20 years, 4 months and 16 days ago Wednesday, June 16, 2004 London, United Kingdom Wembley Arena 12,000 capacity
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before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. It’s great to be with you tonight. It’s going to be amazing. It’s amazing! Here we go. before 'Mind Drive' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. It is so amazing to be here, it’s great to be with you. You create everything you do, you create your own world, every day. You create everything with your mind, the drive to do it. Here’s the music of the ‘Mind Drive’. before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you for listening to that song. Thank you. That was ‘Mind Drive’ from 1996. Thank you, I thought it was two, not six. We're going to do one more song and then we’re going go have a cup of tea, and a biscuit. It’s true! Ahh, Rick’s going to have ahh, I’m going to have a chocolate biscuit, Rick’s going to have a crumpet, with strawberry jam. And I’m going to count to five. Sorry, Chris is going to have? You can do it Alan, it’s alright. before 'Wonderous Stories' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Us guys, us guys have traveled all over the place, as you know. And, ahh, we actually spent a long time, six months as it happens, in Switzerland recording some music, about 1976 I think it was. And ahh, we didn’t learn to ski, but we ate a lot of cheese, that’s all I can remember. A lot of cheese over there. [??]. I better watch out for tomorrow night, that’s all I know. [??] Here’s a song we wrote at that time, here we go. before 'Time Is Time' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. It’s such a special night that Alan is wearing his kilt. Hey! Ahh, we wrote a song, ahh, a very loose, sort of simple song at the end of the last album we did a couple of years ago. And, ahh, we were doing the lyrics, and ahh, when we did this, it was just an afternoon, ahh, messing around, writing the song and realizing the time was saved, just to be together tonight. So, the song is all about us being together, and ahh, so we’re going to play it now. Time has saved us, time has moved us, night has come at last, to shine on you. Introduction from Mr. White in the kilt. before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you all. Wooh! Beautiful, beautiful. I’ll hand you over to Chris. He’s got a few words, he wants to ahh, explain a couple of things. Chris Squire: He speaks! Ahh, yeah, when ahh, we did ‘The Ultimate Yes’ collection last year, and ahh, it came out here very well, thanks, because of you and then of course the American company said “ooh, we like that”, and they released it later and they wanted to add um, ahh, some acoustic versions on this CD, that, ahh, of some of our better known earlier songs. So, ahh, we thought okay we’ll do that and ahh, Alan and I, Alan and I were sitting, sitting around the hotel in Tokyo, you know, recovering from last night. And ahh, and ahh, ahh, and we talked about ‘Roundabout’ and how we were going to redo it. And I think Alan said, well maybe we should try to do a kind of a bluesy, shuffley groove and I said yeah, it sounds like a good idea. So, when we got to the studio in L.A. I said to Rick, can you give us a real good Chicago blues piano version of ‘Roundabout’ and he went (Rick plays) and we said well, we said that’s it, brilliant! It’s brilliant! We’ll do it like that. Jon Anderson: Brilliant! before 'Show Me' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. before 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Chris Squire:Mr. Jon Anderson! On guitar and vocals Jon Anderson: Without further ado, another drum break from Alan, to introduce the next song. Another drum break, featuring a paradiddle, as he calls it. That’s what he calls it. before 'Second Initial' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Thank you so much. Wooh! We’re going to break things down and hand you over to, ahh, Steve Howe. Here he is, Steve Howe on guitar! before 'Rhythm Of Love' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Okay, thank you very much. It’s nice to be home, thank you. That was called 'Second Initial', for Jan and our family. before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you. You guys out there, you guys. Wooh! There’s one guy watching this, ahh, this show from a very different place, up in the heavens. He’s a guy that ahh, worked with us about two or three times. He did beautiful arrangements, Andrew Jackman and this is a dedication to him and the people up there that know us. And it’s great to be here tonight. I was thinking before, to be able to be together, it’s just wonderful to be able to be together, and to make this music is just too wonderful. Here we go. before 'Ritual' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you. Thank you. The incredible power of you listening to that is just, so wonderful. Tonight, we get together, it’s like a ritual of life, a ritual of music, a ritual of love. Love, love is everything! Love is everything! Love is everything, everything. The ritual, to be together. ‘Ritual’. |