LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA 1979YesSymphonic Prog2.43 | 93 ratings |
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Guillermo
Prog Reviewer |
An energetic and very good live concert by Yes filmed at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, in 21 June
1979, during their last tour from the seventies. It is a shame that the quality of the video and more
particularly of the audio of this concert video are not very good, in fact sounding very distant, like a
bootleg sometimes despite being an official release. They still play at their peak as musicians, with a
lot of enthusiasm, looking like really enjoying their playing. The audience also sounds and looks very
happy. It is also a shame that it only has a few songs from the set list they were playing then. Anyway,
it still is a good historical document from the late seventies.The band was playing "in the round" then
(with a revolving stage placed at the centre of the auditoriums) and it seems that the stage really
revolved at a high speed as can be seen in this video. The most interesting parts of this concert video
are "Circus of Heaven", a song from their "Tormato" album (one of my favourite songs from that
album), played very well, and a very good version of "Starship Trooper" played with very good solos
by Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman (who used a keytar, which is a portable keyboard, to play part of
his solo while Jon Anderson also played a bit of background keyboards). I hope that this concert
video and their QPR concert video with Patrick Moraz from 1975 could be remixed and improved to
be released again in the DVD and /or Blue Ray formats. I think that maybe they could improve both
videos a lot using the modern digital technology available in the present.
Guillermo |
4/5 |
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