23 years, 2 months and 11 days ago

Tuesday, July 18, 2000

Camden, New Jersey

Blockbuster/Sony Entertainment Centre

25,145 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you! Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember, the setting up of other roads to travel on in old accustomed ways.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you! Thank you so much, thank you! It's great to see you all again, thank you for coming along. There are two things about touring. You get on tour and then you say when are we going to get to Philadelphia? That's the next..that's something to start thinking about. When are we gonna get to Philly? That's the important [???] We're gonna do some songs which..uh we haven't played these songs for 25 years or so. So here we go with a song called 'Gates of Delerium'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much! Thank you so much! You're so wonderful, thank you! And it's..uh it's quite extraordinary that we can play that music 25 years later, but the great thing is, we have you to play it to! That's..That's truly unique to be able to play this music so much later in your life, you know? You realize we weren't doing too bad at that time, you know? So thank you all, every one of you, thank you very, very much. I really feel, really feel great to sing, because I haven't been singing in this last week, I got really sick, I want to thank my wonderful wife Jane for taking care of me, thank you so much, I'm so blessed! Thank you! Whew... You are all so amazing, and that is the great thing. Soon, oh soon the light. We all have the light, it's true. And, uh, also we have on guitar, Mr. Steve Howe!

Jon Anderson:
It was quite amazing to hear what we were doing, uh, because most of the time you're just playing it, but you hear it play back, [???] feel it. And I used to get this very sort of strange sharp, yet distant feeling. And uh, it's really true. And it's taken me a long time to discover what that energy really is, and I think it's something to do with the spirit, the soul within that touches the harmonics of sound and creates that energy. Anyway, here's Mr. Chris Squire on bass guitar!

Jon Anderson:
Thank you! Thank you. Thank you. Yes, on drums, Mr. Alan White please! And on keyboards, Mr. Igor Khoroshev. Many times over the years, we've been together on many different levels, and, uh, they do say it's like a ritual, the idea of getting together in large amounts of people to enjoy the [???] of the earth, and music which is a very powerful thing that comes from who knows where, and we enjoyed making the music, and it's great to be able to play it for you every time we come here, and, uh, when we started the idea of this tour, we thought about which song can we do from 'Tales From Topographic Oceans'. A very, very, very important part of our career, and uh, I'm sure most of you understand what we were going through musically, and uh, to be able to re-perform this music some 26 years later, is still quite amazing to me, and uh, so, here we go with a song that is simply titled 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much! Thank you for staying up with us this evening. Thank you! And uh, it was a [???] I got together with my son Damian, who's, uh, he just started playing guitar. And I showed him these chords, I said "You should try these because they're.... Interesting" He said "Did you write a song around these chords?" I said "Yes I did." Here it goes.