* * * * * * * * * * ______ ______ ____________ _________ / \ | \ __/ \ __/ \__ _________ | \| \ / |/ _ \ _________ / | // _____ || / \_/ \ |NOTES \ // / \ \\_ \_ | |FROM \ || _____ ___\ \ \_ \_ | |THE \ || / ---/______| \ \_ | |EDGE ___\ || | | /______ __/ \ | |#51 ___/ \ \\ \_ \_ // | | \_____ / ___\ _/ \_ \ \_ _// | ______/ \__ \__/ ___/ \_ \____ | \_/ \__ ___/ \___ _/ \__ \__/ \ \_________/ \_____/ \_ \_____/ \ \_ | \_ | \__ __/ \_____________/ Notes From the Edge #51 October 5th, 1992 SPECIAL ISSUE - 2ND ANNIVERSARY * * * * * * * * * * Date: 25 Sep 1992 12:04:14 -0400 (EDT) From: CSE0080@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU As a long time (since late 70s) fan of YES, and a recently retired dance disc jockey, I have frequently anguished over the trivial nature of the "popular" music I _had_ to listen to and buy (you might call it "ear candy") as compared to the complex nature and lack of popularity of the music by my favorite band. Over the years that I DJ'ed dances, I tried my best to introduce the listening (and dancing) masses to the wonders of YES. You can imagine the odd looks when I played a couple (there aren't many) of the danceable YES tunes. I will never forget dancing (while my partner manned the tables) to "Turn of the Century" with a then-current flame, years ago. As winter calls, we will both remember all those many years ago... Nearly brings tears, just thinking about it. "Wonderous Stories" made for a decent slow dance as well. (Of course, "Owner of a Lonely Heart" in its hayday was quite a popular dance tune as well.) More recently, shortly after "In the City of Angels" was released, I played a slow song off that album for one of my dances. The amazing thing is, that while most of the audience had never heard the tune before (which typically greatly reduces the number of people dancing) as I recall, the song was well received. I have two young girls that _love_ music. I am looking forward to sharing my love for YES with them as they grow up. Hopefully, they'll come to understand their dad's passion for this vanishing breed of music. Thanks for your efforts as editor! Well done. Good luck in your future. John Hansen * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 09:40:42 EDT From: jeh@cs.rit.edu (James E Heliotis) HOW NFTE CHANGED MY LIFE This email list is the pits! Once the rapid stream of album releases was over in the mid-70's, I would go into a cycle of not really worrying about when or whether a new album was coming out, just listening to the old ones occasionally, and then being pleasantly surprised when something new showed up on the radio or in the record stores. Yes, I was at peace with myself. Now I read these notes every month and bite my nails wondering "What will happen next? Who's out? Who's in? Who hates whom?"!! :-) On the other hand, it delighted me to discover that there are others out there who believe that Yes really does make good music. I even went to the local Union concert after not going to any shows for over ten years. Jim Heliotis, RIT * * * * * * * * * * From: Shane Limes Subject: Re: Notes From the Edge - Request for submissions NFTE and Me..? I remember when I first saw a computer... Yeah, what does that have to do with NFTE..? What I'm trying to write is I have no idea how a computer works yet alone this entire "Unix" concept... So, as I was writing, I was looking at a close friend playing with this new thing to me and he was writing a letter to some lady in Buffalo or the likes. He tells me while looking over his shoulder, "we're trying to get a Yes news letter together..." This was shocking. After all, I was the one who got him hooked on Yes. I didn't think lending out a copy of "Tales" would do that... But I'm wandering. "How are you doing this?" I looked at him with my mouth open and face bewildered. "You mean that this thing will send a letter across the country for free?" I never stopped to think about a Yes Network... But then for that matter, having lived in a small town with no culture I never imagined there were more than three Yes fans, how could I? Well, to make a long story short (I hate that cliche)... I got a computer, thus joing the "Nerd Movement" as my friend teases me, and got NFTE. To answer the question of how NFTE has influenced my life... I guess that because of my fascination for technology, though recently acquired, I sacrificed every iota of coolness that a musician could possibly have just to read about Yes and to write Email to people for free. Thanks, and I'm sorry for my poor spelling, it's just a habbit. Shane. * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 15:37:18 -0400 From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) Hi there! My name is David Charlap, I'm 23 years old and a graduate student at NJIT. I'm seriously into computers, music, art, and I'd like to get into theater, but I can't quite afford that. I've been a Yes fan for about four years now, and I've seen them perform live three times. I play keyboards on an amateur level and try (and don't usually succeed!) to imitate Rick Wakeman's style in some of my own playing. I often try to accompany various CD's of mine, and I can play well with a few songs. Right now, I'm trying my best to accompany Awaken, but