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From: rmtodd@uokmax.uucp (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Yes
Keywords: Yes,Drama,Moraz,Bruford,Greenslade,Roger Dean
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.073519.18193@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 20 Jan 90 07:35:19 GMT
References: <6904@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <6904@wpi.wpi.edu> mehool@wpi.wpi.edu (Crazy Diamond) writes:
>
>I really liked Relayer, I *love* Bruford, so I picked up Moraz-Bruford's
>"Music for Piano and Drums". That's just what it is... I really like it.
>Moraz plays piano/keyboards a lot better than I had given him credit for. :)

Hmm... While I liked _Music for Piano and Drums_, I didn't like it as 
much as I liked their second album, _Flags_.  I think it's considerably
better than the first one.  

Re: Moraz -- before Yes, Patrick Moraz was in a band called Refugee;
the other members of Refugee were all the former members of the Nice
who were sorta left up in the air when Emerson quit.  I've never heard
the album, but rumour has it it will be released on CD soon.  Anyone
out there familiar with this album; is it as good as one would expect
form a Moraz-Nice combination?

Before Refugee, Moraz was in a (real obscure) band called Mainhorse.
As far as I know, they only released one album.  I like it a lot;
both Moraz's keyboard playing and the violin playing of Peter Lockett
are excellent.

>Concerning Roger Dean art: Does anyone know of any other groups he has
>done covers for? Aside from Yes members, he's done the Asia covers and
>I recently picked up a copy of "Greenslade". I think it's from 1972 and

Well, Roger Dean also did the covers for John Lodge's solo album 
_Natural Avenue_ (excellent album, BTW).  Also he did the cover for the
original British release of Gentle Giant's _Octopus_ album, with this
really neat big red octopus on it.  Also, he did McKendree Spring's
_Spring Suite_ album cover.

 If you're interested in album cover art, you might want to look for a series
of books, _The Album Cover Album_ and its two sequels.  They're collections
of album cover art, assembled by Roger Dean and the guy who founded 
Hipgnosis (the bunch who did the artwork for, among other albums,
Pink Floyd's _Wish You Were Here_.)  I've only got the first book in the
series, but it is good.  Among other things, it shows the Roger Dean 
covers I mentioned above, as well as a full-page picture of the cover
to _Relayer_.
-- 
Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu