Redux Revenge

 Let's hope this "Redux" thing doesn't get out of hand...

Dishing Out Another New Yes Album (A Yestaurants Addendum)

 Mayo To The Sky - The Main Dishes:

1. Cutlet From The Steers

2. All Croquetted

3. Roux Monstrosity

4. Leaving Out The Cream

5. Schmear To This Guy

6. Cereals Of Thyme

Additional Side Dishes:

7. Homegrown Plates

8. When Seconds Aren't Enough

9. Tragic Portions

Curd It Be A New Yes Album?

Looks like it might be a bit. . . cheesy?

 

Not Yer Round About (demo)

These 1959 Nashville demos from Bobby & the Yup family keep popping up... Bobby was a bit acerbic and negative in those days.

"... It's a shame I'm 

In and out the valet..." ? 😕

Yestaurants

ZESt! : Beyond & Beef Orzo / I Sear You / YesCafé & Buffet / Leeking Around / Harold Lamb Chops / Savory Little Thing / Meatness / Soyvival

LIME IN A CURD : No Opportunity's Commissary, No Epicureans Needed / Thin! / Brewery-Daze / Wheat Dreams / The Profiterole / Eclair Days / Gastro-Traveller / The Thyme Is Now & We Stirred In Love

THE YES ALBUMEN : Yogurt's No Disgrace / (The) Wrap / Starship Grouper / I've Seen All Good Pibil (i. Your Hooves - ii. Cholesterol Good People) / A Vintner / You'll See Perpetual Chang's

FRAJELL-O : Ground Round About / Crans & Brans / We Have Leavened / South Side Of The Chai / Five Percent For Muffin / Hmong Biscuits Runaround / The Knish / Mousse For A Day / Art Of The Fun Fries

SUCROSE TO THE EDGE : Close To The Veg (i. The Salad Time Of Change - ii. Lemongrass Retain - iii. You Drink Up, You Fall Down - iv. Seasonings Of Man) / Anjou And I / Strawberrian Khastrudel

TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC PORTIONS : The Revealing Science Of Cod (Dance Of DeJonghe) / The Re-Menu-ing (Alimentary) / The Piquant (Giants Under Lasagna) / Victuals (Nous Sommes Du Soufflé) 

RE-LAYERED CAKES : The Grapes Of Delirium / Sound Juicer / To Brie Over

GOING FOR THE BUNDT : Going For Well-Done / Tuna The Century / Pair o'Dills / Wonderous Smoothies / Ba-Bacon!

TORMERIC : Future Limes - Re-Juice / Don't Grill The Kale / MatzoBall / Real Eats, Real Eats! / A Rising Sous-Chef Dough / Couscous Of Heaven / Bon-Bonward / On The Soylent Wings To Feed 'Em

SHAWARMA : Maraschino Messiah / White Cardamon / Does It Really Blacken? / Into The Hens / Run Through The Lite Beer / Tapas Fugit

DINER WANT TWO KNIVES : Owner Of A Lonely Heart Of Palm / Hold Flan / Eat Can Happen / Chimi-Changes / Cinnama / Leaf It! / Our Sauce / Ziti Of Love / Two Oats Are Better Than One

BAGEL GENERATOR : Rhythm Of Loaves / B. Jenner Ate Here! / Shoot Thai, Aim Lo Mein / Almost Like Loaves / Loaves Will Find A Way / Final Ice Cream / I'm Romaine / Wholly Lamb Stew (Song For Hominy Convergence)

MACAROONION : I Would Have Waited Pho Ever / Stalks For The System / Marinade / Sift Me Up / Without Hops You Cannot Start The Brew / Saving My Ort For You / Miracle Of Knife / Silent Cracklins / The More We Sieve - Prego! / Ancho Hot / Danger Rouxs (Look In The Pie Dough When You're Sifting Flour) / Holding Naan / Ovensong / Take The Soda From The Fountain

WOK : The Calamari Ring / I Yam Waiting / Real Lard / State Of Filet / Walleyes / Where Will You Bean? / Endless Dreamsicles

KEYS TO A SEN-SEN : Be The Wonton / Unsaturated Fats, That Is // Mind Chives / Fruit Prints / Bring Me To The Powdered Sugar / Chitlins Of Light / Stein Language

OPEN YOUR ICE : New Steak Of Mine / Open Your Iced Latte / Universe Au Gratin / No Whey We Can Lose / Four Tuna Sellers / Man In The Moonpie / Wonderloaves / From The Bacon-y / Cloves Shine / Some Chow, Someday / The Infusion

THE PLATTER : Ham World / It Will Be A Gouda Day / Enlightening Tripes / Corn Pie? / Plates To Fêtes / If Only You Noodled / To Beet Alive / Winery / The Mason Jar / New Linguini / Nine Spices

