24 years, 9 months and 1 day ago

Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Concord, California

Concord Pavillion

12,500 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. It's great to be here with you this evening, thank you. One of the important songs we decided to do on this tour, we're going to do it now. It's a song we haven't played for 24 years. I call this song 'The Gates of Delirium'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. I wish you could take more tours with us [???] easier. So, I mean, this is the second of our concert tour and really appreciate you coming this evening and supporting all [???] based in the sentences we appreciate very much. Steve Howe, on guitars!

Jon Anderson:
We're going to carry on with a song which when we started thinking about doing this kind of a tour we wanted to sing this song very much and the idea is that we all come from the 'Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Chris Squire! Bass guitar! I mentioned this to a friend of mine, actually, was me and my beautiful wife Jane [???] we met this wonderful lady and she told us, very strongly about how, the earth really listens to human beings and I thought that's very logical and..uh [???] very strong energy force when people get together to listen to music, doing things together in groups. And she said, "It's..it's kind of like a Ritual". I said "That's interesting", 'cause that's one of the, one of the pieces of music we're going to do on this tour. It's called 'Ritual'. And she said, "Well you should do it for the earth, you know, for human beings and the Earth." So if you feel like stamping and dancing around when we do this, especially towards the end, please do it. So here we go. A song from 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' called 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
Mr. Igor Khoroshev on keyboards here. He paid me fifty bucks to say that. I'm actually going to play the guitar, and this is a sort of improv situation, believe me and I'd like to introduce you to the greatest, greatest guy in the world and great drummer, Mr. Alan White on drums here. So I was..uh I was sitting with my son about a month ago, and I was playing him some chords. I said, "Say they're very nice chords, dad. What does it mean?" And I said well, I wrote this song, it goes, "Take a straight and stronger course..."