15 years, 2 months and 17 days ago

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Karlsruhe, Germany

Schwarzwaldhalle

Chris Squire:
Hey, thank you very much and uh, good evening to uh Karlsruhe. Before we go any further, ah with the show I'd like to introduce you to the twonewest members of the band. On my left, on keyboards, Mr. Oliver Wakeman. And on my right all the way from Montreal Canada, Monsieur Benoit David. The lasttime we had ah two guys join the band ah simultaneously was back in ah 1980, with ahTrevor Horn and Geoff Downes, and that's when we recorded the album Drama. So,we're gonna do two tracks from that album tonight, this is the first one, TempusFugit.

Benoit David:
Danke schön. Guten abend. (speaks German). The next song is from1978's Tormato, a beautiful song called Onward

Steve Howe:
Thank you very much. So how we doing tonight, everybody alright? (?) very nice. We'll belooking at all sorts of different eras of ah Yes repitoire. Now we're going to lookback um to 1969, some of you might know that is just before I showed up um to playguitar, and they had just finished this fantastic record called Time And A Word. Sofrom there, we're taking a track called Astral Traveller.

Benoit David:
We would like to dedicate the next song to our lovedones.

Chris Squire:
Thank you very much. Ah that of course was ah, ah Steve Howe, hiselectric guitar.

Chris Squire:
Ah. And now, as is ah traditional with a Yes Show, um we're goingto ah, change the mood and still say, stay in the guitar mode, and we're gonna haveSteve come on with his electric guitar, oh sorry, his acoustic guitar, Mr. SteveHowe.

Steve Howe:
I know you're confused. I am.

Steve Howe:
Oh thanks very much that was Mood For A Day. And that was just calledum, (?) a beautiful place in a remote part of England, ah North Devon, in a placecalled ah Lynton, and it's called The Valley of Rocks. If you get a change to go toEngland, please go to the Valley of Rocks. Not too many of you, otherwise thatdestroys it, but some of you could go.

Benoit David:
You were promised two songs from the Drama album, here's the secondone, the opening track.

Steve Howe:
Alright thank you very much forcoming down tonight. You've been a wonderful audience thank you. We're gonna to doone more song tonight for you, in the set, it's the last track from, Fragile.