SATURDAY SONG TO GET STONED TO: YES — “CLOSE TO THE EDGE”
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 2:28pm by Kip Wingerschmidt
This is an epic, classic progressive rock masterpiece that doesn’t even really start til about 3 minutes in! But you’re well off being patient and getting down with this ultra-melodic legend…
Interesting factoid — shortly after the recording of this awesome 3-song album, drummer extraordinaire Bill Bruford left the band to join another little prog outfit known as KING CRIMSON. Yelp!
If you’ve never heard a song by Yes before, get yr head out of yr rectum and be sure to check out “Heart of the Sunrise” as well (which was one of the first-ever Saturday Songs To Get Stoned To).
Now go smoke that weed — just don’t buy any (even though I’m about to).
YES – “Close to the Edge”, from Close to the Edge (1972)
-KW
