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s predecessor. The band were bitter that he had, as a condition of his departure, negotiated a deal that gave him five per cent of the band's earnings in perpetuity. Flynn said he never got any of the money he should have received from that deal, even as Yes became extremely successful in the wake of
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Many years later, Flynn recalled the title of the track, and the entire story behind it, bitterly. "The problem was," he told Welch, "I never got paid. Even when the band went to America and enjoyed big record sales, nothing ever came back to yours truly!" despite his having invested nearly all his
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suggested that the songs be a mix of longer group compositions and shorter pieces by the individual members that showcased their individual talents. "We were well short of a full album of material we could all agree on," Bruford recalled later. He lamented that his suggestion was not quite taken as
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At 35 seconds in length, it seems simply inconsequential, whereas its "idea" is interesting and possibly significant. Had the piece been developed at greater length, "Five per Cent for Nothing" could have done for rock-based percussion what "The Fish" did for bass guitar. In particular, what seems
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contributed "The Fish (Schindleria praematurus)" and "We Have Heaven" respectively, short pieces in which they performed multiple parts. Howe's "Mood for A Day" was a solo acoustic piece on a classical guitar, and Wakeman's "Cans and Brahms" was a short adaptation of part of the third movement of
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Flynn thus brought suit against the band and its new management. "I'd given up everything to manage Yes and because I didn't have enough to spend on them, I was pilloried. I had thrown my life away but obviously it wasn't enough for the gentlemen of that august orchestra!" he told Welch. Late in
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Welch's comment about Bruford signaling his interest in a different musical direction than that the band was beginning to take is echoed in Stuart Chambers's commentary on "Five per Cent for Nothing". He also considers the piece "aptly titled, since it provided the least amount of hype on an
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Bruford recalled later that while he had not joined Yes intending to share in the songwriting, Anderson regularly cajoled him to do so. "He'd say 'It's not enough just being the drummer'. He was right because writing was the thing and of course, that's where the money lay, eventually."
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revenues, as he had started their publishing company and owned it, as well as 5 per cent of all the band's future grosses. The latter provision led to considerable resentment from the band members when they learned of it, as they did not think Flynn had done enough even when he
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available personal savings in the band during its early career. He never received any notifications of board meetings of the band's publishing company despite retaining his 30 per cent stake in it and serving as a director, nor any of the five per cent share of the total.
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Bruford had originally titled the piece "Suddenly It's Wednesday". But Anderson and Squire were still bitter about Flynn, whose two years managing the band Bruford later recalled as time in which Yes "managed only to tread water, run red lights and lose money at gigs in
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I suggested we all individually became 'composer-in-residence' for a day; that is, take the instrumentation, resources and talents of the group's members and use them as you like without further input or discussion from others. This was immediately misconstrued by
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Later reviewers take divergent views, many taking into account the piece's brevity. Yes biographer Chris Welch describes the piece as "33 seconds of Brufordian angst which seems to say 'I don't like the music business that much, and I'd rather be with
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1973, at his solicitor's advice, he settled for $ 150,000, much less than he believes he was owed but more than enough to pay the £6,000 in legal bills he owed. After that, he left the music industry and management entirely to run pubs outside
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that cost us more to do than we were paid", receiving a share of the band's earnings from then on as well 30 per cent of their publishing revenues. So Bruford's piece was retitled "Five per Cent for Nothing", as a protest.
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says it was the most challenging Yes song to perform from this album. Critics have seen it as anticipating the musical directions Bruford would take after he left Yes a year later, in his work with
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A quarter-century later, Bruford described "Five per Cent for Nothing" as "completely naive—but we've all got to start somewhere." Bruford left the band shortly after recording their next album,
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Howe said the secret to playing it successfully was to finish together. During rehearsals he kept close track of the beat count and would cue the rest of the band to it by dropping his guitar's
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Martin finds it ironic that Bruford largely eschewed playing solos, either in concert or on record, during his career, since he believes Bruford could have played more interesting solos than
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release, it is the last track on Side 1). With a running time of 35 seconds ("a tad brief", as Bruford puts it), it is the shortest track Yes has ever recorded.
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placed "Five Per Cent for Nothing" at number 140, remarking: "Squonk, plonk, boink, dink. Bill Bruford clearly wasn't putting much thought into this hilarious
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being played on stage." He believes the reason for that is that it only made sense to do so if the band was playing the entire album from which it came.
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sees the track as deceptively minimal, one that might have had a greater impact on rock drumming in the 1970s had it been taken more seriously.
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important about "Five Per Cent" is the way that Bruford puts the drums and percussion up front, without playing anything that sounds like a
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s Owen Adams included the track in a 2007 list of musical "gems" that are less than a minute long, calling it the "pure essence of prog."
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hip hop group sampled "Five per Cent for Nothing" for "Troopin' on the Down Low", an unreleased track recorded during their sessions for
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in London, offered to manage them after seeing them perform. They accepted and Flynn guided their career through their first two albums,
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either. In 2014, after the band had gone through numerous personnel changes, it performed the piece live when, as part of its
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with various keyboards taking the parts of instrument groups within the orchestra. Bruford offered a short piece, 16
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his departure. Several years later Flynn sued, eventually settling for a far smaller sum than he had asked for.
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brought the band the success they had sought, and they soon returned to the studio to record a fourth album,
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say, "taken directly from the percussion line", i.e. triggered by beats on individual drums in the kit.
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and as a solo performer. Bruford himself sees it primarily as a "naïve" first attempt at songwriting.
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doodle, so let's follow suit in this blurb." Frank Valish, reviewing the "Super Deluxe Edition" of
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chose "Five per Cent for Nothing" as one of the less well-known Yes tracks he remixed in modern
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otherwise innovative recording." It "did not mesh" with the other solo pieces on the album.
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The song was renamed from Bruford's original title, "Suddenly It's Wednesday", to spite
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electric guitar and bass, while Wakeman plays a similarly staccato organ part of
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repeated twice, in which the guitar, bass and keyboard parts are, as the album's
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he had intended—a way to resolve ongoing conflicts amongst the members.
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that slowly descend until they start being held and resolve to an E
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On "Five per Cent for Nothing", Bruford plays an intricate line on
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of approximately 116 beats per minute. Howe and Squire play short
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Jungle Brothers (Crazy Wisdom Masters) - Troopin' On The Down Low
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The band did not play it live until 2014, when it played
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major 7th after 12 bars. The 16 bars are then repeated.
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because he was the only member who supported Flynn.
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Index

Five Per Cent For Nothing
Instrumental
Yes
Fragile
Studio
Advision Studios
Genre
Progressive rock
jazz fusion
Label
Atlantic Records
Songwriter(s)
Bill Bruford
Producer(s)
Eddy Offord
progressive rock
Yes
Fragile
Bill Bruford
Steve Howe
King Crimson
Roy Flynn
The Yes Album
The Speakeasy Club
Yes
Time and a Word
Peter Banks
Steve Howe
Devonshire
Romansleigh

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