Exclusive: Remembering Original Yes/Flash Guitarist Peter Banks: 1947-2013

Video by Robert Hakalski; compiled and shared exclusively by George Mizer, Peter Banks' long-time manager.

Banks co-founded Yes, suggested the name and even created the band's first logo. The seminal prog guitarist first collaborated with Yes stalwart bassist Chris Squire as part of the Syn, before taking part in both Yes' 1969 eponymous debut and the 1970 follow up 'Time and a Word.'

Banks later formed Flash, issuing three albums under that moniker through 1973. He'd release five solo albums as well, beginning in '73 with the all-star 'Two Sides of Peter Banks' - featuring Phil Collins (Genesis, Brand X), John Wetton (Asia, King Crimson) and Steve Hackett (Genesis, GTR), among others.

Banks died on March 7, 2013 at just 65.