Post any photo whatever you got

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Manhattan project!

You bring up some provocative subjects through photos SI. It saved a lot of lives, but also might’ve set up a dangerous precedent for the future!

[mccoy]

Manhattan project!

You bring up some provocative subjects through photos SI. It saved a lot of lives, but also might’ve set up a dangerous precedent for the future!

I agree, and it will be interesting to watch the film by Christopher Nolan on Oppenheimer, who after Hiroshima and Nagasaki started to develop strong doubts on his own project.

[SI]

You bring up some provocative subjects through photos SI. It saved a lot of lives, but also might’ve set up a dangerous precedent for the future!

At the time I was thinking, look at that ball: don't we have something better to do?

Maybe it did save lives, or maybe the lives it vaporized had more right to live than the lives it saved. I know I know mass karma. Maybe.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I’m reluctant to respond with karmic remarks because I see the logic we used to end WW11 being used maniacally by Putin and it would shake up our lives so much I’m afraid to even surmise what the implications would mean.

And, thanks for the historical background SI and mccoy. Oppenheimer must have felt tremendously responsible for his invention in more ways then one, especially if he we’re alive today.

[SI]

[SI]

[Jitendra Hydonus]

SI …. Thanks. Bill Bruford is my favorite drummer  of all time. What’s your take on his drumming? ….. I Especially like his playing on the ‘Fragile’ album. And Jon Anderson, what a lyricist!  The Topographic Oceans ( inspired by the Autobiography of a Yogi ) album was amazing. Among so many others. There are may vibrations we are drawn to and that describe our own spiritual journey. The band ‘Yes’’ certainly had a pivotal influence on my creative perspective. The photo you put up here SI was before the presence of Steve Howe as their leads guitarist and Rick Wakeman as their keyboard player. Still I remember this period well with such songs Eric may also relate to even now….see ‘Yes’ under sound minds.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Kelly sent me this. It’s too much😄!


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[SI]

SI …. Thanks. Bill Bruford is my favorite drummer  of all time. What’s your take on his drumming? ….. I Especially like his playing on the ‘Fragile’ album. And Jon Anderson, what a lyricist!  The Topographic Oceans ( inspired by the Autobiography of a Yogi ) album was amazing. Among so many others. There are may vibrations we are drawn to and that describe our own spiritual journey. The band ‘Yes’’ certainly had a pivotal influence on my creative perspective. The photo you put up here SI was before the presence of Steve Howe as their leads guitarist and Rick Wakeman as their keyboard player. Still I remember this period well with such songs Eric may also relate to even now….see ‘Yes’ under sound minds.

Bruford was clever, punchy, Fragile wouldn't be what it is without him. I saw them in 74, at that time they had Alan White and Pat Moraz, touring for the Relayer album which happens to be my favorite. Alan had chops too on that record, but at the concert nobody liked him, kept hearing "Bruford Bruford" from the crowd. I don't think anyone knew he did the Lennon Imagine album, no one cared (and still dont) really. But Bruford fit the band the best IMO. Moraz was good but his overall sound didn't come off well sometimes, Wakeman did not want to do the synth thing so of course he always had a great sound.

Steven Wilson recently did a remix (not remaster) of their early albums as a box LP set. Truly something you need to hear one day on a great system. Anderson sounds amazing. Topographic never sounded better. Howe is totally underrated nevermind Squire.

They did have kind of a spiritual quality about them, but I believe that was mostly due to Anderson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqb8uJ0cdKc&ab_channel=Yes-Topic

[Jitendra Hydonus]

SI …. Thanks. Bill Bruford is my favorite drummer  of all time. What’s your take on his drumming? ….. I Especially like his playing on the ‘Fragile’ album. And Jon Anderson, what a lyricist!  The Topographic Oceans ( inspired by the Autobiography of a Yogi ) album was amazing. Among so many others. There are may vibrations we are drawn to and that describe our own spiritual journey. The band ‘Yes’’ certainly had a pivotal influence on my creative perspective. The photo you put up here SI was before the presence of Steve Howe as their leads guitarist and Rick Wakeman as their keyboard player. Still I remember this period well with such songs Eric may also relate to even now….see ‘Yes’ under sound minds.

Bruford was clever, punchy, Fragile wouldn't be what it is without him. I saw them in 74, at that time they had Alan White and Pat Moraz, touring for the Relayer album which happens to be my favorite. Alan had chops too on that record, but at the concert nobody liked him, kept hearing "Bruford Bruford" from the crowd. I don't think anyone knew he did the Lennon Imagine album, no one cared (and still dont) really. But Bruford fit the band the best IMO. Moraz was good but his overall sound didn't come off well sometimes, Wakeman did not want to do the synth thing so of course he always had a great sound.

