cdxxvii. YES
from: Fragile
March 1971. On tour supporting their previous release (The Yes Album), Anderson -- high as hell -- kept noticing all the roundabouts they were going through:
"Everything was vivid and mystical"
By August they had fired Tony Kaye (for lack of interest in working with new keyboard instruments!) and hired Wakeman.
Sixteen-track recording was relatively new and the band took advantage of the tech. For instance, the opening sound is Wakeman playing an octave of low E's, running it backwards, and carefully mixing it. That sort of attention to detail pervades the entire album.
Naturally, the track was cut down to three-minute single size once it became popular enough for airplay ...
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