YES Family Tree

This is from the YesYears box set and shows the many incarnations of Yes, and how they connect to other bands such as King Crimson, Asia, The Moody Blues, ELP and Genesis (up to 1991).

Friday and the Random 10 (100 Years of Roy Edition)

Okay, yeah I missed another Friday last week (and the one before that too), but I have a really good excuse this time. Most of you may know that I work as an engineer on the Walt Disney World Railroad. One of our steam trains, the Roy O. Disney (Walt's brother), reached its 100th birthday! We had a centennial celebration with special pics in the morning (see below), a BBQ cookout, and then a formal get together later that night at the Contemporary Resort. It was a full day and an event I am proud to say I was a part of. That's me standing on the top of the tender in the middle.

But we are here for music, so let's get back to that:

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Friday and the Random 10

Hey, guess what? It's Friday and you know what that means! We're all hung over because yesterday was payday? Nope (although partly true), it's time for the Random 10! As usual the rules are over there → to the right and looking back at last week no one got banned, though RW is still serving out his monthly suspension.

Let the music play!

1) Emerson Lake & Palmer/Paper Blood - The last ELP album that was worth a damn. This was actually their "hit" single.

2) Jimmy Buffet/Ragtop Day - Now this is closer to the mood I'm in.

3) Porcupine Tree/Blackest Eyes - I was really digging these guys for awhile. Give a listen:

4) Styx/Lorelei - Not the original but the remake from their Regeneration CD. James Young just doesn't do it for me. This is a DDY song all the way. Also, I named my youngest daughter Lorelei after this song.

5) Styx/Children of the Land - Album cover winner, even if it does get them banned next week.

6) Yes/All in All - Song that was edited out from a much longer piece That, That Is.

7) Daft Punk/Encom Part 1 - From the Tron Legacy soundtrack. These guys are cool.

8) The Nice/Don Edito el Gruva - This was Keith Emerson's band before ELP. They did a lot of instrumentals by playing classical music (mostly Germanic composers) as rock songs. This is actually one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Oh, and:

9) Yes/Siberian Khatru - Banned as well, but great song from Close to the Edge. I still don't know what a "khatru" is.

10) Steve Howe/Break Away From It All - One of his demos from Homebrew 4.

So Yes and Styx get banned for next week which isn't that surprising considering I have their entire catalogs of music. The STCS for this week is AC/DC/Sink the Pink. Uh huh. You read that right. They are so playing us out. Until next week, stay classy central Florida.