Yes

[Rick and Roll]

1) if Jim and Keith can find their older Yesposts (a name for the next conpilation?), the'd be great here.

2) Moses I don't mind the thread changing course, it happens on all of them.

3) Spaz, I'm not sure I said Tales was "padded and bled to death"....I hope that was someone else (possibly Rick Wakeman?)

4) "The Remembering High The Memory" is my favorite cut from Tales (probably no else's but that's the way it goes). That being said, you could chop off about 5 minutes of it.

To me, the test of a long tune is, "does it need to be that long"? Thank you Moses for saying at a mere earthling can give the mighty Moses the "boldness". Mind Drive's problem is that it's the exact same song repeated. It does have a nice keyboard lead towards the end, but then again Rush's "The Camera Eye" is the same - two parts the same with a guitar lead at the end.

Spock's Beard has trouble with very long songs because Neal tries to use every musical style when repeating the choruses. Some songs build towards the end, or they have many different parts (ala Tull's 2 epics).

Tales' songs, Gates, CTTE, and Brother of Mine build and develop - Mind Drive does not. I like the song, just think it's better suited for the 10 minute range.