23 years and 28 days ago

Tuesday, August 21, 2001

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mann Music Center

14,000 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Great to be with you. It's so hard to believe you guys. You send so much energy here. It's incredible. We'd like to..uh do a couple of new songs for you. We just..uh finished mixing an album only a couple of weeks ago. The album is..uh called 'Magnification' and..uh very simply the idea is to magnify everything that is good around you so that everything within will be magnified and everything will be kinda cool Okay. We're going to do a song that is about the idea that..uh you shouldn't beat yourself up too much. What's the point eventually they say. You other side of the coin. Can't take love for granted. The song is called 'Don't Go'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh..those..uh this time couple was three months ago now when we were working on the album, Alan White would come in. Here he is Alan White. He come in play like Manioff for an hour and then he would start playing the piano. Sorry. [???]. And he started playing this..uh sorta lovely melody, we, I started writing, singing a song. Chris had a part and everybody sorta joined together and so within a three hours we've written this song and..uh we decided in those days to call it 'Deeper' and..uh Alan would come by one day say "You know we should really call this song 'In the presence of'" and I would said "In the presence of what Alan?" "No I said no no 'In the presence of'" and so that's what it's called.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. I'd like to introduce you William Straumburg and the symphony orchestra here. These guys are absolutely wonderful. They get the change to do an afternoon rehearsal and they jump right into the middle of us playing. So it's kinda fun especially when we do the next song because we decided were going to do this adventure. Keep it going with the idea of the symphony sound as well as what we do into the idea of 'Gates Of Delirium".

Jon Anderson:
Leave you..I'd like to leave you in the capable hands and fingers, guitars styles and tap dancing of Mr. Steve Howe.

Jon Anderson:
Steve Howe.

Steve Howe:
Alright. Thank you very much. [???]

Jon Anderson:
That is one that just gets better and better. [???] We'd like to do a song..uh I thought that we've done this song for quite a while, it's..uh an album we made..uh..um up in Switzerland that's were we were. In Switzerland many years ago and..uh this is a song. I was writing this song on the way down to the studio sorta driving with my guitar [???]. Trying to figure out the chords. Of course very slow driving in Switzerland, very slow. So..uh this song came out as..uh the idea of when you wake up its the first of your life isn't it? Everyday. Sorta thing. Song is called 'Wondrous Stories'.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Woo! Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. No matter how many times..uh we play the next song. It's always a treat to be able to perform this song for you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. So wonderful. You are so wonderful. Thank you. Quick introduction on keyboards Tom Brislin all the way from New Jersey. [???]. It was about..uh just a few months ago I came home one day and my wonderful soul mate wife Jane she was playing this piece of music so loud in the house. It freaked me out. You know I said "You like this piece of music?" and she said "I love this piece of music". She was singing every word and it was just so, for me very touching very powerful so a dedication to Jane and the piece of music was 'Ritual'.

Jon Anderson:
Once more for William Straumburg and the symphony orchestra here. Want to take this..uh opportunity to thank you all for coming along this evening. We really appreciated it so much. A little dedication to some long time friends who....uh our sound system. We've been with these guys for over, nearly thirty years..uh Roy Clair and the sound system crew. [???]. Litiz Pennsylvania and there's Michael Tate. Our long friend and companion. Again thank you all for coming along. We're going to sing this song together and half way we're going to get up and dance a little bit. In the key of.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you Philadelphia, thank you so much.

Steve Howe:
Philly, this one is for Roger Dean.