54 years, 5 months and 29 days ago Monday, October 27, 1969 Amougies, Belgium open air festival 5,000 capacity Actuel Festival
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before 'Then' transcribed by: Jay Bill Bruford:An old, old Islamic custom called tuning up, and because our bass player is an old, old Islamic, therefore he has to tune up. Jon Anderson: Here’s a song about a time - you watching a football match over there or something? - about a time that’s gonna come when you can come and watch music and you don’t have to sit on the floor, you can go to a theatre and listen to music. The time is very close to us. This is a song called ‘Then’. (Tony and Peter start playing, then stop when the drums come in) Chris Squire: Err, we’ve got a problem with our organ. Our organist is having trouble with his organ. Has anyone out there been having trouble with there organs? It’s very worrying. (Tony tunes his organ to Peter’s guitar) Bill Bruford: Ah, there you go... melody. Jon Anderson: Um, the electricity is so fantastic here that every time we try to tune up, the electricity builds up and the organ goes up and goes out of tune. So we have to tune it up after every number. Thanks to the marvellous organisation... Bill Bruford: I want a car, I’m going out. (Group start playing, then stop when Jon’s vocal come in) Jon Anderson: And... um, we’ll see you later. Bill Bruford: Don’t go away, we’ll be right back. We’re just gonna sort it all out. The Islamic organs, voodoo guitarist. It’s all gonna be sorted out, so see you in a minute. Chris Squire: We’re very sorry about all this. Jon Anderson: Yeah. We’re gonna try and play... Because of the, err, bad electricity, we might go out of tune and we’ll have to stop. And, err, we’re very sorry about this because we don’t want to make you feel, um, aggrivated, yunno. We don’t like playing out of tune. It’s a very bad thing. So we’re gonna try anyway. So just listen, relax, and fall asleep if you like. before 'It's Love' transcribed by: Jay Jon Anderson:When we came in about nine o’ clock, we heard a lot of people banging things and making very good noises, you know, and you enjoying yourselfs. Well we’d like to do a song about love, and we’d like you to join in in a bass solo. We’ll do a rhythm, you know, and the drums. before 'Everydays' transcribed by: Jay Chris Squire:Thank you. Jon Anderson: This song’s about things that happen everyday. Like we all expect to come to a very, very beautiful scene where people are very happy. And you come to a place like this where people are being treated like, err, animals, if you like. You’re being made to wonder around a field. It’s a very terrible scene. And it’s a very, very bad thing. You pay a lot of money to come and see groups being treated like, you know, animals. before 'I See You' transcribed by: Jay Jon Anderson:Ice cream for that guy over there, free ice cream. We’re gonna feature Peter, and he’s gonna tap dance for you. It’s a song that was recorded by The Byrds, the American Byrds, about the time they were singing songs like ‘Eight Miles High’ and ‘Rock and Roll Star’, and a few other songs like that. And this song, this is a song called ‘I See You’. Thank you. And, err, actually we were gonna finish off with the next song, but it’ll be too high because of the fact that we put up about three keys.. you know.. it would take... I really try. before 'Something's Coming' transcribed by: Jay Jon Anderson:The next time we ever, we play to you, we’ll have replaced our organ with the French people who play in the Paris Olympia, and you’ll all sit down and in Belgium we’re gonna play in a nice theatre in Brussels, not the shit house, you know. Enjoy yourselves for the next seven, five hours or something, with some very nice bands and don’t expect World politics, forget it. This song’s from a film called ‘West Side Story’, the song is called ‘Something’s Coming’. Alright, and thank you very much, we’ll see you very soon. Yeah, alright? |