McKNIFE OCCASION : My Ganache Equation / Spirit Of Saliva / Donut Go / Get Grub Each Day / Canned Ewe Immersion / We Hungry! / Soft As Endive / Creamtime / In The Poissons Of / Thyme Is Thyme

FRIED FROM HERE : Refried From Here (i. Over-Easy - ii. We Can Fry - iii. Sad Night For A Pear Peeled - iv. Madman At The Tureens - v. Bumpy Rind - vi. We Can Fry (Refreeze) / The Man Who Always Wanted Me For Tea / Knife, Spoon & Fork Set (Riding A Braunschweiger) / Hour Of Knead / Salty Fare / Into This Tum

OVEN IN PERTH : Bay Leaf Again / Wild Game / Step Beau-Monde / To A Blend / In A World Of Our Cones / Bite Of The Cajuns / It Was Al Dente, We Knew / Sorbet Walls

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With apologies, acknowledgments, and admiration for Megan Amram, who makes up all the restaurant names for the TV show The Good Place. (Yup, I stole several of her ideas to compile "Yestaurants." Thank you very munch.)

The Return Tripe

Benoît David should take revenge on Trevor Horn for redacting Ben's lead vocals from the 2011 Yes album Fly From Here...

Also available soon: Adventures In Modern Re-Recording

Who Wore It Better? Round 3: Zaius vs. Howe

Dr Zaius (3978) vs. Steve Howe (2017)

Who Wore It Better? Round 2: Yes vs. Kesha

Yes (1977) vs. Kesha (2017)

New Zodiac Trio Album 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE from Fortman (ASCAP)

Dreamtime, a newly released contemporary classical CD by the Zodiac Trio, is now available on the Blue Griffin Recording label. Of personal interest is the track "Libra" which was written by Noel Fortman in 2013 (using his own algorithmic composition methods) while he was just a 1st-semester freshman at the University of Illinois School of Music at Urbana-Champaign.

"Libra" is presented as the 4th movement of a 12 part suite of short works entitled "Zodiac: Across The Universe." This unique chamber suite for clarinet, violin & piano resulted from an online call-for-score by the Zodiac Trio themselves. They chose Noel's piece to combine with 11 other selections after auditioning around a hundred submissions from composers all around the world. The suite was previously debuted at live concerts on the trio's multi-city tour of China in November 2013. Their Dreamtime album features the World Premiere Recording of "Zodiac: Across The Universe" (along with several other world premieres) from sessions last year at Blue Griffin's Ballroom Studio in Lansing, Michigan.

Noel Fortman is currently in his 3rd year of studies at UIUC, now pursuing two concurrent bachelor degrees in Computer Science+Linguistics and Music Composition. Having participated in last summer's Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music on the campus of UC-Santa Cruz, Noel is extremely excited to be returning to California this summer for a coveted 12 week software engineering internship with Google at their Mountain View Googleplex.

Silently Falling...

... filled the air with a magic sound.

Chris Squire (1948-2015)

Supporting the next Zodiac Trio CD

In November of 2013, the chamber music group The Zodiac Trio premiered a 12 movement suite live in China which featured a 1-minute piece, "Libra," composed by my son NoelF.

"Zodiac: Across The Universe" will now be featured as a World Premiere Recording on a studio CD to be recorded in February 2015. Their crowdfunding campaign will run through 1/11/15, if you feel like being a "patron of the arts": Zodiac Trio KickStarter page

UPDATE 1/9/15: The Zodiac Trio's studio CD project has reached its $9500 goal with more than 2 days remaining... If any of you reading this helped in some way, we thank you for your support!

Voices For Fripp

Robert Fripp and his massive influence on the Rock Hall inductees for 2014:

Nirvana
From a May 1995 Robert Fripp interview in Rock & Folk Magazine: "Did
you know that Kurt Cobain was a big fan of your album Red?"

(Fripp) "I found out through John Wetton last year. The producer of the
first Nirvana records [...] told John that Red was an important record
to Kurt."

Hall & Oates
Hall's first solo album Sacred Songs was produced by Fripp, who also
played on the album. Hall also sang on Fripp's solo album Exposure.

Peter Gabriel
His first solo album featured Fripp on guitar. Then Fripp produced (and
played on) Gabriel's second album. Gabriel also sang on Fripp's album Exposure.

Linda Ronstadt
When she sang with Phoebe Snow on "Saturday Night Live" in 1979, Fripp
was one of the guitarists. I don't know why. Go figure.

http://www.dgmlive.com/vision.htm?&show=1642&id=3088

E Street Band
Roy Bittan played piano on Peter Gabriel's second album, which was produced (and played on) by Fripp. (I mentioned that already, didn't I...)

