Can I Play You Something?

Can I Play You Something? Artist: Peter Banks
Label: Blueprint UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 604388114320
EAN: 0604388114320
ASIN: B0000365IX


Release Date: 2001-04-24

Can I Play You Something?


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Tracks:

  1. Can I Play You Something?
  2. Bang/Crash
  3. Peter Gunn
  4. Hippie Loop
  5. 14 Hour Technicolour Dream
  6. You Better Move On
  7. Beyond And Before (Demo)
  8. Beyond And Before (What Bass? Mix)
  9. Lima Loop
  10. Grounded
  11. For Your Love
  12. Flowerman (Demo)
  13. Flowerman
  14. Yesterdays
  15. Electric Funeral (Demo)
  16. Electric Funeral (Radio Fun Mix)
  17. Cinnamon Touch
  18. Get Yourself Together (Demo)
  19. Created By Clive
  20. Images Of You And Me (Radio Fun Mix)
  21. I Saw You! (Bang/Crash)
  22. No Time

Album Description

15 track collection of rare live, demos and singles, including material recorded with Yes, Mabel Greers Toyshop &Devils Disciples. All tracks are from 1964-1980 & many are previously unreleased. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Description

15 track collection of rare live, demos and singles, including material recorded with Yes, Mabel Greers Toyshop &Devils Disciples. All tracks are from 1964-1980 & many are previously unreleased. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Original Guitarist for Yes . includes Rarities from 1964 Thru 1980.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Can Mott Play You Something.......2004-09-17

What a marvelous idea. You take one seasoned musical genius, put him in a room with a tape deck with all his archive material, and ask him to play a selection of his hidden treasures from the dark and murky past. This is exactly what happened here.

Peter Banks, the original and best guitarist from the band Yes, has trawled his back catalogue for some juicy rare and often unreleased back catalogue material. He was first asked to concentrate on his pre-Yes days from the sixties, when we were all reeling and a-rocking, quaking, and a-shaking, making and breaking, faking and mistaking, joking and smoking - everybody was loco from those years. This collection of songs is basically collected from Peter's early years 1964-1968, and gives a fascinating insight into a musician's formative years.

From his first tentative steps as a young seventeen year old guitarist with Devil's Disciples (after which the guitarist admits in the wonderful booklet that comes with this collection, that he found the whole experience so terrifying, he doubted he would ever pluck up the courage again to enter a recording studio. During that 2-hour session, both the tracks here from the Devil's Disciples were recorded) to Peter's solo spot with Yes on one of their first gigs, Peter Banks musical birth is laid bare. It certainly isn't all pretty, and to keep the listener's attention, neither is it in chronological order.

As well as the two Devil's Disciples tracks (quite honestly, their take on 'For Your Love' does not hold a light to the Yardbirds' version), you also get five cuts from Syn, where Peter Banks first teamed up with bassist Chris Squire. You get to hear 'Flowerman', the single from Syn's own Rock Opera, in which the band used to dress up as flowers for the stage production, and then finish the set with a huge fight featuring gardening implements. The Flowerman also sounds like very early 'Spinal Tap', and is made all the more galling as you get two versions of it back to back. Obviously, Peter Banks is proud of it all.

The bulk of the material here though comes from the second band that Banks and Squire formed after 'Syn' and were turned into compost. The magically monikered 'Mabel Greer's Toyshop' the music takes a cosmic leap forward with versions of 'Beyond and Before' written by Mabel Greer's Toyshop vocalist Clive Bailey with Chris Squire, which in a slightly amended version was to go on to be track one on side one of the debut vinyl recording of Yes.

The almost telepathic understanding between Squire and Banks is a wonder to listen to as you can hear them establishing the sound that was to become Yes' trademark, and still is today even though Peter Banks has not been in the ranks for over 34 years (mind you, just about every other jobbing musician has been through Yes' ranks with each guitarist having to copy Banks' original guitar template).

To kick start the proceedings, Peter Banks has included a version of Peter Gunn from his jamming band in 1980. Perhaps breaking the rules a little, but it is well worth the effort as it literally knocks heads together. A wonderful place to start. Then to finish off this collection, there are nearly nine minutes of Peter's solo section of the Yes set, which used to come during Yes' cover of the Byrds 'I See You', where the other musicians would depart the stage (at that time Yes had Chris Squire on bass, Jon Anderson on vocals, and Tony Kaye on keyboards), leaving our intrepid guitarist backed only by Bill Bruford on drums, to, in the vernacular of the day, completely freak out on the guitar. You will either love it or find it totally boring and pretentious. (This Dog loves it.)

All the songs are linked together by more sound bites from Peter Bank's musical library. The 12-page booklet of this collection is crammed full of informative facts and funny anecdotes written in the guitarist's own hand, with a wonderful Peter Banks Rock family tree from the era and the necessary embarrassing era photos. Although this collection does have its weak moments, they are made up for by the highs that are contained here. For another insight into this very underrated musician, read his autobiography "Beyond and Before'' or, to hear Peter Banks at the peak of his powers, try the debut album from Flash (1972), the band Peter formed after he was unceremoniously dumped from Yes, or Peter's second solo album Instinct (1993).



Pawed by Mott The Dog
Re-chewed by Ella Crew

1 out of 5 stars Utterly Wretched.......2003-08-12

Okay, from a historical perspective you might want to own this if you're fanatically interested in the roots of Yes' music, but come on. This pales in comparison to his other solo works like Instinct and The Two Sides of Peter Banks. Bad singing, bad songs, I cringe to think about it. Let it be known that this is an amazingly talented guitarist-but this is nowhere near his best stuff.

5 out of 5 stars A must for Yes fans!.......2002-03-03

Early versions of "Beyond and Before" along with Banks and Bruford jamming are essential for Yes fans.

4 out of 5 stars

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