9012LIVE - THE SOLOS
- ️Sun Dec 30 2007
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9012Live - The Solos |
| No production credits | |
| Released on November 7, 1985 | |
| UK CHART POSITION #44 . . . US CHART POSITION #81 | |
| Find it at GEMM | |
| 90474-1-Y cover [high resolution scan] |
T his is product released prior to Christmas, plain and simple. Awful skinny product too: a few songs from the 90125 tour, a few solos, a few bucks less than a proper album. If you�re not a Yes fan, you are sooo not interested in this album. But if you love Yes and can�t live without them for four minutes, let alone four years, The Solos are a stopgap solution worth seeking out. Rabin is a beast on the two tracks from 90125. The solo, Solly�s Beard, is a different story: an acoustic display of spellbinding celerity that favors Di Meola over wanky Dio metal. The real treat here is at the end. Squire�s Amazing Grace is, in a word, amazing; the fat fuzz tones make this one of the most original reinventions since Hendrix� Star-Spangled Banner. (Did I mention that I love Yes?) That sets the stage for a medley of instrumentals dubbed Whitefish that includes The Fish and Tempus Fugit. I don�t see how this qualifies as an Alan White solo any more than Soon is a Jon Anderson solo; I suspect someone was looking to fabricate balance. The solo approach is an interesting one, with its precedent in Fragile. Yet there are plenty of honest-to-goodness albums of live music from Yes to consider first, not to mention the 9012Live DVD, of which this is but a sampler. In a perfect world, this music would have been appended to the end of the 90125 expanded remaster, but do we live in a perfect world? No, not yet we don�t.
TRACK LISTING
- HOLD ON (Trevor Rabin/Jon Anderson/Chris Squire) 6:57
- SI (Tony Kaye) 2:40
- SOLLY'S BEARD (Trevor Rabin) 4:39
- SOON (Jon Anderson) 2:18
- CHANGES (Trevor Rabin/Jon Anderson/Alan White) 7:00
- AMAZING GRACE (Traditional) 2:10
- WHITEFISH (Chris Squire/Alan White) 8:40
CREDITS
JON ANDERSON -- lead vocals, keyboard, guitar
TONY KAYE -- keyboards, vocals
TREVOR RABIN -- guitar, vocals
CHRIS SQUIRE -- bass guitar, vocals
ALAN WHITE -- drums, vocals
Casey Young -- synthesizer system design & programming
Paul Devilliers -- sound engineer
Paul Massey -- sound engineer
Garry Mouat -- design structure
| REGION | RELEASE DATE | LABEL | MEDIA | ID NUMBER | FEATURES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US/CAN | November 7, 1985 | Atco | EP/CSEP | 90474-1/4 | |
| UK/GER | March 17, 1986 | Atco | EP | 790474-1 | |
| ARG | 1985? | WEA | EP | 83971 | |
| BRA | 1985? | Atco | EP | 6107 053 |
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