![]() 20 years, 10 months and 6 days ago Saturday, September 20, 2003 Sydney, Australia Sydney Entertainment Centre 8,000 capacity
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before 'Magnification' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you so much, great to be with you. Sorry we're a bit late, but, ahh, thank you for hanging out for us for the last few months and it's great to be with you. Here's a song that we recorded just a couple of years ago, very simple idea that magnification is to magnify everything that is good within you so that everything out there will magnify in equal terms, or something like that! (laughs) Or words to that effect. The song is called Magnification. before 'In The Presence Of' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Me and my honey, Jane, we walked around the Opera House today, and it was just too wonderful. It is just too amazing. And the fact that it was just finished thirty years ago ' and it's still there! Wow, just an observation. David, just take some highs out of my system there. I feel like I'm whistling through this discussion. Here's a song that, ahh, is about the energy that surrounds us. That's a little too much, David, sorry about this. The energy that surrounds us is just so powerful, with love ' love is everything. before 'We Have Heaven' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you, thank you. Thank you for listening because that's a new song most of you haven't heard before, but the idea of it is that when we wake up every morning, we're in a sacred place, no matter what we think. We are in a sacred place ' it's just the way it is. Yeeeess! Wooh! But, thank you so much, love you too. Ahh, thirty years ago we did this album, thirty-one years ago, called 'Fragile' and, ahh, there was a band in the second studio called ELP, as you all know, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and, ahh, they had a day off, which they enjoyed, that Sunday off, and I got the key and ran downstairs and did this song in the, ahh, in the studio. And, ahh, it's a little ditty and if you know the words, or any of the words, please sing along. before 'South Side Of The Sky' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Running away, running away with the key. That same evening, we wrote a song together, and ahh, the idea came in the lyric that, ahh, we climb mountains all the time, as part of the game, part of the knowing, part of the knowledge, part of the agreement, to climb mountains all the time. before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you. Round the same, same year, we started writing this next piece of music and at that time we were sort of in a very wonderful place, very sort of, ahh, free, just making music. We didn't have anybody on our backs about what we were gonna do. We just had this freedom to make music, so we were just very inventive and had a great time, and ahh, one of the incredible things is that, ahh, the next thing we did after recording this album, we came here. And so, in a way, to come back and to be able to play to you this piece of music, and have you here to listen to it is quite amazing, so' after 'Clap' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Steve Howe:Thank you so much. Hope you enjoyed 'To Be Over'. Don't wanna stop. before 'Happy Birthday' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Are you having a good time' Having a good time' Hey, you guys. It's so amazing. I just want to thank this guy, Robert Forbes. He's really, ahh, we'll ask him to be our manager, actually. It's ahh, 'Show Me'. I'm going to do this thing first, it's like, ahh, (sung) doo doo doo doo doo dah dahh, it's great to be in Sydney, Australia, it's great to be in Sydney, Australia. before 'Show Me' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:So, I was saying earlier, me and my lovely wife, Jane were walking around Sydney harbour today and it's just a beautiful sight to behold and, ahh, I want to dedicate this song to Jane because, ahh, we travel together all the time and it's a wonderful thing. Love is very, very powerful and can conquer everything. Love is just so powerful and this is for you, Jane. The song is a song that I think I wrote many years ago but never recorded. So here we go. before 'Wakeman Solo' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:The original wizard of the keyboards, Mr. Rick Wakeman! before 'Heart Of The Sunrise' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:He's been practicing, I can tell. On the count of four - Heart Of The Sunrise. before 'Awaken' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:On bass guitar, Mr. Chris Squire! On the drums, Mr. Alan White on drums! before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you so much. Really, it's been great to be able to play for you tonight and we want to thank you all for coming along tonight. And I've just got a couple of little things, ah. Tomorrow we're staying in Sydney so we're going to do ahh, you know Borders in Pitt Street, anybody know' Well, come down and meet and greet us, and ahh, Steve's going to do some guitar lessons, ahh, Rick's going to tell you jokes, ahh, Chris is going to serve you a drink, any requests' And Alan's going to give you lots of hugs and I'll just keep talking! And also, one quick thing. We were just trying to get, ahh, Roger Dean to come up and play tambourine but he's such a shy guy! He's got a gig tomorrow. He's got, I think it's down at, I've got it written down - at Gig Gallery in Glebe. Not far from here, Gig Gallery at Glebe, 73 where it is, just go along. He's showing all his amazing work - and he won't come on stage and play tambourine! I'm going to sing a song in the key of Laaaa. Please sing along and halfway through, get up and boogie! |