Bill Bruford compares Yes mix notes to Michelangelo, David, and the Vatican.
1. Yes Music Podcast 698, 'Yes Guess Who II,' is a quote-guessing game built around Yes members and related figures.
2. Kevin Mulrine hosts, Mark Anthony Kaye co-hosts, and their value here is the back-and-forth guessing format.
3. The episode is for a revised Yes trivia challenge where each quote must be matched to a person and often a decade.
4. Kevin opens with activity from the YMP Facebook discussion group, including Barry Plummer calendars and John Pickles' desktop image.
5. He also mentions the yesmusicbooks.com discount code KVKBKC8Z for the 12-photo 1970s calendar.
6. Kevin lists posts about Rick Wakeman, Oliver Wakeman, Chris Squire, Billy Sherwood, Trevor Horn, Steve Howe, and Miguel Falcao.
7. The roundup includes a question about the best version of the 1975 QPR concert and a discussion of the 'Hotz Box.'
8. Kevin says Jilly Good News announced two limited editions of 'Symphonic Live.'
9. He also mentions Yes Shift speaking with Miguel Falcao and Simon Barrow about 'alt music Yes.'
10. The quiz itself uses quotes from Yes figures and asks Mark to identify the speaker and sometimes the decade.
11. Kevin’s first quote about Yes not being a jam band turns out to be Oliver Wakeman, who described his early run with the group.
12. Mark’s first answer, about not knowing 'the Eddie Jobson thing' because there was 'no internet' and 'I didn't even think I had a cell phone,' is Tony Kaye in 2023.
13. Tony Kaye’s quote about touring the United States with Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper leads to 'the bad boy in the band' and points to the Yes album era.
14. John Anderson’s line, 'One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport,' is dated to 1972.
15. Trevor Rabin’s comment on 'Endless Dream' rejects the idea that a song should be long for its own sake.
16. Bill Bruford appears in several answers, including his wish to be associated with the music and his Michelangelo analogy about Union production notes.
17. Tom Brislin describes acting as the interface between Yes and the orchestra, reviewing scores and taking cues from the conductor.
18. Roger Dean’s story about refusing John Anderson’s idea for a mountain-top cover becomes the most comic exchange in the answers section.
19. The tone is informal, competitive, and talkative, with Kevin and Mark interrupting themselves, laughing, and revising guesses aloud.
20. Listeners who like Yes trivia, band history, and quote-based games will enjoy it, while people wanting a structured interview or deep analysis may skip it.
