During the lifetime of running a YouTube channel you get to meet other YouTubers and become friends and collaborators. Dean Wolfe is one such acquaintance I’ve made and he was recently generous enough to ask me to be involved with his video appreciating Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans in its 50th year. What an honour to be included alongside such revered luminaries! I thoroughly enjoyed this chat. I hope you do too!
Jim’s Adventures In Music 
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Thanks for referencing the live Ritual performance I requested for winning one of your radio show contests.
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Age 16, I took the journey from Leeds to Sheffield to see Yes for the first time. Not only that due to technical reasons “Tales” was not yet released. So, it was literally the first time I had heard the album. I remember the haunting “Dawn of light” opening to the album. After the first side was played there was thirty seconds of silence while the audience took it all in and then an eruption of applause. The start of “The Ancient” was amazing on record, it fails to capture how loud Alan White came in at the beginning of “The Ancient”, the previous track “The Remembering was fairly quiet so to start the third side like that was a real wake up call. It’s one of the things that has stuck in my mind about the concert. Sadly, we had to leave during “The Ancient” to make sure we got back to Leeds on the last train.
Once the album was released and I got to know the album better sides 3 and 4 became my favourites. Sides 1 amd 2 have their good parts but I feel that it fails to bring the music to a peak before letting crash again, like they did on CTTE.
My favourite live moment from Tales was the “Yes Symphonic Tour” which I saw in Nottingham. My dissapointment that they didn’t play “Gates of Delirium” was compensated by a stunning and sublime version of “Ritual” accompanied by a full orchestra. Its a performance I will never forget.
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<trying the reply via email option for the first time; we’ll see how well it works>
What a great experience, Tony!
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Thank you Pam. Your email reaction worked.
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Don’t you just hate those things that you miss the end of because of timing? I remember going to the cinema when I was 6 to see Star Wars with my dad and sister. She was 5 and was ill during the film so dad took us home as The Millennium Falcon left the Death Star. For about 3 or 4 years that’s how I thought the film ended!!!
Great memory and story Tony. 👍🏼
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Yeah.
Similar to Tony, my first time seeing Trans-Siberian Orchestra was at Madison Square Garden. We took a bus from my in-laws upstate, and had to leave to catch the last one, just as the special musical guest, Joan Jett was introduced.
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