10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Summertime Blues´
´´How´s the summertime treating you ? (cheers)….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´
´´This is for, uh….we got a new album, been out about two months…..for anybody who ever had to drive through the darkness on the edge of town….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Factory´
´´This next song is, uh….a song that I….I wrote for my father, I always remember…. when I was growing up, I didn´t see him that much….he tried to stay out of my way, I tried to stay out of his way, you know….and…..I always remember him six o´clock in the morning, he´d be up…I had a bedroom that was out over backyard….and he´d be popping the hood of one of those 100-dollar junk cars that he´d buy, laying on the cold ground trying to get it to…. start so he could go to work….and he worked in this….in the factory and his father worked in a factory….and I don´t, you know….this is a song I wrote for him….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´The Promised Land´
´´We´re gonna get to all your requests, we´re gonna be playing a long time (?)….last, uh…. last summer me and Steve and two friends of ours took a drive from Salt Lake City to Reno and we came upon this old dirt-track…..it was called ´Rattlesnake Speedway´ (?)….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Racing in the Street´
´´(?)…there´s these two streets, Kingsley and Ocean Avenue and on weekends they burn up about half the gas in the United States between stoplights so (chuckles) and uh….from Asbury, 20 miles inland, I remember the guys coming (?) on weekends and there was this fireroad outside of town….(?) go racing in the street….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Sweet Little Sixteen´
´´(?)….I got a sister….in California….she just turned 16 and got her driver´s license…..and my mother´s always calling me up complaining ´cause she´s skipping school….and she´s doing everything that me and my sister, my older sister used to do…..so, here´s, here´s all the way to her….(?)….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Sandy´
´´We got a couple of summertime songs for you….this is uh….for any of the….displaced Jersey Shore people (?)….how far are we from like North Jersey (?)….we came by way in from Cleveland (chuckles)….(?)….this is ´Fourth of July in Asbury Park´….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Sherry Darling´
´´This next song, this is sort of a new song, it´s a song we never recorded….wrote it, uh, in the beginning of last summer….and uh, what it is it´s a song that, uh, in the early 60´s there was this kind of music called Fraternity Rock, was performed by the Premiers who had a record called ´Farmer John´, the Kingsmen and ´Louie Louie´, there was uh….and the biggest hit of Fraternity Rock was a song called ´Double Shot of My Baby´s Love´ by the Swinging Medallions….that had the immortal line: ´It wasn´t wine that I had too much of, it was the double shot of my baby´s love´ (chuckles)….I´ve always kept that close to my heart, it´s like
(chuckles) but this song, this is a song called ´Sherry Darling´, the thing about Fraternity Rock was that on the records, they used to record ´em live in these little clubs, like the, uh, Boom Boom Room or something like that and like on the records the audience was always twice as loud as the band, you see (cheers) you gotta have a lot of party noises (chuckles) more party noises (cheers)….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Growin´Up´
´´When I was 13…..I found out…..due to an unfortunate set of circumstances….after spending a long time in the hospital….and being examined by the world´s greatest physicians that I was the teenage werewolf…..(?)….one night….I was down on the boardwalk, I looked up…. there was a full moon….I felt hair growing all over my face….felt my fingers get longer, a guitar popped out of my left side….and for just one moment…..I stood stonelike at midnight …..
(….) As the years went by, (?) worse…..I had the cops on my trail….´cause instead of eating people, I used to run around and steal….records…..first I got all that Elvis Presley on Sun…. then I got all the Roy Orbison on (?)….and everywhere I´d go, I´d leave a trail….and I couldn´t get away, one night I was hustling down the highway (?)….(?)….state troopers….(?) ….and all of a sudden a car screeched to a halt right beside me….and there sitting in the frontseat….(?) Rambler….was this thing that looked like a saxophone….he rolled down his window, looked out at me, said ´I don´t know what you did but with a look like that, I think we can get along, hop inside to the passanger seat´ and we got, by that time, I think, we had the whole United States Army down, running down the New Jersey Turnpike….Clarence had that thing to the floor, we were doing…..goddamn, we must´ve been doing 55 !….and all we heard was this guy with a bullhorn (?) ´Stop´ and then this general leaned his head out the window and said ´Stop that man with the gold guitar !´…..”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, middle of ´Backstreets´
´´Hey there baby….hey, little girl….it´s good to have you back again….(?)….honey, I remember you….baby, I remember you…..standing on the corner of Richmond Avenue…. with your hair all up and (?) and that look in your eye at every boy that was passing you by ….and I swore….baby, I swore….that I would drive all night, anytime, anyplace….I´d drive all night, anytime anywhere…..I´d drive all night….anytime anywhere….just to buy you some shoes…..and to taste your tender charms….to have you hold me in your arms….for just one kiss and a look from your sad eyes….you had such lonely sad eyes….and I remember how they used to cry….all night long….baby, they´d cry all night long…..baby, they´d cry all night long…..little girl, they´d cry all night long….and me, I was your fool ´cause I thought that I could stop….your crying….I thought that I could stop….your crying….I thought that I could stop….your crying but I didn´t know….that baby´d been lying….(?)….baby, you´d been lying (?)….baby, you´d been lying (?)….oh, you´d been lying….now I just can´t cry for you any more….baby, I can´t cry for you any more….and it´s time , little girl, we stopped, it´s time, little girl, we stopped, it´s time, little girl, we stopped, it´s time, little girl, we stopped (?)…. stop, stop, stop, stop¸ stop¸ stop, stop, stop, STOP….”
10.08.78 Rochester, NY, intro to ´Because the Night´
´´Thanks, I´d just like to ask all you guys up front to be careful and not squash each other, right….(?)….I´d like to thank these guys down here, all the security cats for doing such a good job….(?)….
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi
