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Wednesday, June 11, 2003 Berlin, Germany Tempodrom 5,000 capacity 19 years, 7 months and 16 days ago
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Winston Arntz This gig honestly was fantastic and funny. Jon was starting to telle us a story about the old days when they were recording Fragile, something about a basement in the studio where he found the key to (Schlussel in German). But he forgot the song order so Chris heard what Jon was telling us, walked over to him and asked 'What song are you doing?' (not in mic. heard it clearly in first row). So Jon realises he's introducing the wrong song and a great smile appeared...'We Have Heaven' started and after that the footsteps of 'Southside Of The Sky' came in. Jon mimed to this and said "Now I'm running away with the 'schlussel'" and so he kind of finished the story anyway. Chris also jammed a couple of times with Jon and the last one during 'Starship Trooper' was very funny. Chris walked up to Jon, who was on his percussion-island and rocked back and forth to Jon. Jon smiled and went along with him...as if they were back in the rehearsalroom in London some 30 years ago. And there were little signals among all of them; Chris kind of screwed up the mouthorgan part of 'And You And I' and the smiles of Wakeman and Howe were priceless... Jens Fischer Steve Howe performned following tracks as accoustic set: 1. To Be Over!!! (about 6 minutes, same style as on "Natural Timbre") 2. Second Initial "To Be Over" was THE big surprise !!! Really outstanding.. Dave Although an outdoor show at the earlier planned Museumsinsel would have been wonderful, the venue remained the Tempodrom, a newer theater. Sound and lighting was great for all, but front stage is the only place to be for the real fans. It was really great to see Rick back on stage. This gave the band a chance to play some of their older material the way it needed to be played, and the synergy between him, Steve and Chris was almost visible. In comparison to the Ladder tour, Jon integrated the other players much better into his ballads, usually for building the conclusions, but wow what a difference. The audience reaction was nothing but positive and all of the members signed autographs at the rear entrance on their way to the bus after the show.
before 'Magnification' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. It’s great to be with you here in beautiful Berlin. Thank you. We’re going to start off with ‘Magnification’. before 'In The Presence Of' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Music is so powerful. The rhythms are so magical. I’ve seen so many people today, walking around the centre of Berlin. It’s amazing. Everything is in order, everybody is okay. We are surrounded by the divine, constantly. Constantly. before 'We Have Heaven' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you for listening to that song. Thank you. Here’s, well, you know it’s a new song, right? So, we love it when anybody knows them, and thank you for listening and, okay. We were recording an album, ahh, ‘Fragile’, the album ‘Fragile’, and downstairs there was another studio. And I found a key to the studio, because it was empty. The schlussel! And, ahh, so I went down and I wrote this song, at that time. It was like this, so sing along if you have any idea about this song. (Starts and stops song) Sorry, I was [??], it’s okay. [??] except we’re playing in the big top and we are a bunch of clowns, you see. Okay. before 'South Side Of The Sky' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Running away with the schlussel! before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Wooh! It was that, ahh, I think it was the same year that we wrote the next song, and ahh, I think so. You have been looking at the website! We were just getting ready, it was like Tuesday afternoon, two o’clock, ten past two. And we said okay, let’s record it, let’s try and record it. before 'Second Initial' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Steve Howe:Thank you very much. You’re most kind. Thank you! [??] ‘To Be Over’, thank you. I’m going to do a tune I wrote for a guy who I love very much, by the name of Virgil. He’s a very brilliant multi musician, Virgil, my son, one of my sons. And ahh, I wrote this tune for him when he was born and ahh, it gives me a lot of pleasure to play it for you. Because in fact, in July he is remixing the Yes tunes, it’s coming out. I’m sure it will be a crazy remix. This is called ‘Second initial’. before 'Show Me' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:How are you doing, everybody? Everything okay? Okay everybody, okay? Wonderful, wonderful. I’d like to sing you a song, and ahh, it’s a dedication. Actually I found this tape around the time that we did the ‘Fragile’ album. For my dear wife. It never went on the album, this song, so I decided to learn it again, for my lovely wife, Jane. It’s a song that’s called, I haven’t got a title for the song yet. But my Jane, she looks after me, and we walk around every city, we enjoy touring. Man In Audience: Come on Jon!! Jon Anderson: Yes, okay then. before 'Wakeman Solo' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. The original wizard of the keyboards, Mr. Rick Wakeman! before 'Heart Of The Sunrise' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Any requests? ‘Heart Of The Sunrise’? Okay, we’ll do that! before 'Awaken' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:On bass guitar, Chris Squire! On the drums, Mr. Alan White on drums! before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. [??] I want to thank you all again for coming along this evening. It’s been great to be able to play to you in the year 2003. Thank you so much. I think we have a couple of songs for you that you can sing along and dance a little bit. If you can dance, I don’t know. |
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