My fourth Yes show, and first MAJOR road trip. Came down from Portland/Vancouver to see the show while visiting friends in Reno, so road trip from Portland to Reno, THEN the standard Reno to bay area trip that was necessary at the time for Renoites to see a major act.

The "In the round" concept was a lot of fun, save for Rick having some trouble that night during one song. I remember the Raiderettes, and the party atmosphere of Roundabout. It was great fun. This time, Awaken was transcendent for me. I guess it should have been at the GFTO show, but I guess it just took a while for me to embrace that song like I should. Anyway, by now, I had fully embraced Rick's return, though Tormato wasn't as good of an album as GFTO, imho, they were playing as well as they ever had. I loved that they included "Soon" as part of the "big medley", and was reminded of my first live experience with the band when I heard Steve's spine tingling and beautiful steel steel guitar pierce the air.

Amazing show.

How do you remember this so all well? I was 20 years old and remember very little of the concert. My only semi-clear memory is that of the Raiderettes suddenly appearing out of nowhere. But I also remember them being booed and I thought that they were whisked away for their own safety. My brother-in-law (before I knew him) was there as well and remembers the Raiderettes incident much the same way. Otherwise it is all sort of a haze. I am sure glad I was there though.

i do not believe Roundbaout was released on Classic Yes (which i always thought was 10-28-78) nor on Yesshows Expanded (2011) which simply says "Oakland 78" on the liner notes, so i think it was from the 8th not the 7th.

Set list incorrect. Here is actual song order:

Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra
Siberian Khatru
Heart Of The Sunrise
Future Times/Rejoice
Circus Of Heaven
Time And A Word
Long Distance Runaround
Survival
Fish (Schindleria Praematurus), The
Perpetual Change
Soon
Don't Kill The Whale
Clap
Starship Trooper
Madrigal
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Wakeman Solo
Awaken
I've Seen All Good People
Roundabout

I remember Rick having problems with his piano for a few moments before Heart of the Sunrise and he ended up having to play the piano parts on his Minimoog. Then the Word Is Live track list was announced, I was hoping they would use this version as it was, um, different. Alas, they used the recording from the next night.

Then, later in the show, another of Rick's keyboards crapped out and they couldn't do Madrigal which segued into On the Silent Wings of Freedom at other shows. Jon said something like, "Bear with us, we haven't done this before," as they jammed for a bit and went into Silent Wings. Rick was not pleased.

The version of ROUNDABOUT from Classic Yes cuts out the unbelievable
long ending they did on the 1978 & 1979 tour. To bad they edited
it.

The Raiderettes came out and were shaking their "pom pom's" and prancing around the stage on the floor RIGHT in front of us. I could reach out and touch them. I crossed my fingers wishing that somehow Jon would motion the crowd to the stage, as he always did near the end of a show back then.

Then my wish came true. The crowd pushed forward to the stage, The chairs were collapsing, and there I was, squished in between 2 smiling and 2 extremely pissed off Raiderettes :) then the roadies (damn them!!) lifted them over the barricade onto the stage.

Those were the days.....

This was my all-time favorite yes tour. we had 2nd row 1st night, 1st row 2nd night.

My friend Tim and I had "decorated" a bedsheet with art from various albums: Relayer on the far right and left, the island from Tales in the center, planet fragments from Yessongs, the different colored "tubes"from GFTO shooting out of the Tales island, and a big blue dean Yes top center.

On the first night we put the bedsheet up, draping over a tunnel leading off the floor. the lights went down, the crowd roared, and a lone spotlight shone on our bedsheet. then the band came out from behind it!! amazing!!

The show was great, till Rick started throwing stuff at the roadies, then it was great again. we got to our bedsheet just as someone else started to take it down.

The second night, we had 1st row seats. we took our seats, and stuffed the bedsheet under the chairs. my hands were swollen from clapping so much the night before (that happened again at ABWH in Sacramento), so i "behaved" this night and just enjoyed the show.

Toward the end of the show, the Raiderettes came in and ran around the stage. causing the crowd to come down to the stage, squishing the cheerleaders into the stage. they were helped onto the stage and safety. I threw the bedsheet onto the stage around this time. in between encores Chris leaned over, and with that giant wingspan of his, opened up the sheet. the roar was deafening. he draped it over the drums and they played another song.

Never saw that bedsheet again, or a Yesshow nearly as good!!!! (till SLO of course)

I saw the Tormato tour in Oakland and brouight a big group of people to join me. Mistake. Tormato as a album was weak, and that pulled down the energy of the whole show. Learned that if I don't like their product for a given year, I probably won't like the show in general.

I was in California on a training course in 1978. My wife and I were at the top of Mount Hamilton when I heard on the radio that Yes were performing that night at the Oakland Coliseum. I (almost) flew down the mountain and spent a couple of hours trying to find a place that sold tickets, but without any luck. I then drove to Oakland only to find the place locked up, however I sat in the car (with quite a few others waiting too), until about 2 hours before showtime when they opened the place up. Luckily there were still tickets available and we saw a great show. My lasting memory is the boys coming back for the encore along with the Oakland Raider cheerleaders in tow. They all then proceeded to get on the circular stage for "Roundabout" complete with pom-poms.

A third show for Monday, October 9, was advertised, then later cancelled. The weekend shows, however, were SRO. The set was the same as listed, with one exception. On Saturday (10/7), what we heard later reported as incorrect voltage was causing some of Wakeman's keyboards to emit static and feedback, and just before the point of his solo the show was paused. Three roadies materialized to perform repairs and/or triage, and an obviously unhappy Wakeman fished out two or three circuit boards and flung them over his shoulder into the audience. Anderson then apologized for the delay, and said "it's just one of those evenings."