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http://somethingelsereviews.com hat geschrieben:“ASTRAL TRAVELLER,” TIME AND WORD (1970): When Banks passed away on March 7, 2013, he left behind a criminally underappreciated legacy in music — as a solo artist, a member of Flash and Empire and, maybe most surprising, as the original guitarist in Yes. Many fans remain unfamiliar with the band’s pre-Steve Howe era, even today, and “Astral Traveller” is a terrific place to start that process of discovery. The track sets a template for much of what the band would become, right down to its forward-thinking title, and also includes one of Banks’ most completely realized solos with Yes. He and Anderson famously clashed over the use of orchestration on this album, and Banks was summarily fired, but those bad feelings were long gone by the time of the guitarist’s death at just 65. Anderson released an official statement, recalling their time together in the band’s upstart early days …
JON ANDERSON: We played a show with the Who at the Marquee club in London early 1969. Peter talked about going on stage and smashing his guitar at the end of our set like Pete Townsend. He loved Pete, as we all did. I told him: “But you only have one guitar Peter. Pete Townsend has lots of ‘em! Why not get a plastic guitar and smash that?” Of course, Peter found a dinky pink plastic guitar, and at the end of our set, he started smashing the little guitar to bits — and it wouldn’t smash right away, but he kept on bashing until it broke into tiny bits. It was one of the funniest moments of my life. Good old Peter. Bless him.
