1978-08-19 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

Scheduled: 20:00 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

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Gary Busey guests again on "Rave On". "Good Rockin' Tonight" is played for the first time as well as "The Fever" once again. "Growin' Up" includes the story of Bruce meeting Clarence. "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" includes the "Come A Little Bit Closer" intro. "Quarter To Three" includes "Oh, What A Night" in the midsection. "Paradise By The "C"" is dropped for the first confirmed time on the tour.

Gary Busey (Guest)

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Good Rockin’Tonight’:
”Yo…Philadelphia…..have you heard the news ?….have you heard the news ?…..have you heard the news ?
(….) That’s all the news that’s fit to rock……”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Spirit in the Night’:
”Thanks….and I’d appreciate if you didn’t throw stuff….at people that are in the front of the audience, ok (chuckles)….like them green things….I hate them things, get rid of that thing, alright (chuckles)….if you get hit in the head…..throw that, throw that at somebody in the band, right, it’s like, no, thank you, thank you…..ah , let me see…. where was I ?….”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’:
”Zipper keeps coming down, I’ll be right back …..(long pause)….now, don’t throw those things , alright, you’re gonna hit somebody in the head, I got hit on the head with one of those one night….I don’t know what you got there…..this is me…..and …..who’s this other guy ?….my uncle Ernie, alright…..you guys with the binoculars …..when….. when we first came to Philly (cheers)…..there was….there was a guy by the name of David Dye …..who was working for WMMR at the time…..and was just a great, you know, great supporter of us, now he is not here tonight…..but uh, I wanna do this song for him…..’cause I know he’s back in town , (?) he’s back in the radio again here in town, isn’t he ?….and uh…..I haven’t seen him in a while but this is for David Dye so somebody tell him we did this for him, alright ?….”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Heartbreak Hotel’:
”I was gonna….there was a point where like…..I was thinking of…..we were looking for titles for the album…..and we were gonna call it ‘Badlands’…..and then a friend of mine put out an album (?) Billy Chinnock and he called his ‘Badlands’ (chuckles)….. and Vinny, my old drummer, Mad Dog, he’s, he’s working up in Maine….he drummed on the Wild and the Innocent and on Asbury Park….and uh…..they’re called the Billy Chinnock Band (?) and they’re gonna be playing down around here, I think they have….recently, so if you get a chance, you should go and see him and say hi …..and uh….there was a while where….I was fooling around, I was gonna call it ….. was gonna title the album ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ but I….I didn’t have the guts so…..but anyway…. my zipper keeps coming down so until it stays up, we’re gonna do , uh (chuckles)….. let’s just do ‘Heartbreak’….let me hear the E…..gimme little echo…….”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Factory’:
”Down at the end of…..lonely street…..right by that hotel, there’s a factory….”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘The Promised Land’:
”On the other side….on the other side, did what ?….well, I can’t, I gotta use my own, I’ll, I’ll use it later…..I’ll do it later….this is G…..huh ?…..alright…..I gotta use her harmonica, she says (chuckles)….on the other side of that factory, there’s…..there’s a highway and there’s a car and if you got gas and whole lotta luck….you’ll make it to Promised Land…..”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Jungleland’:
”Somebody gave me some squashed Yankee Doodles (chuckles)….thank you…..
anybody from New York City in here ?….but….the side of New York that’s facing Jersey at least, right ? (chuckles)….here’s….’Jungleland’…..”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Rave On’:
”Hi, how you doing , huh , everybody ?…..ready for the second round here ?….alright ……when I was uh….we came around, we toured California…..and when I was touring …..out there, I went out and I saw a movie that’s just opened in town here, it’s called Buddy Holly Story (cheers)….and uh…..it was something that….that I liked a lot and I went and saw it and I got my 16 -year-old sister and said ‘You ever hear of Buddy Holly ?’ , she says ‘Well, sort of, you know’ , I say ´Will you go out with me ?’ and I brought her down to see the movie….and uh….it was like, it made, it made him, who was always one of my, one of my…..idols and stuff, it made him just a , just a lot more….it made him like a person for me ‘cause I could never imagine him….moving or driving a truck or…..talking to his mother and father , like I had to talk to mine when I was growing up…so…..anyway we got…..Gary Busey here who’s the star of the Buddy Holly Story with us tonight, he’s gonna do ‘Rave On’…..(?) we met in California and we….rocked out some little bar way outside of town….what was the name of that place, Sundance ?….Sundance Saloon, one of ‘em California names, you know (chuckles)…alright….Mr.Gary Busey…..(Gary Busey : ”You know, I’m from Oklahoma and Texas, I just got to Philadelphia ‘cause of Buddy Holly…..and I just met Bruce and the E Street Band….just a short while ago, it was like firing gasoline, I love ‘em…..they asked me to come up and do some….rock and roll….and I feel like a rock and roll disciple….and I wanna thank Mr.Springsteen for letting me do this…. and I wanna thank Buddy Holly for letting me have (?)….this is my favorite Buddy Holly tune…”)
