Yes has gone through many changes and explored many paths and in some instances experienced growing pains, which will happen to any that chose to be dynamic. But in every way they continue to grow as a group. Currently the sound that is Yes is very similar to the sound they had when they began but much matured over the 30 years they've been professionally producing music.
The music is driven by bassist Chris Squire on stage and off. He is the only member to have worked on every album and is often referred to as the "keeper of the flame." This also refers to the way he finds new talent to bring to the band, including such members as Trevor Rabin and Igor Khoroshev. Jon Anderson has performed on all but one album, in which he was replaced with singer Trevor Horn.
Members have included Peter Banks, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Patrick Moraz, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford, Trevor Rabin, Billy Sherwood and Igor Khoroshev. Most of their album covers and many of their sets have been designed by the artist Roger Dean who is famous for his album covers and rock art. Currently the band's lineup is Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White. They are now in studio working on their latest album and recently conducted a poll to find out if their fans would prefer to have an orchestra on their next tour, which resulted in a nearly even split with the ayes garnering 49% of the vote.
They have a wonderful and visually stunning website at www.yesworld.com from which you can access pictures of the band, the individual members' own sites, the fan newsletter, their full discography as well as complete lyrics, the latest news and tour information. They also will sometimes list contests and participation events such as the recent voting for the playlist for their recent Masterworks tour and voting for or against the orchestra.
Why, you ask?
This is actually one of the neatest things about the way UNIXlike systems work, believe it or not-- this program does have a use! Remember the pipe? That thing that lets you cause the output of one program to be the input of another until one terminates?
Well, sometimes you'll come a cross a program, for example rm -r, that will be asking you a very very large number of yes or no questions, and will expect you to type "y" or "n" into every single one of those questions. But if you know that all the answers will be "y", you can just type yes | rm -r at the command line, and it will feed "yes" into each one of rm's questions! Inane, but elegant.
See also Kosh
Yes- 1969 Time And A Word- 1970 The Yes Album- 1971 Fragile- 1972 Close To The Edge- 1972 Yessongs- 1973 Tales From Topographic Oceans- 1973 Relayer- 1974 Yesterdays- 1974 Going For The One- 1977 Tormato- 1978 Drama- 1980 Yesshows- 1980 Classic Yes- 1981 90125- 1983 9012Live: The Solos- 1985 Big Generator- 1987 (ABWH) Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe- 1989 Union- 1991 Yesyears- 1991 Yesstory- 1992 Highlights- The Very Best Of Yes- 1993 (ABWH) An Evening Of Yes Music Plus- 1993 Talk- 1994 Keys To Ascension- 1996 Keys To Ascension 2- 1997 Keys To Ascension Volume 1& 2- 1997 Open Your Eyes- 1997 Something's Coming- 1997/Beyond And Before- 1997 The Ladder- 1999
Solo Albums by the various members of the band:
Jon Anderson:
Olias Of Sunhillow- 1976 Song Of Seven- 1980 Animation- 1982 3 Ships- 1985 In The City Of Angels- 1988 The Power Of Silence- 1992 The Best Of South America- 1993 Deseo- 1994 Change We Must- 1994 Angels Embrace- 1995 Toltec- 1996 The Lost Tapes Of Opio- 1996 The Promise Ring- 1997 Earthmotherearth- 1997 The More You Know- 1998
Bill Bruford:
Master Strokes- 1986 If Summer Had Its Ghosts - 1997 Bruford Levin Upper Extremities- 1998
Steve Howe:
Beginnings- 1975 The Steve Howe Album- 1979 Turbulence- 1991 The Grand Scheme Of Things- 1993 Not Necessarily Acoustic- 1994 Mothballs- 1994 Homebrew- 1996 Quantum Guitars- 1998 Pulling Strings- 1999 Portraits Of Bob Dylan- 1999
Patrick Moraz:
i- 1976 Out In The Sun- 1977 Patrick Moraz III- 1978 Coexistence- 1980 Timecode- 1984 Future Memories Live On TV- 1984 Future Memories II- 1984 Human Interface- 1984 Windows Of Time- 1994 PM In Princeton- 1995
Chris Squire:
Fish Out Of Water- 1975
Rick Wakeman:
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII- 1973 Journey To The Centre Of The Earth- 1974 The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table- 1975 Lisztomania- 1975 No Earthly Connection- 1976 White Rock- 1977 Criminal Record- 1977 Rhapsodies- 1979 The Burning- 1981 1984- 1981 Rock 'N' Roll Prophet- 1982 Cost Of Living- 1983 G'ole!- 1983 Black Knights In The Court Of Ferdinand IV- 1984 Silent Nights- 1985 Live at Hammersmith- 1985 Beyond The Planets- 1985 Country Airs- 1986 Crimes Of Passion- 1986 The Gospels- 1987 Family Album- 1987 Time Machine- 1988 A Suite Of Gods- 1988 Zodiaque- 1989 Sea Airs- 1989 In The Beginning- 1990 Night Airs- 1990 Phantom Powers- 1990 Aspirant Sunrise- 1990 Aspirant Sunset- 1991 Aspirant Sunshadows- 1991 Suntrilogy- 1991 The Classical Connection- 1991 2000 A.D. Into The Future-1991 Soft Sword- 1991 African Bach- 1991 The Private Collection- 1991 Country Airs- 1992 Best Works Collection- 1992 The Classical Connection II- 1993 The Heritage Suite- 1993 Prayers- 1993 Rock And Roll Prophet Plus- 1993 Classic Tracks- 1993 Microcosm (Sega CD)- 1993 Greatest Hits- 1994 Live On The Test- 1994 Light Up The Sky- 1994 Almost Live In Europe- 1995 The Piano Album- 1995 Cirque Surreal- 1995 Visions- 1995 The New Gospels- 1995 The Seven Wonders Of The World- 1996 Fields Of Green- 1996 Fields Of Green Maxi Single- 1996 In Concert- 1996 Voyage- The Very Best Of Rick Wakeman- 1996 The Word And Music- 1996 Orisons- 1996 Can You Here Me?- 1996 Tribute- 1997 Return To The Centre Of The Earth- 1999
Alan White:
Ramshackled- 1976
Tony Levin:
World Diary- 1995 From the Caves of the Iron Mountain- 1997 Bruford Levin Upper Extremities- 1998
information compiled from: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Vine/5537/tonylevi.htm
I have two older brothers -- 6 and 8 years older than me. Thus, when I was in elementary school they were teenagers, and teenagers in the late 70s at that. Yes at that time were huge--the quintessential arena rock band of the 70s in fact. The dizzying lineup changes kept occuring, but always Jon Anderson and Chris Squire doing their thing.
