22 years, 2 months ago

Saturday, July 20, 2002

Mountain View, California

Shoreline Amphitheatre

20,000 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. It’s so great to be with you at Shoreline. Thank you for coming along this evening. We’re going to do a song by the great Paul Simon all about this beautiful country called America.

Jon Anderson:
Here’s a song that we recorded last year, a song about being in the presence of

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much, thank you. This is a song about, actually this is a story about three guys travelling in the mountains of the Himalayas and got lost and died and stuff. I think I saw it on the Discovery channel, or something like that. I started writing this poem about what it would be like to die in the freezing cold – I was pretty stoned at the time -- here’s a song that came out of that, South Side of the Sky.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much for listening, thank you so much, thank you. It’s so wonderful to be able to perform that piece of music 27 years later. We hope you enjoy it, we really enjoy playing it. This is only our third on the tour, the beginning of the tour. So we’re still swimming out way through the songs. Sometimes it’s like swimming through treacle, but sometimes it’s really cool. Thank you. We’d like to leave you in the capable hands, wonderful guitar styles of Mr. Steve Howe on guitar.

Steve Howe:
Thank you. Lovely to play the Little Galliard for you. Right now, we’re going to hang about [???] for 15 minutes. The band will be back then.

Jon Anderson:
I’m going to sing a song for you, okay?

Jon Anderson:
Thank you, thank you so much, that’s a song for, I’m just learning about this song, that’s a song for my lovely, beautiful wife, my soulmate Jane, there she is. Love is so powerful. Love is just all there is. All you really need is Love And all you really need is the master, the wizard of the keyboards, Mr. Rick Wakeman.

Chris Squire:
Jon and Rick together again.

Jon Anderson:
Heart of the Sunrise.

Jon Anderson:
It really brings back so many memories that song, so thank you for listening, thank you. Here’s a new song from last year, and the title of this song is basically that whatever you magnify from within, all the goodness that you have, is magnified then outside of you [???] … does that make sense. So magnify and everything will work. This song is called Magnification.

Chris Squire:
Thank you all. That was song about mammals. And here’s a song about fish.

Jon Anderson:
On bass guitar, Mr. Chris Squire. And on the drums, Mr. Alan White.

Jon Anderson:
I want to take this opportunity to thank you all very well. The year 2002. Everything is true. I hope that everything will come for you in the year 2002. Thank you for coming along this evening. It’s great to play here once more. We hope we can do it again some time. Sing along please