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Title: Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes by Chris Welch ISBN: 0-7119-9509-5 Publisher: Omnibus Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: MOUNTAINS COME OUT OF THE SKY AND THEY STAND THERE
Comment: My favorite progressive rock band from the 1970s as money grubbing spoiled rock stars? Yes? No! The author certainly loves the band but reveals them as quite human after all, blowing the lid off the Yes mystique of cosmic peace and mind altering exploration, as they scramble to keep pace with changing public musical tastes and advancing middle age. Even after reading "Close To The Edge, The Story of Yes", the band members remain as strangers coming across as mere participants in the great machine called Yes, and as less than mature men who blame all their troubles on everyone but themselves. The author's narrative rolls along serving Yes information, however tedious to the unadorned, in an enjoyable way until the end when he suddenly dropa out of sight allowing the concluding chapter to serve as a promotion for the band's new album. One wonders if the band's participation for the book was dependent on that promotion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Want to know about Yes? Buy this book!
Comment: As a major Yes fan for over 25 years, I've often thought I knew everything there was to know about the band. Well, Chris Welch taught me a few things. His linear approach and comfortable style of writing made the book very hard to put down. I was enthralled by his descriptions of recording sessions; tours; member resignations; firings; and even how much they got paid for each gig in the early days. He delves into each member's personality and you get a feeling for how the members made the band more than a product of the sum of their individual efforts. If there's even just a single biographical book you buy this year, make it this one.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dissapointing
Comment: 30 years ago Chris Welch was, through my formative musical years, one of the rock journalists I looked up to! But now, 30 years on and looking back, I found this biography more consistent with my adolescent literary needs of 30 years ago! While containing many facts, it also has much irrelevant nonsense and somewhat twee statements most annoyingly followed by exclamation marks (about one per page)! So much so that I got tired of the 6th form style of writing very quickly! E.g. P41 on the longevity of the band "...but here we are, still going thirty years later!". P42 on meeting other members "Within a week I had met Chris!". On P43, on early photos, "They would now be of great historical value - if Chris hadn't lost the lot!" On P43 again, on Jon Anderson's autocracy "Everyone was entitled to HIS opinion. That's the best way of putting it!". Note the tiresome and repetetive exclamation marks! Are these supposed convey Wow!? Amazing!? Oh Dear!? Oh Christ!? Or what!? Whatever the intention it becomes annoying very quickly and the text ends up reading like a fan club member's essay full of some kind of mock astonishment, conveyed by endless exclamation marks! There are better Yes books around! (Annoying exclamation marks there to illustrate a point).
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Title: Yesstories : Yes In Their Own Words by Tim Morse, Yes ISBN: 0312144539 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Yes: Perpetual Change by David Watkinson, Rick Wakeman ISBN: 0859652971 Publisher: Plexus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Progressive Rock Reconsidered by Kevin Holm-Hudson ISBN: 0815337159 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock (Feedback - The Series in Contemporary Music) by Bill Martin ISBN: 0812693337 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:Yes - Yesspeak (35th Anniversary) ASIN: B00012QM7W Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.53 |
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