My brothers had the Yes posters in their room (they shared a bedroom, until my oldest brother got kicked out), the t-shirts, the albums, and sometimes they would let me sit in the room with them (never when they were getting high, though) and listen to the music. They would doodle the groovy Yes logo on their notebook covers. They would explain to me how Yes was music that was about something, man. They had seen the band a few times--on the Tormato tour when they had the cool rotating stage, on the Going For The One tour (hey, that dude's naked on the cover!).
When I myself got to high school, 90125 had just been released. I of course listened to it, and got into it, because, hey, it was Yes. My older brother told me it was crap--"The lyrics aren't about anything! Where's Steve Howe!"--but I didn't listen. At least he and I could agree that sitting in a dark room with headphones listening to Close To The Edge was about as perfect as music could get.
I still like Yes a lot, and my upbringing means that I like the old stuff as much as the newer stuff (okay, yeah, Big Generator and Talk are mostly big stinkers, but Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe, Keys To Ascension and The Ladder, and 90125 are very good) but Yes is a band I'm in to because my older brothers were. They doesn't even listen to much of that stuff anymore--my oldest brother in particular has gone to the dark side largely, listening mostly to bland pop and --gasp--country (okay, he does live in Oklahoma), but somehow in some sort of strange fraternal devotion I still love the stuff.
In 1989, cable TV was introduced in Israel. The Israeli TV airwaves never had much to offer: Channel 1 (produced by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and considered poor and old-fashioned) and Channel 2 (before it got commercial). It's no surprise cable TV gained instant popularity. Slowly but surely, the cables were laid out to major cities and suburbs, eventually connecting around 66% of the households to cable TV (as of September 1997). The Russian immigrants were an especially loyal consumer group, willing to shell out the full monthly price just for the 3 Russian-speaking channels.
Year 2000 was time for another Israeli monopoly to end -- the multi-channel TV business. For 10 years, ever since the introduction of cable TV in Israel, five companies (Tevel, Matav, Gvanim, Arutzey Zahav and Idan) had a franchise, a restriction on competition, which allowed them to monopolize the market. It made sense when it was given, since cable infrastructure was non-existant and the cable companies had to invest enormous resources to lay down the cabling.
In the way of all monopolies, prices grew, the offers remained static and the so-called "cable families" got enormously rich and controlling (especially after the five companies were consolidated into just three).
"Yes", a company which received a franchise from the Ministry of Communications to operate a satellite-based TV service, changed that.
"Yes" begun operations in 2000, after financial difficulties and growing pains which were putting its launch into question. The customer reponse was overwhelming! The company could hardly handle the flood of installation requests. Shortage of decoder equipment and technicians caused installations to be delayed for months!
All went in the usual monopoly breakdown route -- all of a sudden, people saw that, for the same price, service could be a whole lot better:
Ministry of Communications forbid the cable companies from introducing similar features for some time, in order to give the newcomer time to stand on its feet. Eventually, the cable companies came out with similar offers; turns out all they've needed was a good shake, to hint them they're not alone on the market.
Some of Yes success can also be attributed to its stylish brand image, which reminds of Orange brand's image. In a country where "foreign" is associated with "quality" and "prestige", they chose an English name and are producing English-speaking advertisements mocking up Hollywood movies, adding the popular foreign scent to their brand. As a result, the viewer imagines Yes as strong foreign corporation rather than a local business ran by your next-door manager.
The competition is fierce and both competitors have serious commercial backing. The cables came out with broadband Internet offer (which Yes can't offer due to its one-way operation -- and Bezeq, 50% shareholder wouldn't want it to compete its ADSL offers anyway). Yes added more interactive services. Both are striving to purchase more exclusive foreign productions, often overpaying the major US studios up to 5 times just to gain that exclusivity.
All in all, Yes is another success story of Israel's slow de-monopolization.
Yes (?), adv. [OE. yis, [yogh]is, [yogh]es, [yogh]ise, AS. gese, gise; probably fr. gea yea + swa so. See Yea, and So.]
Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.
Yes is used, like yea, to enforce, by repetition or addition, something which precedes; as, you have done all this -- yes, you have done more. "Yes, you despise the man books confined."
Pope.
"The fine distinction between 'yea' and 'yes,' 'nay' and 'no,' that once existed in English, has quite disappeared. 'Yea' and 'nay' in Wyclif's time, and a good deal later, were the answers to questions framed in the affirmative. 'Will he come?' To this it would have been replied, 'Yea' or 'Nay', as the case might be. But, 'Will he not come?' To this the answer would have been 'Yes' or 'No.' Sir Thomas More finds fault with Tyndale, that in his translation of the Bible he had not observed this distinction, which was evidently therefore going out even then, that is, in the reign of Henry VIII.; and shortly after it was quite forgotten."
Trench.
© Webster 1913.
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