Aside form radio broadcasts, there are only a handful of audience tapes for Yes’ first couple years of existence. In The Beginning on Highland collects together three tapes from 1969 which, when it was released in 1997, were the only three in circulation. A decade after the October 27th, 1969 Amougies, Belgium tape surfaced and was pressed on Almost Famous (Tarantura TCDY-9). The sound quality of these recordings are fair at best but they hold tremendous historic value.