this is going to take a lot more practice! Other favorite groups of mine include: Genesis, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel, Elton John, and the Who. Anyway, aside from musical things, I attend Renaissance faires and enjoy doing the "medieval thing" with other friends of mine. Unfortunately, this can only be a summer activity in this part of the country. David Charlap * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 14:44:20 EST From: Get the hell out of my way YES ANECDOTE: Over the 4th of July this year I left my home of Michigan City, IN to go to my cabin in Walloon Lake, MI. So far so good. Nothing weird... When I returned, I saw one of my good friends at a diner I frequent. It turns out that her parents are financial supporters of some guy who used to be in the Bay City Rollers. He has a house in Michigan City. Over the 4th he had a party. My friend tried to call me desparately to tell me about it. One of the Rollers' good friends was there...my friend's family met him, as well as two other completely unrelated friends of mine (I don't know why they were at the party...) This certain person was a happily drunk Jon Anderson. I about tore my hair out when I heard... Marc A A Pelath mpelath@ucs.indiana.edu * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 17:36:00 -0400 From: lorne.murphy@rose.com Here are my thoughts on what Yes and NFTE have meant to me: Having always been a prog.music fan, i.e. bands such as Genesis, Rush, Marillion, also Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and King Crimson, Yes just naturally seemed to fall into one of those categories. I have always loved their instrumentation, no matter how virtuoso they become at times, and songs like AWAKEN and STARSHIP TROOPER:Wurm are glorious! Never before have I heard a song over 15 minutes that flows so smoothly as AWAKEN. GOING FOR THE ONE has some excellent moments too. I was thrilled to see Chris Squire singing the harmonies into the mike during the sessions for the album on the YESYEARS video. All in all, Yes has provided me with many great hours of listening enjoyment, and I am proud to say that I have learned ALL the Yes albums (incl. the GOLDEN AGE demos from 1979) off by heart, a feat which I can only say about Genesis, Yes, and Rush. Surprisingly, it didn't take long to completely memorize GATES OF DELIRIUM or REVEALING SCIENCE OF GOD, like some think it would. I just happen to be a fan on long songs, and the whole concept behind TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS is brilliant to me, no matter what problems the band were facing amongst each other at that point in time. NFTE has given me the opportunity to express some of my views without getting flamed on alt.music.misc, etc. I learned about Vultures in the City and Give and Take from this list. Now I have copies of these tracks. (why didn't they put Vultures instead of Teakbois!?!?).... anyway, The Yes list is one I enjoy being on, as it is a more mature list than say, the Rush list, which is unbelievably silly at times... however I am glad to include Yes in my list of favorite bands. Lorne * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 19:04:03 -0400 From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) What NFTE Means To Me... I like Notes. I couldn't live without it... Notes has the highest signal content of any internet mailing list out there (that I've seen). Each issue is special, and has some quality things to read in it. The newsletters are issued at a relatively low frequency, so each one is something to look forward to. Each issue has a personal touch that so much of the net lacks. (Like the Genesis list -- some nut has it running completely automatically, with no human intervention at all.) There's a lot of crossover too, Genesis fans who don't know about the Paperlate (PLUG! PLUG!) list ask me how to join...and it's great to let new fans discover the Genesis (PLUG!) list... (Bill Bruford & Steve Howe have worked with Genesis members, after all, and Collins was -- is? -- a big Yes fan, so the overlap is natural..) Anil's Bill Bruford interview was fantastic!!! I finally got some Bill on a tape, and really like it -- jazz fusion is some of my favorite music, and I can appreciate it a lot more with the knowledge I have of Bill as a person. The info on Yes is invaluable to me, because I'm a relatively new fan. The lyrics are essential to have. The connections for live music and sheet music for the songs are essential too. I can get questions answered about the band and find out up-to-the-second info on what they're doing. There is no better fan organization! In the future, I'd like to see: * More history of the band, and more transcriptions of interviews with band members. I have *no* information about the history outside the sparse Goldmine article. I know some people must have it, and it would be nice to share it with everyone else. * ---LYRICS TO ANIMATION--- I love Jon's 82 solo album, and would really like to know wht he's saying! Surely lyrics were included with *some* release?! * Someone with a bootleg of the Squire/White new material :) We east coast people are curious too! Scott * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 19:47:47 -0400 From: