9012Live: The Solos

Yes’s 3rd live album 9012Live: The Solos was released in November 1985 after two years their smash hit album 90125 including Owner of a Lonly Heart became the band’s 1st and only the U.S. #1 hit so far and the album also Yes’s most successful work ever, reaching top 5 sell at least 3 million copies. The great success is owed in heavy part to the skills of its producer Trevor Horn, who saved Yes to creat Drama, replaced symbolic the band John Anderson, and a talented quitarist and composer Trevor Ravin.

This live album consciouly shunning of well-known songs except Soon which from a part of The Gates of Delirium and Whitefish, combined past 3 songs as The Fish, Tempus Fugit and Sound Chaser, 5 of 7 songs were occupied each members solo, hence the title The Solos. All Yes fans might have imagined same as a breakthrough work Fragile (1971) befor you listen to it. Needless to say, it overwhelmingly pale against Fragile. I don’t understand the band’s leader at the time Anderson and Squire whose intentions why they created this kind of album.