Yes - Close To The Edge (Demos & Outtakes)

Close To The Edge Demos & Outtakes (Bonus CDR)
Studio Demos & Outtakes Of "Close To The Edge" Album.

Jon Anderson：Vocals
Steve Howe：Guitars & Vocals
Chris Squire：Bass & Vocals
Rick Wakeman：Keyboards
Bill Bruford：Drums

[brianquinn]

My son is 18. He tells me all the time." I wish I grew up in the 70's Dad. You had the best music."

[visog]

The music, the playing, the bass tone, sublime....

RIP Chris.

Your Rick ruled all....

Five phenomenal musicians at their peak...

[tonymich]

This is Yes at their finest.. what an album.. this is art.. genius.. what emotion in this music.. Chris is missed every day.

[robertochiang]

As a hardcore Yes fan, I enjoyed every second of this. (My favourite song ever)
It's like to hear them playing "the bones" of the song. Next step was to fill in the gaps and it's clear it will take them months.
Listen to it "striped" let me hear many musical lines that I can´t get on the final version.
I will listen to it repeatedly and I'm sure it will change my way of enjoying the final version.

[Jasper_Drummer]

2:19 section sounds just like the studio! They’re amazingly consistent. 🤯

[ripadblock]

Why am I discovering this just now?? This is awesome!

[Yanto-Bardic]

My Favourite album from my favourite band. Precious, Rare and Wonderful.

[bandhada]

What they did is magic
Chris is playing in heaven

[derail]

the good old days gone, you'll never hear songs like this on fm radio today.

[petewilder]

My goodness, this is just pure gold. All the subtle differences being ironed out, parts that got subdued in the final mixes still in the forefront. Thanks so much for sharing this!

[petermcintyreA]

How many more revelations can You Tube dish up. Here's an album that I listened to nearly everyday in 1972/73, memorising every note from the music, every time I played it, discovering more each time. And now, after an almost, lifetime, hear the bare bones of it. It's fascinating, but it somewhat spoils the special, ethereal quality that it possessed, that I loved so much way back in my teens. It's like a blockbuster movie; the way they show a special production of how they made it, with all the back room staff and technicians, giving away all the secrets, and ruin the magic!

[derail]

i always loved steve howe's danelectro sitar guitar playing on this album, it always reminded of me of george harrison's sitar work with the beatles

[hiddenimagelimited]

Even unproduced Jon has a heavenly voice

[GM-MarkOfExcellence]

Love that this is a Demo and Squire has the most iconic bass part already assembled

[melvynparkin]

Perfect no mistaking Chris Squires bass sound and Bill's snare sound !!

[craigfazekas]

Bill never cared about the lyrics until he popped out this jewel- "what is Total Mass Retain?", as he asked Jon Anderson. I think it was a rhetorical question & didn't neccessarily expect a reply. But ? Maybe he
I'm not sure he got an answer, in any case.🚬😎

[aestroai]

It's downright evil to have ads stabbing up this masterpiece! 5:10 After a 18 years of listening to this I finally got hear what Chris is saying in the right channel behind Jon.

[rembeadgc]

This is golden... only for a Yes fan, of course. The only one who's playing actually sounds like whats on the album is Bill Bruford. It's amazing to hear how far they had to go to get to what we've come to know. I think Bruford said it took 3 months to record this album. I can hear it. The tracks by Bruford are definitely the tracks that went on the album just like you hear them here. Great post.

[Atom-]

Loved heating this, remember first hearing it at Crystal palace, couldn't wait to buy it as it wasn't yet released, but got the album as soon as it was out and sat on the station reading the words while waiting for the train.

[roboneil]

This is great, love this. I really liked hearing Steve Howe singing during the "I get up, I get down" refrain. Actually, I think the collaboration of Jon and Steve H. singing it together (like we hear here) might even sound better than the studio version that is on the original album.