YES - Yours Is No Disgrace - Guitar Cover

Hopefully doing some justice to Steve. I've never really learned the proper way to play some of the parts, so a lot of it is just kind of played my way that I figured out and sounded close enough sonically.

I saw Yes on their most recent tour and sat a few rows back from Steve, who is one my favorites. He has inspired me plenty over the years. It was a great show, and when they played this tune I was impressed again by his precision, but also how it is never quite the same performance twice. Seeing Yes always makes me play a little bit better. I always wanted to cover Y.I.N.D. as I'd been toying with the intro off and on for a long time. The goal is to get close to the live show feel but to also add my own flare.

NOTE: Yes fans will notice that there is no acoustic guitar in the first bass/vocal break on the record; however, I have added some in. I have also inserted a custom solo written specifically for my version of this song, it comes in between Steve's usual fuzz solo and his "jazzy solo" as I usually call it. Its played on the Vantage 655, a sort of mock version of a Gibson L-5 with 2 pickups instead of 3 - it has a similar cutaway and fretboard styling. Its a big ol' jazzbox. Also, I found some inspiration from Trevor Rabin for some of the keyboard parts and wanted to throw in a little extra work with the tremolo bar. Kind of a mash up of eras on a song I truly love.

Also, the combo of guitars I used in this recording are from five different decades!!

AND, I get to show off some of my records here too.

"Yours Is No Disgrace"
From The Yes Album (1971)
Written by Anderson, Squire, Howe
Music Performed and Produced by James Lighter
Video Shot and Edited by James Lighter
All those YES Records are part of the James Lighter Record Collection.

GEAR:
1976 Gibson Howard Roberts Custom
1992 Vantage 655 (Samick)
2003 Walden Acoustic
2010 Gibson ES-345
2021 .strandberg* Boden Standard 6
Orange Rockerverb 100W
CryBaby Wah
SHURE SM57