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Thursday, October 8, 1998 Tokyo, Japan Shibuya Koukaidou 2,318 capacity 23 years, 11 months and 19 days ago
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Shoji Yamada Hello Yesheads! Just come back from the first gig! WOO, it was really exciting! As I'm drunk enough now because of the big party after gig with my Yes friends, I'll make it short. But it was a really amazing and impressive night for me! Oct/8/98/Shibuya Koukaido, Tokyo Japan This venue is just the same place where they played for the first time on their first Japan Tour in 1973. And You And I - Jon lost his word/lilycs for a while! AKATOMBO - (Japanese traditioanl song for kids, meanig "RED DRAGONFLY" Jon semmed that he couldn't memorize the song, so he sang it having the tape played back with a small tape recorder! That was fun!) Long Distance Runaround - (Steve appeared with the big mexican hat Sombrello) I've Seen All Good people - (Jon asked the audience to sing along with him, and told that,"If you don't remember the words of the song, humming is OK!" Then Chris told Jon that,"Do you yourself remember it?"! HAHA!:-) Steve Howe was really amazing! Moving and moving, and jump! Tonight's audience was different. They didn't stand up untill the end of the gig. It was not same as Talk Tour, but just like as gigs in '70s over here. I thought that many TROOPERS was gathering instesd of GENERATORS! Actually there were many elder audiences. The length of the gig was approx. 140mins. Last night Jon and Chris appeared on the INTER FM in Tokyo for their promoton and had some interviews. Before Children Of The Light was introduced by DJ, Jon talked about the episode of the gig in LA on July where a junior high choir was invited to sing along the band on the stage, as you know. Jon says that they will take 2 weeks' off after Japan Tour and will go to Vancouver to record a new album with the AEROSMITH's producer until January. Yes is going to record the new materials with the same members of the current tour, so we maybe can hear more new songs live on the forthcoming tour of the next year, according to the interviews done by the YFFC stuffs. OK, that's all for now. I'll keep you posted after tomorrows' gig in Tokyo. Good Night!
before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. Domo Arigato. Thank you. It's ahh, wonderful, wonderful, ahh, [??? something in Japanese] wonderful to be here. Yeah, really, really great. [??? Something in Japanese]. Psycho! Very psycho! We'd like to do a song we haven't, ahh, done for many years, many, many years. And, ahh, the song is, ahh, it goes a little bit like this, after the count of four. before 'Open Your Eyes' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Domo. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Steve Howe on guitar! I'd like to, ahh, take this opportunity to, ahh, introduce you to a new member of the group. The guy's been... (sound interference)... it's okay, I thought it was, I thought it was me for a moment. What are the chords to the chorus? Where's he gone? "D"? Wow. That's very loud. Can you hear this? "A" (strums guitar). Turn it down a bit, I can't hear you. Thank you. I'd like to introduce you to a guy who's been working with the band for the last four years, doing production and writing songs with us. He's a great guy. He's all the way from Las Vegas, he's a real gambler, Mr. Billy Sherwood! Oh, sorry. It's not working, my guitar is not working, so I can't do the solo bit [???]. Here's a song that Billy wrote with Chris and then we all joined in and it became a song that you might have heard on the radio quite a lot. The chords to the chorus are, what is it? "D", "G", "C", "A"? "D"? [??? something in Japanese]. "D", "G", "C", "A"? We can do it, it'll be okay. The song is called 'Open Your Eyes'. before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:[??? Something in Japanese]. Okay. This, um, song, we, we, we came here, ahh, many years ago. I gotta get on with this, because we haven't much time. [??? Something in Japanese]. Okay, we'll do that! (Jon forgets / mixes up a lot of the words during the song). before 'Heart Of The Sunrise' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Domo Arigato. I'm going to say something in, ahh, Japanese and then I'll say it in English. Or maybe I'll say it in English first. I'll try Japanese, here we go. [??? Something in Japanese]. I was, I was over here. I was here! And, ahh, Steve was a little bit more over there. He was there. So, we did this song, twenty five years ago. We did this song, twenty five years ago, we did this song on this stage. Now we'll do it again, tonight. Here we go. Hold tight. before 'Mood For A Day' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Chris Squire on bass guitar! Thank you so much. Thank you. [??? Something in Japanese]. It's always very wonderful to introduce you to the maestro of the guitar, Mr. Steve Howe! before 'Clap' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Steve Howe:Thank you very much! It's great to be back in Japan, great to be back in Tokyo tonight. So, I'd just like to say that, ahh, that was a tune called 'Second Initial', before that, 'Mood For A Day' for you. So, I'm going to wrap up my little spot here now with, ahh, my old faithful, I hope you're wanting to hear it again. I'm still trying to get this right, it's called 'Clap'! before 'Akatombo' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Oh, okay, sorry. The next, ahh, song that I'm going to sing for you, than you have to sing for me, okay? I've got it on tape actually. Here we go. before 'Wonderous Stories' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Here's a song called 'Wonderous Stories'. before 'Khoroshev Solo' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Thank you. Its, ahh, it's always that we go through so many changes in life, we're always like this. We go through so many changes, that's the way it is. Its, ahh, like that, you know, a little bit like a soap opera. Here's our wonderful, wonderful keyboard player, all the way from Russia, from Moscow. His name is Igor Khoroshev! before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:The grand master of the bass guitar, Mr. Chris Squire! And on drums, the amazing, the original action man, Mr. Alan White on drums! Alan White! before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:[??? Something in Japanese]. Yeah, okay, we'll do that one. It's, ahh, a song that, ahh, we'd like you to sing along please, if you can remember the words. It's just, if you don't know the words, just, ahh, hummmmmm. Chris Squire: Do you remember the words? Jon Anderson: I hope so. It's been a tricky night! Turn this guitar down please in my monitors. Sorry, excuse me. Here's the song. (Jon stops the song after first line). [???] Let's do it one more time, come on. before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:[??? Something in Japanese]. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
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