Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 4:43 am**

Chris Squire is God!

Hold Out Your Hand/You By My Side
Unbelievable basslines. Comments?

to attack is to retreat

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 5:38 am**

Epic!

Interesting time signature in the first song/part, amazing bass, and impressive lead guitar. The second part "You by my Side" is more pleasing, melody-wise. The first part is more "wow they're amazing musicians", but doesn't grab me straight away.

Is he God? Pretty close - I'd worship him over other Gods...

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 10:40 am**

A Watcher sent me an mp3 of this awhile back.
Very much awesome.
Thanks for the youtube, danlo.

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 11:34 am**

Squire isn't God. He's a pretty interesting bassist though. I really like the stuff he did with XYZ (Jimmy Page and Alan White).

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 4:06 pm**

Thanks!

Squire is my favorite bassist, and also my original inspiration to become a bass player myself. I've been playing for almost forty years.

The action on my first bass was so bad that I compare it to dragging telephone wires to the ground with your fingers.

I saw Squire and YES in concert back in '77. Chris looks a little less like Frankenstein nowadays than he did back then.

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2009 11:54 pm**

Always been a fan of the man. There are a number of bassists that are...more 'technically proficient' [for lack of a better phrase...and not that he isn't that...he sure as hell is.]...but he's much the same as David Gilmour and guitar: He's just tasty...riffs and lots of notes are fun...but the right notes at the right time...yummmmm.[/b]

Posted: **Thu May 21, 2009 12:21 am**

Vraith wrote:He's just tasty...riffs and lots of notes are fun...but the right notes at the right time...yummmmm.

Good description Vraith! And I agree (about Gilmour too).

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2009 10:22 pm**

Chris is freaking awesome. He's definitely an influence; he and McCartney were the first bass players I paid attention to.

Posted: **Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:30 am**

Chris rules!

Posted: **Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:32 pm**

Having just played your link to Hold Out Your Hand/You by my Side which you posted in The Hangar, I can understand more why you say this...

Posted: **Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:56 pm**

Squire is awesome!

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:02 am**

I was trying to quote Danlo's post - when it disappeared!

Anyway, Roundabout was the first yessong I ever heard too, but the one you linked us to was Close To The Edge.

Damn excellent version I might add.

WOW! Jon Anderson's voice is better than it's ever been!

Posted: **Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:35 am**

sorry...It was Close to the Edge and turned out to be a faulty video: it was great quality but horrible editing -will bump my old Yes thread.

Posted: **Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:40 am**

Roundabout was my first yessong. OK here's the video I canceled-astounding musicianship, absolutely fantastic Anderson vocals-horrible and distributing editing (listen at your own risk) Close to the Edge.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:36 pm**

Chris