>> >> To make a slow attack on notes, they manipulate a volume control. That's >> the heart of the slow parts of the "Yes lead guitar sound." I'd never >> heard it before I heard it with them. It's on Flash albums, too. But >it's >> not really on either of the first two Yes albums. SO, one of the >guitarists >> is imitating the other, but I don't know which. >> > >I think that was a style that was popularised a bit during the sixties and >had just come back into vogue with the progressive set. It is used to great >effect on 'On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" from Tormato.
I don't think it was popularized in the sixties -- I would have noticed when I heard it. Or can you think of a specific example? When I first heard it, I wasn't even sure it was a guitar. My high school mate who first played me Yes in '72 had first played a bunch of synth stuff, so I thought it was a keyboard, for the first few notes. >At the same time the tide was turning in music. Quality music by quality >musicians was under attack from the low end by the grassroots movement of >punk rock and from the high end by the record companies who wanted *all* the >profits. When I hear a phrase like "Quality music by quality musicians," I think that somebody has missed the point. Especially the point of pop music. It's not a spectator sport, ya know ... ... and by any measure that Yes fans treasure, the jazz people had them whipped from the get-go. >Well.....you are kinda getting into a different era now. In 82 Rabin took >over the guitar chores and tried to turn the band into a stadium filling hit >machine. It only worked for one album. >At this point, if a band wasnt playing teenybopper rock ballads, >they were being marginalised, or put out of business. > You mean like the Police? Elvis Costello? Joe Jackson? (His early band's bass/guitar interaction is still my favorite.) Joni Mitchell's Mingus album? And this was the era where Zappa's band was making money and introducing Adrian Belew to the world. (Admittedly, this was before Springsteen had learned to enunciate. I went to a show of his as "Born to Run" was coming out, and I couldn't understand a single word he sang. And yes, Patti Smith begged us not to write her mom just 'cuz she was too stoned to play.) I guess I should lay off, since I've been down this road before. I'm just happy that Iggy Pop, Johnny Rotten and the Ramones will be respected longer and more than Yes will. I only wish I'd realized it more at the time -- I would have jumped to this side of the argument that much sooner. I didn't take down my Roger Dean posters (Greenslade covers) until I enlisted in '81. Music is about connection. Who ever connected with "Mountains come out of the sky and stand there"?? --- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://just-john.com/cn/rfe.shtml * _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