Dilip Barman I've really enjoyed Notes from the Edge, though I find that I don't always have time to go through everything because there's so much! One thing that I have a good memory of is their last tour. I was so lucky - I got front row tickets for their show in Worcester, Mass.!!!!!! Wow!!! Well, I had a list of their set from their previous few nights at other places, I believe through this mailing list. It was neat to know what they would be playing next - esp. when Jon Anderson asked us to guess! Dilip * * * * * * * * * * Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 14:53:55 -0400 From: Jeremy Weissenburger <07822@brahms.udel.edu> I first got into Yes about 6/7 years ago. A friend of mine had Classic Yes, and we played it all the time. He was a drummer in our marching band, and we were both impressed with Alan White's playing (although we thought his name was Otto Whitehead...). The first album I purchased (believe it or not) was "Yessongs," and I enjoyed it immensely. I think one of the things that really got me into Yes was the huge history they had behind them. So many inter-related groups (Asia, GTR, King Crimson, etc...) I've tried to get as many of the related albums as I could. The one that's the hardest to complete is Wakeman's solo discography (35 albums or so... I lost count...). I have about 1/3 of them now, and although I don't listen to them as much as I should, it's a source of pride for me I guess. This is Crimson-related, but I thought you might enjoy this: I have become a big fan of Tony Levin's work. Anyway, it seemed that every album I purchased has Tony Levin in it somewhere!! What's worse, I've gotten my friends searching albums they buy for Tony Levin in them!! One friend showed me the new R.E.M. album, and said: "Jer, Tony's not in this one." (Out of Time by R.E.M.) Me: "He was probably sick the day they called him." (Well, I thought it was funny!!) --Jeremy * * * * * * * * * * Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:47 EST From: Tokazewski@drew.drew.edu, Jeffrey T Well, I really can't believe that we're in our 50th issue of Notes! Congratulations everyone! I think I subscribed somewhere around 20 or so, interested in what this newsletter would be like. I've unfortunately been able to post very little information, only because 95% of the news I hear about Yes and it's "children" (Asia, GTR, solo stuff, etc.) are from this newsletter. Let's keep up the great work, and hope that the next 50 issues are as great as these have been. -Jeff Tokazewski * * * * * * * * * * Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 07:57:26 -0400 From: disc!i001460@dsac.dla.mil ( MaryLynn Orzechowski,STEA,5544,) Well I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary NFTE!!! I've been a subscriber since issue #5. I've enjoyed every issue. I have fond memories of seeing YES twice this past year and also having the chance to meet Cathy Leak, our former editor, at Yesfest in Philadelphia. Here's to hopefully celebrating our Silver Anniversary one day. Keep up the great work guys. MaryLynn * * * * * * * * * * From: P Hellander Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 10:38:54 CST I first remember YES coming into my consciousness quite a number of years ago when going to school by bus and a friend was raving on about the latest offering this group with a strange name: he was referring to the then new 'Yes Album'. I never did get to hear yes until I went to university [in the UK] where I managed to tape a copy of 'YesSongs' and played it continuously on my cheap car stereo while driving around the UK. That was the end of Yes for many years. I turned to the US West Coast [CSN&Y, Eagles, America, Poco etc etc...] and turned my back on UK music. I next hear Yes on 90125 (?) - who didn't after all?! My sons turned on to Yes - they are 9 and 11 - and I bought the 90125 video. About two months ago, some urge prompted me to buy up a few CDs by Yes which were going cheap. In the meantime a friend had sent me a copy of ABWH and I had bought Union. I haven't looked back. I have been reliving those lost years of the 70s - much to everyone's distraction and I came across NFTH by accident :-) I still can't figure out the lyrics in Fragile and Close to the Edge - I would appreciate it if someone could explain.... But I am catching up and I enjoy this newsletter immensely. Viva YES! BTW WHERE is John Anderson from: his accent suggests Manchester. Any offers? Paul Hellander * * * * * * * * * * Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 11:20:22 PDT From: Mark.McCarron-Fraser@Corp.Sun.COM (Mark McCarron-Fraser) YY YY EEEEEE SSS YY YY EE SS SS YY EE SS YY EEEE SS YY EE SS YY EE SS SS YY EEEEEE SSS "Were we ever warmer on that day" I first got into YES with "Fragile". I was then - and remain even now - a bigger ELP fan. Still I've like YES from my first listening. In high school I was in a rock band. We frequently ended rehersals with an herbal listen to "Relayer". That summer we saw YES at the Cow Palace for the "Relayer" tour. This was my first exposure to some of the music. I'd never heard "Siberian Khatru" or "The Ritual" before. I was impressed. Ever since that show I've been a big YES fan. That concert also remains one of my top concert