Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you for coming along to this beautiful, beautiful building called 'The State' but tonight it will be called the house of Yes.
before 'Lightning Strikes'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Steve Howe on guitar. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. 'Perpetual Change'. You know it's quite amazing that twenty years later to play that song again and realize what were we thinking at that time. It such [???] piece of music. Thank you for listening. Here's a couple of new songs from..uh the new album 'The Ladder' and..uh. Thank you. Here's one of the songs and it's sorta..uh [???] sorta real big feel to it. Sorta, when your making an album you a lot of different songs and all of then sudden there it is on the record. It's kinda funky. Here is a song about the idea that lightening strikes you and how you react. Probably [???] or a martini.
before 'Messenger, The'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Chris Squire on bass guitar. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're making..uh the album up in Vancouver with a great, great producer called Bruce Fairbarin and..uh he really told us how Yes music has changed his life and music and..uh made us feel very comfortable about making this record and he asked me one day, he said "Why don't you write about somebody who really influenced you as a singer and songwriter and so forth" So I thought of..uh instantly I thought of Bob Marley. So..uh I just remembered my children singing me Bob Marley songs [???] singing it to me and I already knew that it was beautiful. So here's a song called..uh 'The Messenger'. Here we go.
before 'Nous Sommes Du Solei'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Thank you. Thank you. A little dedication to the beautiful and wonderful Melissa Squire who's having..uh a baby, Chris's baby. Chris. This is a dedication to her.
before 'It Will Be A Good Day'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. I'd to introduce you to the 'International Keyboard Player Of The Year'. Mr. Igor Khoroshev
before 'Face To Face'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm just getting ready [???] jump up song and..uh rhythms, great rhythms [???] Mr Alan White on drums here. Woo! We started, we started writing a song and..uh all of a sudden it jumps at us a sorta central African groove sorta.
before 'Hearts'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. New Jersey. It's so wonderful that you stayed with the band for such a long time. Really, it's amazing. We really, really truly appreciate that very, very much. It's kinda amazing to me, going into the twenty-first century to the year 2000. It's amazing isn't it? Here's a song that we..uh we recorded it fifteen years ago. What? I had the nice, three beers, one at a time, [???] Steve had only a martin. Three beers, [???] and tonic, a martini and a ginger ale. Here's a song about how children really teaches everything we want if we listen hard enough you'll hear some great stuff. [???]. It's one of those songs we started doing when we were rehearsing and thought 'Let's try this song, we haven't played it for fifteen years, let's try to play it you know you never know. [???]. It's sorta [???] cool thing to do, here we go [???]. Happy Thanksgiving. That was it, I knew there was something. Happy Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for. It's unbelievable America is truly unbelievable. We were very fortunate to travel. Listen to me. Listen. Just listen to this, I just gotta say. This, these keyboards are screwed up so we can't start, right? So I'm just rambling along. Okay listen. I just [???]. Is he on ecstasy or is we're all on ecstasy and he isn't. It's one of the three. So we went down in Peru and believe me, people that live in Peru have a tough life. It's amazing but they still love Yes music. They came and see our show and..uh it's amazing to [???] because they don't have a future. It's really bizarre down there and you came back to America and realize how beautiful, beautiful this place is. It's wonderful, wonderful [???].
before 'Awaken'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Mr. Billy Sherwood on guitar.
before 'I've Seen All Good People'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. Woo! Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Alright here's a song we can all sing along to and halfway through get up and start dancing [???] the way that people dance here in New Jersey. Halfway through this I want to see you dancing halfway through this song okay? Again, thank you for being so supportive throughout the years. It's amazing. Into the year 2000. Have a great and wonderful time.
before 'Roundabout'
transcribed by: Pete Whipple
Jon Anderson: Woo! Alright. What I want to say is that have a great holiday when it comes next month. Have a great new year. It's been great being with you. Thank you so much.