23 years, 1 month and 20 days ago

Thursday, August 16, 2001

Kettering, Ohio

Fraze Pavillion

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. It's great to be with you this evening. It's like a garden party. Well, it is a garden party. And ahh, we'd like to do a couple of new songs, we just finished an album, just a couple of weeks ago and ahh, here we are on tour, braving the wind, you know. We're going to sing a couple of new songs for you and ahh, you know, songs are like children, you know they can be very precocious, so hang tough, okay? Here's a song about the idea that ahh, um, gosh, I can never remember what the song is about. I remember saying originally it was like, don't beat yourself up so much, what for? you know, come on. But don't take love for granted, that's what it's about. The song is called 'Don't Go'

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you for listening to that song. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. During, during the course of making the new album, um, you know one morning, Alan White, Alan White over here, he walks in and starts playing the piano, as he is wont to do. He does like, quite a lot, playing the piano, he's a very good pianist! And he comes up with some nice melodies, sometimes, you see. So, we just followed through with this song idea and within a couple of hours work, we'd written this song. So, we're going to play it for you now. It's called 'In The Presence Of'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you for listening. Thank you. We appreciate that, a new song, thank you. I'd like to introduce you to Mr. William Straumburg and the symphony orchestra tonight, here we are. They're having a lot of fun back there, that's for sure. We're going to do a song now, which, ahh, when we thought about this adventure, doing a show with the symphony orchestras, the idea, come on, let's really jump into something crazy, yes! Let's do something a little bit wild and wonderful. So we're going to do a piece of music called 'Gates Of Delirium'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you for listening to that song. Thank you so much, thank you. It's actually so wonderful to be able to play that piece of music twenty-six years later! Wonderful, wonderful. We've actually seen each other many times, you know. The lot of us, you know. Thank you and thank you for coming along and seeing us once again. We really, really, truly appreciate the energy. When you're quiet, we see your listening and it makes us sort of play better, you know, we've got to get it right! So terrifying, yet beautiful! I'll leave you in the capable hands, fingers, guitar styles of Mr. Steve Howe!

Jon Anderson:
Mr. Steve Howe! He gets better with age, like good wine, you know. It's amazing to listen to him when he plays. Wooh! I used to be able to play like that, I really used to! We're going to do a song for you now, we haven't played this for quite a while on stage and it's a song, um, we wrote this, ahh, in Switzerland, many, many years ago. It's just a little sort of song about the idea of 'Wondrous Stories' that surround us. The song is called 'Wondrous

Jon Anderson:
Wooh! Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Steve Howe! Thank you so much. Thank you. Wooh! I'd like to introduce you to our keyboard player over here, his name is Tom Brislin from New Jersey! Tom Brislin! So, we've been doing that song ahh, 'Perpetual Change', we just did, and that's some thirty something years old! A song about the power of the Earth Mother, you see. Then when we started the tour, you know Mount Etna started to get into that, did you see it on CNN? CNN? What are they talking about half the time? CNN? It's just a very small [?]. It's a very tiny, so tiny bit of what's going on around us. It's really only a bit, but we watch it all the time! Waiting for something to happen! I'm always waiting for UFOs, you know, tonight. Actually, they're all around us, what do we know? We're UFOs! So, I'm just rambling because I want to sing this song, we love playing this song for you, and we're going to do it right now..

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Wooh! Yeah. Let's hear it for Mr. William Straumburg and the symphony orchestra! This, ahh, this next piece of music will really ahh, get us all jived up a little bit. It's a song, ahh, which we, ahh, did some, sort of whatever many years ago in an album called 'Tales From Topographic Oceans', which we are still happy to play now for you. It's a song about, ahh, the power of the Earth. The sun, we are from the sun, and the song is called 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you. Half way through, get up and dance a bit, shake your whatever you shake, whatever's happening. We're going to do this song in the key of, that key. Here we go.

Jon Anderson:
Okay, let's keep dancing. Okay. Sing along with this one too.