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Yes' damaliger Tour-Manager Michael Tait über die 1978/79er Yes-Konzerte:"In America we'd have a three or four truck tour although that is nothing by today's standards. The biggest development was the rotating round stage, which l thought of back in 1976. We were trying to come up with a new stage design and I picked up a can of film I was taking to a studio and was on the seat of my car. I looked at it and I thought, 'That's it!'
I put the idea on paper and showed it to the band. 'Look, we can play in the centre of the arena - in the round.' We'd have Jon in the centre, with Alan behind him. To his left would be Chris and to his right would be Steve which was the normal set-up. The only difference would be the keyboard player would be in front of Jon, but that's how they set up in the studio anyway.
They said it couldn't be done, but I said if it worked in the studio, it would work outside. And it did.
What that rotating round stage did for Yes was to make them a lot of money. The late Seventies were their golden years in America and Yes were doing big, big business. Sell out business in the round is worth a lot more than sell out business in a proscenium set-up. The front row is 120 feet long instead of sixty! You scale up the tickets and sell more seats.
We broke box office records all over the country, including playing to something like 22,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York. We were doing the business!
Quelle: The Yes Dialogue (http://stereo33books.com/yes-dialogues/)
