25 years, 11 months ago

Friday, October 9, 1998

Tokyo, Japan

Shibuya Koukaidou

2,318 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Domo Arigato. Thank you. It's really wonderful to be here, Friday night in Tokyo. Thanks for coming along tonight. Thank you so much. We appreciate you all coming. [??? Something in Japanese]. Yeah, we'll do that, we'll do that one. I don't know about that one. That one over there. It goes a little bit like this, after a quick 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. Here we go.

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe on guitar! I'd like to introduce you to someone who has been in the band for the last few years, doing production. He got involved in songwriting last year, so we asked him to join the group. He's all the way from Las Vegas [???] Las Vegas, a gambler, gambler, black jack. His name is Mr. Billy Sherwood! Billy! Here's a song that Billy wrote with Chris and we all joined in and it became a song last year. You might have heard it on the radio. The song is called 'Open Your Eyes'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Domo Arigato. [??? Something in Japanese]. Sorry. We're going to do a song that, ahh, we recorded, ahh, a long time ago, long time ago. [??? Something in Japanese]. Here's the song, it's like, ahh, [??? Something in Japanese].

Jon Anderson:
[??? Something in Japanese]. You're wonderful. Thank you very much for listening and thank you for staying ahh, with the group for such a long, long time. Many, many years. And ahh, we played, as I said before, we played here twenty five years ago and ahh, I know that we did this next song, twenty five years ago, right here. Actually I was, I think, I was over here! I wasn't there, here! I was right in the middle. No, no! Stevie? Alan? Okay, here we go. Hold tight.

Jon Anderson:
Chris Squire, bass guitar! Thank you so much. Thank you [??? Something in Japanese]. It's always my great pleasure to leave you in the capable hands, and fingers, guitar style of the maestro of the guitar, Mr. Steve Howe!

Steve Howe:
Thanks very much! That was called 'Sketches in the Sun' and you actually heard 'Mood For A Day' before that one for you. I wrote 'Mood For A Day' all those years ago, when I first met my wife, so ahh, [???]. I'm going to play you one more tune, one that I always play, I hope you want to hear it again, 'Clap'!

Steve Howe:
[???]. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe! Hey, my, my big moment now.

Jon Anderson:
Okay [??? Something in Japanese]. Is that a chicken? That was a chicken! Okay, the killing of a chicken!

Steve Howe:
You said one chicken

Jon Anderson:
One chicken. Here's a song called 'Wonderous Stories'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. [??? Something in Japanese]. Thank you. Thank you very much. As ahh, most of you know, Yes is a group that has been through so many different changes, different people in the group, and here we are again on tour in Japan with a different looking group. On keyboards, we have a wonderful, wonderful guy, all the way from Moscow, in Russia. His name is Igor Khoroshev!

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

Jon Anderson:
[??? Something in Japanese]. Thank you very much. You're wonderful. [??? Something in Japanese]. Here's a song we'd love you to sing along with. We want to thank Nick on the lights and Dave on the sound tonight. Production is wonderful, to have these people with us. It's that chicken again! Thank you. Here's ahh, here we go.