20 years, 5 months ago

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Bristow, Virginia

Nissan Pavillion

25,141 capacity

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. It’s great to be with you again tonight. How are you? Alright then, sing along.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Wooh! After 40 years, 30-odd years later we can still play it and we have an audience to listen to it. So, we thank you! Here’s Steve Howe on guitar!

Steve Howe:
Thank you very much. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. I just remembered the ending of that song, looking for the sunshine, I always think about having a joint. Ahh, those were the days. Wooh! So now it feels like still in the days. Woohooh! We traveled all over the world, as you know. We did a song, I actually wrote this song in the morning, took it down to the studio and recorded it in the afternoon. A very rare moment, with us. And we did this in Switzerland, a song about getting up and digging the world. Love and life, things like that. Wooh!

Jon Anderson:
Another, other wonderous moment is ahh, in fact tonight Alan is wearing his kilt. And ahh, as you can tell, he has forgotten his sporran. But ahh, they tell me he’s going to put it on later. Sporran being the money box that’s there. You know. Over to our guest speaker for this evening, Mr. Chris Squire.

Chris Squire:
Thank you. Thank you. Ahh, I must admit, you guys are very enthusiastic, very warm tonight. It’s a pleasure to play for you, and I won’t make this too long and boring. It’s just about Alan and I were in Tokyo discussing, discussing how to, how to treat the ahh, the arrangement for the acoustic version of ‘Roundabout’, that we put on the ‘Utimate Yes’ 35 year collection. And thank you for buying that, we appreciate it. So ahh, we were in Tokyo, recovering from a massage and ahh, and Alan suggested that maybe if we did a kind of a, a groovy kind of a, not groovy, but more of an American, down home blues shuffle. You know, it had to be a way to go, and I said I didn’t know if it’d work. So we got to the studio in L.A. and I said to Rick, over there, because he’s our resident expert in blues shuffles, “Can you give us a really good ‘Roundabout’ type blues shuffle?”. And he went. That, that was what he did, it was brilliant. And we decided to do it like that, and I’d also like to dedicate this to Scotland, because she deserves it, after the days we went through it. Thank you.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Good to see you [??] Thank you. But Alan, Alan White right here on drums here, ahh, when he was sixteen, he was ahh, he used to play in the clubs up in the north of England. And ahh, before they played bingo, ahh, they had the band on to see first. And he used to do this wonderful paradiddle, sort of drum thing before sort of ladies would come on and take their clothes off. Or something like that. So here’s Alan doing that same striptease song. Woh! So that was it. And that wonderful paradiddle, that’s a paradiddle. In the key, that’s another paradiddle. Have you got any more? Two, two in a row. So he’s going to do a paradiddle drum break into the next song. We need you to sing the chorus with us, just to glide this song along. Here’s one for Lee Abrahams, Mr. XM radio.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. Another wonderful evening at the North Grimsdale night club. [??] Rick “Hold That Tiger”, “Hold That Tiger”, “Hold That Tiger”, yeah. Thank you. Which leads us into ahh, this next piece of music. We always enjoy playing this next song. It’s just one of those things that ahh, makes life worth living, in many different ways. In fact ahh, as I said earlier, after so many years, we still love the idea, performing this song. So here we go. Wooh!

Jon Anderson:
As we drove down from Cleveland, we were in Cleveland last night, driving all the way through to this part of America. You realize how incredibly big America really is and how many different kinds of people there are all over America. And ahh, I was driving with my beautiful wife, Jane and just had the most wonderful time, realizing Jane was born here, a few miles from here. And ahh, it’s just amazing to travel and enjoy. Soul companion, this song is for you. The idea that we are awakening to a most amazing time to come. Remember, we live in an incredible world of beauty, amazing things, up and around us all the time. Because we awaken every day, into the awakening.

Jon Anderson:
Thank you so much. We want to thank you all for coming out tonight. It’s been great to see you another time.