22 years, 1 month and 12 days ago

Friday, August 23, 2002

Universal City, California

Universal Amphitheater

6,251 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. It’s great to be with you this evening. Thanks for being with us tonight, thank you so much. Most of this tour, we’ve been driving through America. It’s an incredible place, it really is an amazing country. Here’s a great song by Paul Simon. We’re all searching for truth in ‘America’.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. We’d like to do a song we did, ahh, we recorded this last year. It’s a song about the idea, we are surrounded by beautiful energy, divine energy. Now and again you sort of lock into it. A lot of it is subconscious. You feel really good, you feel really great. We don’t know why, but it’s perfect. Perfection. That energy is always there, always.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Here’s a, here’s a song that ahh, I never expected to try and do on stage, but most of you were too young to remember this song. It’s true, very true, very true. [???] look great. Sing along if you remember this. Here we go.

Jon Anderson:
Wooh! Thank you. A song about three guys who went to the Himilayas, and it got so cold, freezing cold, they died and went to heaven, and wrote a poem about the ‘South Side of the Sky’.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. The two, the two great things about that is that we can still play, and we have an audience to hear it, so thank you! Wooh! 2002! Wooh! Thank you so much. Thank you. I’m going to leave you in the capable hands, fingers, wonderful guitar styles of Mr. Steve Howe!

Steve Howe:
Thank you so much. Thank you. [???] Alright. It’s great to be back in L.A. Thanks so much. Opportunity. Yeah, I’d like just to say that, ahh, it was my thrill to play a section from ‘The Ancient’ tonight and also, ahh, ‘J’s Theme’ for my wife, who is here tonight. Jan, I love you. And, right now, ahh, we’re going to have a short intermission, so we’ll see you back in about fifteen minutes. Thank you so much.

Jon Anderson:
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. I want to say it’s great to be with you tonight, great to be with you tonight. Universal Amphitheater, studio server, great to be with you tonight. Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. I want to thank my honey, Janey, she travels with me all the time, keeps me happy. Love is so powerful, love is everything you need. Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. I want to say Hi to the Fraser family, what a bunch of groovy people. Hey! I want to say Hi to everybody I met today, it was kinda fun. Wooh!

Jon Anderson:
The last, ahh, the last few months I’ve been writing a lot of songs, and ahh, I’ll play one for you now. And, ahh, if you have, sort of, ahh, internet all that stuff, go to apple.com/creative. You’ll see me in my studio Here’s a song I wrote there, for my honey.

Jon Anderson:
The original wizard of the keyboards, Mr Rick Wakeman!

Chris Squire:
Jon and Rick, together again in California!

Jon Anderson:
Chris Squire, on bass guitar! Days that we speak, I believe that you were right. We shouldn't chase the demons and the phantoms of the night. Some treat as lovers, some treat as slaves, this fusion of inside is all that we imagined. That’s the first verse from the next song we’re going to do. [???] We recorded this last year. Very simply, magnify the good within and everything without. If it is good, it will also shine within.

Chris Squire:
Thank you very much. That was a song about mammals, and ahh, now we have a song for you, at this time, about fish!

Jon Anderson:
On the bass guitar, Chris Squire! On the drums, Alan White on drums!