26 years, 5 months and 2 days ago

Monday, July 6, 1998

Cincinnati, Ohio

Riverbend Music Center Amphitheatre

15,000 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you so much. 'Rhythm Of Love'. Cincinnati. Woo! You guys. Thank you. Thank you for coming this evening. Great to see you. Great to see you. We'd like to do a song which we haven't done this song for many many years and..uh again here's a song that..uh is for your guys. Everybody. [???] this one. It's kinda interesting.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Alright. Steve Howe on guitar. Thank you so much. Thank you. [???]. Like to introduce you to a guy who's in the band for the last year on tour and he's a wonderful guy. He actually started working with us about four years ago, producing and now he's writing songs. He's a wonderful musician. He's all the way from Las Vegas. His name is Billy Sherwood. Billy was been written into the Starbucks honorary book. He drinks Starbucks twenty times a day and he's still standing. There he is. A monument to coffee. He wrote this song actually with Chris and everyone joined in [???] wrote the song with him. It's a song is about..uh you've got a great imagination now into the twenty-first century. Now is the time to start using our imagination for [???]. It's called 'Open Your Eyes'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is..uh great time to be here with you this evening. Woo! Took this song..uh to Europe and..uh after a few..uh days of rehearsal, realized this song was changing into something that I will never forget and..uh it's always a great pleasure to sing to you and..uh it's one of those pieces of music that we love playing it whenever we go on stage and..uh it started off in the recording very very simple. Some harmonic sounds and there it is. It's a lovely song. [???] in the year 2000.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. It's..uh just wonderful, wonderful to here you and your listening [???] music [???]. very powerful..uh that's a song..uh maybe twenty-seven years, twenty-six years ago and thank you for listening. Thank you so much. It gives me..uh great pleasure to leave you in the capable hands and fingers, guitar styles of the maestro Mr. Steve Howe.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Who's this. Woo! Steve Howe. Steve on guitar. This..uh next song..uh started as a very, very sorta gentle song. Very simple song about..uh that moment each time..uh possible each day you find to be very quiet and calm sorta reflected moment through meditation and the song is..uh very gentle. So I took it up to the group and they said 'It needed beefing up a bit with more stuff'. You know. So I said 'Okay what are you going to do?' This is exactly what they did to this very gentle quiet song. It started off like this.

Jon Anderson:
Chris Squire on bass guitar. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Here's a song that..uh like we, we never actually..uh done this next song on tour until we started this tour about three weeks ago and it's a song that..uh I'd like to dedicate to my wonderful soul mate, may wife Jane and she's so [???] best and she's wonderful, she's wonderful. It's a sorta of..uh sorta of. It's a fairy. [???]. Here's a song that we done. It's a song called 'Wondrous Stories'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank so much. Thank you so much. As..uh most of you know. This is our thirtieth year anniversary and..uh [???] but I must say, just to be able to..twenty six years ago we wrote that song and you are still with us so we can play it still is amazing. Wonderful. [???]. Thank you very much. Like to introduce you to..uh a new friend on keyboards. He's been with us all the way through this last year and he's..uh a great Yes fan as you can tell and he's all the way from Moscow. He lives is Boston. He's a great guy. His name is Igor Khoroshev.

Jon Anderson:
Grand master of the bass guitar. Mr. Chris Squire and on drums, the incredible, the original action man, Mr Alan White. Mr. Alan White on drums. Yeah.

Jon Anderson:
..wonderful people who travel with us everyday. The guys in production crew, sounds and light who put this together. Let's hear it for these wonderful people. Woo! Here's a really, really truly great song by Paul Simon who wants us to play this on tour as we lead ourselves into the twenty-first century. Still looking for the true America. The song is call 'America'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. I want to take this..uh opportunity to thank you all for coming along tonight not only that but thank you all for staying with the band for such a long, long time. Maybe next time we will get together it will be next summer and..uh sorta [???] into the twenty-first century. It's going to be quite an amazing party and it's starting here next summer when we come back. I going to sing a song and [???] sing along with this one and halfway through I want to see you dancing the Cincinnati shuffle or whatever it is.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. We've got time for one more. Do you want to hear one more? Do you want to hear one more?