Thursday, October 6, 2011

Yes - 1971-10-11 - Wolverhampton


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Dr. Forrester said...

Yes
Wolverhampton, UK
October 11, 1971
Remaster by Shaun Toole
January, 2003

This is my third attempt to produce a good-quality version of the Wolverhampton show, and my most successful. I obtained a higher-quality, lower-generation stereo copy of the show from Steve "Relayerman" Wehner. Most of the stereo content of the show is preserved here, but on a few tracks - Perpetual Change and Yours Is No Disgrace, to be exact - the left channel was so damaged and muddy that I went with the right channel and Sound Forge's Acoustic Mirror audio processor, to give a stereo feel that works with the rest of the recording.

The copy of the recording is the first I have found with the tracks in what I believe is the correct order. Most have the Wakeman solo and Long Distance Runaround/The Fish transposed. This was probably done by a dubious bootlegger to make the recording fit a 90-minute cassette better than the original order; as a result, this has become the defacto sequence of the set. Note the on-stage bantering and guitar riff played by Howe which leads directly into Anderson's introduction of Perpetual Change. This is all one sequence in the set between the two pieces. I discovered this mis-ordering when working on the 30th anniversary remaster of this show in late 2001, and set the tracks in the correct order on that release. The "7 From 71" version of the show was taken from another cassette and was missing some of the banter between the boys, and I did not change the sequence on that version.

There is no way to know how many more remasters there will be of this important and complete show, or whether this one will be my last attempt, but hopefully each will be better than the last.

Tracks:

Disc One:

Firebird Suite
Roundabout
I've Seen All Good People
Mood for a Day
Clap
Heart of the Sunrise
Long Distance Runaround
The Fish

Disc Two:

Rick Wakeman
Perpetual Change
Yours Is No Disgrace

October 6, 2011 at 5:58 AM
Anonymous said...

As always, thank you for this. This is probably the best Yes performance I've heard up to now, the band are on top form and some of the arrangements of the "Fragile" tracks are quite different to the versions on the album. The sound is also a lot better than I thought it would be, probably a B+. If you like the "Fragile" album, you need this show!

October 8, 2011 at 3:21 AM

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