{"id":290,"date":"1999-11-06T17:07:26","date_gmt":"1999-11-06T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:08:31","slug":"yes-at-the-warfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/1999\/11\/06\/yes-at-the-warfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes at the Warfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We realised a long nurtured dream of mine today. We drove in to San Francisco and saw the group YES perform live at the Warfield Theater. They were awesomely good. I&#8217;d had the new album, &#8220;The Ladder&#8221;, since September, and I bought tickets as soon as they went on sale on the web, so we had great seats. I&#8217;d been following the tour reports online, so I knew what to expect, but still, it was pretty fantastic to actually *be there*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards I felt kind of depressed &#8211; after all, they are human as well as musicians. Maybe if Rick Wakeman were still playing keyboards with them, completing the &#8220;classic&#8221; and arguably most popular lineup, I would have felt differently. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it was the best concert I&#8217;ve ever attended, and I will absolutely make sure to see them again when they tour this way again in 2000. But, I guess there is something about seeing demi-gods in the flesh that leaves you feeling just a little &#8220;down&#8221; afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We realised a long nurtured dream of mine today. We drove in to San Francisco and saw the group YES perform live at the Warfield Theater. They were awesomely good. I&#8217;d had the new album, &#8220;The Ladder&#8221;, since September, and I bought tickets as soon as they went on sale on the web, so we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}