Live Music is without a doubt my favorite thing...I love talking about it, I love writing about it, I love listening to it.
What I am learning more and more each week on the Bunker is that music is just as loved and polarizing as Auburn sports so I want to write about my concert exploits and see if it connects with any Bunker folks. If it does...great. If it doesn't...I get to enjoy revisiting recent concerts I have attended.
Location: Greensboro, NC
Venue: Tanger Center
Bands: Yes
Thoughts on show
I grew up with a Dad who loved progressive music. To this day he loves this genre...except for what my generation considers progressive rock and metal (Tool, Mastadon). He is a big fan of King Crimson and Porcupine Tree. A couple years ago Steven Wilson was playing in Carrboro, NC and I took him to that show which he loved. I used to take road trips with him to Florida when he had sales meetings and we would listen to Yes, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues and many others. Pink Floyd always connected more with me than most of what he listened to.
So when I got the chance to take him to see Yes in the city I have called home for nearly 20 years...it was a win. I will say that my Dad and I had a wonderful time. He had seen Yes a number of times but this was a first for me. Definitely an eclectic group of folks currently inhabiting the Yes roster or what is being call Yes currently. I knew Steve Howe but was unfamiliar with all of the rest.
I did not enjoy the singer at all...the voice he was using was not his own and it was distracting. It was almost like someone being punched in the balls and continuing to talk in a high pitched voice forever. If that happened to him...I apologize in advance. My Dad had a great time but admitted he did not know 2/3s of the songs they played as much of it was from the last 20 years. But the encore he was raving about. That made the show for him and I loved hearing Roundabout/Starship Trooper live.
Great night from a nostalgia standpoint and a great night to see some live music with my 72 year old Dad.
Recommend?
If you love Yes, it isn't a bad thing to see. If you want to remember Yes as they were...you can skip this tour.
Setlist
Coming up
Sevendust and Static X
Dave Chappelle
Metallica
Ottto and Bastardane
Metallica
In This Moment/Ice Nine Kills
What I am learning more and more each week on the Bunker is that music is just as loved and polarizing as Auburn sports so I want to write about my concert exploits and see if it connects with any Bunker folks. If it does...great. If it doesn't...I get to enjoy revisiting recent concerts I have attended.
Location: Greensboro, NC
Venue: Tanger Center
Bands: Yes
Thoughts on show
I grew up with a Dad who loved progressive music. To this day he loves this genre...except for what my generation considers progressive rock and metal (Tool, Mastadon). He is a big fan of King Crimson and Porcupine Tree. A couple years ago Steven Wilson was playing in Carrboro, NC and I took him to that show which he loved. I used to take road trips with him to Florida when he had sales meetings and we would listen to Yes, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues and many others. Pink Floyd always connected more with me than most of what he listened to.
So when I got the chance to take him to see Yes in the city I have called home for nearly 20 years...it was a win. I will say that my Dad and I had a wonderful time. He had seen Yes a number of times but this was a first for me. Definitely an eclectic group of folks currently inhabiting the Yes roster or what is being call Yes currently. I knew Steve Howe but was unfamiliar with all of the rest.
I did not enjoy the singer at all...the voice he was using was not his own and it was distracting. It was almost like someone being punched in the balls and continuing to talk in a high pitched voice forever. If that happened to him...I apologize in advance. My Dad had a great time but admitted he did not know 2/3s of the songs they played as much of it was from the last 20 years. But the encore he was raving about. That made the show for him and I loved hearing Roundabout/Starship Trooper live.
Great night from a nostalgia standpoint and a great night to see some live music with my 72 year old Dad.
Recommend?
If you love Yes, it isn't a bad thing to see. If you want to remember Yes as they were...you can skip this tour.
Setlist
- The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
(Benjamin Britten song) - Going for the One
- It Will Be a Good Day (The River)
- Machine Messiah
- I've Seen All Good People
- America
(Simon & Garfunkel cover) (Instrumental "Southern Solo" excerpt) - Time and a Word
- South Side of the Sky
- Turn of the Century
- Don't Kill the Whale
- Cut From the Stars
- The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) / The Remembering (High the Memory) / The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun) / Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)
(excerpts from “Tales from Topographic Oceans”) - Encore:
- Roundabout
- Starship Trooper
Coming up
Sevendust and Static X
Dave Chappelle
Metallica
Ottto and Bastardane
Metallica
In This Moment/Ice Nine Kills
