Yes - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: John Peel's Sunday Show, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 3-17-1970

I'm not a super Yes fan, but as far as I can tell, there are very few Yes concert recordings, official or bootleg, that have sound quality worth hearing, before 1972. With 1972, there's the official triple live album "Yessongs," as well as seven complete concerts, packaged together in the box set "Progeny." In terms of live concerts from the band's first two years, this is pretty much the only one. Once again, we have to thank the BBC for their bothering to record this band with their usual high quality control at a time when they had barely made a dent in the charts.

For Volume 1 in this series, which contains early BBC studio sessions recordings, I used the X-Minus audio editing program to improve the sound quality by boosting the lead vocals. I don't know why, but it seems having the vocals too low was a frequent problem with early Yes recordings, but I felt the need to do the exact same thing here. Every song has "[Edit]" in their titles because of that change and not the usual BBC problem of DJ's talking over the music. 

The one disappointment about this show is that it's relatively show. The concert mentioned in the title is only 28 minutes long. It appears to be complete, because the BBC only gave the band a half-hour spot. Those songs all come from the official BBC album "Something's Coming." Since it is rather short, I had two songs from later in 1970 taken from a Belgian TV show that was just about the only other recording from 1970 or earlier that has good sound quality. These versions were done in a TV studio with no audience, but they fit better here than on any other BBC volume because they're different songs than the others, so I stuck them at the end.

Three of the songs are covers: "Every Little Thing," "Everydays," and "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed." "For Everyone" is an original that never made it to any Yes album.

Including the two extra songs, this album is 37 minutes long.

01 Astral Traveler [Edit] (Yes)
02 Then [Edit] (Yes)
03 Every Little Thing [Edit] (Yes)
04 Everydays [Edit] (Yes)
05 For Everyone [Edit] (Yes)
06 No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed [Edit] (Yes)
07 Sweet Dreams [Edit] (Yes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15190976/Yess_1970_BBSessionsVolum2SundayShwParsTheatreLondnBritain__3-17-1970_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a Yes concert in the Netherlands in January 1970.