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Thursday, August 11, 1994 Orlando, Florida Orlando Arena 14,619 capacity 28 years, 1 month and 17 days ago
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Geoff Dunn At this show clever Trevor threw the James Bond theme into "Rhythm Of Love", which sounds really cool. Also, it's pretty funny when Jon forgot the words to "Changes" and laughed at Trevor for tut-tutting him. Zongonians rule! Chris Capozza Yes, I remember how empty the arena was! From the downbeat, I wondered if the band was crushed by this. It didn't show in the playing. But the whole top section of the arena had been closed. Not a ticket sold for it. And the main floor was tragically sparse. Got to get me a copy of the tape from this show (I remember that being mentioned about the headset walkman thing). But for where I sat for the quadrophonic, it really was obnoxious. Maybe it sounded good in the center, but not where I was. Reminded me of what Rush put through its surround/delay speakers. If you sat in the back, you heard a much different, badly mixed show. dabronks Very nice show,especially the Purple Haze part which was so un-Yes like.Got the feeling though on the way home through the 'red light district' of Orlando that this may very well have been the last arena tour for Yes.Though it was crowded and fun there were many empty seats-even prime areas.This was unheard of in the old days-as a matter of fact,the Union was pretty much sold out here. Roxi Cook The Orlando Sentinel August 05, 1994 Parry Gettelman Yes would definitely be a front runner if the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame gave out an award for Most Lineup Changes by a Band That Has Never Actually Lost a Drummer to Spontaneous Combustion. Since the English band formed in 1968, it has gone through more permutations than, well, quite possibly even more than Fleetwood Mac, but such complicated calculations are best left to mathematics professionals. At any rate, guitarist Trevor Rabin, who joined the group in 1983, likes the current lineup best of all. Rabin, singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Alan White and keyboardist Tony Kaye are featured on both Talk, the latest Yes album, and on the tour that is coming to the Orlando Arena Thursday. "We're just having a great time - this is definitely the best we've ever played," Rabin enthused in a recent phone interview from a San Diego hotel. "We're getting good reviews - which worries us. We're used to bad ones. Usually when we get bad ones, it means we're playing well. "Jokes aside, we really spent a long time rehearsing the band and getting the lights and sound and the whole technical side of the sound together," Rabin continued. Getting the sound sorted out was particularly complicated. Yes is debuting an enhancement system called "Concertsonics" or, as Rabin dubs it, "audio binoculars." Fans in certain seating areas are able to pick up a simultaneous indoor broadcast of the concert as it is taking place, provided they bring a Walkman-style radio and headphones. (Tickets for seats in the "listening section," when available, don't cost extra.) "It's a slightly different mix to what comes out of the P.A. - there's just a different emphasis on different aspects," Rabin explained. "If a solo is being played, it's far more vivid than when you listen to the P.A. And although we have very extensive P.A. on this tour - a monumental kind of quadraphonic sound that comes at you from all sides - if you put the headphones on, it gives you a very different perspective." Rabin, a native of South Africa, said the germ of the concept came to him after an American friend took him to his first baseball game about 10 years ago. "The minute we got there, he put on the headphones and started listening to commentary on the radio," Rabin recalled. "I said, 'What do you bother coming to the game for - why don't you just watch it on TV?' And he said 'No, it's very exciting to listen to it and watch it live.'" As his idea developed, Rabin got a sound company involved in producing the Concertsonics system. By the present tour, the band felt ready to "give it a blast," Rabin said. "A lot of people have thought it's really good," he said. "Roger Hodgson from the band Supertramp came to the show in San Francisco and stuck the headphones on and liked it." Of course, the system makes it easier for fans to bootleg concerts, but Rabin said band members don't mind. "Our main concern is that they use good tape," he said. "People do it anyway, so what are you going to do? We may as well have good quality (bootlegs)."
before 'Rhythm Of Love' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much! Thank you. It’s great to be with you this evening. Here we are, Orlando! It’s great to be here. Here we are working, searching, thinking, we’re looking for the rhythm, looking for the ‘Rhythm of Love’, of love, the ‘Rhythm of Love’. before 'Hearts' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Wooh! Alright! Many moons cascade one river, they light from side to side. As we cross in close proximity, like rivers our hearts entwine. before 'Real Love' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Here’s a song, this is from the new album ‘Talk’. This song is about the Earth music, is about the music of the wind and the sky and the fire within, and the energy that surrounds us, we know as ‘Real Love’, L’amour Real, ‘Real Love’, L’amour Real, ‘Real Love’. before 'Changes' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:This next song is a song by a master of the lead guitar, and our producer, Mr. Trevor Rabin. before 'Heart Of The Sunrise' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Trevor Rabin:Wooh! Thank you! Jon Anderson: Trevor, Trev, Trev, Trevor, Wooh! Trevor! Wooh! Thank you. So someone said to me, that ahh, this next song we’re going to do, ahh, I remember writing this song with, ahh, my good friend, ahh, probably about a zillion years ago. It just seems like a couple of years ago really, but it was about a zillion years ago, and we wrote this song, on the planet Zongo. You all remember, of course, that we are Zongonians, and, ahh, we used to spend a lot of time watching the sunrise and realizing that that’s where the power comes from, that we can live. So, the song came around. I’d like to introduce you to our wonderful bass player, the incredible, Chris Squire! before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Trevor Rabin:Thank you. Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeeeeaaahh! You guys. before 'Where Will You Be?' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:From a song from another time to a song from the new album. This next song was developed last year when we put the album together. I would go up to Trevor’s house and work on the songs, and ahh, as we would do, he would play some music and I would write a lyric and ahh, sing the song. Very simple. And then a couple of months later, I heard the song in final production and listened to the lyrics that I was writing about, what was I saying. And, ahh, what seemed to come through to me, because I have the lyrics here with me, written down, simply because I can never remember them. They’re very simple but they reflect an idea, and a deep feeling in the back of my consciousness, the idea of living many lives, and I’ve lived many lives before. Thre’s no, if we are living many lives, we won’t fear this one too much, because you understand the learning process. So, the other thing is that we will never lose our loved ones, because we will see and speak and understand each other again. And this song is called “Where Will You Be”. before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Thank you. There is a, thank you so much. Do you hear, in the quietness, a little sort of sound you can hear, a beautiful sound, the maracas, the mysterious maracas. They do say, the Native Indians say that in each shaker, fifty-two stones. And they collect the fifty-two stones by the hand and feel, and they put them in the shaker, because that’s the shaking of the Earth. Ahhh, think about it. And the guy who is shaking is the greatest drummer in the world, Mr. Alan White! The original Alan White! Here we go. We’re going to do a sing along sort of song now, and it gives me an opportunity to introduce you to a new friend on stage with us. He’s a guy who plays so many instruments, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and he sings too. In the spotlight, Mr. Billy Sherwood. Oh my love, sing along song. before 'Walls' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. before 'Endless Dream' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you. I want to thank you for being such a great audience tonight, thank you. You really know how to rock ‘n’ roll. Just one of the great things about being in Yes is to get up on stage and play tonight, like this with you people, it’s just wonderful! It’s a great feeling inside. Music is very, very powerful and is good for you. Here’s a song from the new album ‘Talk’, this is real Yes music, this is called “Endless Dream”. |
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