25 years, 10 months and 11 days ago Wednesday, June 24, 1998 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania IC Light Amphitheatre 4,000 capacity
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before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you. 'Rhythm Of Love' Pittsburgh. Thank you so much. We've..uh want to thank you all for coming around this evening. It's great to be with you again. We have been around the world since we last saw you last. Which is kinda cool and..uh many crazy stories but I want start any of them now. Here's a song that we have not done on stage for many years and its..uh all of the sudden lots of fun to do on stage. The song is called..uh 'Yours Is No Disgrace'. before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Steve Howe on guitar. Woo! Thank you. Thank you so much. It's sorta..of. We wrote that song..uh in Devon. Beautiful, beautiful place in England and..uh it was a lot of fun in that time of..uh the bands career. I can't believe were 30 years on now. It's amazing to me, to me and..uh one of the great things is going through the songs that we love to play for you and realizing they'd still be here three days time if we did. Which is okay if you want to tour here but, you know, other people have got some lives to live and..uh here's a song that..uh I remember Eddie Offord..uh who was our producer at the time. He was..uh very instrumental in creating the really wonderful sound on..uh this song and it would started out very very simple. We would rehearse the song for maybe..uh you know a couple of days, three or four days and we would really be in the recording of it and..uh all the sudden the studio when very quiet and I heard these sounds so I said 'Eddie, lets start recording now' and this is how it finished on tape. before 'Open Your Eyes' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:I'd like introduce you to..uh a new member of the group. He's not a new member anymore. He's been in the band a couple of years now, doing production and helping to write songs. Here's a song that he started writing with Chris and the song was called..uh 'Open Your Eyes'. before 'Heart Of The Sunrise' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. I love, I love that tower. Do you love that tower? Over there?, the glass tower? With wonderful wife Jane. We went for a walk by that tower and that's an amazing, amazing structure. It's amazing, wish I would have thought of it. But I didn't. I was thinking the same thing. It's that place were it's really quiet. Really nice place to go. I used to called it 'The Heart Of The Sunrise'. before 'Wonderous Stories' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Chris Squire on bass guitar. Thank you so much. Thank you. We'd like to..uh carry on with a song. We've..uh actually we never..uh done this song on tour before but we started to get into it a few weeks ago in South America when we were down there and it's a song that..uh comes from a time when we were recording..uh we were recording in Switzerland and..uh the music was really, just amazing to to make this kind of music at that time in the bands career and here's a very simple song. I just woke up one morning and..uh wrote this song and it's a song called 'Wonderous Stories'. before 'Close To The Edge' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. before 'Long Distance Runaround' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Woo! Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. You are wonderful 27 years later. Thank your for waiting. Listening to it again. Here's our keyboard player on tour Mr. Igor Khoroshev. before 'America' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you. Woo! Alright. Here's a song that..uh is..uh written by by Paul Simon and..uh it's really special songs about the Americas and..uh how America's growing into the 21st century. We're all looking for the true America and..uh it's coming very soon. We believe that. So here's the song it's called 'America'. before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Steve Howe on guitar for that. Steve Howe: Thank you very much. Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. You've been great playing so many different kinds of songs for you. Here's a song that..uh I think you might remember and..uh sing along. Halfway through please stand up and dance the Pittsburgh boogie or whatever you do here. But plenty of it. You know? Plenty of it and it's a song that goes a little bit like..uh. Here it comes. before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Thank you so much thank you. Just want to so your appreciation for one of the greatest drummers in the world, Mr. Alan White here and over to my left Mr. Billy Sherwood from Las Vegas. Were was I? I was somewhere. C'mon. before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Pete Whipple Jon Anderson:Do we have time for one more? Do we have time for one more? Okay, here we go. |