Now Available: Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Now Available: Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two

If there’s any band that can rival The Grateful Dead when it comes to having diehard followers that are forever champing at the bit to hear live performances from their heroes, it’s got to be Yes. No matter what members may be in the lineup at any given time, there’s always a huge core audience that’s ready to turn up to their concerts and thrill to every last note. As such, if your first reaction when you heard about the new box set Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two was to think, “Geez, what band has the kind of fans who’d get excited about getting seven concerts from the same tour?” then we’re here to tell you that the answer is Yes.

In 1972, Yes was riding high on the success of Close to the Edge, and audiences were coming out in droves to see them reproduce that material in a live setting and, with any luck, they’d get to hear some of the band’s earlier material in the set, too. (They did.) Recently, the members of the band stumbled upon reel-to-reel recordings of seven complete concerts which took place only a short period of time before the shows that made up the live album known as Yessongs, and now that they’ve used the cutting-edge technology of 2015 to make them sound as pristine as possible, we here at Rhino are bringing the recordings to you.

Mind you, we know that there are some Yes fans who are intrigued at the idea of hearing how the band sounded in ’72 but just can’t see themselves plunking down the dough for 14 discs worth of live material, which is why we’ve put together a Highlights collection from the Progeny set, the track listing of which you’ll see directly below this paragraph:

Disc One

1. Opening (Excerpt From “Firebird Suite”)
2. “Siberian Khatru”
3. “I’ve Seen All Good People”
a. “Your Move”
b. “All Good People”
4. “Heart Of The Sunrise”
5. “Clap/Mood For A Day”
6. “And You And I”
a. “Cord Of Life”
b. “Eclipse”
c. “The Preacher The Teacher”
d. “Apocalypse”

Disc Two

1. “Close To The Edge”
a. “The Solid Time Of Change”
b. “Total Mass Retain”
c. “I Get Up I Get Down”
d. “Seasons Of Man”
2. Excerpts From “The Six Wives Of Henry VIII”
3. “Roundabout”
4. “Yours Is No Disgrace”

Pretty great, right? And a nice summation of the overall set, too, we can assure you. But for those of you who are excited about hearing all seven shows, don’t worry, we’re about to drop the full track listing for that on you, too. Here’s the thing to keep in mind, though: Yes wasn’t really changing up the set list a heck of a lot during this period of the tour. This is not a bad thing, because with Jon Anderson fronting a lineup featuring Steve Howe (guitar), Chris Squire (bass), Rick Wakeman (keyboards), and then-new drummer Alan White, the songs might not have been switched up a great deal, but they were definitely performed a bit differently every night, as you’ll be able to hear when you pick it up, something that you can do as of today.

So, anyway, here’s that full track listing. Brace yourself accordingly.

Toronto, Ontario
Disc one

1. "Opening (Excerpt from Firebird Suite)~Siberian Khatru"
2. "I've Seen All Good People"
a. "Your Move"
b. "All Good People"
3. "Mood for a Day/Clap"
4. "Heart of the Sunrise"
5. "And You and I"
I. "Cord of Life"
II. "Eclipse"
III. "The Preacher, the Teacher"
IV. "Apocalypse"

Disc two

1. "Close to the Edge"
I. "The Solid Time of Change"
II. "Total Mass Retain"
III. "I Get Up, I Get Down"
IV. "Seasons of Man"
2. "Excerpts from The Six Wives of Henry VIII"
3. "Roundabout"
4. "Yours Is No Disgrace

Ottawa, Ontario
Disc three

1. "Opening (Excerpt from Firebird Suite)~Siberian Khatru"
2. "I've Seen All Good People"
a. "Your Move"
b. "All Good People"
3. "Heart of the Sunrise"
4. "Mood for a Day/Clap"
5. "And You and I"
I. "Cord of Life"
II. "Eclipse"
III. "The Preacher, the Teacher"
IV. "Apocalypse"

Disc four

Durham, North Carolina
Disc five

Disc six

Greensboro, North Carolina
Disc seven

Disc eight

Athens, Georgia
Disc nine

Disc ten

Disc eleven
Knoxville, Tennessee

Disc twelve

Disc thirteen
Uniondale, New York

Disc fourteen

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