33 years, 6 months and 17 days ago

Tuesday, May 21, 1991

Seattle, Washington

Seattle Center Coliseum

15,000 capacity

Trevor Rabin:
Thank you very much. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Pleased to be with you tonight. Great to be here Seattle. Do you want to hear a new song? We're play a new song from the album. This is called 'Shock To The System'. Shock to rights of mankind. Shock to the politicians.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! That's great. Woo! There, there is..uh not to dreaming. Think about sleep and sleep is so much part of life. Dreaming is so much a part of life. The distance, sharp. quality. To the 'Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much. It's always a great pleasure to be here in Seattle and play for you. It's seems like only yesterday [???]. It's always a great pleasure to, to introduce on acoustic guitar. The maestro Mr. Steve Howe.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Woo! As they say. Things do get better with age. Like good wine. Like the soul. Like good music. This next song, it's too much really to play this next song. Woo!

Announcer:
Yes will return in fifteen minutes.

Jon Anderson:
On the machine, Mr. Alan White. C'mon. On the electronic drums, Mr. Bill Bruford. 'Hold On'. 'Hold On'.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you. Thank you. This..uh, this is the last..uh show of our current American tour and..uh what we're going to do is to..uh record you guys because we need some audience participation. [???] to..uh think about this..uh because we want you to sing really this next song with us. Okay? Just want to sing you wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people to sing along. Sorta of, in fact Rick Wakeman went out today and spent at least thirty six dollars on little machine to record you with. He actually put some microphones were the blue lights are. So here we go.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Woo! Alright. [???] Seattle. Woo! You guys. The original, the dangerous, Mr. Tony Kaye.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Thank you. This guy, this guy here spends so much time in the studio. All the time. Total workaholic and not only that. After five years living in Los Angeles. Last week he became an American citizen. Trevor Rabin.

Trevor Rabin:
Thank you very much Seattle. It's great to be here. Thank you very much.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. As..uh a little bit of mayhem [???] mayhem. I'm going to try to play guitar for you today. Here's..uh sorta rendition of a song that..uh. I'm just trying to remember exactly they way I sang it so many years ago. It went a little bit like this. [sings 'Long Distance Runaround']. It's the kinda thing I used to do in my early days. In fact, in fact..uh my guitar playing hasn't got any better but that's life and I remember that..uh time when I, I wrote that song just like that. It was a Tuesday morning about twenty years ago and then in the afternoon I went down to Advision studios, which is in London and at Advision studios about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Rick was there. Steve was there. Bill was there and then about 5:30, Chris came. Chris was there. They, they, they make that song. That song I just sang to you. [???] They made it sound a little bit like this. It's kinda..uh how they did it I don't know. It's just..

Jon Anderson:
The amazing bass man, Mr. Christopher Squire. Woo! Woo! Here's a song you can hear it on the radio. You never know. It's a new song. 'Lift Me Up'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much. Thank you. I think about..uh things we seems to discover along the way like electricity. You know When electricity came we all also got the Hammond organ you know? Because it used to be like acoustic pianos and stuff like that and then we got the Mini-Moog and then we got the MIDI System Sequencers and then somebody invented Mr. Rick Wakeman.