experiences. YES have been a big influence on my music and friendships. I met most of my closest friends because of our interest in Progressive Rock. Indeed, this remains an on-going theme in my life. At an ABWH show I bumped into an old friend that I had been looking for for two or three years. We see each other often now. At a Union show I met a new friend - a crazed young woman who came to Concord and Mountain View from Santa Maria for the shows. (That's a five to six hour drive.) I once spent an afternoon wine tasting in Napa with friends. At one point we went to Rutherford Hill. We bought some wine and sat out on their picnic tables on the hillside overlooking the Napa Valley. We drank their excellent Merlot while listening to "Perpetual Change" blasting from my car's tape player. It was a golden spring morning. The view was breath-taking. It was a perfect experience, good friends, good wine, and YES. I've seen YES ten times now. Not nearly enough. (My pal Joel has seen the mighty ones twenty-three times.) I'm looking to improve this in '93. See ya at the shows! "After all, your soul will still surrender After all, don't doubt yourself be ready to be loved" - Mark * * * * * * * * * * Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 11:48:07 EST From: davidh@kau1.kodak.com (David Hodson) Let's see now ... my first exposure to Yes was hearing Close To The Edge, very soon after it's release. (Oh gosh, I just checked the copyright date. That's right, I've been listening to Yes for 20 years now!) I was hooked pretty much from the start. This was obviously the music I'd been looking for all that time ... I spent the next year or so listening to my brother teaching himself the basslines from Fragile (yes, he really is that good). Since then I've been a fairly dedicated fan, and although I lost heart around Tormato, the latest stuff has me entranced once more. Discovered NFTE just a few months ago, and really enjoy the high signal to noise ratio. Good luck for the next two years! p.s. any other Australian readers out there? * * * * * * * * * * Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:31:37 -0700 (PDT) From: TGRAVES@UPS.EDU What Yes means to me: Being a musician, I find much musical integrity in Yes' works. As a guitarist, I am impressed by both Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin. As a listener, I find a wealth of emotion and power behind the lyrics and music. I am especially impressed at the music's staying power--it doesn't really grow old. It took me three years to appreciate _Relayer_, but it means more to me than albums I get into immediately. The newsletter is cool, I like to see other peoples' views of the music I listen to. And it is great to see that others can get into the stuff I once considered weird, but now find sublime. Toby Graves Tacoma, Washington * * * * * * * * * * Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 02:34:23 EDT From: Mike Wow, NFTE is 2 years old... Okay, this my story, it has to do with me, my friend John, and a couple musicians named Jon and Alan, and a place called the Miami Arena... *fade into flashback sequence* It was the Sixth of July, 1991. It was a hot day, really hot. My friend John and I were going to a concert that night. It wasn't just any concert, it was a Yes concert. My favourite band, Yes. We decided to go to the Arena in the afternoon, hopefully to catch a glimpse of the guys (all 8 of them) and maybe obtain an autograph or eight. Little did we know... Did I mention how hot it was? Well, the security guard in the back of the Arena was really cool, he allowed us to share a can of Coke he had back there. There were several other Yes-heads there, including some musician who spent about a month on the road, following Yes, trying to pass along a demo tape to one of them. We waited, and we waited a little longer. Finally, a white stretch limo pulled up to the gate, and the electric fence opened. The limo drove inside about 10 yards, and then stopped. The driver went around the back and opened the door. Out stepped Messers. Wakeman, Rabin, Kaye, Squire and Anderson. We screamed at them, waving our various albums and CDs we wanted autographed. They waved back at us, and carried on inside. Except for one... That one was Jon. A lady next to me called out his name, and he recognised her and came towards us. Wow, I thought, he sure is short. My next thought was to retrieve my pen from my pocket and thrust my dog-eared Close to the Edge LP outward (onward?). As he chatted with the lady, my friend John and I asked him for his autograph. He obliged, scrawling "Jon" on my CTTE LP and John's Union flat. We were ecstatic. Jon invited the lady, but not us, inside with him, and away they disappeared. If we were teenage girls, we would have fainted, but we weren't, so we didn't. We hung around for a little while longer, knowing that Messers. White, Bruford and Howe weren't in that limo. About fifteen minutes later, a taxi pulled up, and Alan was inside. After he paid the cabbie, John and I pressed him for his autograph (I had my Union CD sleeve for the non CTTE Yes-men). He obliged, and accepted my wishings of good luck for the show that night (I think he might've replied "We'll need it...") and then entered the same dark