Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks kicked off their 2025 tour yesterday at Tucson, Arizona’s Rialto Theatre, delivering a 10-song set that featured Sure classics, new solo materials and a pair of stay debuts.
You may see the total set record and video from the efficiency under.
Anderson reportedly minimize two songs from his printed set record as a consequence of a late begin, based on setlist.fm. Whereas some rock followers would balk at an artist solely taking part in 10 songs, Anderson nonetheless gave the viewers lots to chew on. He opened the present with the 18-and-a-half-minute Sure epic “Near the Edge,” adopted by a number of extra classics from his former band, together with 1971’s “Perpetual Change” and Near the Edge‘s “And You and I.”
A trio of beloved Sure hits — “I’ve Seen All Good Individuals,” “Proprietor of a Lonely Coronary heart” and “Roundabout” — arrived within the present’s second half.
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Jon Anderson Stays ‘True’ at 2025 Tour Kickoff
Anderson additionally unveiled two songs from his most up-to-date solo album, 2024’s True. The almost 10-minute “Counties and International locations” arrived early within the night time, adopted later by the 16-and-a-half-minute “As soon as Upon a Dream.”
The octogenarian rocker just lately informed Final Basic Rock Nights how excited he was to play “As soon as Upon a Dream” stay. “I can not wait to do that music on stage subsequent spring. As a result of it was conceived roughly spontaneously,” he stated. “Over a interval of two days, we caught it along with tremendous glue. That’s what occurs with music. You realize, you may bounce again to ‘Near the Edge,’ how was that created? We didn’t simply file it in a single afternoon, no, it was carried out in sections. This was precisely the identical precept, that finally the music took over.”
Anderson’s tour continues on Thursday in Anaheim, California.
Watch Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks Play ‘As soon as Upon a Dream’ on 4/1/25
Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, 4/1/25, Rialto Theatre, Tucson, Arizona Set Checklist
1. “Near the Edge”
2. “Perpetual Change”
3. “Counties and International locations” (stay debut)
4. “And You and I”
5. “True Messenger”
6. “Awaken”
7. “I’ve Seen All Good Individuals”
8. “As soon as Upon a Dream” (stay debut)
9. “Proprietor of a Lonely Coronary heart”
10. “Roundabout”
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