If you ever thought there may not ever be enough YES music in your lifetime, then think again. Recently, as is likely to be experienced more and more, old tapes of soundboards from the classic era of YES are being discovered. And, of course, it’s not just YES, but a multitude of classic bands.
Atlantic Records has announced the release of a monstrous YES box that explores seven of their live shows from their 1972 World Tour. The new Box, called Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two, is a huge 14CD box that will find unreleased music surprises in the discs. The shows within this Box are shows that led up to the ones recorded and heard on Yessongs (1973).
Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two is expected for release on May 19. as is the 2CD Highlights From Seventy-Two.
Progeny features new remastering to create the best experience that can be had from listening to these performances of classic songs from the time when those songs were new. Each show is contained in its own fold-out digipak.
For those that are not apt to splurge on the massive set, there will be a 2CD distillation of the 14CD Box. The 2CD set will offer selected performance tracks from the full set.
Man, this would have been so much better if they gave us a version of 7 different tours for all their biggest albums,,, TYA, Frag, CTTE, TFTO, Rel, GFTO, etc.. That would have been much more interesting and a better value.
I love all things Yes from the ’72 era but I don’t know if I need 7 versions of the same tour.
The only way I pick this up is if I can’t fight my completest urge, and it better be one hell of a value price wise.
Glad I didn’t spend my tax refund yet,this looks like where some of it will go
There is also a 3 LP vinyl version of the highlights.
Looks like the 2CD set is “Yessongs” without Starship Trouper. I’ll wait to see what the consensus is on the quality of this before biting. Glad it’s going to be released, though.