[TOURDATEN] SOLO ALBUM/YESTERDAYS Tour

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28.05.1976 Roanoke Virginia USA Civic Center Coliseum first tour show | Leg 1 1
29.05.1976 Hampton Virginia USA Coliseum | Leg 1 2
30.05.1976 Charleston West Virginia USA Civic Center Coliseum | Leg 1 3
31.05.1976 Johnson City Tennessee USA Freedom Hall Civic Center | Leg 1 4
01.06.1976 Nashville Tennessee USA Municipal Auditorium | Leg 1 5
02.06.1976 Birmingham Alabama USA Municipal Auditorium | Leg 1 6
03.06.1976 Alanta Georgia USA The Omni | Leg 1 7
04.06.1976 Memphis Tennessee USA Mid-South Coliseum | Leg 1 8
05.06.1976 Jackson Mississippi USA Mississippi Coliseum | Leg 1 9
06.06.1976 Huntsville Alabama USA Von Braun Civic Center | Leg 1 10
08.06.1976 Cincinnati Ohio USA Riverfront Coliseum | Leg 1 11
09.06.1976 Binghamton New York USA Broome Country Veterans Memorial Arena | Leg 1 12
10.06.1976 Providence Rhode Island USA Civic Center | Leg 1 13
12.06.1976 Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA John F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | Leg 1 14
13.06.1976 Washington District of Columbia USA Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | Leg 1 15
16.06.1976 Uniondale New York USA Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | Leg 1 16
17.06.1976 Jersey City New Jersey USA Roosevelt Stadium | Leg 1 17
18.06.1976 Boston Massachusetts USA Boston Garden | Leg 1 18
19.06.1976 Hartford Connecticut USA Colt Park | Leg 1 19
20.06.1976 Rochester New York USA Community War Memorial | Leg 1 20
21.06.1976 Kalamazoo Michigan USA Wings Stadium | Leg 1 21
22.06.1976 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA Civic Arena | Leg 1 22
24.06.1976 Columbia South Carolina USA Carolina Coliseum | Leg 1 23
25.06.1976 Savannah Georgia USA Civic Center | Leg 1 24
26.06.1976 Tampa Florida USA Tampa Stadium | Leg 1 25
17.07.1976 Anaheim California USA Anaheim Stadium | Leg 2 26
18.07.1976 San Diego California USA Balboa Stadium | Leg 2 27
20.07.1976 San Francisco California USA Cow Palace | Leg 2 28
22.07.1976 Vancouver British Columbia Canada Pacific Coliseum @ Pacific National Exhibition | Leg 2 29
23.07.1976 Seattle Washington USA Center Coliseum | Leg 2 30
24.07.1976 Spokane Washington USA Arena | Leg 2 31
25.07.1976 Portland Oregon USA Memorial Coliseum | Leg 2 32
27.07.1976 Salt Lake City Utah USA Salt Palace Convention Center | Leg 2 33
28.07.1976 Denver Colorado USA Auditorium Arena | Leg 2 34
30.07.1976 El Paso Texas USA Civic Center | Leg 2 35
31.07.1976 Phoenix Arizona USA Veterans Memorial Coliseum | Leg 2 36
01.08.1976 Las Vegas Nevada USA Aladdin Theatre | Leg 2 37
03.08.1976 Fresno California USA Selland Arena | Leg 2 38
04.08.1976 Corpus Christi Texas USA Memorial Coliseum cancelled
06.08.1976 Dallas Texas USA Moody Coliseum | Leg 2 39
07.08.1976 San Antonio Texas USA Municipal Auditorium | Leg 2 40
08.08.1976 Houston Texas USA Sam Houston Coliseum | Leg 2 41
10.08.1976 Oklahoma City Oklahoma USA Myriad Convention Center cancelled
11.08.1976 St. Louis Missouri USA Kiel Auditorium | Leg 2 42
12.08.1976 Louisville Kentucky USA Louisville Gardens | Leg 2 43
13.08.1976 Columbus Ohio USA St. John's Arena | Leg 2 44
14.08.1976 Cicero Illinois USA Hawthorne Race Track | Leg 2 45
15.08.1976 St. Paul Minnesota USA Civic Center | Leg 2 46
16.08.1976 Milwaukee Wisconsin USA MECCA Arena | Leg 2 47
17.08.1976 Detroit Michigan USA Cobo Conference & Exhibition Center | Leg 2 48
18.08.1976 Detroit Michigan USA Cobo Conference & Exhibition Center | Leg 2 49
19.08.1976 Detroit Michigan USA Cobo Conference & Exhibition Center | Leg 2 50
20.08.1976 Toledo Ohio USA Sports Arena | Leg 2 51
21.08.1976 Richfield Ohio USA Coliseum | Leg 2 52
22.08.1976 Ft. Wayne Indiana USA Allen County War Memorial Coliseum last tour show | Leg 2 53


