Yes - Open the Gates (1976-06-17) FLAC

GENRE: Prog Rock 
FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) 
SIZE: 798 mb (3% Recovery) 

Live soundboard recording of Yes – Open The Gates 1976 is from June 17, 1976 during the band’s “Relayer/Solo” tour.
It was recorded at the Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Label: Progressive Rock Remaster Project - PRRP 009.
Released: 2003

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1
1.1 WNEW / WMMB DJ’s Introduction  1:22
1.2 Intro / Apocalypse  1:16
1.3 Siberian Khatru  9:15
1.4 Sound Chaser  11:03
1.5 I've Seen All Good People  7:18
1.6 Gates Of Delirium  22:18

Disc 2
2.1 Long Distance Runaround  2:17
2.2 Patrick Moraz Solo  4:14
2.3 Steve Howe Solo – Clap  3:39
2.4 Jon Anderson Solo – Exerpt From Olias  3:49
2.5 Heart Of The Sunrise  11:29
2.6 Ritual  25:47
2.7 DJ Chatter #1  1:28
2.8 Roundabout  8:36
2.9 DJ Chatter #2  1:28
2.10 I'm Down  3:29
2.11 DJ Outro  1:34


Broadcast on WNEW radio Live


    Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Chris Squire
    Drums, Percussion – Alan White
    Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer – Patrick Moraz
    Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – Steve Howe
    Lead Vocals, Harp, Acoustic Guitar – Jon Anderson

NOTES:

The 1976 Summer Tour began May 28, 1976 in Roanoke, Virginia. The Roosevelt stadium 

concert was number 16 in a tour that would include 54 shows. The band members had recently 

finished solo projects and had reconvened to begin their biggest American concert tour to date. 

At the time there was still an enormous interest in the material from their most recent album 

Relayer. Gates of Delirium and Soundchaser, both from that album, were played in Jersey City 

that night.

From one that was there: “We were there in 6 inches of mud in ‘76 at Roosevelt stadium 

in New Jersey for RELAYER”. –Notes from the Edge

“Gates of Delirium is a war song, a battle scene, but it’s not to explain war or 

denounce it, really. It’s an emotional description with the slight feeling at the end of ‘do we 

have to go through this forever?’ There’s a prelude, a change, a victory tune, and peace at the 

end, with hope for the future….” –Jon Anderson

“Sound Chaser is like this madman from hell…an indescribable mixture of Patrick’s jazzy 

keyboards and my weird sort of flamenco electric, which I’m sure has never been done before and 

will probably never be done again!” –Steve Howe

Strangely enough, “To Be Over”, the last of the three songs from “Relayer” had been 

dropped from the set list for reasons unknown, perhaps to allow the band to include a few more 

of the old stage favorites like “Siberian Khatru” and “Heart of the Sunrise”.

“The concert was originally broadcast on WNEW from New York. According to former WNEW-FM 

DJ Richard Neer in his book, 'FM', there was no mixing of the show being done by the radio 

station engineers; the feed going out over the air was what the guy doing Yes' sound sent out. 

(This was because the manager of WNEW at the time was too cheap to pay Neer and a sound engineer 

 companion of his the few hundred bucks extra they would have charged to do an on-the-fly 

broadcast mix). Hence the rather interesting variations in sound quality as the show progressed.”

 –Forgotten Yesterdays.com

Another enthusiastic fan recalled: “It was 100 degrees that day.  When we finally got to 

the stadium, there was about a battalion of police off to one side.  The line of fans was about 

10 abreast and went around the stadium. The police had bullhorns and were telling people "no 

glass inside the stadium". When we got inside, there was a hot air balloon tethered over the 

stage, with the cover FROM TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS on it!  The opening was the Poussette 

Dart band. Between the opening and Yes, there were fireworks.  One of the rocket stands fell 

over during launch and a rocket shot across the infield and blew up under a car! Finally, true 

dark fell around 9:00 PM and Yes began to play. During the battle scenes in "Gates of Delirium", 

the laser (electric green, dark blue) was shot into the audience in random, staccato bursts. 

Later, during "Soon", the laser fanned out and spun over the audience, who craned up hands over 

their heads to touch the light.  -Notes From The Edge.

It is with great pleasure that we now bring you this remaster of a legendary performance 

by a legendary band. Enjoy this great 1976 moment with Yes.

Notes from the Re-master:

Since the source for this concert is a radio broadcast, the sound quality is generally 

good to begin with. The actual source was a CD version of the master tapes obtained from the 

broadcasting radio station WNEW. We would like to thank Shaun Toole for providing this source to 

us.

Viable music signal was present up to 18,000 Hz. This is quite rare for progressive rock 

concerts available from the 1970’s and makes this recording quite unique. A radio transmission 

or microphone / patch cord buzz occurred in the left channel off and on throughout the show and 

needed to be corrected. Fortunately, the buzz was specifically identified in the frequency 

spectrum and was surgically attacked. This approach produced a minimal effect on the remainder 

of the music. Pops and clicks occurred frequently and were manually removed. Radio announcer 

volume was out of proportion to the music in some segments and needed to be adjusted. Finally, 

only a slight amount of noise reduction was needed during quite segments.

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