[The Watcher]

So anyway I ordered a copy of the Live At Nassau Colosseum '78 disc the other day and finally got a chance to spin it last night and this morning, what an awesome sounding album! For my money, it's as tight and well played as Welcome Back My Friends live album although you can tell they're sort of racing through their earlier tunes, especially Tarkus (skipping Battlefield entirely - and nothing from Brain Salad Surgery) - at this point they had sort of lost me - their Works albums are still pretty good, however it wasn't as captivating to me as their first four albums. But this is a great document of that era - amazing how great the sound is for what is essentially a bootleg with the master tapes cleaned up!

And really, I absolutely adore Yes too from Time And A Word all the way to Going For The One, but ELP live was a totally different proposition than Yes live from what I can gauge from their triple LPs - these albums are absolutely fantastic where Yessongs doesn't live up to their studio records for me - that's preference however but what can you do. I mean however not to say that Yessongs is bad because it's two hours of Yes......