{"id":293,"date":"2014-03-27T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=293"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:46:02","slug":"another-music-post-yes-yes-i-think-i-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-music-post-yes-yes-i-think-i-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Another music post? Yes. Yes I think I will&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/another-music-post-yes-yes-i-think-i-will\/\" data-text=\"Another music post%3f Yes. Yes I think I will&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;write another music post with the sublject this time being Yes. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yes_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">English rock band YES<\/a>, that is. \u00a0Founded in the 1970&#8217;s, they have undergone several incarnations and are still active today with most of the original members. \u00a0When I first heard of them they were regarded somewhat as a &#8220;stoners&#8221; band since in those days top 40 am radio still ruled and their music was definitely not top 40. \u00a0It was a little on the psychedelic side, maybe and so it was assumed you had to be stoned to appreciate it. \u00a0I will admit that I did appreciate it a time or two in that condition (including one out-of-body experience), but I love it just as much today and I haven&#8217;t been stoned in decades. \u00a0They did have a song make the charts in 1972, which was &#8220;Roundabout&#8221;. \u00a0For many of you that may be the only YES song you have ever heard. \u00a0Anyway&#8230;this music is, as they say, an acquired taste; which I guess means not everyone likes it at first but if you give it a chance you will. \u00a0I liked it right from the first time I heard it, but at that time, I was already a big fan of the Moody Blues and Pink Floyd so it wasn&#8217;t much of a leap for me. \u00a0YES&#8217; music had the same kind of almost mystical lyrical qualities but with a little more edge. \u00a0Below is the YouTube video of a live performance of the song <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/And_You_and_I\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;And You And I&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0The song was released in 1972 on their album &#8220;Close to the Edge&#8221; and did reach #42 on the Billboard Top 100 in that same year. \u00a0This particular liver performance was recorded in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AYmeJlm7Gcg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting intro by Jon Anderson who obviously has a poets heart. \u00a0One other side note: Steve Howe &#8211; awesome guitarist. \u00a0I have seen him play that same yellow Fender Sho Bud pedal steel guitar on several videos as early as 1976 (!). \u00a0I wonder how many miles that thing has logged?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8230;write another music post with the sublject this time being Yes. \u00a0The English rock band YES, that is. \u00a0Founded in the 1970&#8217;s, they have undergone several incarnations and are still active today with most of the original members. \u00a0When I first heard of them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}