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Yessongs (1973)
The sixth album from Yes, and the first live album, was Yessongs, featuring material from the Fragile and Close To The Edge Tours. Alan White plays drums on most of the tracks, but Bill Bruford can be heard on Perpetual Change and Long Distance Runaround/The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus). The album was originally released as a three LP set. The album reached #7 in the UK and #12 in the US, and was certified gold in 1974 by the RIAA, and platinum in 1998.
Eddie Offord was in charge of sound, leaving recording to Geoff Haslam and Mike Dunn. Mixing and editing was done at Advision by Offord and the band. Offord was determined to achieve the best sound possible and used recordings from two separate venues for the two parts of "I've Seen All Good People". Rick Wakeman's keyboard solo was similarly treated. Album art was by Roger Dean.
Yessongs.
The Swiss Army Knife of album covers.
The artwork for Yessongs marked the first time that Roger Dean used an airbrush. Up until then he used automobile aerosol cans.
It's difficult to see, but there's a bit of an Easter Egg in the painting for the cover. Seems Roger did his spray painting with the canvas on the floor. One of his cats walked across the wet paint and left some paw prints. Roger tried unsuccessfully to mask them as clouds.
It's much easier to see in the version in Deans book, Views.
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