“It was obviously very exciting to see Bill Bruford and John Wetton in the line-up. I liked Yes but oddly I think it was John’s arrival that prompted the most excitement as Family were also a big deal then, which tends to be forgotten today.
“The set didn’t contain any recognisable numbers until the Schizoid Man encore. Given the amorphous nature of a piece like Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, Part One, the open-ended section on Easy Money and the beginning of Exiles, it all sounded very weird and quite mysterious. What we now know were improvisations we honestly thought were composed as they all dovetailed into the composed material. Jamie Muir was dressed in bearskins and at one point was leaning over his kit hitting an object of some kind,…
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