2006年 04月 22日 土曜日 16:54

Wow. I finally got my hands on Yes' Songs From Tsongas DVD. Yeah, I know I'm slow - it has been out forever. But that wasn't really the point of this post, now was it?

As can be expected(1 from a Yes DVD, it was awesome, though I must admit that I was really tired when I started watching - I was almost asleep when they started playing South Side of the Sky. And then I woke up. Some great instrumental sections in there. Then Jon Anderson and Steve Howe step in for Turn of the Century. Just beautiful. The first disc ends with Yours Is No Disgrace - another classic. Now I'm almost jumping with excitement in the sofa.

I insert the second disc, and there's that nice acoustic set I remember from their show in Globen (Stockholm, Sweden, if you were wondering). Long Distance Runaround, Wonderous Stories and that awesome blues/shuffle rendition of Roundabout…

Fast forward to the end. Need I say more than And You and I, Ritual, Every Little Thing and Starship Trooper? It doesn't really matter that they didn't play a whole bunch of other great songs. If they would do that, they would probably have to play all day :-)

Now I'll just have to watch the beginning again, to see what I missed. I'm afraid I won't be able to stop, though, so I'll probably have to do that sometime when I feel like I have three hours to kill.

Anyway, for those who have missed it, and like Yes - or life, or anything really - do yourselves a favor and watch (and more importantly: listen to) Songs From Tsongas. Gotta love Jon Anderson.

1) The few Yes DVDs I have watched are awesome. I try to avoid the cheap-looking ones, though - there's probably a bunch of really bad DVDs too.