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s hour )afe ifyPi: a hel; IS? t PM: and ise fol; Tuesday, August 6,1991 Pages an- owzii; s-relat a frif: sunn; ss. xselfai leeds ten: [ com ’MSw mi to pi ptonii t I antinte ding t; billioi ndspe es. iate Fi iwoulc llion in | ding to John tax npt par tall DUS: x the f forms c: vho ou: tip," said itered r ter of ths ; devise: been apj level, r.: d by thej said the hting it's urttoget lease ad- expenses imentallf ent Mon- to profi* gbyor d safe to pursued lonsumei te arse return' ■« purer** •ervieft nlntfao 4 erPI*** llrution. utudeot* ^ Indie uuinple* nlgn* die uc«* ^ New, old Yes members reunite for ’Union’ tour By Todd Stone King ol is becc thing new is becoming an en tertaining formula for the clas sical, art-rock group Yes. The band's Union performance at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands Fri day night featured some of the best Yes music performed by the best Yes players. Until this tour, former and current Yes musicians were in two distinct bands — the cur rent Yes band, featuring Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye, and also Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe (known by their collective last names). Indeed, the highly hyped Union was nothing more than a new CD-re lease con taining mu sic by the two differ ent bands under the same Yes logo. But as a collective group, this unionized Yes put on one hell of a show. Following the tradition of 1970s' Yes performances, the concert began with a recording of Stravinsky's "Firebird" as Yes walked on stage to an encour aging ovation. Keyboard wiz ard Wakeman continued play ing "Firebird" along with drum mers White and Bruford as the recording faded. Thentheband cleverly lead into "Yours Is No Disgrace" (from the album Frag ile). During "Disgrace," guitar ists Howe and Rabin performed extended solos that few musi cians could match. Still, the band seemed to be going through the motions during the first group of songs. However, after performing "Rhythmn of Love" (Big Genera tor) and the strong rocker "Shock To The System" (Union), Yes found a groove while perform ing "Heart of the Sunrise" (Frag ile). Bassist Squire supported "Heart" with some energetic and well-timed bass lines, and lead vocalist Anderson punctuated the fine melodies with some powerful high notes. Unaccompanied, Howe dazzled the auaience while play ing his neo-classical piece "The Clap" on acoustic guitar. Dur ing the piece, Howe carefully wandered into "Autumn," the second movement of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, then finished with "Clap"’s original finale. : Wakeman was equ ally amazing during his solo as he played ex cerpts from his solo al bums Six Wives of Henry VIII and Myths As a collective group, this unionized Yes put on one hell of a show. and Legendsof King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Further, Bruford and White made a fine percussion team throughout the show. White's thundering drumming style was marvelously augmented by Bruford's more fluid, jazz tech niques. Bruford used an array of electronic Tama drums to create unusual sounds and rhythms See CONCERT/Page 4 Band members revolve through Yes history The personnel changes of Yes during the past 23 years is as fascinating as the music it self. Certainly, the "union" concept is quite different from the revolving door which char acterized Yes in the past. There have been four dif ferent keyboardists with Yes, three guitarists, two drum mers, two lead vocalists but one bass guitarist. Thatbass player was Chris Squire, who along with singer Jon Anderson formed Yes in London in 1968. Guitarist Pe ter Banks, who was in a group with Squire called Mabel Greer's Toyshop, also joined. Keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer B ill Bruford were re cruited to make-up the first Yes band. This group made the first two Yes albums — Yes andTime And A Word. Banks left the group in 1970, and gui tar-great Steve Howe replaced him. Kaye stayed with the group for just one more al bum, The Yes Album, then left to join a group called Badger in 1971. The Yes Album con tained the classic Yes songs "I've Seen All Good People," "Starship Trooper" and "Yours Is No Disgrace." Ka was train The Yes group of Ander son, Squire, Howe, Bruford and Wakeman made only two albums together, but those projects are considered Yes masterpieces—Fragile (1972), featuring "Roundabout" and "Heart of the Sunrise" and Close To The Edge (late 1972), including "And You and 1 Bruford left the group im mediately after the release of Close To The Edge to join King Crimson. Alan White, who played with John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, joined Yes three days before the group was suppose to tour. Wakeman left the group after the release of the first live Yes album,Yes Songs (1973), and Tales From Topographic Oceans (1974). Patrick Moraz replaced Wakeman for one al bum, Relayer, and tour. Wakeman rejoined Yes Yesl976 to make Going For The One and Tormato (1978). Then, Anderson and See YES/Page 4 f Doc Hollywood 9 prescribes laughter as best medicine By Julia E.S. Spencer If Michael J. Fox's career has