Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe live at the Seashore Performing Arts Center, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, USA, August 12th 1989 during the tour of their album Jon Anderson - Lead Vocals Bill Bruford - Electronic Drums, Percussion Steve Howe - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals Rick Wakeman - Keyboards Tony Levin - Bass Guitar Julian Colbeck - Additional Keyboards Milton Mcdonald - Additional Guitars Setlist: Intro ~~ Time and a Word ~~ Owner Of a Lonely Heart ~~ Teakbois; 10:14 Clap; 14:30 Mood For a Day; 19:24 Wakeman Soloing; 24:57 Long Distance Runaround ~~ Bruford Soloing; 31:31 Birthright; 39:08 And You And I; 43:49 I've Seen All Good People; 53:53 Close to the Edge; 1:14:31 Themes; 1:21:11 Drums and Bass duet; 1:25:45 Brother Of Mine; 1:36:49 The Meeting (Cut); 1:38:18 Heart Of the Sunrise; 1:50:17 Order Of the Universe; 1:59:36 Roundabout; 2:07:51 Starship Trooper -My first, and probably last, upload of an ABWH show, hence the ocasion of John Roy Anderson, our dear lead singer of our favourite band ever's birthday!; Many years of spirituality, love, joy, laughs and singing to my inspiration of lyrics, live forever, you blessed soul -Alright, I had never listened to a full ABWH show, as you probably know, a formation including the members that, at the time, were out of Yes, including Jon and Howe; The foursome had everything to work since both the best keyboard player and drummer were in, and it did work, they had an album released and a succesful tour before joining Yes again for the Union tour -Even though I always ignored their album, there are a few great tunes there and on the subsequent tour my favourite tunes Brother Of Mine and Birthright were righfully played and that's what I mainly loved about this tour; The managed to balance the Yes tunes and the new songs in a proper way, unlike '87 Yes, playing boring poppy Big Generator songs -As for this performance, it is amazing; Everything is played in sync and beautifully, but, the least I expected from such a formation, only Squire is missing, but I now think, if one man could replace Chris is Tony Levin, he rocks just as much as Chris and plays his lines just right -This night's performances are top noch and songs like Heart Of the Sunrise, the acoustic arrangement of the first songs and an awesome encore of Starship Trooper are amazingly powerful; There are only a few bad points, like Bill's electronic drums, urgh, adding strange sounds to I've Seen All Good People and some minor cuts throughout the recordings, but this epic, clean, played just like it was meant to, performance of Close to the Edge makes all problems vanish, heavenly played; Enjoy and happy birthday Jon

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