Thursday, November 10, 2011

Yes - We Can Fly From Here

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Dr. Forrester said...

Yes

1. We Can Fly From Here (studio demo) alternate source
2. We Can Fly From Here (later full studio mix)

Here are 2 studio recording versions of 'We Can Fly From Here' which, while performed live during the 1980 tour, was never released on a Yes studio album. The story goes that the demo version of the song was done by Trevor Horne and Geoff Downes and brought to the remaining members of Yes at the time (Chris, Alan, Steve). The boys like what they heard and asked the Buggles to join them as Yes. There is some debate that the demo version is Chris and Alan on bass and drums instead of Trevor and Geoff doing the instruments, but I dunno (I'll leave that to people in the know to argue about).
BTW, after the song fades at the end there is more music. The story goes that the reason it is not completed is because Trevor didn't like what he heard and told the engineer to cut off the taping. Who knows?

The second version included here is a later mix of the band doing a full version, recorded (or mixed) on April 18, 1980 at the Townhouse Recording Studio.

The first version here is an upgrade to the badly recorded, possible lossy version uploaded earlier. It can be found here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=200598

lineage for my sources:
version 1: low gen tape in a trade from early 1980s > PC > FLAC
version 2: from CD in a trade called Drama Sessions, Original Masters (White Rock Research label) > FLAC

Enjoy!

Relayerman

November 10, 2011 at 5:21 AM
Anonymous said...

Many thanks for all the Yes!!

November 14, 2011 at 12:38 PM

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