Wanted to share the Yes experience of Utrecht 1 & 2 March 2000 with you.
After the disaster of the 1st of march, where I lost my carkeys and therefore
couldn't enjoy anything of the concert, the day after was Yes at its best.
We had great front seats on the third row and the Firebird gave me the bumps as
usual. (Is this the best Yes track?)
All guys seemed in a very good mood and Jon was much more joking than the
previous night. He, and, we, were in heaven. When enjoying the great Yes tracks
like Yours is no Disgrace and And you and I, I always feel like that this is the
moment we all waited for, and all past Yesexperiences, like exploring TFTO or
GFTO, fly by. What a great moments.
Back to the show, the setlist was a good mix of Old and New, with only a few
flaws (Face to Face).
On the members themselves, Everyone had his share of genius.
I can't say that Steve Howe was the best, because also Igor made deep
impressions - he completely outplays Rick Wakeman at the moment. Especially his
keyboard wizardness at Awaken is better than Ricks. How is it possible. But also
Chris, Jon and Steve were massive impressive, so this is a great band indeed!
(But we all knew that :})
Highlight of the evening was offcourse Awaken, the Venue was shaking and so was
I! To me "And You and I" came as a blownaway track as well, much to my
own surprise.
One "nice" thing happened during Homeworld - they got lost in the
track and everyone, except Jon stopped! But Jon just kept going and the rest
followed smoothly. They were alerted by that and were at the tip of
concentration the rest of the evening.
Secondary condition were also greatly met, no annoying singing or jelling, the
drinks were great, the tourbook is great, so overall GREAT show. It can rival
with the OYE concerts allthough I rate those a bit higher as they made a great
impact on me, than.