26 years, 6 months and 8 days ago

Friday, March 27, 1998

Katowice, Poland

Spodek Hall

7,500 capacity

Jon Anderson:
[??? Something in Polish] It's great to be with you - a wonderful feeling to be here in your wonderful country. Here's a song, written by the great Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel, about the children of the world who live in America. America is coming through into the 21st century. And the song is called 'America'.

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe on guitar!

Jon Anderson:
Thank you! [??? Something in Polish] Be sure nobody else is coming running past will you? It's wonderful to be with you this evening, thank you. The next song we will play, ahh, recorded before I was born, way before - it's true! And we were in London, and you know in London, at 4 o'clock you have to have tea. Very important, teatime. But Eddie Offord was our producer, engineer, and he would make the tea like this, sort of thing. But I won't go into that because we're on the radio. We're on the radio tonight, live, all over Poland. Heeey! Hello Aunty George. So I heard this and it was "Quick, Eddie, start the recording now, please"...

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. It's ahh, great to introduce you to, leave you in the capable hands, the fingers, the guitar style of Mr. Steve Howe!

Steve Howe:
Alright, thank you very much! Alright, that was called 'Diary Of A Man Who Vanished' and before that, for my wife, I played 'Mood For A Day', thank you very much. I'm going to finish now my little set with, um, the very first, ahh, country and western or Chet Atkins picking piece I ever wrote and, ah, some say it's my best. It's called 'Clap'!

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe! We'd like to carry on with a song, what? Steeeve! With a... Steeeve! [??? Something in Polish] We'd like to do, ahh, a song together, in English we call it a duet, in Polish you say duet, so it's a duet, just two people on a song from the 'Open Your Eyes' album. [??? Something in Polish] Here we go, a duet.

Jon Anderson:
[??? Something in Polish] Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Here's a song ahh, we recorded in Switzerland. We were working in Switzerland for a time, and the song is, ahh, from the album, ahh 'Going For The One' album. Here's a song, and it's a song called 'Wonderous Stories'.

Jon Anderson:
This is ahh, a privilege for me to sing this next song. I wrote this song 15, 16 years ago, maybe more, 17 years, for solidarity. [??? Something in Polish] So I will sing for you just the verse, from my heart to you. Because ahh, Poland, Poland, Polsta changed the world, you know 'Change The World'.

Jon Anderson:
Our wonderful keyboard player, all the way from Moscow, a really great guy, Igor Khoroshev!

Jon Anderson:
The grand master of the bass guitar, Mr. Chris Squire! And the amazing drumming, the original action man, Mr. Alan White here!

Jon Anderson:
[??? Something in Polish] Thank you so much. I need a drink. Where's that guy? I need a Coke-a! [??? Something in Polish] Three Coke-a! I'd like to thank, ahh, everybody for coming this evening. Thank you. [??? Something in Polish] This song, we'd love you to sing, and half way through, these guys, these, ahh... don't worry, let me talk to this guy. Excuse me, Mister, um, hello. It's okay, they can dance. Let 'em dance, and have singing and cha-cha-cha. So, half way through, not the beginning, yet. Not the beginning, half way through. I'll show you, I'll say everybody stand up, like this. Where's those cows? Oh, they're okay. What's that? What is that? Okay. It sounds like, ahh, one of those little cars you have, like Porsche. Here's a song, sing along please.