“We were cosmic brothers…”

Gryphon multi-instrumentalist Brian Gulland looks back on his friendship with Yes and opening for with them on 1974’s Relayer tour.

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“My cousin, who knew my musical tastes, said I should come to London to see this band that he’d discovered. So we left the Weald of Kent and ended up in Dagenham where Yes were playing. They’d just released The Yes Album. It was around the summer holidays of my first year at the Royal College of Music and, for me, it was the most important gig in that I’d at last found a group playing with more than three chords, with different time signatures, wonderful lyrics, and all expert players. “I was a callow youth and I didn’t really understand about gigs but I had to go and say thank you and speak to the band afterwards. I knocked on the door of this tiny dressing room and Chris…

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