RPO Plays best known works of Rick Wakeman
From: Roy DeRousse [roylayer@yahoo.com] - Dec. 1
Found this on another newsgroup. I've always been curious about this album!
----From: Martin Bartosik [mbartosik_eas@zsnp.sk] - Dec 1
If you like Rick Wakeman, there are short snipets from the album. You can download the "112 kbps 44.1 kHz mono" MP3s from these links:
Last Battle (3:24 2,8MB)
http://bartosik.home.sk/RPO1p4.mp3Chaterine Howard part 2 (1:32 1,3 MB)
http://bartosik.home.sk/RPO2p2.mp3The Forest (4:26 2,6 MB)
http://bartosik.home.sk/RPO4p4.mp3Khoroshev.com - New CD from Igor!
From: Jorge Murillo [murilloj@bellsouth.net] - Dec 2Check it out at http://www.khoroshev.com/ikmain.html
From: dee - demar35 [clubs-mail@yahoo-inc.com]
hi i just got an e_mail, Roger Deans shop is now open. Magnetic storm tshirts and great rare posters for sale. Limited Quantities. http://www.rogerdean.com/
Patrick Moraz Photo
From: [dwwestbay@mail.com] - Dec 3This PhotoMail® link has been e-mailed to you from David Westbay compliments of PhotoWorks.com. To view the photo(s), please click on the link below.
http://photomail.photoworks.com/sharing/album.asp?Key=5215456597280903Hello all,
Here is a link to some photos from our visit with Patrick Moraz in Orlando, for anyone who is curious how he is looking these days. :-) You can only view the pics at the site, you can't download. :-( If anyone wants copies, e-mail me off list. Enjoy!
More on Mars
From: B Jones [siz1@earthlink.net] - Dec 3That Mars website also has an interview of Steve from during the Masterworks tour. http://www.marsmusic.com/community/guitarists/spotlight/stevehowe/ I thought this was an interesting snippet:
mm: You are also known for using many exotic stringed instruments. Do you still use them? Do you have them on this tour?
SH: I don't need much on this tour. At the moment, I am recording a pure acoustic album. In there I'm doing solos and duets and I love to use what I call "guitar family" instruments. They've got to have some cross-section of dobros, mandolins, banjos, kotos. Between those instruments I like to make little colorful themes with the mandolin and certain expressions with a dobro with slide and the banjo has always been there as a kind of tool. The koto has come in handy a few times and will be on this album.
mm: When was the Tele introduced?
SH: That came in with Relayer. I went mad on Fenders. Of course on tour, I used loads of guitars. What I kept doing was searching for something I already had (ES-175), which is one of life's great lessons. Very often, we spend forever looking, and we've already got it. I was looking for "that" sound. In one way, it's very restrictive. You know the guitar. You've been there a million times and it's kind of too familiar. And that's why I kind of put it out to pasture a bit and went on to another guitar, then came back to the 175. I did that all the way through the 70s and 80s and kept saying I think this one is the best; so when I come back to it, I really enjoy it-as opposed to I'm playing my old guitar again and I'm sick of playing it.
mm: Is there one particular ES-175 that you cherish?
SH: There's only one (the '64). I have bought others, but this one is a sensational one. It's perfection. It's never been re-fretted. I can't explain it, but I don't want anything to ever change on it. I also have three-pickup, one-off that is quite nice, but it's nowhere near the feel of my '64. Gibson made me a beautiful one that was stolen, and somebody one day is going to get a kick up the backside if I find them playing it. It was a blonde, 3-humbuckers with an original Switchmaster switch. It was the predecessor to one I've got now. The guy [who stole it] was arrested in Detroit. He sold if for $200. In my guitar book (The Steve Howe Guitar Collection), I do a page on it.
Cheers,
Bryan (the Later)Anderson recording with Kaye
From: B Jones [siz1@earthlink.net] - Dec 3Sorry, that's how rumors get started, huh! I should begin by saying there is no YES content here...
But, it's sorta true according to Henry's FAQ. It is confirmed elsewhere that Anderson is doing vocals on an album by Brian Chatton. Title: "Dancin on the Airwaves." And, Henry's FAQ says that Tony Kaye is also reportedly playing on that album too.
Yes on King Biscuit Flower Hour this week!
From: David Westbay [dwwestbay@mail.com] - Dec 5According to the King Biscuit Flower Hour web site, this week they will be replaying their broadcast from December 1974 of Yes in concert. That would be the very beginning of the Relayer tour, I believe. I would love to get a tape of that show!
Unfortunately, there is no radio station near me that carries the show. Will anyone else be taping this, and if so can I beg a copy from you? I'll gladly trade something, send a blank, postage costs, etc. A list of stations that carries the show can be found at their site:
www.king-biscuit.com/radionew.html
Anyone who can help me with a copy of this show, please contact me!
'Through the Keyhole' Repeated at 12.30 today
From: Jon Hinchliffe [jon@praying-mantis.com] - Dec 8Rick and Nina are the subject of the repeat of through the Keyhole (not the recent one a newly married one it seems) that is just being shown on Granada Plus (UK Satellite). I hope it will be a repeat that is shown at 12.30 so I can record it properly.
It's very interesting to see such an old fashioned house ie Hifi equipment and computers etc.
JonFrom: [progfellow@yahoo.com]
Here is the track listing to the follow up to Friends and Relatives. More "The More You Know" tracks?!? "From the Balcony"??!?! I must admit my interest in buying this is nonexistent. I think they really could have put together a good track listing. Oh well.
Yes, Friends & Relatives Volume 2 (Eagle, EDGCD132) is a sequel to 1998's Yes, Friends and Relatives, released on 22 Jan (UK). Tracks: disc 1-"New State of Mind" (Yes, Open Your Eyes), "Big Girls Don't Cry" (Esquire, Coming Home), "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (Steve Howe, w/ Jon Anderson, Portraits of Bob Dylan), "Merlin the Magician" (Rick Wakeman), "Days of Wonder" (Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood, Conspiracy), "Magic Love" (Jon Anderson, The More You Know), "Footloose and Fancy Free" (Bill Bruford's Earthworks, A Part, and Yet Apart), "Madman Blues" (Rick & Adam Wakeman, Vignettes), "Night Trade" (Steve Howe, new piece), "New Language" (Yes, The Ladder); disc 2-"Homeworld" (Yes, The Ladder), "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" (Steve Howe, w/ Annie Haslam, Portraits of Bob Dylan), "Catherine Howard" (Rick Wakeman), "Faithfully" (Jon Anderson, The More You Know), "Coming Home" (Esquire, Coming Home), "Red Light Ahead" (Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood, Conspiracy), "From the Balcony" (Yes, Open Your Eyes), "Number 10" (Wakeman with Wakeman, No Expense Shared), "Dewey-eyed, Then Dancing" (Bill Bruford's Earthworks, A Part, and Yet Apart), "Finally" (Yes, The Ladder). Meanwhile, the first album has been re-released in the UK.
Last Night's Gig
From: Jon Hinchliffe [jon@praying-mantis.com] - Dec 17I was toying up weather to put pictures up today and then recover or start recovering and then get round to a review next week sometime. As you can see I was talked into the former. No doubt my grammar is as bad as usual if not worse and I have spouted my normal rubbish. The review and quite a lot of pictures are on (I hope) :-