[Dr.Deth]

Love that era. Ran that cassette damn near out of ferrite. Machine Messiah is a sneaky influence on a lot of progmetal to follow, almost every major player this side of Portnoy will reference it. The Cinema and XYZ sessions of 80 and 81 were fascinating to me.

Trevor Horn gets a lot of grief that somehow Rabin doesn't for not being Jon Anderson, but I didn't mind him at all, and he's kind of taken the Jeff Lynne career track toward more of a writer/producer. Squire could have easily taken the lead but just didn't want that spotlight.

[dfwgator]

Drama showed how critical Squire’s backing vocals were to the Yes sound, that’s why they didn’t miss Jon Anderson on it.