24 years, 9 months and 25 days ago

Saturday, December 11, 1999

Boston, Massachusetts

Orpheum Theatre

2,800 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Here in beautiful downtown Boston. Thank you all for coming along this very cold evening. [???]. You obviously very used to it so hey. What's the name of the theatre is it the Orpheam? Well tonight we're going to call it the house of Yes.

Jon Anderson:
I want to thank you all for being with us for such a long time . Thank you. Appreciate. I'd like to do a couple of songs from 'The Ladder', the new album and I honestly remember recording this album we've, we been together on the road for two years and we're still so happy together. So the sound of the album is very upbeat, happy sort of thing. This song relates to..uh when lighting strike you and it does many different times and many different ways and the song is called 'Lightening Strikes'.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Chris Squire on bass guitar. Chris. Chris Squire. Me and Chris has been together for 31 years. Long long time and..uh he's still an amazing bass player and still an amazing guy but he's still an amazing bass player and..uh we started to record this next song. So I left it up to Chris to find a groove. Him and Alan started this sorta semi-raggae thing going and..uh our wonderful producer..uh his name was Bruce Fairburn. I say 'was' because he's now departed and living in heaven and watching us every night saying 'Cmon guys get it right' and he was the sweetest guy in the world. He loved Yes music and helped us make this..uh wonderful record. He said to me one day. 'Why don't you write a song about someone who influenced you in your life' and I told him by the way of Bob Marley. [???] and one of my children used to sing Bob Marley songs to me, made me feel good and..uh so this is a song called 'The Messenger'.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you so much. Thank you. Here's a song [???] walking around..uh this wonderful Boston..

Man In Audience:
Speak Up!

Jon Anderson:
Pardon? Speak Up. Turn the PA. Sorry. Yes we were walking around Boston [???] like having a great time getting blown around by the wonderful crazy wind today and this is a song from [???].

Jon Anderson:
I'd like to introduce you to a guy who used to live here in Boston so he calls Boston his real home. He's the international keyboard player of the year Mr. Igor Khoroshev.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We're just going to pretend now it's the seventh innings. Seventh inning stretch with this next song please stand up and sorta dance for a little bit. You'll feel good. [???] C'mon [???] a long time, the year 2000 we will win big time. Here's a song so central African rhythms. The promise will come when the promise is made. The promise will come.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. You can relax a little bit now. That was a good workout. You guys, you stand [???]. This..Woo!

Jon Anderson:
On guitar Mr. Billy Sherwood.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Thank you so much. It's sorta..uh into our last..uh few days of touring. We've been on tour for 3 years now. It's a great place to come and see you guys and..uh a chance to wish you a wonderful Happy Christmas and a great new year and [???] and what better guy, what better guy to bring in this song in. The one, the only, greatest guy in the world. Our drummer, Mr. Alan White on drums. Alan White on drums. Woo! Come sing along, dance along. Everybody is gotta stand up in the middle. Okay, just in the middle of the song everybody stand up okay? Please.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. I want to take this time to thank our wonderful sound engineer David over there and Ben and AJ on the right. [???] the wonderful road crew we have backstage the greatest in the world. The greatest in the world. Let's hear it for the road crew. Yeah! The road crew [???] get paid. So we love you very much and I'll see you next year in the spring time, summer time. [???]