19 years, 11 months and 16 days ago Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Rosemont, Illinois Allstate Arena 18,500 capacity
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before 'I've Seen All Good People' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Chicago! before 'Mind Drive' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight, and ahh, without you coming out to support us, we wouldn’t be here, and it’s a wonderful thing. It’s wonderful, thanks. We sometimes get a chance to do ahh, a new piece of music that we’ve never played before on stage. So tonight, we’re going to play this piece of music that we wrote in the mid-nineties. The idea of the song, very simple, is ahh, you create everything, you create your whole world, entering the ‘Mind Drive’. before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you so much, thank you. We're going to do one more song and then we’re going to have a cup of tea, a couple of biscuits, and ahh, tonight Rick is going to get some crumpets together, toasted crumpet. Strawberry jam, cup of tea, very important. We shall return after this well-known phrase, or saying, after the count of four. before 'Wonderous Stories' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. Thank you. Us guys, us guys have been together so many times over the years, and there was this one time when we were in Switzerland for about five months, making an album. And ahh, I think it was around ’77 and ahh, there was ahh, nearly six months in Switzerland and we never learnt to ski. We were just too busy making music [??]. This song came out of it, which is a lovely sort of song. So here we go. before 'Roundabout' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Okay. Thank you so much. We’ve got ahh, Alan on drums, doing his drum fill. Very, very, oh! Alan learnt that drum fill, do it one more time. He learnt that when he was seventeen years old, he was in a rock and roll band at a working men’s club in the North of England. A very regular thing we all went through. And the band would go on first and do two songs, three songs, and that would happen like that. And then the comedian would come on and tell a joke. And then the band would come on again, and then the stripper. And when the stripper came on Alan started playing that. (Laughs). So, that’s where it came from. Very famous. So we recorded these songs, these acoustic songs for an album that’s out called ‘The Ultimate Yes’. You can get it in your local stores. And ahh, when we were recording, actually Chris came up with this idea and Chris will explain it a little bit. Chris Squire: Actually, Alan and I were sitting in a hotel in Tokyo, as one does, and we were trying to decide a way to re-record ‘Roundabout’. And we thought well, we could do it this way. And we thought something a little more lively might be good. We said Rick you know, have you got any other ideas? And then he came up with this. Jon Anderson: Wooh! Chris Squire: And we said. Jon Anderson: Chicago blues! Chris Squire: A bit of Chicago blues, brilliant! Jon Anderson: Brilliant! Chris Squire: Brilliant! Jon Anderson: Brilliant! before 'Second Initial' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. We’re just going to put things away and Steve’s going to play for you. before 'Nine Voices' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Steve Howe:Thank you very much. That was called 'Second Initial'. Jon Anderson: Wooh! [??] a few years ago [??] in Chicago [??] these amazing guys, people, came to see us and they sang to us. So we invited them on stage that night and we ahh, we decided to ask them to get up again, so here they are. So, we’re going to do a song which ahh, we recorded on an album, I think the album was called ahh, ‘The Ladder’. So we’re going to sing this song, the song is called 'Nine Voices'. before 'Rhythm Of Love' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Beautiful! The amazing [??]. Wooh! before 'And You And I' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you. One of the great things about being in the twenty-first century is being able to play our music and having an audience like you to come out and play, it’s just amazing, amazing, amazing. It’s a really great thing to be able to play this next song for you. It’s all about what we do, it’s what we all are, together, that makes this work, thank you. Together. before 'Ritual' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much, thank you. Someone reminded me backstage, when we were coming to Chicago. A long, long time. A long, long time. A really long, long time. When we get together, make music, we get together with you and ahh, to us it’s like ahh, something that we wrote in the middle of the seventies. It’s an idea, getting together is such a ritual. It’s a very, very wonderful feeling. So, we’re doing that for you now, here. before 'Every Little Thing' transcribed by: Geoff Dunn Jon Anderson:Thank you so much. We're going to do a song we recorded on our first album, thirty-six years ago, well, you know, give or take a few months. We recorded it at the BBC, an old Beatles song. It goes like this. 1-2-3-4. |