24 years, 8 months and 26 days ago

Saturday, July 22, 2000

Hartford, Connecticut

Meadows Music Theatre

6,000 capacity

Jon Anderson:
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. I still remember, the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters, that knew the knowlege of the band, and spoke to me, in sweet accustomed ways. Woo! Here's a song called 'Starship Trooper'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, great to be with you once again here in Hartford. Thank you. We're gonna do some songs, we haven't played these songs for twenty-five years they say and we are enjoying every moment of this tour, just re..remembering all this music, and..uh one of the great thing is that..uh we have you to thank for, all of this what we're doing tonight is for, to we are to play to all you people, and thank God you're still with us, and enjoying this music. So here we go with a song called 'Gates of Delirium'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. Here's a, here's a song for my wonderful wonderful beautiful Jane, I'm so amazed with her. Song we're gonna do is a song, written by Mr. Chris Squire on bass guitar. He started doing these [???] bits, and I came up with an idea for a song which was ah, based on this thought that every time I listened back to music that we were recording. I'd get this sort of, bizzare and strange feeling, and it wasn't the dope, I tell ya, it was pretty cool. I can smell so much going on in here. How's it going on. You guys, Woo! And..uh see I can't, can't remember what I was thinking about now. That's what it does to you. So here's the song 'Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. Woo! Thank you so much. One of the..uh great things about, touring this music is..uh being able to choose a piece of music we haven't really played for twenty-six years actually and..uh great thing is to be able to play it and then, to have you wonderful people to accept listening to it that's amazing. Think about it. The idea, that when so many people get together they do call it a ritual in the ancient days like, people used to get together, in their thousands to sing songs, to the moon and to the sun, and here we are, all over the world people getting together on many different levels having great times you know, we still call them rituals. So we're going to do a piece of music from, the 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' project. Some of you may remember, there's 'The Revealing', and then 'The Remembering', of course 'The Ancient', and then we decided to do a piece of music called, simply we called it, 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank You. Let's hear it for Alan White on the drums here. On the keyboards Mr. Igor Khorochev. Just a, couple of months ago I was..uh teaching my son, Damion, some chords on the guitar, he started playing the guitar it's kinda cool. These are some of the first chords I learned and..uh he said, 'Did you write a song?' I said, 'Yeah it's, Take a straight and stronger course....'.