![]() I love it when the louder it gets the better it sounds. The production here is well done, and like the two more recent albums by this band it also sounds great at high volume. Hell, check out any of the lyrics to any song on this album and you may get choked up just a bit. If you do not believe me check out the lyrics to track 9 Polyps. It is safe to say in this case what you see is exactly what you get, an uDDerly disturbing, and uber-sick onslaught to the senses. They say one should never judge a book by it's cover, they do not say that about album covers (at least not this one). Alan White was a soft-spoken gentle soul, a real sweet guy, and it’s a real loss.Almost a masterpiece, no doubt a classic!!! Alan was a musician with a resume second to none, playing with John Lennon on “Instant Karma”,”Imagine”, and “Jealous Guy”, and George Harrison on All Things Must Pass including “My Sweet Lord”, before replacing Bill Bruford on the Close to the Edge tour. This episode of In the Studio is dedicated to YES drummer Alan White who died suddenly May 26, 2022. (L-R standing: AlanWhite,Trevor Rabin,Tony Kaye seated front left Jon Anderson, the late Chris Squire ) White, Rabin, prodigal son Kaye, Jon Anderson…they’re all here In the Studio with these classic rock interviews. It resulted in more than eight million copies selling from a musical entity thought to be extinct, but with the songs “It Can Happen”,”Hold On”,”Leave It”,”Changes”, and the #1 hit “Owner of a Lonely Heart”, YES could rise like a musical phoenix from the ashes of the progressive rock Seventies with the comeback album of the Eighties in 90125 ( not a Beverly Hills zip code, but simply the album catalog number ). As Cinema, by midpoint 1983 their recordings were near enough completion that Chris Squire was eager to play what he believed to be their new album to his former musical partner since art school, Jon Anderson. Management suggested a young handsome talented South African, Trevor Rabin, who came from a serious classical music family and who had wood-shedded a number of strong songs in search of a suitable band. Page would bow out after two months of rehearsal, but Squire and White kept working under the name Cinema, seeking to find a suitable songwriter/guitarist/ singer. The talented rhythm section of Squire and White kept in touch into 1982, when they came tantalizingly close to forming a supergroup with another legend “on the beach” at the same time, Jimmy Page of the defunct Led Zeppelin, calling themselves XYZ. ![]()
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