A bit of a drama was it?

I saw two concerts on that tour - Brighton and one of the London gigs. A few people booed Horn at the former, and at the latter (Rainbow) one 'wit' yelled 'bring back Wakeman' before the Downes solo. Geoff gave a one-fingered salute in return... A couple of beer cans were thrown onto the stage, too. So there was some barracking, but nothing like as much as has been suggested... Mind you, the other UK shows could have been different.

(There were also reports from Brighton of people storming out during AYAI and demanding their money back. I can't confirm - though I certainly saw quite a few people leaving throughout the evening...).

It should be added that quite a few people I chatted to casually before the concerts didn't know that Anderson and Wakeman had left....

On the basis of my first hand experience, plus tapes of the US Drama tour, I'd have to say that Horn's voice had deteriorated very significantly by the time he reached us. It was pretty embarrassing, to say the least, though Squire did a heroic job in trying to cover for him You had to feel sorry for Horn.... but I can well appreciate why a number of people felt cheated. Not that this excuses the behaviour of the inevitable moronic few, of course.

The publicity here certainly wasn't too explicit. A couple of people remarked to me at the concerts that "since the publicity used a Dean picture, it never occurred to me that this wasn't the old Yes..."

Trevor Horn:
Thank you very much. Well it's really nice to be here at the Rainbow at the end, at the end of this tour and we're going to play something from 'Drama' now. This is called 'Into The Lens'.

Trevor Horn:
Thank you. Thank you very much. There's a guy over here on my right that I'm sure really needs no introduction from me but I always introduce him anyway to give him a chance to raise the sound. He [???] the guitar and his name is Steve Howe.

Trevor Horn:
Thank you very much. And now, and now from something that you all know really well to something you probably never heard us play before. This is a song we haven't recorded yet. It was actually written [???] about 4 months ago and sorta working [???]. It's called 'Go Through This'.

Trevor Horn:
Thank you. There's a guy standing over here in the back here and he and I've been friends for about 2 to 4 years. He's going to play something for you called 'Man In A White Car'. His name is Geoffrey Downes.

Trevor Horn:
Geoffrey Downes. This is another new song that's a very broad song for us because actually the fact it is the first song we ever wrote together this year. For some reason we never recorded it. We called it, while prophetically, 'We Can Fly From Here'.

Trevor Horn:
Thank you. Even when you make a record normally you have a guy who..uh produces it for you. Not everybody does but most people do. When we made 'Drama'. We had quite a fellow produce [???] You might recognize his name is Eddie Offord. You've probably seen his name before and Eddie used to have a lot of funny sayings and sometimes if he thought we were wasting time in the studio [???] he used to say 'C'mon guys, Tempus fugit'.

Trevor Horn:
There's a rather tall fellow to my left who plays the bass guitar. I'm sure you all know him. His name is Chris Squire but we, we in our ultimate wisdom had [???]. We call him 'The Fish'.

Trevor Horn:
Chris Squire on bass guitar. And now a track on 'Drama'. This song is all about the machine that goes [???] well that's what it says under Oxford dictionary definition of a song. It's called 'Machine Messiah'.

Trevor Horn:
..thank you all for being a really good audience tonight. This is the first time I've been at the Rainbow [???] and this is our last song.