Jon Anderson: It's great to be with you once again here in Houston. Texas. This is a lovely house but tonight it's the house of Yes.
before 'Lightning Strikes'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! We'd like to do a couple of songs from the new album which is 'The Ladder' and..uh this song started off..uh with..uh we found this..uh sample in..uh we played it and said "That pretty good. Let's use it." So we did use it and it's goes a little bit like this. It's sort of a. Okay let's do the cassa nova.
before 'Nous Sommes Du Solei'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you. Thank you [???] Here's a..
before 'Messenger, The'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: That's Chris Squire on bass guitar. Woo! Here's another song from the album. This one..uh It's a song about Bob Marley. Here we go. Good old Bob. He lives.
before 'And You And I'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I saying before the song Bob Marly I wrote the lyrics. We actually recorded that song when we wrote of the studio and the Bob Marley special on MTV so I sorta kinda got a synchronicity feeling to do something like that. [???] My children sing Bob Marley songs to me and it's really very beautiful.
before 'Australia'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much thank you. Thank you so much. Woo! I'd like to leave you in the capable hands and beautiful guitar styles of the maestro of the guitar, Mr. Steve Howe.
before 'It Will Be A Good Day'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Steve Howe.
before 'Face To Face'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Let's here it for Billy Sherwood who also write that song, plays guitar, sings a lot, plays electric guitar, tap dancing. Woo! On keyboards Mr. Igor Khoroshev.
before 'Hearts'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Thank you very much. Thank you. That's song's..uh the latest single, and it's climbing up the charts. It's number one in Buenos Aires. Life if good. Now we can do..uh American Bandstand. My boyhood. American Bandstand. David Letterman? The Larry King show. Is that weird or [???]. Politician meetings? Isn't that crazy. All that money they keep raising it's like "Oh were gonna raise 30 million dollars" What do they do with all that money? They go on holiday. Ooops I've got to be careful with what I'm saying. Here's a song we started rehearsing and..uh decided to do this. We haven't done this song for many many years and it was real fun to be able to sorta listen to..uh well the playing and the lyrics and how simple the whole thing [???].
before 'Nine Voices'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: I'd to introduce you to the wonderfully amazing. Definitely one the great drummers of all time, Mr. Alan White. He's been..uh practicing for a couple of hours of tublas on this next song. So..uh he's been to India. No actually he's been to an Indian restaurant and he heard tublus. There they are. Very nice tune too and here's a song that [???] on the new album 'The Ladder' and..uh here's a song which is a true story and happened some 12 years ago at a very important juncture. Incredible. [???] a couple of decades ago. I'm not going to get into it because it will drive you crazy.