26 years, 10 months and 21 days ago

Friday, November 21, 1997

Louisville, Kentucky

Palace Theatre

2,700 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. The 'Rhythm Of Love'. It's great to be with you in Kentucky. Oh. As we travel across America, Americas. We're still searching about the real truth about America and what it means and what's going to happen in the 21st century and how America is the child of the world. Am I going on a bit? Sorry, so carried away there. It's the..uh I was on the phone today with Paul Simon and he said 'yes, you can play my song' and I 'okay, we'll play your song tonight' [???] We're going to play 'America'.

Jon Anderson:
I'd thank you thank you all for coming along in the rain and..uh it's great to be with you. This is one beautiful theater I must tell you. We have decided to take it on tour with us this theater. [???] one suitcase. Just take it away. It's been a wonderful year for the band, a crazy year..uh about a year ago we had an album out called 'Keys To Ascension'. That's okay..uh [???] and..uh we started writing one of the songs earlier year and decided, let's just write some songs. We're not quite sure what to do next but we wrote a few songs and..uh

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much. It's very beautiful out there. Just trying to get on with it [???]......serious and then we got down to recording the song and the rest is history. I said "Eddie quick, start recording". This sound is exactly like on the album. This is exactly like the album.

Jon Anderson:
...the 'Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Chris Squire on bass guitar. [???] It always gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the capable hands, fingers, guitars, wonderful tunesmith, Mr Steve Howe.

Steve Howe:
Thank you so much. Alright. I'd like to say that last piece I finished was called 'Clap', called 'Mood For A Day' actually. I hope you know the next piece that I'm going to be joined on stage with and..uh here we go.

Steve Howe:
Thank you. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
[???] I was saying earlier quite a crazy year in some ways..um 'Keys To Ascension' came out in last November and now 'Keys To Ascension 2' is in your shops and available. [???] I'd..uh like to sing the next song and..uh this..uh is a dedication to my Jane, who travels with me all the time. Keeps me organized which is wonderful and it's is a song that I wrote, I think 16 years ago and all of the sudden it's on tour. So here it's goes. A song called 'Children Of Light'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Uh..during the course of the history of the band as most of you know, we've gone though so many changes, it's incredible and..uh [???] changes into the 21st Century. We've always been very fortunate to find the right musician for the right spot, for the right place at the right time and he's no exception. He's a guy, actually he resides from Moscow. A wonderful keyboard player, a big Yes fan. He's going to play keyboards for you, Mr Igor Khoroshev.

Jon Anderson:
That Alan White guy is such a quiet guy, really [???].

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much thank you. Thank you. This..uh so many years ago we started, I think we all go through the same things were we search for some truth and some real [???] of the spirit. Things like that. About the time I wrote these lyrics and this song. I have some flowers and..uh I really, really believed that the light is within inside, inside our being and surrounding us all the time and surrounding everywhere. Everybody in the world has the light. Every being has the light. I really believed very strongly so I wrote this song. Here I am 20 years later and I know there is light. I know it's within everyone and surrounds us, so.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much thank you. I'd like to..uh take this opportunity to thank you all for coming this evening and..uh I'd also like..uh show our appreciation for the really wonderful production team, the light crew and sound crew. So let's hear it for these wonderful people. Okay, here's a song we'd like us all to sing along. This one's for you.