33 years, 6 months and 3 days ago

Sunday, June 2, 1991

Cologne, Germany

Sporthalle

5,000 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much, thank you. Woo! It's great to be with you..uh once more here in Cologne. Very, very happy to be with you. I'd like to thank you very much for your patience because sometimes when stuff travels miles and miles sometimes it breaks down so we're not going to have an interval we just keep playing right though. Just keep playing for you, right though. Do you want to hear a new song? It's a new song from..uh the new album. Are you sure? Do you want to hear a new song?!? Alright. Shock to the system, shock to the rights of man-kind. Shock to the politician.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Okay, thank you very much. This sort of songs, [???] songs. Songs you don't want to get rid of for some reason every time you go on stage you wanna play a certain song. This next one is exactly like that it sorta..because of the sharp distance, the energy. The 'Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Woo! Thanks you. Danke, Wake up and dream, that's a good one, just like that. It's always great to be here in Cologne. It's always a pleasure to play for you. It's always a pleasure to introduce, on aucustic guitar, the maestro Mr. Steve Howe.

Steve Howe:
Alright thank you very much. As we're back in Cologne. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much, thank you. Like..uh..as we say, things do get better with age. You can have very good wine you know..wine and..uh..the song gets better with age. Lot's of things get better with age. Tony gets better with age. Whoo! We'll talk about him later. This next song gets better with age..

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. On the drums we have Mr. Alan White and Mr. Bill Bruford. The invisible man. Woo! So..um.. oh yeah, we're going to have some audience participation we want to sing along okay? Like sing along with me. [???] Sing along. We got some microphones just up, one two, one there, one microphone about and we're going to record you. You don't believe me? It's true. Well..hey last night we were recording from Berlin, live to Berlin. Tonight, we are recording in Cologne. We..we..natually, we record..uh we record most nights just per chance we get something right. You know it just, that I have a feeling you going to get it right. We have yet to get it though right but tonight, sing along okay? It's very easy, it's a very nice song. Okay, okay gentleman, gentleman are we ready? Okay.

Jon Anderson:
The original, the encouragable, the dangerous, the man who never says no. Mr Tony Kaye.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Woo! Okay, no..not..not only. Not only does this guy spend most of his life in the studio writing and doing tons of stuff. Symphonic stuff and keyboard stuff, songs and songs, he's also a great, great guitar player Mr. Trevor Rabin.

Trevor Rabin:
Thank you very much, thank you very much. It's great to be back in Cologne. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thanks you very much, thank you. Danke. So I, I remember, you know, I could play like Trevor a few years ago but..I haven't got the time to play like that anymore. It's true. Actually, I play exactly like I played 20 years ago. And I remember..it's like..it's true..very bad, very bad, but I remmber it's like..uh..it's like a Sunday 20 years ago just after breakfast, I just wrote this song. [plays a bit from 'Long Distance Runaround' solo] Of course, thanks, thank you. Feeling that, just, you know, so I went to the studio in the afternoon because we always worked everyday, you know, weekends we never had off, we worked everyday. It's true, maybe we're in the wrong job. but went to the studio, Avisions studio in London and there was..uh..Rick and Steve and Bill, and uh, it's true and we always, we always got there at 2 o'clock just to get on with it you know, and about 5:30 Chris came. Naturally, so the song, the song went [plays a bit from 'Long Distance Runaround' solo], remember that? So they made it sound just like this, it's incredible.

Jon Anderson:
The amazing bass man Mr. Christopher Squire. Woo!.