I recieved "Talk" as a gift when it was first issued and for the life of me could not groove to it,not for the lack of trying. I remember many nights sitting in my Crown Vic trying to get into it, but it just wasn't happening.

Went to the show in Indianapolis and the band explained it quite well for me. This was about my eighth Yes show for me starting with Tormato and included every U.S. tour since then -Drama. I was blown away to say the least. The sound system was ths best I had ever heard them with and the performance was just amazing. They supported the new album by playing all but one song "State of Play" which was incredible considering lack of radio airplay.

Listening to the studio album after that was so enjoyable. Then this bootleg came along and turned my world on its ear. I bought a new home stereo system and drove my wife crazy for months. Had my sister come over and got our "drink on" and took the stereo outside to the patio where the speakers could breathe and we were taken back to that night in Indy.

Highly recommended for any true YES fan. CRANK IT UP

Just like to mention that Trevor plays a couple of bars from Rick Wakeman's 'Catherine Parr' during his piano solo.

I will /try\ to restrain myself and keep this brief. This is a summary of Concert #2 of the TALK tour, held in Canandaigua, NY on June 19, 1994.

Brief comments:

Group was still getting itself organized / working out the logistical bugs, but it was close. No big problems, enjoyable show. (Highlights: huge glitter ball drops too far(?), and plops on to the back of the stage; the mix, although certainly LOUD enough :-), did not emphasize Trevor enough when he had the lead part. Jon /reads\ the lyrics to "Where Will You Be" and "Endless Dream"!)

Crowd, though not nearly a sellout, was quite enthusiastic, and the band responded to it by the end of the first set.

Billy Sherwood was plainly visible, sometimes up front with the other guitarists, and sometimes in the background. I could not normally pick out his playing. He played keyboards in the back of the stage during Endless Dream (and so did Jon and Trevor, besides Tony -- shame, shame, Tony!).

Squire's bass was much more audible than on the CD. Speaking of which, the CD, so well mixed, was a tough standard to live up to in a live concert, and IMHO, they did not do so, but what the hey- it's them live and in person!

Trevor had his own keyboard for And You And I and Endless Dream. According to my colleague and fellow Notes subscriber, Pat Igoe, he teased the audience with a bit of Wakeman's Six Wives, but I missed it.

Most interesting presentation was Where Will You Be with Trevor, Chris, and Jon, all up front and very close together, sitting down, playing the piece rather gently. Alan was in the background playing the percussion; I cannot recall if Tony was in that one. Chris played his bass guitar upright on a stilt.

Oh, yeah, opening music was not classical (earlier background music was) -- it was some instrumental dramatic piece with rock instruments. Then the band came on and laid into Perpetual Change.

I cannot say I did not miss the other members of the Union tour, but the YesWest crew did an excellent job. I'm sure you'll all enjoy the show.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much. When I was singing then I thought everybody was singing with me. It was amazing. It was like just from some wonderful. Here is another song from the new album. The song 'Armorial'. Spanish for 'Real Love'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. For your further entrainment. The next song, a song written by that well-known guitar player. He's going to sing it for you. Mr. Trevor Rabin going to sing 'Changes'. Woo! Woo! Woo!

Trevor Rabin:
Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! [???] Thank you so much. It's quite amazing to be..uh to be back on tour. This is just the second show in the tour we're doing and I want to thank you, thank you for all for your energy because it's really coming on so great. This is a song that..uh actually wrote this song so many years ago I cannot put it into words but together with the wonderful, wonderful marvelous Chris Squire as he is featured on this next song. Take it away guys.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you so much. Thank you so much. You really sound wonderful thank you. It's kinda crazy you get to making an album, music for many different reasons. I think the most important reason that I can think of is being here now playing some of the songs to twenty years ago and from last year. It really makes it all worth while. This next song is from..uh the new album 'Talk' and..uh I remember going up to Trevor's house..uh listening to some music and..uh I wrote some lyrics and a couple of months later went back to listen to what I've done. I didn't remember really what I was singing about that day. So I have the lyrics here just chance I forget. But it made me realize that sometimes you write about things sub-consciously and..uh this song really, I started to really believe that I've lived many many lives and I think We've all lived many lives and I think we've all been American Native Indian. We all been African, and we've all been Chinese. We've actually, that's why we're really all one soul and this is what this song is about. The song is called 'Where Will You Be'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you very much.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much. I was going to play, I was going to play guitar on the next song but god, I can't find my plectrum.

Trevor Rabin:
If you, If you don't play, then I can't play fills.

Jon Anderson:
I'd like to introduce you to, on maracas. Mr. Alan White, the great Alan White.

Jon Anderson:
This next song was inspired by the antics of our keyboard player Mr. Tony Kaye. To help us sing this song, the wonderful Billy Sherwood the guitar, backing vocals, he plays keyboards and everything to him and he does a very mean tap dance as well. Here's a song that your going to hear and you can watch tomorrow night because tomorrow night, you won't believe it, We're on David Letterman. Woo! Does that mean we're famous. I don't know. This song is called 'Walls'.

Trevor Rabin:
Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. You are so wonderful. Thank you.