(….) Mr.Gary Busey….Buddy Holly Story, you should go….it’s a good movie, you should go see it…..”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’:
”Compliments of Ed Sciaky (chuckles)….that’s Danny and Clarence on the….organ and the saxophone, they’re playing good….oh yeah !….alright, we’re gonna have some fun right now (chuckles)….let’s have some fun now ! (chuckles)….anybody 16 out there ? ….that’s pretty good….”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Sherry Darling’:
”Here’s another mother song, this is a song…..I used to have this girlfriend…..and like her mother didn’t have a car….so every time she wanted to go someplace….she’d always be calling me up saying ‘Bruce, can you take my mother to the store ?…..
Bruce, can you take my mother to the unemployment agency ?….Bruce, can you just keep driving around and driving around, driving around ?’….anyway, I wrote a song about it two years ago , what this song calls for from the crowd is plenty of party noises so please…..(cheers) oh no, Philadelphia can do better than that…..”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Sandy’:
”Hey Danny….oh yeah….this is for Jason and Mrs.Federici, if she’s here….this is uh…. Fourth of July in Asbury Park…..let’s go to beach (chuckles)….”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Growin’Up’:
”I remember…I was walking down the beach…..late at night…..it was about three in the morning , I was on the boardwalk…..and way down at the end….I saw something coming my way…..sure was…..it was raining, snowing…..there was somebody walking down the boardwalk like it was the middle of July….in a white suit….. carrying a saxophone…..(Clarence plays)….he came closer….and later on…..when they had me in the hospital (chuckles)….and I was telling the doc how I got this way….I said ‘Doc….. this guy just reached out his hand…..and when we touched…..”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, middle of ´Backstreets´
´´Hey….little girl….hey, my, it´s good to see you home again….and baby, you´re looking fine ….and I remember you…..baby, I remember you….you were standing on the corner of Richmond Avenue…..with your hair up high and that shiny look in your eye for every boy that was passing you by….and you were so fine….oh, my, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty little girl….I remember at night we used to hitchhike outside of town….and in this field out by the tracks, there was this old abandoned Cadillac, it was burned out except for the inside….and I remember the night that the kids set fire to that old farmhouse that was down the road….and I remember you said you were gonna, you were gonna be Natalie Wood and I was gonna be James Dean (chuckles)….you had such lonely sad eyes…..you had such pretty sad eyes….and all the time they was crying….all the time they was crying…..and we were gonna…..we were gonna play out our scenes…..and all the time they was crying….and me, I was, I was just your little fool…..I was just your, I was just your little fool….because only you knew…. because only you knew that them pretty eyes, they´d been lying….they´d been lying….they´d been lying….baby, they´d been lying….and then you went away….and then you went away….
and then you went away….and then you went away….and then you went away….and then you went away….then you went away….and now you´re back…..but, baby, baby, I´ve been out there too….and now I´m back…..and I´ve seen some things….about me, about you…..and I found out we´ve got to stop…..we´ve got to stop…..we´ve got to stop, little girl, we´ve got to stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, STOP….´´

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Rosalita’:
”In a little cafe…..on the other side of Philadelphia (giggles)…..
(…..) This is his last chance, tell him, Rosie, I’m almost grown…..I’m a big deal now, I got my picture on the cover of Rolling Stone…..”

19.08.78 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ‘Born to Run’:
”I wanna thank everybody for coming down and I know…..I know that a lot of youse waited like a long time online for tickets and stuff and (?) overnight and I wanna let you know that it doesn’t go unappreciated…..and uh……thank you for the support over the past two or three years when we’ve been having the tough times so…..so here we go (chuckles)….”

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