entrance that the others had before him. The cabbie had no idea who Alan was, and was dumb- founded when he saw John and I ask for his autograph. :) The security guard then told us that Messers. Howe and Bruford had already arrived, and he even showed us Steve's car (a white Mercedes station wagon) and all of the guitar cases in the trunk. Apparently, Steve liked to drive his car between gigs of the show (due to inter-band problems?) and had arrived at the Arena about 45 minutes before we did. He also said that Bill came with Steve to this gig. Well, it was pushing six p.m. by this time, so John and I went off in search of food, and then entered the Arena at seven, and then enjoyed the best concert I have ever been to. I cried after "And You and I", and was hoarse after "All Good People." It was great! Well, that's my story, I hope you enjoyed it, because I know I did (right John?) Mike * * * * * * * * * * Date: 04 Oct 1992 16:33:02 -0500 (CDT) From: talbert@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Robert Talbert) I don't know about some people, but I have an awfully hard time keeping up with my favorite band, YES. Maybe it is because I live in Country Music City USA, where "progressive rock" is viewed openly as a dirty phrase. Maybe it's something else. All I know is that my discovery of Notes From The Edge was analogous to the discovery of fire, or maybe the wheel. (What's a little hyperbolae among friends?) I've been reading NFTE ever since issue 20-something, and I am tickled beyond recognition to see how much it's grown. It's not surprising though. We've had great leadership (thanks, Cath and Mike) and a very talkative bunch of readers. Many of the other net fanzines I've seen are kind of dull, a lot like what a rock critic convention would be like, if there were any, which there aren't, thank God. A Notes reader cannot be cornered into any sort of description except that he/she can write LOTS of stuff on what they like. =) Who could resist the idea of a fanzine about your favorite or close to favorite band, where you can just send an article of whatever you want, and have it read by hundreds of folks all over the world, with whom you have at least one thing in common -- the love of YES music, regardless of period, moniker, personnel, or style. Certainly not me, and apparently not any of the other 435 zillion new subscribers NFTE has garnered in the last couple of years. It's my hope that NFTE will continue to grow and attract new writers, readers, and good ideas, long after the band itself has gone. (Which could be a long long time, if you believe Rick Wakeman. =) ) If there is one things I would like to see happen to the newsletter, it's getting direct input from the record label and especially the band members. Wouldn't that be cool, to have YES members reading and responding on the newsletter? Chris Squire may not appreciate it at first, but it's the idea that counts. =) It's far too unfortunate that we will not get to meet many of each other face-to-face, but at least we have a common interest -- YES music -- and therefore a common philosophy on certain things. The tether that connects us like this is electronic, and its name is Notes From The Edge. (What's a little poetic waxing among friends?) On to the heart of the sunrise.... Robert Talbert talbert@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu * * * * * * * * * * Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 12:19 EDT From: Jeff Hunnicutt Two years....time flies when you're having fun. Notes continues to be a great forum for discussion, reviews, speculation and opinion on Yes and it's members, whoever that is. It's also a great place make and enjoy the company of friends. I remember the humble beginnings of Notes. It was without a name and had a small, but growing membership. Reading Notes since then, I've seen what I'll call a generation pass through. I see new subscribers with the same enthusiasm I had myself(and still do!) as they share the things Notes has to offer. A few editors have steered her through past two years and done a terrific job! I think Mike's done a great job, he deserves a big net-hand for it! I hate to see him go, but I'm sure Jeff Anbinder will do fine, and even improve on the Notes concept.(This doesn't mean Notes isn't great now, Hi Mike!) I look forward to the future. I can't write this without mentioning the future of Yes (although some will say Yes has no future). I hope there will be more. I don't want to see another ill conceived corporate project like Union, but a true band effort. I think that with Wakeman in the band there could be interesting things yet to happen. I have a feeling he'll work well with Rabin. I'm sad that Howe won't be involved, but that's not up to us. We can be sure he'll surface somewhere. Again let's look to the future. I continue to make new friends via Notes. They're always a great source of conversation and discussion. I finally met an actual Notes subscriber this year, albeit briefly (Hi Ingrid!). I wish I could meet more of you. Who knows, one day it may come to pass in the form of another Yesfest. This has been a great year for me professionally and personally. Work goes well and I saw the arrival of my son, Eric. I call him the smallest