26 years, 2 months and 28 days ago

Tuesday, June 23, 1998

Bristow, Virginia

Nissan Pavillion

25,141 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. 'Rhythm Of Love'. Feel like we're singing in the rain here. [???] There are only two guys over here ready for the rain. Well done. Whatever you call it, Macintosh. It's..uh Here's a song we haven't done for many many years. It's one favorite of mine. We actually wrote it in Devon way way back When Steve first joined the band. It's a song called..uh..eh 'Yours Is No Disgrace'.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Steve Howe on guitar. Thank you so much. I'd like to say 'Hi' to you all, all you people coming out this evening. Thank you very much for coming out. This darn weather. Sometimes, for some reason I..I just love thunderstorms and lightening so it just the way it is and that's. It's a healthy sign of being alive. To see nature doing it's thang. He's a great guy and he's been in the band now for a long time and he's..uh over to my left. All the way from Las Vegas. Multi-instrumentalist and producer, Mr. Billy Sherwood. He's going to, he's going to say a couple of words to you now. He's, he's got a couple of words setup for this moment. No, I thought you had. Sorry. You don't? Sorry. He had two words, I think it was 'Love Ya'. Is it 'Love Ya'? I got a [???] from Chris. I got one too. Go on Billy you can say it. Okay Billy. Here's a song that Billy wrote with Chris and then we all joined it. It's the..uh title track from our new waxing. It's not of wax it's on CD of course and it's a song called 'Open Your Eyes'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. As you remember, some of you remember we're practicing the Beatle bow quite earnestly. We never got a call from..uh Ed Sullivan that were we. The Ed Sullivan show. I think we were a little late for that. It's a, it's a, it's a wonderful. It's a wonderful wonderful afternoon. I remember it very clearly we..uh always enjoy afternoon tea at four o'clock at [???] of course and..uh sometimes we would go for a [???] very dangerous dangerous stuff. [???] tea. But anyway we've been rehearsing this song for at least..uh 10 minutes or so. Rehearsing very hard and this song really changed my thinking about what we were doing as a group. We really enjoyed the memory of that and here we are in our thirtieth sorta year of tour. Happy Birthday to us. Sorry. So here's the song we..uh did several years ago we started just like this. I said to Eddie Offord, please start recording now cause.

Jon Anderson:
Chris Squire on bass guitar. Woo! Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much for listening. Here you are listening [???] So much easier to sing. It's like a dream. It's like a dream. It's like a dream. So there, you know? [???] Thank you all very much. So it's Wonderful, wonderful to introduce and leave you in the capable, capable hands fingers, wonderful guitar style of the maestro Mr. Steve Howe.

Jon Anderson:
Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. Loud enough? Thank you. [???] We're going to do a song which..uh I kinda remember the lyrics to this thing so [???].

Jon Anderson:
Here's a song that..uh before we start the song..uh like to introduce you to a really wonderful guy. He's..uh taking care of keyboards on this tour. He's a wonderful big Yes fan. A great guy from Moscow Russia. Truely a good musician, a great musician. Mr. Igor Khoroshev.

Jon Anderson:
Master of the bass guitar. Mr. Chris Squire and on drums the original action man, Mr. Alan White. He's a quiet gentleman but get him behind the drums, crazy, crazy. Here's a song that we never actually..uh did on stage before. It's a song from way back. It's..uh a lovely song we wrote in..uh Switzerland. The song is called..um 'Wonderous Stories'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you very much. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Woo!