YesSongs #7: YES - Roundabout

Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, UK.
15 & 16 Dec 1972 ('Close to the Edge' Tour)

Roundabout

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out and out
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound in and out the valley

The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distance atmosphere
Call it morning driving through the sound even in the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the land
The eagle's dancing wings create as weather spins out of hand

Go closer hold the land feel partly no more than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers by in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by a million years

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out and out
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out and out

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
Twenty four before my love and I'll be there

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out and out
You spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and even in the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

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Jon Anderson - lead vocals
Chris Squire - bass guitar, backup vocals
Steve Howe - electric and acoustic guitars, backup vocals
Rick Wakeman - keyboards, synthesiser, organ
Alan White - drums

Director: Peter Neal
Produced by Brian Lane & David Speechley
Edited by Philip Howe

YES - The Studio Albums 1969-1987
Remastered & Expanded CD BOX SET

YES - 'Close To The Edge'
Remixed and Remastered in 5.1 Surround & Stereo

YES - YesSongs (this concert)

[Gordon_Kicks]

This song is almost FIFTY YEARS OLD! Absolutely mind-blowing how it still rocks millions of people after all this time. True rock never fades away!

[DarwinskiYT]

Person: so who made this song?


Artist: *yes*

[painparty]

I met Chris Squire once after a show in Seattle...he signed my shirt. I told him I'd been a fan for 20 years and he said "great, great" in a very heavy accent. One of those few awesome moments we have in our lives.

[CeeRoyJenkins]

1972, when you could wear a cape and still be an absolute badass.

[keithschwartzmusic]

Watching and hearing Steve Howe in 1973 is THE reason I picked up a guitar. 51 years later - no one else has quite captured this spirit of musical intensity. YES!

[neoblakkrstal]

One of the greatest bass lines in history.

[madster]

Producer: So how do you want to name your band?
Them: *Yes.*

[LPJack]

RIP the three members of Yes
Peter Banks (July 15, 1947 – March 7, 2013), aged 65
Chris Squire (March 4, 1948 – June 27, 2015), aged 67
Alan White (June 14, 1949 – May 26, 2022), aged 72
You will be remembered as legends.

[jameswhite]

This song has to be a difficulty level of 1000. Pulling it off live must be a chore. Yes is so underrated.

[fabianhidalgo]

The energy is crazy, Chris Squire bass is a powerhouse.

[bobo]

If a band's members wear capes they must be good.

[markgrant]

I was there! Aged 19. Still listening 51 years later.

[danjf]

It's one of the greatest(and recognizable) opening guitar riffs ever recorded!

[sgsound]

With tears in my old eyes, at my 65 right now, i was 16 when they were playing in this tour, and me, born and rised in Chile, southamerica was following Yes music through the only FM radio that played that genre. As teen we had a band, amateurs all of us, but we played with our hearts the music we loved. My tribute to the whole band and for my fav bassist Chris Squire. I am bass player and ive learned a lot seeing videos like this.

[joethelion]

Jon Anderson's voice is so iconic.

It transports me right back to the 70's. 🥳

[danf]

nothing like it before. nothing like after. its just amazing.

[mikegovette]

I saw Yes in 1971, and they were amazing! I still remember Chris Squire breaking a bass string (!) in the middle of a song. Amazing thing: the whole band stopped playing instantly, Steve Howe picked up his acoustic guitar and started playing Mood For A Day, a song they almost never played live! No more than 3 or 4 seconds form broken string to---a classic classical piece! Fast forward to present day. My son, just turned 20 and he was watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I heard Roundabout playing! I had to find out what that was. So what next? I end up getting hooked on JoJo, have seen all the videos with the entire JoJo story arc (I know the manga goes further), and I really like it. And my son bought the Yes album (that's right, vinyl) Fragile. He's now a big Yes fan, and digs lots of prog rock from that time period! Win-win!!

[dancotterman]

Yes this was an amazing performance. Love the song it will be always loved a true original masterpiece into the 3000's. And beyond!

[lucs_alonso]

"Hey, cameraman, film that bassist doing that insane bassline"
"fuck you, let me film this guitar player doing some harmonics"

[MarshmellowJello]

This band was literally full of prodigies