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What's this all about, anyway?
I've made my rounds in the Yes Webverse and have found that my fellow fans are legion. I first heard Yes in 1971 and started collecting their albums and tapes in 1972. I've owned more copies of Fragile than most people buy copies of Yes albums (or so it seems) because, well, in my experience it was indeed fragile.
But enough about me. I doubt I can gush over this historic group more or more eloquently than my fellow voyagers in the topographic oceans of yesterdays, so I thought I'd see what our friends in the fictional worlds we enjoy might have to say. If they were Yes fans, that is.
Can you think of a well-known character in a movie or book who gets extremely positive about something? I mean really worked up? If so, let me hear about it. I love to get email. If I like your suggested quote and know who the character is, I'll include it here and mention your name somewhere on the page (gosh, will virtual compensation never stop increasing?).
NOTE: Due to multiple server crashes and moves, this site was lost. We have recovered it from an old backup. So, here are the quotes from May 2001. Hope you like them.
The good stuff
- Dorothy Boyd, Jerry Maguire's "complete" love interest.
Dorothy is a positive-thinking, do-what-I-feel-is-right-at-the-moment kind of woman. I wouldn't mind marrying her myself. :)
Anyway, I figure if she were to spend a day listening to Yes' classic albums (that would be "Yes", "Time And A Word", "The Yes Album", "Fragile", "Close To The Edge", "Tales From Topographic Oceans", and "Relayer"), she might run up to her sister and blurt out something like the following:
I love them, Laurel! I love them! And I don't care what you say! I love
them for the band they are, I love them for the band they want to be! I
love them! I love them!
- Aragorn, Dunadan, King of Gondor and Arnor.
Anyone who would run across the fields of Rohan after a couple of hobbits has got to be all right. So what better to keep his mind occupied than to drift away to the rhythms and drums of "Close To The Edge" and "Tales From Topographic Oceans"? I figure, if Eomer had ridden up on Aragorn and his friends right before the CD ended, the old Ranger might have introduced himself this way:
Rick Wakeman! I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Olias of Annuminas, the Sunhillow guy, Dunadan, the Heir of Isildur, Yes Fan, and follower of Jon Anderson. Here is the album that is Fragile, and I have chased these Orcs roundabout and close to the edge! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly, for "And You And I" is about to begin!
- Han Solo, Rascal, Adventurer, Mr. Princess Leia
What if Luke hadn't really blown up the Death Star? What if instead Jon Anderson had sent Grand Moff Tarkin a copy of "South Side of the Sky", and Tarkin -- so overcome by awe and wonder -- had sat down on the self-destruct switch, blowing up himself and the Death Star and all his Imperial Storm Troopers? Solo might have congratulated Anderson this way:
Great song, kid! That was one in a million! Now let's blow this place and go for the one!
- The Beverly Hillbillies
Is that laughter I hear escaping from your lips? Come on, now! Ellie Mae Clampett (whether played by Donna Douglas or Erika Eleniak) was a With It kind of gal. And what if Flat and Scruggs had just come back from a Yes concert when they were supposed to be writing what may be the most famous television show theme song in history?
Now listen to the story 'bout a band named Yes
Small rock band from back when rock was best
Then one day they were down in hard knock school
And up all around came a musical pool
Of talent, that is...Smooth guitars, and lyrical choirs
Well the first thing you know, Yes is gettin' contracts
First two albums really didn't do so bad
Then folk said, Steve Howe is who you need
So they signed him up quick, and did number three
The Yes Album, that is..."Starship Troopers"
and all the Good People we've seen....
- The Brady Bunch
I never thought I'd cross YES with the BB, but Michael Munitz sent in this little gem.
It's the story
Of a band called YES
Who had dreams of playing all around the world
All of them had real long hair
Like their leader
The drummer boy in curls
It's the story
Of Rick and Steven
Who were busy with their bands of of their own
There were all these guys
Who should be together
But they were all alone
Until one day when this YES band met these fellows
And they knew that it was much more than a hunch
That these men, must somehow form a family
And that's the way that they became the YES BUUUUNNNNCCCHHH
The YES Bunch, The YES Bunch....
That's the way, they became the YES BUNCH!!!!
- Gilligan's Island
Speaking of misbegotten theme songs, John Dollman has suggested the following rewrite for the Gilligan's Island theme. Maybe we could call it "Anderson's Island"?
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a famous band,
that started out in '68
with songs like "Harold Land".
The band's had lots of personnel,
and some were shown the door,
but most of them returned one day
for the big "Union" tour,
the big "Union" tour...
Rick Wakeman sure has joined a lot,
Chris Squire never left,
and somewhere in between these two,
are Rabin and the rest.
The group is sure to entertain,
with "Clap" and "Roundabout",
Jon Anderson...
Bill Bruford too...
and Alan White...
and the Fish...
there's Pat Moraz, and the rest,
be sure and check them out!!!
- Dorothy Gale, Oz's own little Yes fan
What if that toronado had zigged at Albuquerque instead of zagging like it should? Dorothy would have figured out pretty quickly she had stepped into a Roger Dean world instead of L. Frank Baum's cherished little land:
I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto! (Rarf!) We must be over the rainbow. No, I know. We've gone close to the Edge, across the south side of the sky! There's a river! And a mountain to be crossed! Oh, Toto! The preacher's coming! And you and I will be left here all alone! (Rarf!) Toto! Toto! Come back! Toto, soon, oh soon, the light!
- Of course, the Wicked Witch might have been a Believer as well
I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! I've been in a mood for a day! Sound out the galleon, boys! The order of the universe is going roundabout, I think. Hahahahahahah! Surrender Relayer!
- And, when Glenda the Good Witch finally sends Dorothy home...
Dorothy closes her eyes, clicks her heels three times and says, "There's no band like YES. There's no band like YES...."
- Rick, from "Casablanca"
What if their song was "The Meeting" from Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe? Can you imagine Sam singing that piece in the shadows of Rick's place?
You played it for her you can play it for me! I cannot be deceived. There's something that I feel...There's something that I feel inside!
- Elrond Half-elven
What if, during that interminably long council, Elrond had paused to reflect on the music most favored by the Elves?
I remember well the splendour of their harmonies. It recalled to me the glory of the Elder Days and the bands of Classic Rock, so many great keyboards and guitars were assembled. And yet not so many, nor so fair, as when Classic Yes was together, and the albums flowed like the winds of Tasarinan, and the Elves deemed that Good Music was here for ever, and it was not so.
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