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Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Monterrey, Mexico Arena Monterrey 18 years and 2 days ago
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Augusto Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:09 AM Squire, Anderson, Howe, Wakeman and White together for the last time. The end of an era. José A Salinas When it became obvious that Yes would not be making an appearance in Texas this year, I was pretty bummed. Then I saw the fairly late addition of a date in Monterrey -- actually closer to me here in San Antonio than Dallas would have been -- and a plan began to form. After twisting my brother's arm and convincing him to accompany me, we found ourselves aboard a south bound plane. We managed to score tickets for seats that were dead-center, behind the soundboard -- the perfect location for the show. I have to disagree with the 90% full estimate; it seemed more like 50-60% from my perspective. Somewhat disappointing, but Arena Monterrey is a large venue, and it's hard to say how well promoted the show was. Dream Theater was great. I really am not familiar with their music, and am not a big fan of that vocal style, but the set was largely instrumental. The highlight for me, too, of course, was "Machine Messiah" with Alan White guesting on drums. Between sets, we could observe the crew moving stuff around, getting things ready, blowing up the inflatables. With no warning, the lights went out and "Firebird Suite" began. Then the magic happened. The sound was great, the lighting effects spot-on. And the music was perfect. The guys seemed relaxed and really appeared to be having a good time. Considering it was the last show of a fairly long tour (really stretching back to 2002), they didn't seem tired. (One of the road crew might have been a little punchy -- he kept popping up, wearing a big sombrero, once even taking a bow when he brought out Jon's harp.) The set list was fairly typical for the latter part of this tour. No Close To The Edge, no America, but very high-energy renditions of South Side Of The Sky (with a great Wakeman solo introduction), Yours Is No Disgrace, and the encore, Starship Trooper. The highlight, of course, was Awaken. I feel truly privileged to have been able to attend this show, the last of the 35th Anniversary tour, and, who knows? Maybe the last for this lineup? JAS Arturo Puerta What a way to end the tour!! Set List: Firebird Suite Going For The One Sweet Dreams I've Seen All Good People South Side Of The Sky Yours Is No Disgrace Clap Long Distance Runaround Wonderous Stories Roundabout Owner Of A Lonely Heart The Meeting And You And I Awaken Starship Trooper Epic concert in a 90% full venue. The best of the Dream Theatre set: "Machine Messiah" with Alan White on drums along with Mike Portnoy!! The best of the Yes set: everysong they played!! They even play "Long Distance" twice, the regular acoustic version and a short reggae version.
before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Muchas gracias. Great to be with you tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. To be here tonight, Monterrey, Mexico. We're gonna do a song, let's everybody sing along, in the key of.... no key. before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. We, we recorded this next song, the next song, we recorded in1956. Before you were born. Before you were born. The song is called "Yours Is No Disgrace." "Yours Is No Disgrace." "Yours Is No Disgrace." before 'Clap' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Let's have a big hand for Mr. Steve Howe on guitar. Mr. Steve Howe. before 'Long Distance Runaround' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Steve Howe:Hey, thank you very much. Very nice to be back, in Monterrey, thank you. Thanks a lot. Thanks. during 'Long Distance Runaround' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:I remember, I remember when I wrote that song. I went to Jamaica, and originally, the original song was like this, it was more like.... before 'Wonderous Stories' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you. We'd like to do a song which, uh,.... We recorded this song in Switzerland. They don't know ganja. You know ganja? It's o.k. This song is about waking up in the morning; you wake up and everything is so beautiful in the morning. You wake up. Everything is there, like, like great pleasure. Very beautiful. before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Mr. Chris Squire, on bass guitar will speak to you. He's been practicing Portuguese all the way over from, but, we don't speak Portuguese.... Chris Squire: No we don't. Buenas noches, senores y senoritas. Now I speak English. When Alan White, the man in the, is he in a kilt tonight? No kilt tonight, no. Alan White and I were in the Hilton Hotel in Japan. O.K. And we were talking.... In Japan. We were talking about how to do a new version of "Roundabout" for the "Ultimate Yes 35th Collection Ultimate Fantastic." And Alan said "Well, why don't we try a new groove, like American, Mexican blues, like a good old blues shuffle." So I said, "That sounds like a very good idea, Alan, because you're a very good drummer and you should know these things." And then what happened, was we went to the studio in Los Angeles, and I said to Rick Wakeman, I said "Rick, please, give us a very, very good Mexican blues riff.... And that was it. We did it like that. It was fucking brilliant. before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:O.K. We're gonna do a song which has an incredible drum introduction, and sometimes, Alan is gonna show you, this is called a paradiddle. This is a paradiddle. A paradiddle, two paradiddles; and a flam, and a bass drum. There we go. So we got three paradiddles, two flams, a bass drum, three paradiddles and two flams, and we come up with this, and.... please, everybody sing the chorus, please, we need you, we need you tonight, sing the chorus. Here we go. before 'Meeting, The' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you so much. This is a special song. For all the people that you love. Slow down, slow down. For all the people that you love in you heart that are in heaven; the people that you like, your brothers, your sisters, your mothers, your grandmothers, in heaven, this is a song for them. before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Whenever we played in America, in San Antonio, or in San Diego, Mexican people would come and wave and say, "Hi."and so it was always important in our hearts to come and play here in Mexico. For me, very, very special, this world, here, very Toltec; a very powerful place. To be in Monterrey with you. It's our last show in this long, long time touring, for a while. And we love making music so much. And we thank you for listening to our music, and we thank you so much. And this kind of music was, 1972, and we lived in a place, very, very beautiful, like today. Life is so beautiful. Every day. before 'Awaken' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you so much, thank you. It's an amazing thing to be able to make music, and have an audience to come and listen to what we do, we thank you so much. And after so many years, wherever we go, there are people like you who enjoy life, enjoy music. Every day, every single day, is wonderful. Love is so powerful. How do you say it in Spanish? Love is everything. How do you say it? Love is everything. Amor. Love is everything. Love is everything in Spanish. That's all you need. You just need love. All you need is love. All you need is.... So true. That's all you need. So when you wake up in the morning, when you awaken every day, awaken in your heart, your mind. Good time, good time. before 'Starship Trooper' transcribed by: Jose A Salinas Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you. Thank you. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias. We want to thank you again for coming out tonight. And thank you for Dream Theater; great music from that band. Hope you're enjoying yourselves this evening, we appreciate it so much. Here's a song called "Starship Trooper," "Starship Trooper," "Starship Trooper." |
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