Setlist I (28.5. - 31.5.76):

APOCALYPSE
SIBERIAN KHATRU
SOUND CHASER
I'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE
RAM
HOLD OUT YOUR HAND
YOU BY MY SIDE
BREAK AWAY FROM IT ALL
BEGINNINGS
ONE WAY RAG
ALAN WHITE SOLO
SONG OF INNOCENCE
CACHACA
OLIAS HARP SOLO
HEART OF THE SUNRISE
THE GATES OF DELIRIUM (am 30. und 31.5. THE REMEMBERING)

ROUNDABOUT
SWEET DREAMS
I'M DOWN (nicht immer)


Setlist II (1.6. - 8.6.76):

APOCALYPSE
SIBERIAN KHATRU
SOUND CHASER
I'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE
SONG OF INNOCENCE (nach 6.6. nicht mehr)
HOLD OUT YOUR HAND (nach 6.6. nicht mehr)
YOU BY MY SIDE (nach 6.6. nicht mehr)
LEAVES OF GREEN
CLAP
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (acoustic version)
MORAZ SOLO
OLIAS HARP SOLO
WONDEROUS STORIES (nur am 6.6.)
HEART OF THE SUNRISE
THE GATES OF DELIRIUM

STARSHIP TROOPER (nur 8.6.)
ROUNDABOUT
SWEET DREAMS
I'M DOWN (nicht immer)


Setlist III (9.6. - 22.8.76):

APOCALYPSE
SIBERIAN KHATRU
SOUND CHASER
I'VE SEEN ALL GOOD PEOPLE
THE STANDUP - SIT DOWN BLUES (nur 22.8.)
THE GATES OF DELIRIUM
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (acoustic version)
MORAZ SOLO
RAM (nur 22.6.)
ON WINGS OF GOLD (nur 22.7. und ab 1.8. - 16.8.)
CLAP
OLIAS HARP SOLO
HEART OF THE SUNRISE (nicht am 20.7.)
RITUAL

'TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (nur 3.8.)
ROUNDABOUT
I'M DOWN oder STARSHIP TROOPER (nicht immer)
SWEET DREAMS (nicht immer)

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8mm-Stummaufnahmen von 1976:

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More pictures:

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Bilder von der Cobo Arena in Detroit, wo Yes an drei aufeinanderfolgenden Nächten (17. - 19.08.1976) vor insgesamt 45.000 Leuten spielten. Einen Großteil der dortigen Shows nahmen sie für "Yesshows" ("Gates Of Delirium", "Ritual") und "The Word Is Live" ("Apocalypse", "Siberian Khatru", "Sound Chaser") auf.









Die meisten Konzerte in dieser Halle haben, soweit ich weiß, Kiss bisher gespielt. Ebenfalls 1976 entstand dort ihr Livealbum "Kiss - Alive!!!"

Momentan wird die Arena das zweite Mal (nach 1989) renoviert. In letzter Zeit wurde sie mehr für die alljährlichen Detroiter Automessen genutzt. Konzerte finden zwar dort nach wie vor statt, hier allerdings weniger als im 1988 fertiggestellten "Palace of Auburn Hills" in Auburn Hills, einem Vorort nordwestlich von Detroit, wo ungefähr 10.000 Leute mehr reinpassen als in die Cobo Arena.

