Essentially Yes

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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 the band's most recent live album Live at Montreux 2003.

Track listing

Disc 1

• Open Your Eyes

Disc 2

• The Ladder (includes Homeworld preview)

Disc 3

• Magnification

Disc 4

• Talk (includes 2002 bonus track)

Disc 5

• Live at Montreux 2003

Personnel

• Jon Anderson: Vocals on all discs.
• Chris Squire: Bass on all discs.
• Steve Howe: Guitar on discs 1, 2, 3, and 5.
• 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.
• Igor Khoroshev: Keyboards on disc 1 tracks 1, 4, and 5; also keyboards on disc 2.
• Billy Sherwood: Guitar and keyboards on discs 1, 2, and 4.
• Alan White: Drums on all discs.

with

• Steve Porcaro: Keyboards on disc 1 track 2.
• Larry Groupé: Orchestra conductor on disc 3.

Packaging

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.