Jon Anderson: Thank you so much, thank you. It's great to be with you this evening in this wonderful ...garden here. I remember when we first uh... played 'Close to the Edge,' the first time ever was in a place just like this in London. It was kinda... A place called Crystal Palace would you believe? Some 20....few years ago as they say...yeah it's okay. it's okay. Anyway, we are going to do a couple new songs for you from the new album. We uh...we finished the album about a couple months ago just before the tour. And the album is called 'Magnification.' And uh.. its one of those things, you make an album, it's kind of wierd for people to hear it. So It's, it's coming out soon, anyway here's a couple of songs, this first one is uh..about the idea, don't beat yourself up so much and love is something...I kepp forgetting what it is. Chris wrote it. Chris remembers more than me. Oh, yeah, don't take love for granted. It's uh..here we go. Don't Go.
before 'In The Presence Of'
transcribed by: Matthew Putzel
Jon Anderson: Thank you. During the course of recording, every morning...well morning...ten to twelve, we'd all get into the studio...except a certain member of the band who is ..always sort of late. A little bit, I won't go there. But Alan used to spend a lot of time playing the piano, thing like this...yeah let's do a song like this. [sings] Another Sat... I was just getting into it..okay. So, he came up with this meloday and we put this song together in a couple of hours. And the song is called 'In The Presence Of'
before 'Gates Of Delirium, The'
transcribed by: Matthew Putzel
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. Wooo. We had a sacred fly over there, I thought it was kind of cool. We do that every night. We have those guys in a box...over there. Like to introduce you to Mr. William Stromberg and the Symphony Orchestra here. Wonderful People. Wondeful. When we decided to do this uh..tour with the orchestra we wanted to try out uh...things that we've done before..but you know with an orchestra lets really go crazy, and uh, this is a piece of music we wrote in the middle of the 70's when life was definately crazier than it is now. And uh...the energy of war was all over the darn place. So this song comes from that kind of place..if you like. It's called 'Gates Of Delirium.'
before 'Perpetual Change'
transcribed by: Matthew Putzel
Jon Anderson: Mr. Steve Howe.
Steve Howe: Alright..thank you.
before 'And You And I'
transcribed by: Matthew Putzel
Jon Anderson: Thank you so much. Thank you. Wonderful. Wooo. Steve Howe...Chris Squire...Steve Howe. On the keyboards, all the way from New Jersey, Mr. Tom Brislin. Wooo. Thank you. Here's a song...we just love to play this song. In fact since we recorded it, we always play it.
before 'Ritual'
transcribed by: Matthew Putzel
Jon Anderson: Wooo.... Wooo.... Thank you so much. There's ah.. sort of a story to this next piece of music. We were getting ready to do this album, and I really wanted to do the album in the middle of the forest. It's very..sort of true, and the guys obviously told me to calm down Jon. You know, cause where would we plug in? You know? So, I had this crazy idea, but we eventually did it in a studio, but then I.. I started to bring in some cardboard cows and ducks and things...just to get a feeling of country. So here we are in the middle of this lovely park. Yeeees! Cause this next piece was all about the idea of Mother Earth, you know? This is for my wonderful soul mate Jane. She loves singing this song with me. The idea of Mother Earth and the way people bang drums and thing like that ...is a Ritual of life you see, so we're going to do the song from 'Tales From Topographic' called 'Ritual'.
before 'I've Seen All Good People'
transcribed by: Matthew Putzel
Jon Anderson: Mr. Steve Howe. Tom Brislin. You. Here's a song we're all going to sing a long to, half way through, everybody up and dancing, the boogie, and get rid of those guys okay. Chase those guys away.