mode, automatically, when the site is opened, and stay there for a long time unless you interrupt it (after a few seconds) by clicking the start/stop button. The text in Russian which sometimes appears in the lower left hand corner can be removed with a click on the “x” in front of it.
Yessongs, the movie, was released in 1973. It documents their concert at London’s Rainbow Theatre on December 16, 1972. The only tracks which the two CD (originally three record) live set Yessongs and the film have in common are Close To the Edge, and Würm, the final movement of “Starship Trooper”, recorded at the Rainbow. – adapted from wikipedia
Setlist
I’ve Seen All Good People – Anderson (Your Move) and Squire (All Good People)
Clap (Howe) guitar solo by Howe
And You and I (Anderson, Howe, Squire and Bruford)
Close to the Edge (Anderson, Howe and Chris Squire)
Excerpts from The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Wakeman)
performed by Rick Wakeman on various keyboard instruments and Moog synthesizers
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2009 by shadowolf
The top image, from a painting by Roger Dean, was the front cover of Fragile (Nov. ‘71). Roger Dean paintings were also featured on the promotional booklet for Fragile. The second one here, showing creatures amidst a root system, was on the front cover; the third one was on the back. Below is the back cover of Fragile by Dean.
