Time And A Word: The Yes Story: Popoff, Martin: 9780993212024: Amazon.com: Books

What a weird book. It can be very informative about one thing and then skip over another. For instance, it gives plenty of detail about the making of Patrick Moraz's Yes-era solo album but only mentions Chris Squire's briefly. It spends an astonishing amount of space on the history of GTR and absolutely none on how Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe happened. The stuff about the Drama era and the 90125 beginnings is pretty interesting.

read like Cliff Notes

I found this to be a good book with new information, despite reviews to the contrary. Yes, it is not great writing ​and has filler, but it was a good read.

I wish I could say this was a great book,but it's let down on a few levels.First of all, it relies on too may quotes, especially from Steve Howe, and it becomes more and more boring as it progresses through the years. It can be a humorous book much of the time, but it bounces around between the timeline format, quotes, and the occasional review too often that it really doesn't have a consistent feel. I wish it consistently remained detailed through the entire timeline but it pretty much runs out of steam by the time it hits the late 80s and just begins to rely almost exclusively on quotes and timeline data for the remainder of the book. It needs more reviews, and more details, to remain engaging, but just doesn't have that.

I picked up this book because well I wanted to read about one of my favorite bands. What a great surprise this book is. Rather then have it be a straight forward history book, it covers the band from the beginning with clips of interviews and pieces of what they were doing and what was happening in the music world and surrounding events. There are reviews of the albums as they came out by the author and individuals in the band at the time. It is real good at filling in the gaps and answering questions I know I had. If you like Yes and of course enjoy reading you'll love this.