Author Topic: Chris Squire (Read 669 times)

jacko · « **Reply #15 on:** June 29, 2015, 04:06:40 AM »

Hi was very shocked to hear of Chris' passing yesterday, despite having posted of his illness a month ago. I guess we hadn't been informed just how ill he was and I was looking forward to next year's tour in the hope that Chris would be performing as he has at every Yes gig there's been. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. There's a touching tribute from Brian May on his blog

Graeme

terryc · « **Reply #16 on:** June 29, 2015, 04:23:57 AM »

Sad loss indeed, 'Close To The Edge' still is my favourite prog rock album.
RIP Mr Squire

pauldo · « **Reply #17 on:** June 29, 2015, 07:59:38 AM »

Dang!
I got goose bumps when I saw this thread . . . And then tears in my eyes when reading the news.

Huge influence.

Schindleria Praemeturus
May the waters guide you home.

(Message edited by Pauldo on June 29, 2015)

rjmsteel · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2015, 01:01:18 PM »

Just read this!!!
My son and I were just listening to Fragile yesterday.

mica · « **Reply #19 on:** June 29, 2015, 03:07:35 PM »

Crushing news. Truly one of the greats, and gone far too soon.

peoplechipper · « **Reply #20 on:** June 29, 2015, 09:03:34 PM »

Bummer...I really haven't listened to Yes in years but some songs pop into my head on occasion and they always have a killer Chris Squire bass line in them...

funkyjazzjunky · « **Reply #21 on:** June 30, 2015, 01:35:06 PM »

I still remember hearing Roundabout for the first time and trying to learn the bass-lines

VMG

5a_quilt_top · « **Reply #22 on:** July 01, 2015, 11:16:35 AM »

I remember hearing Roundabout many times on the radio and not realizing that the bass was making that sound until I saw a live performance on TV...made me realize that there could be so much more to a bass part beyond thud, thud, thud.

A true innovator and an inspiration to us all to think differently.

hifiguy · « **Reply #23 on:** July 01, 2015, 05:56:04 PM »

Very sad. He and Jack Bruce were my first bass heroes. They were the players who convinced me I wasn't settling for anything by taking up the bass guitar. When I was a teenage bass player I played a Ric with Rotos because Chris did. Used cabs with 12 speakers because Chris did. Even used the same Herco picks. I was proud of myself to an unseemly degree when I was able to play Close To The Edge, Siberian Khatru and Roundabout correctly and from memory. He was an idol, an inspiration, a music teacher and a Bass Hero to me.

RIP, sir.

bigredbass · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2015, 01:27:38 AM »

Great musicians reach across many genres and influence people you just would not think would be listening.

Like most of us in the 70's, FRAGILE and the first single 'RoundAbout' made big impressions. I was working in a music store, and a local black bassist who was already a slap/pop master was a regular customer, he could Bootsy and Stanley and Larry Graham and Louis Johnson you to death, just fabulous at it and fingerstyle ala' Jamerson as well. One of my favorite guys and players, he just had 'it' for days.

He came in one day, and 'RoundAbout' was playing on the FM radio feed we kept playing as background music. So he picks up an axe and plugs in, and begins playing it, letter-perfect, in slap, and it was just hair-curling. Not funked up, but Squire's lines precisely. He went on to rave about Squire, pointed out the cooler little bits that told me he'd really woodshedded this. And his slap tone was obviously not unlike Squire's tone on the recording. What a blast !

I later begged him to teach me to slap 'The Wanton Song', but we never got 'round to it.

So when it comes to great players, you just never know WHO's digging on it.

Joey

811952 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 26, 2015, 03:53:35 PM »

It's been a month, and I still tear-up when I think about it.

Lift Me Up has Chris playing Trevor Rabin's Alembic.

I can't believe he's gone.

John