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Vielen Dank für die schönen Bilder, Links und Tubes Mr. Fragile.
Wie jung die Mitglieder damals noch waren/aussahen.

Vielleicht gibt es irgendwann mal noch mehr Material für eine remasterte Yes-Shows-CD.

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Danke auch von mir, Fragile. Tolle Fleißarbeit, von der wir hier alle schön profitieren!!!

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Zwar nix von Yes, aber immerhin deren Support Acts Gary Wright und Peter Frampton (Anaheim Stadium, 17.07.1976):

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Artikel zur Tour aus dem CIRCUS-Magazine (13. September 1976)

"This is fantastic fun this tour," assures Yes bassist Chris Squire, "it really is. This is the eleventh tour, and we seem to really know how to make touring work, as a personal pleasure as well as a business thing. That's very conducive to making music. Personally, I feel it's been really good vibes this tour all around.

"If you've seen the last tour, and you see this one, even though two or three of the songs are the same, the whole thing is completely different in its presentation and projection," Squire continued.

That, of course, is what Yes fans have come to expect from the band over the years. This year though, in this Bicentennial blitzkrieg of rock & roll bands on the American public, bands are all scrambling for some new, and if possible, unique, attraction in their show, something that will distinguish their concerts from the scores of others, and build a momentum that spells sell-outs down the line.

The buzz is definitely on about the Yes tour though, and when it's all over for them at the end of August, the group will have played to over one million fans and fanatics (people who attend at least two or more shows) over a three-month period.

"If you're gonna play to a vast audience," Squire explains, "you've got to be able to turn the people on in that kind of size hall. Lasers are just so terrifically powerful, in the way that they don't die. They're as impressive in a large place as they are in a small place. The laser beam is no different from a light bulb really. It's what you do with it.

"We also have two backdrops, one is this 3-D, and then another one behind that, and things go on in between the two backdrops, like special lighting effects. I've never seen the show myself. This is only what people tell me!"

This year, the Yes set has experienced an almost total reshuffling of their music material, as the band decided to revive some of their older works, drop out other things, and also include a variety of material from the five musicians' respective solo albums. Since the beginning of the tour though, the set has again been somewhat rearranged, because with the lengthy encores the band has been forced to do, their sets have been running much too long to suit them.

"We've modified the show, and we're modifying it all the time," explains Squire. "We're still doing a bit of picking and choosing, rather than having one show that we know we're gonna play every night for the next two months. We're varying it a bit to keep us interested as well."

It was finally decided that most of the solo tunes would be the ones dropped from the set, even though at the beginning of the tour, the set was arranged so that each member would perform one of their songs with the band.

"We were, but actually we're not doing it at the moment because basically the set was running a very long time, and we weren't sure that it was making up the best kind of show doing it that way, because obviously, a lot of people don't know all the music from the solo albums anyway. So we spent the first couple of weeks really trying different things out, but in the end we kind of let the solo things slip, because in a way I think people were more into just hearing the Yes songs, and that's fair enough really, I can dig that."

Still included in the show are tracks from both "Tales From Topographic Oceans" and "Relayer" and the group has reintroduced old songs from their earlier "The Yes Album" and "Fragile" albums.

"What we've done on this tour is to recycle some old songs that we haven't done for a long time, which were favorite songs that we'd dropped. We've cut other songs out, like "Close To The Edge", and everything is presented in a totally different way."

"We've brought back 'Heart Of The Sunrise,' which is a song we haven't played for two or three years, and Patrick Moraz never knew, and we play 'I've Seen All Good People,' that kind of early rocking-type thing."

"The day touring stopped adding a new feeling is the day I wouldn't continue, personally, but it seems to every time we come out on the road. There seems to be something even more exciting about it than the last time. I think we're still on our slow, upward curve," Squire conjectured.

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