24 years, 1 month and 13 days ago

Saturday, July 29, 2000

Antioch, Tennessee

Amsouth Amphitheatre

17,000 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 young sons and daughters, that knew the knowledge of the band, and spoke to me, in sweet accustomed ways. It's great to be with you this evening. Here's a song called 'Starship Trooper'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. So great to be here in Nashville again. Tennessee. [???] and many other places. It's great to be with you once again. We're going to play some songs we haven't played for twenty-five, twenty six years if that's okay. Simply because we like the idea of trying them again and seeing what they're really like because we made music years and years ago we want to try them again and if fact we hope you want to hear it of course. So here we go with the first one. It's called 'Gates Of Delirium'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Two amazing things. One, we can still play that music good. Secondly, thanks to you we can still play that music so thank you all very much. [???] Soon oh soon the light. Soon oh soon the light. When I first wrote that song I wasn't sure but..uh I wasn't sure there was light. Of course now there's light everywhere. It's amazing. It's truly amazing how everyone of you out there has this light and power within. Truly Amazing. Truly amazing on guitar Mr. Steve Howe.

Jon Anderson:
In the early days of recording I used to listen back to the music we were recording and get this sorta very strange and powerful feeling inside. It was very sharp and and yet distance at the same time. So I, I turned around..uh one day and spoke to Mr. Chris Squire on bass guitar. Do you smoke? Did everybody [???] up a joint? Sorry. and I thought about that feeling and I, and I sorta put it together in one phrase. That's feeling's like Very spirit every and I called it the 'Heart Of The Sunrise'. Houston we have a problem. I think it's going to be okay. Gives me time to thank the wonderful Bob and Nancy and all three [???]. All those wonderful people. I stayed there last Christmas. Had the best, best time. It was so wonderful. Thank you everybody very much. Here we go.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Each and every night all over the world large amounts of people get together to have a good time. It's called ritual. It is a ritual. The earth spirits needs to hear us and need to feel that we're still alive. So every night we get together have a great time. Watching all kinds of things. During the beginning of 73 we started writing a piece of music called 'Tales From Topographic Oceans'. It is in four movements, 'The Revealing', 'The Remembering', 'The Ancient' and now we're going to play for you tonight 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
On drums Mr. Alan White here and on the keyboards, Mr. Igor Khoroshev. Just before the tour started I got together with my son Damian and..uh he starting playing guitar. He plays kinda cool guitar and..uh I showed him this guitar and sorta sequins. It was one of the first one's I sorta put together. I said..uh 'Dad did you write a song on it?' and I said 'Yeah I did'.