24 years, 2 months and 5 days ago

Saturday, July 8, 2000

Chicago, Illinois

Grant Park

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you so much. Thank you. We really appreciate you listening. From the beginning of..uh first time we started recording..uh we recently listening to playback of the band playing songs and we used to get this incredible feeling which was very hard to describe. It's like sharp and very distance at the same time and later I kind of realized that it kind of a spirit thing that happens between the vibrations of music and your [???] energy and stuff like that you know? So one day I got together with Chris, Mr. Chris Squire on bass guitar. We wrote a song together that is called 'The Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. I've got to..uh ask you a question. We were thinking of doing a song from..uh Tales from Topographic Oceans but we're gonna do 'I've Seen All Good People'. Okay, we're doing the song from 'Tales from Topographic'. I'm just very confused. I really am. They say when lots and lots of people get together, they call it a sort of a ritual, you see? So we're gonna try and do a ritual now for you all [???] people out there. [???] as well. You know we had a great, great, wonderful day, so we can just dig in and do this..uh wild and wacky piece of music. All the way from 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' from 1973. This song is called 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe on guitar here. On keyboards Mr Igor Khoroshev. A wonderful guy on drums Mr Alan White. I was teaching these..uh chords to my son Damien. He started playing guitar last year. He said "Did you..did you ever write a song on those chords?" and I said "This one".