27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “For You”
“Thanks…yeah, we’re gonna get to that…this is a song for all the folks that used to come down and see us at the Main Point (crowd cheers) when we had our first album released…alright, band!…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “The Promised Land”
“This is a song called “Promised Land”…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “Prove It All Night”
“This is a song I released as a single, it’s called “Prove It All Night” (crowd cheers)…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, after “Jungleland”
“Big Man (crowd cheers) we’ll be back in fifteen minutes (?)(crowd cheers)…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “Paradise by the C”
“The Big Man, Clarence Clemons…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “Fire”
“Here’s a song that…I wrote, it’s on Robert Gordon’s new album… it’s called “Fire”…one, two…echo…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, after “Fire”
“That’s for all the girls…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, middle of “Growin’ Up”
“I remember it was…it was in July and me and Clarence, it was about 3.30 in the morning we were down on the boardwalk (crowd cheers)(?) lay down on the beach…and we fell asleep…and when we woke up…I don’t know how it happened but somehow we were…in Philadelphia (crowd cheers)…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “Backstreets”
“I wanna do this for Frank Stefanko, he’s a friend of mine who shot the new album cover…
(…) Till the end…till the end…forever friends…forever friends…
mmm…mmm…I remember standing at the station…waiting at the station…and seeing you standing on the corner….standing on the corner…in that pretty blue dress…the one that your baby bought you…that pretty blue dress and them lonely, lonely…them so lonely, lonely…oh, so lonely, lonely, lonely sad eyes…oh, what sad eyes…them sad eyes…and baby, don’t they cry…baby, don’t they cry now…oh, let the rain fall…and wash away your tears…and babym I’ve seen them cry, oh, how many times…I’ve seen them cry, oh so how many times…have I seen them cry? oh, so how many times…and you walking out that door…with your bags packed, walking out that door with your bags all packed…oh, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry…little girl…and baby, don’t we know…and, baby, don’t we know…only me and you know…only me and you know… how, how they lie…oh, how they lie…they tell such pretty li-li-li-li-lies…such pretty lies, pretty li-li-li-li-lies…pretty eyes, they tell such li-li-li-li-lies…and baby…you know how I bought them…you know how I bought them…you know how I bought them…you know how I bought them…each and every li-li-li-li-lie…every li-li-li-li-lie, every little li-li-li-li-lie, every little li-li-li-li-lie, every little li-li-li-li-lie, every little lie…each and every, each and every little lie…each and every, each and every little lie…oooh…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “Rosalita”
“I wanna do this song for Dr. John Winterhouse, I was sleeping the other night and I woke up and my front tooth fell out and I went down to see Dr. John here and he put it back in…I gotta stop eating all them (hamburgers?)…so this is for you, Doc…it was gonna be me and Leon Spinks…
(…) On the piano, Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) on the guitar, Miami Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) on the bass guitar, Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) on the drums, the Mighty Max (crowd cheers) on the organ, Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers) (band goes into a snippet of “Mickey’s Monkey”)…on the saxophone, Clarence Big Man Clemons (crowd cheers)…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “The Promise”
“This is a song called…it’s called “The Promise”…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “Born to Run”
“(?) I’d like to thank everybody for coming down (crowd cheers) I wanna tell you we appreciate the support that you’ve given the band over the past three years (crowd cheers)…”
27.05.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to “You Can’t Sit Down”
“We’re gonna be back August 18th and 19th so we’ll see in the summer (crowd cheers) but for now…”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi
