Dialogue

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Dialogue
Studio album by Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe

Publication
(s)

unpublished (created 1990)

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

18th

occupation
  • Stuart Sawney? - keyboards

Band members:

chronology
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
(studio album 1989) 		Dialogue An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
(Live album 1993)

Dialogue is the unreleased second music album by British progressive rock band Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (ABWH), which was released due to the reunification of the two bands Yes ( Chris Squire , Trevor Rabin , Alan White and Tony Kaye ) and ABWH as well as the work on the following album Union was never completed.

background

After the Big Generator tour ended in April 1988, the band members of Yes broke up. Trevor Rabin devoted himself to his solo project Can't Look Away (released in 1989), while Jon Anderson , frustrated by the reduction of his position in the band to the function of the singer of songs he was not involved in the creation, with Bill Bruford , Steve Howe, and Rick Wakeman . With them he released the album Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe in 1989 . Chris Squire had reached in court that the four musicians were not allowed to perform under the name Yes (details under Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe ).

After the end of their world tour on March 23, 1990, Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe collected new material for a second album under the working title Dialogue , the release of which was targeted for October 1990. Anderson recorded his contributions in the south of France while working on his previously unreleased musical Chagall . Howe, Bruford and Levin were also working on new material at this time. Anderson's suggestion to record the album in a farmhouse that had been converted into a studio met with little approval from the other band members who wanted to work in London . The four musicians then experimented together with at least 18 song ideas. Personal animosities, especially between Anderson and Howe and between Wakeman and Howe, made a collaboration difficult. The sessions were too expensive and Arista became suspicious. The record company began to influence the creation of the songs. A recording session in the Miravalstudios in southern France failed. Most of the Dialogue songs were therefore soon given up, partly because Jon Anderson, encouraged by promoter Larry Magid, pursued the idea of ​​merging Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe and Yes into a single band. The fact that the two camps approached each other again after the litigation began with Anderson contacting Trevor Rabin with the request to contribute some guitar parts to Dialogue . Shortly afterwards he extended the request: Rabin should provide ABWH with song material that fits the style of the band. Rabin accepted, and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe, and Arista all liked his songs. However, he was reluctant to hand them over to the rival band. Inspired by Jon Anderson, the managements of both bands, especially Arista, pushed all eight Yes veterans together under a single name - an eight-piece band called Yes seemed to promise far greater profits than two other albums by ABWH and the rump band around Chris Squire . When the Union mega-project became apparent (against the will of Bruford, Wakeman and Howe), the Dialogue material was abandoned except for Take the Water to the Mountain and completely new material was written: I Would Have Waited Forever , Shock to the System , Without Hope You Cannot Start the Day , Silent Talking , Angkor Wat , Dangerous (Look In The Light Of What You're Searching For) , Holding On and Give & Take . More details under Union .

In 2007 Jon Anderson released his Dialogue material under the title Watching the Flags That Fly .

The songs

Most of the Dialogue demos that have survived are by Jon Anderson, some by Steve Howe. Some of the instruments that can be heard on the Anderson contributions were played by roadies. Presumably these are Chris Ranson (drums), PJ Deacy (guitar), Chris Macleod (keyboards) and Stuart Sawney (keyboards), who were used on both the ABWH tour and the subsequent Yes tour. What Howe, Bruford and Levin played before Anderson joined is unknown to this day.

  • Try It Again 1:46 (also as intro , later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Hold You in My Arms 7:40 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Watching the Flags that Fly 6:02 (later published on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • We Make Believe 4:54 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Is it love? 5:59 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly , re-recorded on Jon & Vangelis ' Page of Life )
  • Instrumental II 2:31 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Looking for the Words 5:36 (also as Untitled , later published on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Take the Water to the Mountain 4:40 (The only song that made it on the Union album , demo later released on Jon Anderson's Watching the Flags That Fly album )
  • To the Stars 3:21 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Santa Barbara 5:45 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Touch Me Heaven 3:32 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Axis of Love 4:34 (intended for the Keys to Ascension project, but first released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Instrumental I 2:36 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • After the Storm 4:09 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • Tall Buildings 5:53 (later released on Jon Anderson's album Watching the Flags That Fly )
  • God with a Southern Accent 4:10 (Howe demo, later on Steve Howe's album Quantum Guitars )
  • Without a Doubt 3:52 (Howe demo)
  • Big Love 4:36 (Howe demo, later on Steve Howe's album Homebrew )
  • Do it to tell (band demo from the same period, whose affiliation to Dialogue or Union is unclear)
  • Terms of love (band demo from the same period, whose affiliation to Dialogue or Union is unclear)

occupation

With

  • Chris Ranson? - Drums
  • PJ Deacy? - guitar
  • Chris Macleod? - keyboards
  • Stuart Sawney? - keyboards

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