Set I
Firebird Suite, Siberian Khatru, And You And I, Close To The Edge, The Revealing Science Of God, The Remembering, The Ancient, Ritual, Roundabout
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buc2220 (5/5) |
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Tales From Madison Square Garden |
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from Osaka 73 |
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"Tales From Madison Square Garden"
4. Roundabout*
*from 1974-02-27 - Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan
Notes: Almost-complete Tales.. show. Roundabout is missing. Hence the filler material. |
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Recorded by: unknown
Remastered by: TheTooleMan January 2005
Usually, I undersell my remasters as I don't like hype and prefer you to listen and draw their own conclusions. In this case, and modesty aside, I will say that this remastered recording will blow your hair off.
Yes stopped playing all four sides of Tales after their Detroit show on February 28, 1974. Considering that this is the best recording of a complete live performance of their then-new double album, I took the liberty of naming it as if it was the intended follow-up to their live triple disk vinyl album, "YesSongs."
I give you "YesSongs 2" |
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S.M.Toole Remasters |
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Recorded by: unknown
Remastered by: TheTooleMan January, 2005
Art by TheTooleMan (with involuntary contributions by Roger Dean)
There are two recordings of this show: one contains the entire concert except the encore, but it has several cuts in the music, lousy sound quality, and terrible speed problems. You become sea-sick from the constant pitch changes. This may seem appropriate for a live recording of Tales from Topographic Oceans, but it isn't desirable.
The other recording is this one. The bad news is that it only includes the four tracks from the new Yes album of early 1974, but the good news is that the quality is very good. The tape appears to have been made up close to the stage, a good thing since music recorded from across the arena at Madison Square Garden echoes like a sewer pipe.
There is a little distortion in the original recording. At some points the bass overrides the rest of the sound, and in a few cases the audio is overdriven, either from the sound system or the recorder. None of this is too severe, and I minimized it as much as possible through the remastering process. There is also some tape hiss apparent in quieter parts of the music. Noise reduction was used sparingly to reduce this noise, but not enough to significantly lower the high-frequency response of the original tape.
This same recording was used for the vinyl double album bootleg "The Affirmatives," though the quality of the tape copy used for that pressing ran too fast and sounded like an AM radio tuned off-center. On that album, The Remembering was faded out before it ended. On this copy of the tape, it runs to the end of the song.
The taper missed part of the introduction to The Ancient. I substituted the lower-quality tape here, as it contained the full introduction.
Usually, I undersell my remasters as I don't like hype and prefer people to listen and draw their own conclusions. I like to tell you all the little wrinkles and imperfections in the source so you know I didn't overlook them or cause the sound to be worse than the original. In this case, and modesty aside, I will say that this remastered recording will blow your hair off.
Yes stopped playing all four sides of Tales after their Detroit show on February 28, 1974. Considering that this is the best recording of a complete live performance of the double album, I took the liberty of naming it as if it was the intended follow-up to their live triple disk vinyl album, "YesSongs."
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Slick2007 (5/5) |
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Avatar (5/5) |
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Steve O'Malley (5/5) |
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Yessongs 2.1 35th Anniversary Tooleman Remaster 2009 |
chnactsnflwr (5/5) |
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selma snow (5/5) |
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Tales from MSG |
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JPW (5/5) |
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1. Firebird Suite (exerpt) [2:27]
2. Siberian Khatru [10:24]
3. And You And I [10:20]
4. Close To The Edge [18:47]
5. (JA remarks) [1:58]
6. The Revealing Science Of God (Dance
Of The Dawn) [19:46]
7. The Remembering (High The Memory) [24:42]
8. The Ancient (Giants Under The Sun) [19:31]
9. Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil) [21:45]
10. Roundabout [8:34]
Source:
1-9: 02/18/74 ? Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
10: 02/27/74 ? Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI
Lineup:
Jon Anderson (vcl, perc), Steve Howe (gtr), Rick Wakeman (kbds), Chris Squire (bs), Alan White (drms)
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Arnold Eibel (4/0) |
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J. D. Barton (4/0) |
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Tim Devine (4/5) |
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AUD 35th ann. Tooleman remaster. "Yessongs 2.1" Just the 4 TFTO songs. |
Ryan A. (4/5) |
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'The Affirmatives' (Tales) section is probably the clearest recording of all live Tales songs (that includes The Remembering) in existence (though 2.28.74 Detroit and 2.26.74 Boston is close).
I'd like to know what the taper used to record it. I'd also really like to what happened to the rest of the show from his tape?? Why only the Tales section? The other source for this night (containing the the rest of the show) is good, but not as quality as the 'Affirmatives' source.
Now, there is an ongoing debate as to whether one or both of these sources are actually of 2.20.74, and not 2.18.74. This is complicated, and ardent opinions weigh in on both sides. A good summary of this debate can be found HERE. Assuming for a moment that this is the 2.18 show for pleasurable listening purposes, this is a must-have Remembering-age Tales show. These two MSG shows contain my two favorite Remembering Rick solos. - So regal, dignified, soaring. He restrains himself from wandering aimlessly, as he could do in other shows.
Strangely, again the encore did not get recorded at this MSG show (the Roundabout included on this recording is from 2.27.74 - Detroit).. Surely they played Roundabout, and possibly Roundabout + YIND or ST for the large NY crowd. |
Christopher (4/3.7) |
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Martin McNally (4/0) |
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Tales From MSG |
Chris Larson (3/5) |
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TTDaddy (3/0) |
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-complete concert without encore *OR*
-complete show w/encore from Detroit 2/27/74 |