Cat Stevens
His album Mona Bone Jakon features an appearance on flute by Peter
Gabriel who, as I've mentioned, later worked with Fripp. (Gotta stretch
here to make this work...) Fripp also recorded Show Of Hands featuring
a viola player named Cat(hy) Stevens. (Still stretching...)

KISS
Well, the name KISS does start with the same first two letters as King
Crimson, so that means they used to be very near each other
alphabetically in the record store bins, right? (Reeeeaaaally stretching
for this one...)

OK, I got it. From an April 2010 interview with Gene Simmons: "I
listened to everything, R'n'B, Beatles and stuff, and then really
started to hone in on the early great sixties anglo bands, I'm a big
anglophile. One listen to 21st Century Schizoid Man, by... you don't
know what I mean, right?"

Roadrunner Records UK: "21st Century Schizoid Man - rings a bell but I
couldn't tell you who it's by off the top of my head."

(Simmons) "Look it up."

Music by "yeselpkrimson-son"

Not Yes-related, nor even prog-related at all... It's contemporary classical chamber music, live from the Zodiac Trio's 2013 tour of China.

My 18-year-old son, NoelF, composed the 4th movement "Libra." (It starts at about 3:14)

Stand For The Frail (Demo)

It took a while, but this sixth entry in the series of "unreleased Nashville demo recordings" was recently discovered, making a complete double trilogy of "Bobby & the Yup family" acetates from 1959. But this one just features Bobby solo: a voice (of sorts), a guitar, and a mouth harp... exploring the "protest song" genre way back when.

He thought YES would be a good band name. . .

(1947-2013)

To Peter Banks,

With a wave and a thanks,

We say goodbye to all that.

The Brotherhood of the Traveling YesPants

The tale... no, the legend... of The Brotherhood of the Traveling YesPants begins in the hazy 1970s with none other than the iconic Jon Anderson:

Over the decades, several have tried to join The Brotherhood, with varying success:

“Look, Christopher! I am wearing Jon’s YesPants! Trés chic, no?” “No. You’re fired.”

“I thought the memo read white specs, not white slacks.”

(Alan read the memo correctly and was a skillful ballplayer in his day.)

Ideally, the Traveling YesPants should always remain with the lead singer...

... because they might otherwise get stretched out beyond repair!

The Traveling YesPants, today...

... and perhaps tomorrow? Joining The Brotherhood, Will?

Postscript: Until the Traveling YesPants are returned one day to the founder of The Brotherhood, they seem destined to be saddled with a curse:

Owner of a Lonely Shart.

 

Who Wore It Better? Round 1: Kate vs. Katniss

Not Yes-related at all, but:

                 Kate Bush (1985)            “Katniss” from The Hunger Games (2012)

Up to their necks in necks...

These days, when Steve Howe plays his Variax guitar on that fixed stand, it always looks kind of awkward to me...

... but I guess the double-neck guitars don't have the tonal range he's looking for? He used to play one, back in the day:

As did these guys:

And even this guy:

And then, when the bass players get into the act:

You can even get a double-team double-neck:

But why stop at just two? Chris Squire has this monstrosity:

But this just looks like a carpal tunnel case study waiting to happen:

This looks Tricky to play, and probably wasn't Cheap to build:

Let's see... 12-string, 6-string, 5-string bass, 4-string bass, 7-string, and just for good measure, another 6-string?... At least this guy rests it on the ground, to save his own neck, I'd guess?

This guy actually asked for a custom 12-string, but the guitar builder messed up... I suppose he could tune each neck to a different open chord; C, C#, D, D#, etc., and never have to learn a bunch of different positions:

Hmm. Maybe that Variax on a stand that Steve Howe uses doesn't look so awkward after all...

AWagon demo

On this "fifth acetate" from the increasingly inaccurately named "trilogy" of newly-found, unreleased "1959 Nashville Demo Recordings," Bobby & the Yup family crank out a "potential theme" for a proposed B-movie western about a 19th century trek across the American frontier in a covered wagon.

The movie execs eventually rejected this demo after they decided that Bobby's lyrics and the Yup family's "too-spacey" (for 1959) arrangement never really connected with the basic concept of the film. In particular Bobby's perplexing wordplay, in which young stars assemble and touch impenetrable youth while high vibration go(es) on, clashed rather harshly with the traditional Old West imagery of their movie.

Oddly titling the song "A Wagon in our Heart" probably didn't help matters. (Maybe some sound effects of horses would have helped?)

The Yup Album (Demos) - On A Roll, Intoned

What more can I say? They really were on, like, a roll... (& stoned?)...
 

(Yup, it's the fourth in a trilogy of "1959 Nashville Demo Recordings" from Bobby & the Yup family.)