26 years, 6 months and 9 days ago Friday, October 17, 1997 Hartford, Connecticut Meadows Music Theatre 6,000 capacity
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before 'America' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you. Is this a dream? Is this real? Are we really here? I'd like to say a big hello to everyone tonight. Thanks for coming to this auspicious occasion, the opening night of our three year tour. Taking us…taking us into the 21st century…and uh…as it happens, Mr. Alan White said that he wouldn’t come unless we play this next song. Lets hear it for Alan White. And here is one of his favorite songs. Here we go. before 'Open Your Eyes' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. This past year has been quite an interesting year for us. We nearly went on tour, yes as you know. One of the reasons we didn’t is because we started to write some new songs, with the production and help of Billy Sherwood over there on our left, and uh…let’s hear it for Billy….and uh, Chris and Billy got together with a lot of songs that we wrote together and eventually pulled together, and this is one that you might have heard on the radio. It’s a song called ‘Open Your Eyes’? Open Your Eyes. before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Woo. Thank you so much, thank you. I need a towel. Those chords…all those chords. I remember quite uh, vividly many many years ago, we were in the studio getting ready to record a song, and uh…during the course of getting everybody sort of organized, you know you look around the studio and you say, Alan is in place, and everybody is in place and Chris is….somewhere. He’s coming, oh Chris is here…there he is. And then, you look around for Eddie Offord who was our producer in those days, and uh.. he was in heaven somewhere having a really nice time. I call heaven the control room where we recorded the song. And uh…as it would happen Steve just started tuning up or playing around, that’s when I said “You know, Eddie…just keep the tape rolling because we are not quite sure when we are going to start the song.” So this is really how it started. before 'No Way We Can Lose' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. I have a feeling I will never ever get tired of singing or listening to that piece of music. It’s just another world. We’re going to play a very sort of happy song. This is from the new album coming out uh..November, uh…roundabout the 25th of November. The album, is uh..’Open Your Eyes’ and this is a song which a.. we can all find a way to resolve our differences, because really there are no differences [???] And here’s a nice little song…called ‘No Way We Can Lose.’ before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Okay, it’s the beginning of the tour. We’re trying…we’re trying to get it together here. But it shall come around as they say. It shall work, it shall come around. During the course of the last zillion years, we’ve actually, I believe, I believe this, had one seriously major hit record. Okay, we’d like to play it for you now. So here we go. Get ready. before 'Masquerade' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thaaaank You. Thank you so much. As uh… in the past, you’ve all been very, very fortunate to enjoy some of the quite incredible performances and playing, amazing dexterity, in his fingers and the sounds of his guitars. Let you enjoy the next few minutes with Mr. Steve Howe. before 'Clap' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Steve Howe:Thank you. That was ‘Masquerade.’ before 'Leaves Of Green' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Steve Howe:Well I’m glad you enjoyed ‘Clap’ there from ‘The Yes Album’ originally. We’re going to carry on now with an excerpt from a uh, very vast piece of Yes music, and I think you’ll, maybe you’ll sing a long gently when Jon joins me soon. before 'Children Of Light' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:We’re going to try a new song. This is from, uh.... Keys To Ascension 2. Every now and again I get very fortunate to hear some wonderful musician for the first time on cassette. And uh, I’d like to introduce you to a really wonderful guy. Really is all the way fantastic musician and he loves Yes very much, and he knows Rick Wakeman very much. I want to introduce you to Igor Khoroshev. before 'Long Distance Runaround' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:This song I’m going to sing, really …. a very simple idea, simple lyric. I sort of equated it to the idea of chasing, looking, very hard for the spiritual reason for living. Sort of a ‘Long Distance Runaround,’ chasing it all the time. before 'Soon' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Mr. Chris Squire! On the drums, Mr. Alan White! So many, so many times writing lyrics, songs, ideas, … must have been about 20 years ago this song came through. And I was sort of afraid to sing this song. I must say. Why should I sing this song? Why should I want to sing this song? Here we are 20 years later, I know I want to sing this song. before 'Revealing Science Of God, The' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Take a drink. Sort of start this… before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Wonderful. before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:As luck, as luck would have it, our new keyboard player just fainted back stage of excitement. [???] Igor, there he is now. [???] before 'Starship Trooper' transcribed by: Matthew Putzel Jon Anderson:Want to take this opportunity to thank you all for coming this evening to the opening of our three year tour of the world, starting here in wonderful downtown Hartford Connecticut. We should travel the world, but we should come back here in the summertime. When it’s nice out, in the open air, we’ll open up those doors and everybody will have a good time, and we’ll have a great time together. Again, thank you so much. This song is for you. |