Yes fan. He gets Yessongs for lullabies from me. (No, tapes aren't available) ;-) Happy birthday Notes. This makes it happy birthday to all of us, because we are Notes. See you out there on the edge. --jeff hunnicutt@vxc.uncwil.edu * * * * * * * * * * FROM THE EDITOR: ================ I remember the day that Notes was born. Cathy posts a message saying that she's starting a Yes mailing list. At the end of the day there were six of us. She seemed disappointed that there was so little response. I was wondering if there were more than a handful of Yes fans around. By the beginning of the next week we were up to 50 - "Good, that's enough to get started!" Over the last few months we've leveled off at a little less than 600. Definitely enough for a mailing list! :-) Over the last two years there are a few things that stick out: - Doing the discography. I had *no* idea what I was getting myself into! (I still haven't gotten out of it yet!) - Meeting everyone at the first '91 Philly show and later at YesFest. - Trading with a bunch of people. I doubt I would have bothered buying all that stuff ;-) - Listening to YesYears about 80 times whilst driving from New York to California. (If you ever have to do this, bring at least 50 tapes! :-]) - Being part of the founding of the Yes-Archive. - Direct Contact: Anil's Bruford interview and info from Wakeman's press. - Becoming Editor of NFTE. Seesh...time has come to say good bye... I never thought I'd be doing this (editing the newsletter, y'know). It started off because I didn't want to see Notes die out or get turned into a bounce list or something equally unpleasant. So I volunteered to take it over from Cathy - and guess what? In the next issue she announces that I'm the new editor!! I was surprised but I guess I asked it upon myself. In volunteering I thought that I'd have the time to make Notes into something much bigger and better. I've accomplished so little of what I originally planned to do, and I've found that time can be a precious thing. What I'm trying to say is that the main reason I'm retiring as editor is that I'm just not pleased with what I've done; I know it can be so much better. I just don't see myself having the time to improve the newsletter. Here's a brief list of things I'd like to see happen on Notes: - Make offical contact with *all* Yes members' management and maybe even get exclusive news and interviews - Work more closely with the other Yes publications to share information and organize events (like YesFest '93). - Compile a Yes information service with on-line articles, press releases, etc. We have the space for this in the Yes Archive but some volunteer typists would work wonders. - Joint ventures with the Crimson, ELP and Genesis lists. I'm not sure what though, but I know the editors of those lists are reading this! I've made perfunctory efforts in most of these areas in the last few weeks, and I hope Jeff will be able to continue these efforts, as well as working on ideas of his own. A bunch of people have written me thinking that this means I'll be off the net. Actually, I'll probably be at this address for at least a few more years but my involvement in the newsletter (and the net in general) will be minimal. But feel free to drop me a line now and then!! Before the curtain call, I'd like to thank some of the people who've helped me out along the way: Cathy Leak - for friendship and giving me this chance, among other things... Mike Stok - for setting up and maintaining the Yes Archive, thus making my life quite a bit easier. Jeff Hunnicutt and Dave Markfield - for being there from the beginning and sharing news and music. Anil Prasad - for being a good sport and adding some much needed sarcasm :-) And for various reasons, thanks to: Don Grimm, Marshall Wood, George Grinch, Dean Gitters, Paul Zeman, Tanguy Kervahut, John Arnold, and everyone else who has helped make the newsletter a bigger and better place, and to everyone who's dropped me a short note of approval. I haven't had time to write you all back, but I appreciated every comment. And finally, thanks to all of you for continuing to make Notes From the Edge a success! -Mike Borella borella@cs.ucdavis.edu * * * * * * * * * * THOSE ALL-IMPORTANT ADDRESSES: ============================== New subscribers, contributions, questions/comments/criticism, and additions/corrections to the discography: Jeff Anbinder (Editor) J.Anbinder@cornell.edu NFTE Server (lyrics, backissues, discography, rarities, surveys, GIFs): Automated. For help send mail with subject line yes-archive@meiko.com "send main help" to NFTE Server problems, additions/corrections to the lyrics & GIFs, and additions/corrections to the rarities list: Mike Stok mike@meiko.com NFTE backissues, lyrics, etc, via anonymous FTP: cs.uwp.edu Directory: /pub/music/lists/yes Contact for helping out with transcriptions: Greg Utas utas@bnr.ca For Import CD's (last resort): Joe Pizzirusso joep@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com The Rarities Tape(s): Jeremy Weissenburger 07822@brahms.udel.edu ******************************************************************************** --< END OF NOTES FROM THE EDGE #51 >-- ********************************************************************************