Ramon's vocals on "Morning has Broken" bring an extra dimension on this tour.The next track was another tour staple "Jane Seymour" from THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII. Again, we get the old story about the leaking roof at St Giles, Cripplegate, and again we are reduced to tears of laughter. The great advances in Keyboard technology have made this a real highlight of Rick's shows, and this night was no exception. The Church organ sound - the echoes, the reverberations - Close your eyes, and you might just imagine that you really were in a church. OK, we were in a Church, but you know what I mean. ;)

Ramon had another special request next. However, Rick had cruelly changed his request from "Barber of Seville" to "Barber of Wigan" - "I am the Barber of Wigan, I used to have a small comb, but now I have a big 'un". This is a "new" Wakeman composition written specially for the tour. It is hilarious. Rick and Ramon have mixed virtuoso musical performance, with lyrical slapstick to produce a comedy musical classic. This will become a much sought after bootleg. All Wakey fans really must hear it. Of course, actually seeing it performed makes it really special.

To close the set Rick and Ramon performed "Help" and "Fool on the Hill", and then Rick played "Eleanor Rigby". "Fool" really works well with Ramon's voice. "Help" seemed slow, but Ramon tried to bring Character to the performance.

They returned to encore with "The Hymn" from 1984, and "The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended".

Updated Website for "Return"

From: Wayne Smith [wayne@rwcc.com] - June 17

If you have a Pentium III (or a very fast P2) and a nice lot of bandwidth, you might care to take a look at http://www.return2center.com/"

On the other hand, you might not :-)

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