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(More customer reviews)Disc one open with two poor sounding mono BBC concert tracks by the original Anderson/Banks/Kaye/Squire/Bruford line-up;musically good,but they sound like they've been taped off the airwaves.Sound quality improves for two Swedish Radio concert tracks recorded shortly after Steve Howe joined the group.Then you get 4 excellent(mono enhanced for stereo) Live tracks from London by the Anderson/Howe/Kaye/Squire/Bruford line-up including "Yours is No Disgrace","I've Seen All Good People",an embryonic 15 minute version of Paul Simon's "America",and a 10 minute rendition of an obscure Rascals tune "It's Love".The group was wise to wait(and add Rick Wakeman) and fine tune the arrangement of "America" before recording it in the studio.The box skips over the 1972-74 period(covered bythe "Yessongs" set),and Disc 2 is almost entirely professionally recorded full-fidelity material by the Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Squire/White & Anderson/Howe/Moraz/Squire/White line-ups.The only mono track on Disc 2 is "Sweet Dreams",nicely remastered from the unreleased in America "Live at QPR" video(It's been offered on Japanese Laserdisc or spread across two volumes on Hong Kong DVD).Many of the disc two tracks are unreleased selections from the same concerts heard on "Yesshows" 2-CD set.Disc three opens promisingly with two more selections from those concerts,but goes downhill because of sound quality.Three soundboard cassette tracks from a concert by the Horn/Downes/Squire/Howe/White line-up reveal two previously unheard songs,but the source has murky sound,a bad mix and obvious cassette pitch flutter.The set closes with selections recorded on a Westwood One radio concert("Big Generator" tour,I think) by the Anderson/Rabin/Squire/Kaye/White line-up.Good performances marred by a very reverberant mix.If this were a bootleg,we would be raving about it,but I have higher sound quality expectations from Rhino.
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