Happy 51st Anniversary To Selling England By The Pound By Genesis!

Genuine question, what color are Chris's eyes? To me, I feel like they are a different color in every photo I see him in

Yes preforming a cover of Purple Haze in 1994 during the Talk tour

im so frequent to rant but its a little different now, so hehe, enjoy my lovely and delirious personal essay breaking down going for the one by yes [1977] song by song :>

for some background, this was when the band were tax exiles in switzerland [not the first time iirc but thats a different story] and what makes it funnier is that they recorded in the same studio as emerson, lake and palmer [who were working overtime on works], [they [elp] moved to another rehearsal space for a few weeks].

this was also the return of rick wakeman after his previous departure from the band after tales of topographic oceans; and he was surprised to see how much the band had changed over the time he had left. patrick moraz was let go; jon thought “[moraz] just wasn’t playing like he was involved”, that his sound wasn’t on par with the rest of the band’s, “and that affected his vibe…” [basically he was let go because he didn’t pass the vibe check]

also i do have to add that their original sound mixer [who i won’t name] left to work with other bands because he believed the the band’s style became ‘a bit stale’. which uh. they probably proved him wrong because gfto is peak and who ever mixed this album a raise [there were several heated arguments about the use of echo on the album, but thats not what im talking about rn]

Jon being Jon at the end of the concert (feat. Tony and Trevor) making him laugh at the end :)

A short comic that was inside the Tourmato tour book (1978)

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Trevor Rabin from the 90125 tour :) (from the slides)

Happy 50th anniversary to Relayer by Yes!

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Yes in a promotional photoshoot for Tormato (1978)

Story Time!: Apparently, Chris forgot his name-embroidered jacket so he had to wear the manager's. Later, The photo had to be edited so the jacket would say Chris instead. So what you see on the Tormato album cover is an edited version of Chris's jacket.

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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.