----------------------------------------------------- JULY 19, 1976 ----------------------------------------------------- Source: Anaheim Bulletin Alan White of Yes interviewed By Robert Crancer  ANAHEIM -- With explosives cracking the anxious air of the 50,000 attendees at the Anaheim Stadium for Saturday's Yes/Frampton concert, I sat with Yes drummer Alan White discussing the past year of the band's accomplishments, their movie ("Yessongs") and their respective solo albums. As the crowd readied itself for the fruitless acoustic opening of Peter Frampton, I opened the interview with questions on the concert that Yes would be doing that afternoon; would they be performing music from the next album, or will it be a combination of all their musical phases? White replied, ''The actual music side of the whole thing will be a combination of all our music . . . At the time we decided to get into this tour, we decided to play all the songs that the people wanted to hear.'' He continued to explain that the group did not feel as though they got all the music out of their systems on last year's tour. In fact, they did not feel that the overall approach to last year's shows let them put across the music the way they desired. White explained it this way, ''It takes about six months to a year to play a piece of Yes music perfectly . . . you know it, say, after a year, it begins to cook.'' As I posed a question to White about his particular solo album "Ramshackled," an explosive, apparently heaved from the crowd found its way into the Winnebago courtyard and exploded at the feet of a Yes roadcrew member. But White did not find the disturbance to be distracting enough to forget his ''Ramshackled'' LP. ''I tried to portray on that album all the different styles of music I like and have influences on my life.  The only central core of the whole album is the rhythm section, the sound you hear.'' When he was asked about the musicians playing on the album with him, White explained that they are people he had played with in bands before he joined Yes. He added that some of the music on the album was material he had had on hand for two or three years, and was written with some of the musicians who appear on the disc. He also attributed as major influences on the album's music and structure to the likes of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and other jazz experimentals. I then sought the answer that might dispell those nasty rumors about Yes breaking up as a result of their solo albums being worked on last year. ''It just seemed that the solo albums were something that each one of us felt had to be done. We planned it that way. We would go off tour ('75), record our albums, get back together and rehearse for our next album and tour. There was never any talk of us splitting up, nor were there any thoughts of that either, he added. About the movie ''Yessongs,'' produced by Richard Ellman, White had mixed emotions. ''It was done a long time ago, almost four years or so.'' He continued on the reason why the stage was not the usual elaborate Yes stage show. ''The place was small. . . it was filmed at the Rainbow in London. We regard it as a piece of history, really, Rick (Wakeman) being in it and all,'' he concluded. White had earlier explained that Roger Dean designed the ''Lungfish'' lighting rack that hangs over their stage, giving an ethereal, cloudlike look to what would normally be an average light apparatus. He referred to its absence in the Yessong movie as not being conceived for its present role as part of their light show equipment. But the Lungfish's purpose and effectiveness was beautifully displayed Saturday night. Close Window YesInThePress.com For site comments, problems, corrections, or additions, contact YesinthePress@aol.com