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Thursday, November 19, 1987 Springfield, Illinois Prairie Capital Convention Center 35 years, 2 months and 8 days ago
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Mark I just became aware of this site today, so I immediately looked up this concert, which was the first YES show I attended. I was shocked to see no mention of the show being cancelled and rescheduled for the next day. I drove 60 miles after work, only to hear on the radio that it was postponed until the next day. Does that mean it actually took place on the 20th? Anyhow, it was a great show and I have seen them 3 more times in the ensuing years. Howard Freitag If my memory serves me correctly, tickets for this show only went on sale about 5 days before the concert. I remember attendance being very sparse because of this fact. Word from the radio had it that Yes booked this show last minute mainly because they wanted to road test their new light and stage show. Good thing they did. During Big Generator 2 large smokestacks emerged from behind the drum riser. I distinctly remember the one on the left apparently never became lodged correctly and began a slow but very steady wobbling motion. Back and forth it went through the entire song in a Spinal Tap-esque prop mishap. The soundmix and performances were top-notch despite the prop blunder. I remember being particularly moved by "Final Eyes" which is still one of my favorite Yes songs. I also remember the thundering snare drum of Alan White in "Shoot High Aim Low". Pete Whipple 'On The Silent Wings Of Freedom' is just the bass riff only. Squire played it for about a minute before going into 'Amazing Grace.'
before 'Final Eyes' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. This must be Springfield Illinois. Woo! The last song we just did was a song called 'Yours Is No Disgrace'. We wrote that about fifteen years ago. Glad some of you remember it. We're going to carry on with a song which is on our new album. It's a song about..uh losing love and finding love. The song is called 'Final Eyes'. before 'Heart Of The Sunrise' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you very much. Thank you. Woo! Long time ago, your writing songs and you start to looking in. You write lyrics and you really don't think too much about what you write you just feel the energy coming through when you write the lyric and then years later you start to realize what you been writing about. This is one of those songs, [???] you now. We recorded this many year ago and now I think I understand the song very much. It's a song about the sun. [???] what the sun really is. Sun is light, energy and in a way, without the sun, we have nothing you see. So here's a song called 'Heart Of The Sunrise'. before 'Solly's Beard' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. For the next few minutes..uh, Sit back, relax and enjoy the remarkable guitar work by Trevor Rabin accompany by Tony Kaye on the keyboards. before 'Love Will Find A Way' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you. Thank you. before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you very much. I [???] think that song just today, the first time Trevor created a song for to us. It was original recorded on the album 'Big Generator' on tape and that's the way we sang it, of course we recorded [???] the original way. Here's another original song. before 'Shoot High Aim Low' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:[???] a song, many years ago. That was a song written about..uh [???] fifteen years ago. This is a group of musicians that sometimes, making an album can be so mental experience just making the album. Sometimes the music takes a long time to formulate. This next song, [???]. Song. It's a song, [???] The words meant the very last [???] caustic music with piano. The music with feelings, The lyrics came midway. [???]. Chris Squire: [???] Springfield! Jon Anderson: [???] verse, the lyrics talk about blue fields. The blue fields of Nicaragua. [???] a song [???]. A song called 'Shoot High Aim Low'. before 'Big Generator' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. [???]. The planet earth, the planet earth is a big generator. Everybody who is from the planet earth is part of the big generator. So is the song is [???]. before 'On The Silent Wings Of Freedom' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Woo! On bass guitar Mr. Chris Squire. before 'Holy Lamb' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:[???] new time. |
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