26 years, 11 months and 17 days ago

Saturday, October 18, 1997

Boston, Massachusetts

Orpheum Theatre

2,800 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Is this okay? Can you hear me okay? It's really great to be in Boston one more time. [???] We are just starting our tour. This is just the second show so far [???] and..uh Mr. Alan White, the drummer over there Alan White. We just start the beginning of a world tour. We're going to be touring for about a year or so, who knows? And..uh Alan said "I ain't coming on tour unless we play this next song" so here we go with the next song.

Jon Anderson:
It's the spotlight. I like to just..uh introduce you to a guy that's really been with the band for about three years since the Talk tour and he been helping to produce the Keys album and this new album we're going to released next month, which is called 'Open Your Eyes'. Mr. Billy Sherwood over here. He co-wrote the song with Chris and I also help wrote some it Steve helped a little bit and it's a song which is..uh currently on the radio someplace else, we're not there yet, we're still waiting on the bus.

Chris Squire:
[???] Thanksgiving.

Jon Anderson:
Till Thanksgiving. My gosh. So here's the song. It's called..uh 'Open Your Eyes'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you again. Thank you. It wasn't very long ago..uh we were recording this next song in a studio in England in London. [???] and..uh during the course of..uh recording, we had some down time were we sit around doing [???] the idea of doing the song. So we starting learning the song and put this song together everybody stating recording and..uh our engineer [???] is a guy called Eddie Offord [???]. and..uh who getting ready [???] we knew we had to figure out sorta what piece of music our first sorta attempt at a major piece of music, size and..uh just happened that Steve was getting his guitar organized and was sorta tinkering around so I just said..uh you know 'Eddie start the tape, start the tape'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you. It's always a great great pleasure to introduce. this guy's got has some of the best licks and finger work I've ever seen in my whole life. [???] introduce to you right now, Mr. Steve Howe.

Steve Howe:
Thank you very much. Okay that was 'Masquerade' from the 'Union' album.

Steve Howe:
Well thank you very much because that was 'Clap' [???] we originally recording that in 1971 in..uh [???] London so [???] over the tune much like music Yes music. In fact this next piece I'm going to play is with Yes [???]. Just want to be able to hear the pitch that I'm playing in because it, that's me.

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe. Thank you. Over the years I've been very, very fortunate to meet..uh some quite remarkable musicians especially keyboard players. I'd like to introduce you to the latest development in the band. The guy used to live nearby and is all the way from Moscow. This is Igor Khoroshev.

Jon Anderson:
Here's a song from..uh 'Keys To Ascension 2' coming out in a couple of weeks. Here we go.

Jon Anderson:
[???] Chris Squire [???] and on the drums Mr. Alan White. Let's hear it for Alan. Let's hear it for Chris Squire. Let's hear it for Chris Squire. [???] C'mon.

Jon Anderson:
and coming together..uh [???] some songs. Sometimes you come across the idea of a song. [???] Why am I singing this song. [???] it's sorta mystical, spiritual. Here we are twenty years later still wanting to sing this song.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. This is a song for the love of my life. Her favorite song the sweet lady Jane sitting there. This is for you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. You are so wonderful. Thank you so much. I'm sure we'll see you again very soon. [???] We'll play one more song.