Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 7 – Chris Squire’s bass with Miguel Falcão – 607

Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller

It was a delight to welcome the bass maestro Miguel Falcão back onto the YMP this week. As you would expect, he knows a lot about how Chris Squire created the bass lines for Tales from Topographic Oceans. You may have heard Miguel's bass covers of both The Ancient and The Remembering, and if not they are embedded below.

We found out many things including what basses Chris used to record and play Tales live. So stand by for a massively in-depth look at the album...once again...

What basses did Chris use to record Tales?

Were there differences when Yes played Tales live?

How does Chris' playing on Tales differ from Close to the Edge?

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https://miguelbass.com/

https://youtu.be/tf2MQv7OtR0

https://youtu.be/4DvXNtbjwA0

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The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from: archive.org