Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. It sounds like New York to me. Oh, you guys. It's great to be with you. Here's, ahh, a song that, ahh, was sort of handed down to us from one of the great composers of the last zillion years, a guy called Paul Simon. And ahh, he's here tonight somewhere. He said "please do the song", so we rehearsed all afternoon, here it is! It's a song about all of us together. 'America'.
before 'Open Your Eyes'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Hey! As you can see, we've been very busy in the last year, making a lot of music, and ahh, all of a sudden it's time to release a record. And, ahh, it's really great to be back on tour, it makes it all very worthwhile and, ahh, over the last few years we've been working with this guy, he's now in the band, he's Billy Sherwood, the multi-talented guy over here. And, ahh, he helped, ahh, put this, ahh, new album together, which is coming out in about a month, about the 25th of November. And, ahh, the title song from the album is this one, it's called 'Open Your Eyes'.
before 'And You And I'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Thank you. Thank you. When we recorded this next song, we'd been rehearsing, ahh, this song for about a week, ahh, and it's around this time really changed our thinking about music and it was like, we're sitting in the studio and, ahh, the producer at that time, Eddie Offord, was just getting ready and we were sort of getting ready and everybody was calming down, sipping mint tea and things musicians usually do, things like that. And, ahh, I turned to Eddie and, ahh, said "are you ready, Eddie" and that's how he got his nickname, Ready Eddie, in a way, that's what happened. I said "quick turn the tape on" because sounds were happening in the corner of the studio. I said "put the tape on now, quick". Can you hear that little sort of... on the mic...
before 'Second Initial'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to someone who really is a musician that just loves his work, his craft. And the way he plays some of the world's wonderful guitars - Mr. Steve Howe!
before 'Clap'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Steve Howe: Alright, thank you all so much. Alright, it's good to be back in New York again, very, very nice. That was ah, "Second Initial" and ah, "Masquerade". It's always nice to get back here and... "Clap"!
before 'Children Of Light'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Steve Howe on guitar. Thank you so much.
Steve Howe: Thank you very much. Thanks.
Jon Anderson: Thank you. Thank you so much. As I was saying earlier, we did a lot of recording over the last year, in fact we've, we did an album called 'Keys to Ascension' and, ahh, the follow-up to that album is 'Keys To Ascension 2', which is, ahh, I believe, in the shops next week. And it's got a lot of musicianship, and ahh, here's one of the songs. I'm going to dedicate this to my love, Jane. It's a song called "Children", "Children of Light".
before 'Khoroshev Solo'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. New York is a crazy place, is it? It's amazing, it's just an amazing, just amazing place. Over the years. We've been very fortunate to bump into various musicians along the way, and ahh, change is basically what we do all the time. We seem to change nearly every album, the line-up. And ahh, this is no different. And, ahh, I was carrying a cassette with me, in my bag for about two months before I listened to it, and I just put it on one day this summer and ahh, played this beautiful, beautiful piano music, and ahh, asked him if he'd like to come on tour with us. So, without further ado, all the way from Moscow via Boston, Igor Khoroshev!
before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: The truly amazing Mr. Chris Squire. Master of the bass, keeper of the flame. On the drums Mr. Alan White. Let's hear it again for Chris Squire.
before 'Soon'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. When I was, ahh, writing the lyrics to this next song, it was just one of those things that, ahh, I was writing about the light, and ahh, I understood there was light and I believed that there was light and I remembered somewhere there was light within. And over the last twenty years since I wrote these lyrics, and now, now I know there is the light and I feel inside the light and I see it in everybody that I meet
before 'I've Seen All Good People'
transcribed by: Geoff Dunn
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank a really, really remarkable road crew, one of the best we've ever toured with. With great sound and great lights, let's hear it for those brilliant guys, c'mon, hey! Doing a great job there. This song is for all of you, okay? Sing along please.