July 14, 2010
We received this shot from a customer, one who obviously appreciates the finest in prog rock -- Yes. Yes, it's Yes, the band with the positive name and the psychedelic sound.
Anyone here watch "The Venture Brothers"? There's a sequence in Season 3, I think, maybe Season 4, where Dr. Venture introduces Dean to prog rock because it's his inspiration for "doing science." Only he leaves Dean alone with his LP's and Dean picks the Yes album, with its amazing cover art. Then Dean puts it on and trips into a fantastical world where he's riding a flying dragon over a magical landscape and slaying weird beasts and hanging with star maidens and stuff. Dr. Venture finds him passed out, headphones still on, and the father is anguished because he might have inadvertently damaged the son forever.
That's how you should think about Yes – too powerful for the casual listener. No matter what anyone says, it's not just wankery.