been derailed re cently after a series of misses, "Doc Hollywood" is just tne comic medicine he needs to get it back on track. Fox once again brings megawatt charm to his role as an ultimately loveable scnmuck. This particu lar one is smart-alec doctor Ben Stone, who is leaving the 18-hour days and clamoring patients of a busy inner-city hospital in Washington, D.C for a Fox once again brings megawatt charm to his role as an ultimately loveable schmuck. geon in La La Land. We are thankfully spared an intermi nable prologue. In stead, the script deftly suggests, in the space of a few minutes, the stressful nature of Stone's previous job, and his flippant, insen- ' sitive, materialistic personality. Out on the roaa, he nimbly avoids roadblocks, but a couple of women walking their cows are too much for him, and he and his beloved speedster go crashing through the underbrush, and into a newly erected and painted picket fence. Stone's attempts at the damage fail; of medical practioners, the judge instead sentences Ben to 32 hours of community service. Mayor Nick Nicholson (David Ogden Stiers) takes Ben under his wing and shows him around, bragging about the annual squash festival, among other simple plea sures the town has to offer. The city council offers Ben a job as the town doctor, but he finds the place hopelessly provincial, and is still firmly resolved to leave for L.A. as soon as his car is fixed. Resolved, that is, until he meets his literal dream girl, ambulance driver Lou (Julie Warner), a mysteri ous beauty who will have none of his big-city slick ness or cute come-ons. Stone's rival is Hank Gordon (Woody Harrelson), an insurance salesman who is "sweet on her." Bridget Fonda plays Nancy Lee Nicholson, a girl very much taken with Ben and the idea of moving to the big city with him. On the medical front. Stone is humbled by an encounter with cur- mudgeonly old Dr. Hogue, and as he does his rounds, begins to lose his arrogance and to genuinely care about his quirky patients. As he begins to feel accepted and at home with the loveably loony residents, we fall in love with them too. paying for i town of Grady, Soutl of any kind. Hearing tha t Ben is an M.D., and citing a shortage no one in the sleepy little Carolina takes plastic or credit The plot of this Capraesque tale is of the will-he- or-won't-he variety, and there is really never any doubt as to the outcome. As with all such stories, however, the pleasure isn't so much in the goal as in getting there. "Doc Holly wood'"s attractive leads, lovely set ting, subtly imaginative direction, and gentle humor make it a perfect anecdote to the big-city blues. And with all the violence going down this summer, that's good news indeed. Group calls for national TV boycott NEW YORK (AP) - CBS, NBC and ABC, at times bedeviled by calls for boycotts against sponsors of their shows, are urging adver tisers not to give in to such threats and not to shun controversial pro grams. But one viewer, Vicki Riley, head of a small activist group. Con cerned Viewers for Quality Televi sion, in Wilmington, Del., is pro posing what would be the mother of all TV boycotts a national 24- hour tune-out next season. She's urging viewers to mark Tuesday, Oct. 29 in their calendars for a national "Turn Off TV Day" to protest what she considers ex cessive sex and violence, and pro grams that she feels go against tra ditional family values. Peter Chrisanthopolous, presi dent of the NationalTelevision As sociation, said the call for a na tional day of TV darkness "has nothing to do" with his group's three-page appeal to advertisers, issued Monday. The NTA was founded last year by CBS, NBC and ABC to help state their case to advertisers. Con gress and the public. The epistle has been in the works three months, and was sent after NTA board meetings and talks with Jeff Sagansky, Robert Iger and Warren Littlefield, the pro- ' of CBS, ABC and he said. boycott threats and advertiser "hitlists" programs that sponsors avoid because of possible controversy "has never been addressed head-on by the networks in this tupe of format," he said. The letter says the networks "vigorously support" freedom of expression. But it asserts that "boy cotts and so-called advertiser 'hit lists' are attempts to manipulate our free society and democratic process.'" The networks, it says, "employ the strictest standards of all elec tronic media" for program con tent, "stricter than other over-the- air broadcasters and stricter than cable networks." It also cites research that it says supports its contention that "the vast majority of Americans find network programming to be widely acceptable." "I am delighted this letter has gone out I think it shows we are indeed having some effect," says the Rev. Donald Wildmon, a Tu pelo, Miss., minister who has been assailing the networks over pro gram content since the days of Archie Bunker. Riley said her protest is ah at all television, not just the ; aimed net works, and has been endorsed by several other activist groups. Her own group has between 800 and 1,000 members, she says. |Professional Computing HAS A CAICUIATOH FOR YOU! 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