Paris sessions

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Paris sessions
Studio album by Yes

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

at least 7

occupation
chronology
Tormato
(previous album 1978) 		Paris sessions Drama
(next album 1980)
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Paris Sessions is an unreleased recording by British progressive rock band Yes (Paris, November 1979). Due to disputes in the band and poor quality of the song material, it did not result in an album.

background

In late 1979, Yes ( Jon Anderson , Steve Howe , Chris Squire , Rick Wakeman , Alan White ) met with producer Roy Thomas Baker in Paris after the Tormato tour to begin work on a new album. The location was an unpopular compromise: At the time, Wakeman was living in Switzerland for tax reasons, the rest of the band in England, and Paris was halfway there. The record company hired Baker as a producer because it was hoped that he could get Yes to record a commercial album with a potential hit single. But Baker wasn't the man to lead a band, the material was only second rate and the November 1979 sessions did not go well as the band quickly split into two camps (Anderson and Wakeman with soft, folky (and thus possibly more commercial ) Songs on one side, Howe, Squire and White with heavier material on the other). So the mood quickly sank to zero. Unlike before, Anderson worked primarily with Rick Wakeman instead of Steve Howe on the pieces, which Howe had to annoy; It was also about the royalties for the composers and not least about the supremacy in the band. Howe then blocked the scheduled sessions and played little or nothing; the guitar chords of the published recordings are from Jon Anderson. Then there was the tiredness of the 10 years that the band had behind them and quite mundane things like Wakeman's refusal to move the sessions to England, arguments about money and jealousy among wives (especially Anderson and Squires) among themselves. It quickly became clear that especially Wakeman and Howe, who already could hardly find a compromise for the arrangements with Tormato , would absolutely not be able to agree this time. When Alan White broke his ankle while roller skating, work came to a standstill. Anderson and Wakeman, who were both also working on solo projects at the time, met in a cafe in Paris and decided they'd had enough for now.

Anderson flew on an extended vacation, and Baker and the rest of the band returned home with no agreement on future directions. Howe, Squire, and White met again soon after, however, to work on new material, this time without Baker, who found the band unproductive. They had no other choice as manager Brian Lane had already booked an American tour, which was also completely sold out. This material would form the basis for the next album Drama (1980), including Run through the Light , Does it really happen? and Tempus fugit , (Have we really got to) Go through this , which was later only played live but did not appear on Drama and was first heard on the Rhino edition of the album, Crossfire (on In a Word: Yes (1969 )), on bootlegs under the title Untitled I and another unnamed song that appeared on the Rhino edition of Drama as song No. 4 (Satellite) was released, but not used for Drama and was then re-recorded in 1981 by XYZ under the title Telephone Secrets (or Telephone Lies ).

In early 1980 the three played the new material to Jon Anderson , who had returned from vacation . Anderson couldn't make friends with the songs. In addition, Yes ' manager, Brian Lane, made the band aware that Anderson had spent more than his due share of the band's income. Anderson vehemently disagreed. This led to tension in the band, primarily between Anderson and Howe, as well as additional trouble between Anderson's wife Jenny and Squire's wife Nikki. Faced with the choice of either repaying the money or leaving the band, Anderson left. Thereupon Wakeman, who thought Anderson's voice was indispensable, no longer saw a future for Yes and also left the band. The disputes could only be resolved a few years later while working on the album 90125 .

Chris Squire was the last remaining founding member of Yes and inherited the naming rights to Yes for himself. This was to play a decisive role in 1989 in the discussion about Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe , who at that time would have liked to work under the name Yes .

Howe, Squire and White then worked on their songs and soon reunited with the Buggles , Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes , with whom they recorded the next album Drama .

Songs

The album, which was tackled in Paris, never came about, and the band members subsequently left the material largely unused. For a long time, music from the Paris Sessions was only available on bootlegs, the band only gradually released individual items:

  • Tango - actually: The Lord Of Mighty - (on the 5-CD box In a Word: Yes ). On a Yes bootleg with the name: THE GOLDEN AGE in a version about 4 minutes longer.
  • Never Done Before (on In a Word: Yes (1969 -) , on bootlegs under the titles Flower Girl or Flower Child .) Was recorded by Jon Anderson in 1980 for SONG OF SEVEN, but not released.
  • The Golden Age (on Rhino's edition of Drama and, in another form, on Rick Wakeman's album Rock 'n' Roll Prophet ) Also recorded by Jon Anderson for SONG OF SEVEN but not released. To be found on the bootleg: THE SKY AND HIS SHADOW.
  • In the Tower (on Rhino's edition of Drama )
  • Friend of a Friend ( aka To let you know ), on Rhino's edition of Drama
  • In Dance Through the Light (as Dancing Through the Light on the published by Rhino edition of Drama ) is an early version of the drama -Songs Run through the Light .
  • Only the recording of Everybody loves you has not yet been released, a reworked version of the piece can be found on Jon Anderson's solo album Song of Seven .

Further versions of titles from the Paris sessions, which then did not make it onto Anderson's "Song Of Seven", appeared on the bootleg "The Sky and his Shadow": Golden Age, Flower Child (Never Done Before).

In addition, it is not unlikely that the band rehearsed other pieces, such as Everybody's Song, which has been tried again and again since the Going for the One sessions, and which ended up on Drama under the title Does it really happen , possibly other songs as well who later appeared on solo albums by Wakeman or Anderson.

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