YES - Songs From Tsongas - The 35th Anniversary Concert DVD, Blu-Ray, 3CD Available In September
July 21, 2014, 10 years ago
Eagle Rock Entertainment has announced the September 23rd simultaneous release of YES’ Songs From Tsongas - The 35th Anniversary Concert - Special Edition on 2DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital Formats, and the first ever release of Songs From Tsongas as a 3CD set.
The Special Edition of Songs From Tsongas contains two different concerts from YES’ 35th Anniversary Tour in 2004, the last tour to feature the classic line-up of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White. In addition to the originally released Songs From Tsongas show, this DVD is packed with an additional 70 minutes of never-before-released highlights from Lugano. Songs From Tsongas offers a fantastic set list of favorites and rarities including “Going For The One”, “Roundabout”, “Owner Of A Lonely Heart”, “And You And I”, “Starship Trooper”, “Wonderous Stories”, “I’ve Seen All Good People”, “Yours Is No Disgrace”, “Ritual”, “Turn Of The Century” and many more captured here in all their glory.
Disc One of the Special Edition DVD contains the whole concert from the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts, previously spread across two discs. This epic show features tracks from across the band’s career including an extensive acoustic section (tracks 11 – 18) and some tracks that have rarely been performed live. This entire concert is featured on the Songs From Tsongas 3CD.
Disc Two features a very different concert on the same tour filmed at Estival in Lugano, Switzerland. This outdoor show has a stripped down stage and full on rock versions of the acoustic tracks from Tsongas while the crowd wield a multitude of umbrellas against the pouring rain, which is clearly not preventing them having a great time!
As a Bonus Feature, the DVD includes another track “Ritual”, also filmed at the Tsongas Arena, and an insightful interview with legendary designer and Yes collaborator Roger Dean who created the brand new stage set for the shows.
Tracklisting:
Special Edition DVD, Blu-Ray:
Disc 1 - Songs From Tsongas
"Intro/Firebird Suite""Going For The One"
"Sweet Dreams"
"Your Move" / "All Good People"
"Mind Drive Parts 1 & 2"
"South Side Of The Sky"
"Turn Of The Century"
"My Eyes"
"Mind Drive Part 3"
"Yours Is No Disgrace"
"The Meeting" (Piano Solo)
"Long Distance Runaround"
"Wonderous Stories"
"Time Is Time"
"Roundabout"
"Show Me"
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart"
"Second Initial" (Guitar Solo)
"Rhythm Of Love"
"And You And I "
"Every Little Thing"
"Starship Trooper"
Disc 2 - Live In Lugano
"Intro/Firebird Suite""Going For The One"
"Sweet Dreams"
"Your Move" / "All Good People"
"Long Distance Runaround"
"The Fish"
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart"
"And You And I"
"Starship Trooper"
"Roundabout"
3CD:
Disc One:
"Intro / Firebird Suite""Going For The One"
"Sweet Dreams"
"Your Move/All Good People"
"Mind Drive Parts 1 & 2"
"South Side Of The Sky"
"Turn Of The Century"
"My Eyes"
"Mind Drive Part 3"
"Yours Is No Disgrace"
Disc Two:
"The Meeting" (piano solo)"Long Distance Runaround"
"Wonderous Stories"
"Time Is Time"
"Roundabout"
"Show Me"
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart"
"Second Initial" (guitar solo)
"Rhythm Of Love"
Disc Three:
"And You And I ""Ritual"
"Every Little Thing"
"Starship Trooper"
YES are offering up another taste of their new studio album, Heaven & Earth, due out tomorrow, July 22nd via Frontiers Records. A lyric video for the track "In A World Of Our Own" can be seen below:
Having sold nearly 40 million albums in a career that has so far spanned more than four decades, Heaven & Earth sees YES continuing with its tradition of symphonic progressive rock that remains timelessly fresh and innovative.
Heaven & Earth contains eight new tracks, each of which boasts the unique musicianship and craftsmanship that have come to be known as “the YES sound.” YES’ distinctive layered music, swirling arrangements, brilliant vocals and harmonies are all in abundance. Heaven & Earth is an album sure to please both long-time and new YES fans. For Heaven & Earth, YES teamed up with legendary Grammy Award winner, Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, The Cars, Guns N’ Roses, Foreigner, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice Cooper), who handled the production and Billy Sherwood (Toto, Paul Rodgers, Air Supply) who mixed the album. Also onboard is long-time YES artist, the world-renowned Roger Dean, who again brings his masterful artistic creativity to the album’s cover art and packaging.
Heaven & Earth tracklisting:
"Believe Again""The Game"
"Step Beyond"
"To Ascend"
"In A World Of Our Own"
"Light Of The Ages"
"It Was All We Knew"
"Subway Walls"
"The Game" sample:
"Believe Again" sample:
To coincide with the release of Heaven & Earth, YES are out on a 35-date summer tour featuring the band performing, in their entirety, 1971’s groundbreaking album Fragile for the first-time ever and a repeat performance from last year’s tour of 1972’s Close To The Edge, followed by an encore of the band’s greatest hits. The album Fragile is considered to be their U.S. breakthrough album peaking at #4 on the Billboard Album charts in the US. The RIAA-certified double platinum album has sold over two million copies and features YES’ hit single “Roundabout” and other classics like “Long Distance Runaround” and “Heart Of The Sunrise”. It also marks the band’s first collaboration with artist Roger Dean on cover art, who has designed many of the band’s album covers and logos. Close To The Edge - widely regarded as one of the greatest progressive rock albums ever recorded - was on the US charts for 32 weeks, peaking at #3. Inspired by Siddhartha and their “state of mind” at the time, the Gold-certified album featuring epic suites such as “Close To The Edge” and “You And I".
Tour dates:
July
23 - Northfield, OH - Hard Rock Live Northfield Park
25 - Madison, WI - Overture Hall
26 - Chicago, IL - Copernicus Center
28 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
29 - Louisville, KY - Louisville Palace
30 - Atlanta, GA - Symphony Hall
August
2 - St. Petersburg, FL - Mahaffey Theater
3 - Orlando, FL - Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre
5 - Houston, TX - Bayou Music Center
6 - Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
7 - Kansas City, MO - Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
9 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
11 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
12 - Mesa, AZ - Ikeda Theatre at Mesa Arts Center
13 - Albuquerque, NM - Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino
15 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
16 - Anaheim, CA - City National Grove of Anaheim
18 - San Diego, CA - Humphrey’s Concerts By the Bay
19 - San Jose, CA - City National Civic
21 - Tulalip, WA - Tulalip Amphitheatre
22 - Grand Ronde, OR - Spirit Mountain Casino
23 - Lincoln, CA - Thunder Valley Casino Resort
24 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
(Photo - Rob Shanahan)
