| Date | : | Monday, August 15, 1977 (32 years, 5 months and 25 days ago) |
| City | : | Providence, Rhode Island, United States Of America |
| Venue | : | Providence Civic Center |
| Capacity | : | 12,000 |
| Lineup | : | | Jon Anderson | (Vocals) | | Steve Howe | (Guitars) | | Chris Squire | (Bass) | | Rick Wakeman | (Keyboards) | | Alan White | (Drums) |
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| Setlist | : | Firebird Suite
Parallels
I've Seen All Good People
Close To The Edge
Wonderous Stories
Colours Of The Rainbow/Turn Of The Century
And You And I
Flight Jam/Awaken
Starship Trooper
Roundabout
Yours Is No Disgrace
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| With | : | Donovan
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Dick Alberty:Hitch hiked down rt 495 from Berlin Mass. Picked up by chick from Shahiro Japanese resturant on Rt 62 on Berlin/Hudson Mass line to Civic Cntr In Providence,RI. Had floor seats. Ended up in front of stage in front of Chris. Had this young chick on my shoulders almost whole show. Her and her girlfriend were very very nice & alot of fun.
What a wild show. Band was tight & laid music out in typical YES fasion. Wakeman was still with them. Cant believe its been almost 30 years since then. My girfriend Mary Stewart from Hudson missed this show. I Get Up , Iget down....... goose bumbs...
After the girls & I parted ways I hitched back to Berlin & got a ride all the way home from Providence. I was hitching in wrong direction to boot. Concert was fantastic. wish I could remember the chicks name that was on my shoulders. WOW!!!
Dick Alberty
Barry Rogoff:Donovan opened for Yes.
The Providence 77 show was a real trip. I had somehow gotten fifth row seats and was ready to be transported to heaven. But when it started, some morons in the front row decided to stand up on their rickety chairs so everyone else on the whole damned floor had to stand up on rickety chairs, including yours truly, who was trying to shoot photographs through a telephoto lens. (A friend was running the deck for me.) To make things worse, the security let everyone flood down the aisles and around the stage so it was a lot like a general admission concert.
Towards the end of the show, I had run out of film and was watching through binoculars. Jon nudged Chris and pointed at me, laughing at the crazy guy who just couldn't see enough Yes up close.
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| before 'I've Seen All Good People' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | Thank you, thank you very much. Um, is this Providence, Rhode Island? |
| before 'Wonderous Stories' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | Thank you very much..and..uh..it's very nice to be with you tonight. We'd like, we'd like to play a song which is on our new album, the album is called 'Going For The One'. Hope you get a chance to listen to it. Here's a song, which..uh..somewhere came out of a very..uh..beautiful morning. It's called 'Wonderous Stories'. |
| before 'Colours Of The Rainbow' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | This next..uh..little section is about..it's a about five seconds. I know it's very difficult to the people who are sitting down, to the people who are standing up. So just...just one second, just for a while I'll tell you something. |
| before 'And You And I' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | Thank you. [???]. Here's a song from [???] 'Coming quickly to terms of all expressions laid, emotion revealed as the ocean maid, all complete in the sight of seeds of life with you'. |
| before 'Roundabout' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | Thank you. |
| before 'Yours Is No Disgrace' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | oh yeah, yeah, shooya!. |
| after 'Yours Is No Disgrace' | transcribed by : Pete Whipple |
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| Jon Anderson : | Thank you, your fantastic, thank you very much. |
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 | : | Audience 118 min |
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