24 years, 7 months and 20 days ago

Sunday, July 30, 2000

Atlanta, Georgia

Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre

19,000 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Alright 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. I still remember, the talks by the water, the proud sons and daughters, that knew the knowledge of the band, and spoke to me, in sweet accustomed ways. Woo!

Jon Anderson:
Thank you you so much thank you. It's great to be with you once again here in Atlanta Georgia. Thank you for coming out on such a crazy night. Thank you. Thunder, lightening, very very frightening. Yeah. But not as frightening as this next song. We're going to do some songs that we haven't played for 25 years, 26 years. We're going to start with a song called 'Gates Of Delirium'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much thank. Two, two quite amazing things. The first one that we want to play this music again after 25 years and the most amazing thing is that you want to listening to it. That is the most wonderful thing. So, from the bottom of our hearts thank you very much for wanting to hear that music yet again. Soon oh soon the light. Soon oh soon the light. Woo! I remember when I wrote that song, I wasn't sure there about the light, I really wasn't. I believed there was light but I wasn't sure. A few years later I became very sure. There's light in every one of use. Very bright and very powerful. We have infinite power. Woo! And so does this guy on guitar, Mr. Steve Howe.

Jon Anderson:
There's a time sorta..uh way back..uh when we started recording for the first time. I used to get this sorta strange..uh bizarre sorta feeling when I heard the music being played back..uh in the mixing room and..uh I used to say to myself it's got a very sharp feeling and a very distance feeling. So I got together with my good friend Mr. Chris Squire on bass guitar. We started writing a song that came out that..uh was looking for a title and started thinking about that sorta power feeling, very spirit and energy and called it 'Heart Of The Sunrise'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. Thank you so much. Woo! When we decided to this..uh tour going back sorta 26, 25, 26 years. Start playing music again that we haven't played for such a long time. It's kinda amazing the idea of playing it and..uh we just had to delve into 'Tales From Topographic Oceans'. Very, very tentatively we got into this next piece of music then I realized that almost every night all around the world, thousands and thousands of people get together to have fun and enjoy life and we call it a ritual. And most of us know that the earth, the spirit earth listens to humans having a good time and really gets off on the idea that music can be good for you so we thought about doing this song. So here we go with 'Ritual' from 'Tales From Topographic Oceans'.

Jon Anderson:
Let's hear it for Mr. Alan White on drums. On keyboards Mr. Igor Khorochev. Thank you so much thank you. Thank you. Here's a little dedication to Alan's wonderful beautiful wife Gigi who came here to see us play. Here's some chords that..uh I showed to my son Damion just before the tour and he said..uh 'Did you write a song'. I said..

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this evening. It's been great seeing you, here in the year 2000. Who'd believe that?