51 years, 5 months and 27 days ago

Monday, March 12, 1973

Osaka, Japan

Kouseinennkin Kaikan

2,400 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you, thank you. [something in Japanese]

Steve Howe:
He's getting pretty good.

Jon Anderson:
Got it all written down here you see.

Steve Howe:
Well.

Jon Anderson:
Like to carry on with a song we learned..uh in Tokyo, in Tokyo from a friend called Sau. Very nice from [???] who drives his family in a car.

Jon Anderson:
That's Steven.

Jon Anderson:
Well. I'd like to thank you all very much for coming, coming tonight and..uh we..we're going to carry on with a song from..uh the last album we made. Uh..the song..um sings of..a future political breakdown which everybody I'm sure hopes will happen very soon. For our children's sake and our children's children's sake and..uh this is a song called 'And You And I'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. As time goes on we we seem to find, make..uh an album very different and..uh this is the long track from the last album we did and..uh we hope your going to like it. it's..uh, it's a song relating to the way we feel about music. Music is a very strong..um has a very strong influence somewhere along the line and..uh lots of things. I know you can't, most of you cannot understand what I'm saying but I'm, I'm sure you understand lots of things about music that most people don't understand our music. It's a strange thing to say isn't Edward? Yeah I think so too. Really. This is a song called 'Close To The Edge'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much, thank you. Rick Wakeman on keyboards.

Jon Anderson:
Osaka [???] and back.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you, thank you very much.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you.