Chris Topher Russell Edward Squire , was born in London on 4 March 1948 and then just turned 63 years. Happy Birthday.
is best known as bassist of the British progressive rock YES . It is the legal holder of the mark "Yes" and the only member of the group to play in all the official albums.
I had some years ago LUCK to see a couple of concerts targati Yes (2003-2004), forming almost standard (except replacement Bruford White) which I had not ever happened in the years' 70, at the time of the band's heyday. The first of two events changed my life slightly, returning on the road that I had set aside, the music.
A little 'history from Wikipedia.
Chris Squire was born in Kingsbury, a suburb northwest of London, and as a child sang in the church choir. In 1964 he was suspended from school because he "wore his hair long, and there was never returned. From an early age cultivated a great love of music, ranging eclectically from religious choral music and the Merseybeat of the early '60s. In those years he founded first a group called The Syn and then Mabel Greer's Toyshop, which became the first incarnation of Yes with Jon Anderson on vocals, Peter Banks on guitar, Tiny Kaye on keyboards and Bill Bruford to battery.
The Yes they recorded their first album in 1969, and are active today. Squire, in particular, was the only member to participate in any group project.
The music of Yes has been the main occupation of Squire years, his work as a soloist or in other projects have been relatively few. His first and only true solo album, Fish Out of Water 1975, which is one of the solo work of members of Yes most loved by fans of the group recorded during the Relayer, with the participation of two other members of the family Yes "Bill Bruford on drums and Ptric Moraz on keyboards.
In 1981 Squire was part briefly in a band called XYZ, together Alan White and Jimmy Page, however, the group recorded a few demo songs.
Later, Squire gave birth to the project with Billy Sherwood Conspiracy, the debut album of this band, same name, published in 2000 contains a number of issues taken up again by the recent release of Yes (in particular, Open Your Eyes ). The second work was The Unknow Conspiracy, published in 2003.
Squire has also collaborated on the project, Esquire, with ex-wife Nikki, and the group with Billy Sherwood of World Trade.
Chris Squire is generally considered a pioneer and an innovator of great talent the use of electric bass. The bass that usually is a Richenbaker 4001, which owns and plays since 1965, was the third Rickenbacker 4001 imported to England from the USA (the first was purchased by Paul McCartney). This instrument, with its clean and distorted sound, is a key element of the sound of Squire, also based on the technique of bi-amping : the bass of the instrument are sent to a bass amplifier and treble to an amplifier lead guitar, producing a kind of 'sandwich' that takes on a tone overdrive effect, while maintaining the power of the Rickenbacker bass. Squire was one of the first bassists to use effects like tremolo, phaser and wah-wah. The bass lines Squire are almost never obvious, and are often described as lines corresponding to the overlapping solo virtuoso guitar and keyboards. This particular technique extremely low status in some way also the first work as a precursor of the approach to low Squire Jaco Pastorius.
addition to the lower part in the Squire of Yes music with vocals, the harmonies with which the countertenor Jon Anderson is one of the "trademarks" of the band's sound.
Chris Squire is nicknamed Fish ("Fish"), and this name is associated with many of his works (for example, the title of His solo album, and the famous bass solo Schindleria Praematurus (The Fish) album Fragile (Yes 1971). Squire is a Pisces and seems to believe in astrology, but he appears to have been given the nickname by Bill Bruford at the beginning of his career with the Yes, when Squire flooded a hotel room in Oslo in the shower.
A curiosity.
I'm reading a fantastic book that is the autobiography of Bill Bruford .
In different situations, show a critical trope even hidden, made by Bill to Chris concerning its slowness. It is even called "sloth", and this seems to be one of the reasons why, at some point, the collaboration is over.
Well, seeing him in action on stage seems anything but a "Lenton!
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