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Essentially Yes
Box set by Yes
Released	December 2006
Recorded	1993 - 2003
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	?:??:??
Label	Eagle Records
Producer(s)	Yes, Trevor Rabin, Bruce Fairbairn, Tim Weidner
Yes chronology
The Word is Live (2005)	Essentially Yes (2006)

Essentially Yes is a box set by progressive rock band Yes. It was released in 2006 by Eagle Records. It contains five discs, four of which are previously-released studio albums; Talk, Open Your Eyes, The Ladder, and Magnification, though not in chronological order. The fifth disc is a live disc from Montreux in 2003.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc 1 1.2 Disc 2 1.3 Disc 3 1.4 Disc 4 1.5 Disc 5 2 Personnel 3 Packaging

• Open Your Eyes

• The Ladder (includes Homeworld preview)

• Magnification

• Talk (includes 2002 bonus track)

1. Siberian Khatru
2. Magnification
3. Don't Kill the Whale
4. In the Presence of
   1. Deeper
   2. Death of Ego
   3. True Beginner
   4. Turn Around and Remember
5. And You and I
   1. Cord of Life
   2. Eclipse
   3. The Preacher the Teacher
   4. Apocalypse
6. Awaken
7. I've Seen All Good People
   1. Your Move
   2. All Good People
   • Split into two tracks, even though it is not listed as such on the disc's sleeve.

• Jon Anderson: Vocals on all discs.
• Chris Squire: Bass on all discs.
• Steve Howe: Guitar on discs 1, 2, and 5.
• Billy Sherwood: Guitar and keyboards on discs 1, 2, and 4.
• Alan White: Drums on all discs.
• Igor Khoroshev: Keyboards on disc 1 tracks 1, 4, and 5; also keyboards on disc 2.
• Steve Porcaro: Keyboards on disc 1 track 2.
• Larry Groupé: Orchestra conductor on disc 3.
• Trevor Rabin: Guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, and string arrangements on disc 4.
• Tony Kaye: Hammond organ on disc 4.
• Rick Wakeman: Keyboards on disc 5.

The previous disc, The Word is Live contained an exhaustive set of liner notes and made use of plastic hubs which intersected each other, often resulting in discs which were damaged immediately upon being removed from the package. However, Essentially Yes, by contrast, was packaged with no liner notes in a black cardboard box featuring simple cover art by Roger Dean. Each disc was given an individual mini-LP (non-gatefold) sleeve despite the fact that none of these albums was released on record and each is an hour or longer and would require a double LP and, as such, a gatefold sleeve.

Yes
Jon Anderson | Chris Squire | Steve Howe | Rick Wakeman | Alan White
Peter Banks | Tony Kaye | Bill Bruford | Patrick Moraz | Geoff Downes | Trevor Horn | Trevor Rabin | Billy Sherwood | Igor Khoroshev
Discography
Studio albums: Yes | Time and a Word | The Yes Album | Fragile | Close to the Edge | Tales from Topographic Oceans | Relayer | Going for the One | Tormato | Drama | 90125 | Big Generator | Union | Talk | Open Your Eyes | The Ladder | Magnification
Live albums: Yessongs | Yesshows | 9012Live: The Solos | Keys to Ascension | Keys to Ascension 2 | House of Yes: Live from House of Blues
Compilations: Yesterdays | Classic Yes | Yesstory | The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection
Remix albums: Yes Remixes
Box sets: Yesyears | In a Word: Yes (1969 - ) | The Word is Live | Essentially Yes
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