Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. [something in French]. It's really wonderful to be with you here in Paris, beautiful, beautiful Paris. Crazy traffic, Crazy people but beautiful Paris. Here's a song..uh by the great songwriter Paul Simon about the coming through with the truth of America into the 21st century. Song is called 'America'.
before 'Open Your Eyes'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Steve Howe on guitar. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uh..We have a new album in the stores it's called..uh the album is called 'Open Your Eyes' and it's a collection of songs we did last summer and..uh one of the main inspirations was the guy who help produce the last couple of albums. Got together with Chris and myself and we wrote a bunch of songs and then Steve and Alan of course and we said to him 'Please would you come on tour? See Europe. Go to Amsterdam. Have a great time.' and, yeah it's true, and his name is Billy Sherwood. Here he is. Here's the song we got together with Chris and then myself and everyone. It's a song called 'Open Your Eyes'.
before 'And You And I'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. [something in French]. Like to sing the Beatle bow sorta. Just practicing, just, just. So I'd like to introduce you to..uh. You have a microphone? Doesn't have a microphone. He's the only guy who speaks French but he doesn't have a microphone. Alan Blank. I said Alan Blank. Woo! So I'll say it in English anyway. Recording an album..uh in Advision studios in London With Eddie Offord and we had tea in the afternoon..uh tea. You understand. Sorry. And I heard this sound in the corner of the studio and I said 'Eddie, start recording now. Start recording now.'
before 'Mood For A Day'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Chris Squire on bass guitar. [something in French]. Thank you so much. Thank you. It gives..uh me..uh great pleasure of which to introduce you to the wonderful hands, fingers, and guitar style. Very good foot, foot work as well. Tap dancing of Mr. Steve Howe.
before 'Clap'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Steve Howe: Alright. Thank you and thank you Very nice to be here in Paris. Wonderful. Thanks. That was..uh an excerpt from 'Masquerade' my Grammy nominated acoustic piece and before that of course I had to bring a little of..uh the hot club to Paris in..uh Jenga and of course before that 'Mood For A Day' which I wrote for my wife Jan and..uh I'd like to play this piece tonight for some friends of mine, Margerate and Sydney. Close my little set and this is call 'Clap'.
before 'Nous Sommes Du Solei'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Steve Howe. Woo! We're were just hoping..uh before we came on and I said 'Can you remember that song?' and he said. We used to sing this song together many years ago. He's coming. Trying to remember the first words. I'm sure it'll come through. Do you remember it?
before 'From The Balcony'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Yeah. Thank you. [something in French]. This..uh next song is..uh on the new album 'Open Your Eyes'. I just went..uh to the hotel room..uh were we were recording in..uh Los Angeles and Steve was playing this piece of music and this is what it sounded like on the record because we recorded it that afternoon. It's called 'From The Balcony'.
before 'Wonderous Stories'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. We spent..uh with the group, one time we spent..uh in Switzerland it was..uh kinda crazy, never got to ski but..uh we made an album. Uh..the album was..uh 'Going For The One' and..uh we decided to do a song from that album. It's..uh a song that I wrote one morning cause..uh. I have to run up here just one second. I woke up in the one morning and I heard this sorta. So I looked out the window and I saw these very tiny cows running around very fast. Moo. Moo. So, so I wrote this song, it's called 'Wondrous Stories'.
before 'Khoroshev Solo'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you. [something in French]. Thank you. Thank you very much. Like..uh most of you know, Yes is continually changing. Nearly each record is new musicians, new lineup. I don't know why it happens but life, life is like that, a lot of changes. I think that's the was it works for us anyway. So when..uh we decided to go on tour we knew we needed to find a keyboard player who loved Yes music. Surprise we found somebody who was from Moscow who was living in Boston. I called him up. 'Hello'. His name is Igor. 'Hello Igor, do you like Yes music?'. 'Oh I love Yes music I know everything [???]. I know everything about Yes music. Who's that?' I said 'This is Jon Anderson'. He said 'No, no, no, no. Not possible in this life. But here he is, he's a really wonderful guy and a great keyboard player. Mr. Igor Khoroshev.
before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: ..and on the drums. [???]. The amazing, the original action man. Mr. Alan White. Or as some people say. Alan Blank. Alan Blank. Play those drums Alan.
before 'I've Seen All Good People'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: I want to thank you all for coming out this evening. Really been such great pleasure to come back to Paris and I hope we get a chance to do more and more into the 21st Century and..uh I want to thank our wonderful light crew and sound crew for doing a great job, they are really wonderful people. Thank you so much and..uh here's a song we'd love for you to sing along and..uh join in. Sing along and stuff like that.