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Peter Banks creator of the Yes guitar picture

Peter Banks When one of our teenage hero’s dies early it is devastating. I was slightly too young to really feel Jimi’s and Janice’s death. But I am constantly reminded of the sense of loss I felt when “Koss” Paul Kossoff died. Every year I attend a Fairport Gig Sandy Denny springs to mind. Who does know where the time goes? It is all too often true that when an artist dies, only then do they really gain the recognition they deserve. Peter mercifully will have known, that whilst he missed out on Yes at its most successful, he was highly regarded for his contribution to the bands musical personality. You can of course listen to “Yes” and “Time & Word” to understand how he helped define the role of the guitar player in Yes. Devoid of any R & B his lines were clean, articulate, jazz informed. He could play long sinuous sustained notes, pick his way through a playful dribble of Wes Montgomery inspired notes and then articulate what I describe as a reverse effect vi