Yes Live: Tormato Tour 09/03/1978 New Haven, Connecticut Coliseum (With Bonus '78/'79 Live Rarities)

Here's a wonderful Yes show from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut on September 3, 1978. This was a stop on the Summer 1978 North American Tour supporting the band's about-to-be-released 'Tormato' album.

While a listenable audience recording of this show circulated as a boot called Circus Of New Heaven, it did not include the last two tracks (All Good People and Roundabout) performed that night. I decided to put everything available from the September 3rd show together with a recording of the two final tracks from the prior night's September 2nd performance at the Civic Center Exhibition Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts. This would produce a "complete" September 1978 Tormato Tour gig.

When I noticed a rare live performance of "Release, Release" in the September 2nd Springfield setlist, I included it in my compilation as well. Then I added other epic Yes pieces which were not played on September 3, 1978 but had been bounced in and out of the setlist during the 1978-1979 tours.

Those seven sometimes rarely-performed additional songs (with venues/dates noted below), melded with the 9/3/78 Circus Of New Heaven boot, provide what I consider an almost three hour dream setlist of late 1970s live Yes. With "Arriving UFO" and "Release, Release" added, this compilation includes live 1978-1979 performances of every track off the Tormato album except for "Onward".

Yes used part of Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra to open the 1978 concerts followed by a minute of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind soundtrack punctuated by dramatic thrusts of light from the elaborate rig over their revolving circular stage in the center of the arena. Yes used this CE3K intro for their 1978 and 1979 tours supporting their Tormato album and the 1980 tour backing their Drama record.

I have synched lots of Tormato era graphics and live shots to this video. The time-stamped setlist below offers each song's album title and sometimes notes about the visuals used.

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SETLIST:

1. Introduction: Excerpts from Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra / John Williams' Close Encounters of the Third Kind

2. Siberian Khatru (Close To The Edge) / Features drafts of the CTTE album and Yes logo artwork 2:58

3. Heart Of The Sunrise (Fragile) / Features 1978 tour newspaper ads and stage rigging drawings, photographs and correspondence 13:30

4. Future Times / Rejoice (Tormato) / Features 1978 Press Kit photographs and photo session outtakes 24:45

5. Circus Of Heaven (Tormato) 32:00


The Big Medley / Excerpts from the songs noted as tracks 6 through 10 below:

6. Time And A Word (Time And A Word) 37:00

7. Long Distance Runaround (Fragile) 41:00

8. The Fish (Fragile) / Layered over by excerpts from The Ancient and Ritual from the album Tales From Topographic Oceans and Survival from the album Yes 44:00

9. Perpetual Change (The Yes Album) 49:20

10. The Gates Of Delirium / Soon (Relayer) 54:30


11. Don't Kill The Whale (Tormato) 1:03:00

12. Madrigal / Clap (Steve Howe acoustic guitar solo) 1:07:10 / 1:07:25

13. Starship Trooper (The Yes Album) / New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum June 16, 1979 / Features Roger Dean's illustrations of the Space Ark used in cover art for Yes albums 1:11:30

14. Arriving UFO (Tormato) / Boston Garden June 19, 1979 / Featuring scenes from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1:23:00

15. And You And I (Close To The Edge) Madison Square Garden in New York City June 15, 1979 / Features pages from the 1978 'Tourmato' tour program 1:31:00

16. Release, Release (Tormato) / Boston Garden August 31, 1978 1:41:10

17. Parallels (Going For The One) 1:47:00

18. Excerpt from Madrigal (Tormato) 1:52:25

19. On The Silent Wings Of Freedom (Tormato) 1:53:20

20. Rick Wakeman Keyboards Solo / Excerpts from The Six Wives Of Henry VIII 2:02:00

21. Vevey (Wakeman/Anderson organ/harp piece from the 1977 Going For The One sessions) / Buffalo Memorial Auditorium August 29, 1978 2:05:55

22. Awaken (Going For The One) 2:08:00

23. Tour Song / New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum June 16, 1979 2:24:25

24. Thank You to Road Crew / Oakland Coliseum October 8, 1978 2:26:40

25. Your Move / All Good People (The Yes Album) / Civic Center Exhibition Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts September 2, 1978 2:28:45

26. The Stripper (composed by David Rose in 1958) / Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum October 7, 1978 2:36:10

27. In The Midnight Hour (cover of 1965 Wilson Pickett hit) / Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee September 17, 1978 2:36:55

28. Roundabout (Fragile) / Civic Center Exhibition Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts September 2, 1978 2:39:35

29. Going For The One / Buffalo Memorial Auditorium August 29, 1978 Played as final encore after Roundabout. Only performance on 1978/1979 tours. 2:48:10