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Tim Devine's Collection

Yes   06/16/1979

Civic Center, New Haven, CT
Media cdr   2 discs
Notes Yes
New Haven, CT
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
1979-06-16

** Low-circulation recording **
** A TooleMan Remaster **

Lineage: unknown gear & tape -> mastering process of some sort -> first-generation tape? -> audio CD -> EAC -> TheTooleMan remaster (2011) -> FLAC

Anyone who can identify the taper of this show should let us know so we can give full credit for a good job.

This is a very good recording of a fine Saturday night performance. It's a nearly-complete show, the first of two Yes gave in New Haven in 1979. I think the finale of Steve Howe's solo set is missing and was patched with applause where it ends prematurely, and there's a cut in "And You And I" that I've mixed to make it a bit less jarring.

The recording sounds great after some careful TooleMan tweaking. There were a few cuts in applause and some fades applied by a previous basement engineer. I cleaned those up, adjusted the track boundaries, balanced the levels of the left and right channels, and equalized the whole shootin' match. No noise reduction was used; there's a slight high-frequency hiss throughout the tape.

Jon seems to think he is in Hartford at first, but gets it straight pretty fast. And an explosive sound gets a big reaction just before Jon sings the opening lines of "Heart of the Sunrise."

Thanks again to Alec B. and Paulie for another great, rare recording.

TheTooleMan
June, 2011

Lineup :
Jon Anderson (Vocals)
Steve Howe (Guitars)
Chris Squire (Bass)
Rick Wakeman (Keyboards)
Alan White (Drums)

Tracks
Disk 1:
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Siberian Khatru
Heart Of The Sunrise
Future Times/Rejoice
Circus Of Heaven
Time And A Word/Long Distance Runaround/Survival/The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)/Perpetual Change/Soon
Clap (incomplete)

Disk 2:
And You And I (first verse of lyrics missing)
Starship Trooper
Wakeman Solo
Awaken
Tour Song
I've Seen All Good People
Roundabout
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: a-
Owned by Tim Devine · Last Updated May 23, 2023