Steven Wilson recently did a remix (not remaster) of their early albums as a box LP set. Truly something you need to hear one day on a great system. Anderson sounds amazing. Topographic never sounded better. Howe is totally underrated nevermind Squire.

They did have kind of a spiritual quality about them, but I believe that was mostly due to Anderson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqb8uJ0cdKc&ab_channel=Yes-Topic

You have a lot to respond to here SI. I’ve seen Yes in concert many times. I saw that tour myself in 1974-75. I was particularly impressed by the lyrics of ‘Sound Chaser’ and the memorable melody of ‘To Be Over’.

I’ve also met Jon Anderson. The rest of the band was waiting for him and I was waiting to talk with him as two other people were talking with him, so we didn’t have much of a conversation. But I did get a chance to ask a question that was most important to me, considering his spiritual lyrics. I asked; “Do you meditate?” He answered quite concisely; “The mind is very difficult to control.” So I assumed he meant that he has taken various stabs at it. To what extent I do not know. The mind really can not be controlled; Rather the best way to accomplish anything with the mind is to let it go of its own accord while practicing meditation.

[guest587]

Crazy if true

[SI]

I’ve also met Jon Anderson. The rest of the band was waiting for him and I was waiting to talk with him as two other people were talking with him, so we didn’t have much of a conversation. But I did get a chance to ask a question that was most important to me, considering his spiritual lyrics. I asked; “Do you meditate?” He answered quite concisely; “The mind is very difficult to control.” So I assumed he meant that he has taken various stabs at it. To what extent I do not know. The mind really can not be controlled; Rather the best way to accomplish anything with the mind is to let it go of its own accord while practicing meditation.

How did you get backstage? It was impossible to do this when I saw them live.

[SI]

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I’ve also met Jon Anderson. The rest of the band was waiting for him and I was waiting to talk with him as two other people were talking with him, so we didn’t have much of a conversation. But I did get a chance to ask a question that was most important to me, considering his spiritual lyrics. I asked; “Do you meditate?” He answered quite concisely; “The mind is very difficult to control.” So I assumed he meant that he has taken various stabs at it. To what extent I do not know. The mind really can not be controlled; Rather the best way to accomplish anything with the mind is to let it go of its own accord while practicing meditation.

How did you get backstage? It was impossible to do this when I saw them live.

It was an outdoor venue in Grand Rapids. Since the whole stage was set up, it was obvious to anyone who gave it much thought that the band would have to leave the back of the stage in a get away car. I just walked around the back of the stage and noticed the limo setting back there. I went towards it but two girls had the idea before me. I think they were more of an attraction then I would be. Jon was talking to them. The rest of the band were already in the limo, and only Jon was talking to hanger ons like myself.  I realized if I was to say anything after he was done talking to them it would have to be short and to the point because the door was open waiting for him to jump  in. I could see the other band members we’re inside. He looked at me and I simply asked; Do you meditate. Thinking he must with all the the spiritual lyrics he wrote and the album dedicated to Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi. He simply replied; “The mind is difficult to control.”

I gave it thought over the years and whether it was a flippant response he used for other spiritual aspirants that may have asked a similar question in the past or he really didn’t spend much time at it I’m not sure. But i’d heard that the band gave prayers out before performing. Later after having mediated for years, I realized the minds activities cannot be really controlled. Meditation happens independent of the restless activity of the brain. What one  finds is that the brain is slowly absorbed in peace and then bliss which takes the control factor out of the picture. Higher consciousness replaces the minds thoughts. Sometimes when I respond about meditation I reflect; do I have the authority to evaluate and respond to someone else’s perspective about it?  When I was done writing this reply I looked at the time it was exactly 11:11 it reassured me that giving my experience with meditation was 👌 ✅ ok.

The Lancashire-born singer, now a California resident, is also a long-time environmentalist, pacifist and practitioner of meditation; a coping mechanism, perhaps, for the rigours of life in and out of Yes. “We must all learn to live in peace,” he proclaims, “and learn the beauty of this mystery world we live in.”

How many times a day do you meditate?

Two, sometimes three times. It’s become second nature to me to just be in that place of calmness.~Jon Anderson


https://www.loudersound.com/features/jon-anderson-there-s-no-point-pretending-that-i-m-mates-with-yes

[SI]