14.11.78 Uttica, NY, intro to ´The Promised Land´
´´(?) 1978…..gotta get back to work now…..this is for that little girl, this is ´Promised Land´ ….´´
14.11.78 Uttica, NY, intro to ´Prove It All Night´
´´This is where you get your chance to prove it all night…..´´
14.11.78 Uttica, NY, intro to ´Thunder Road´
´´Here´s for all the folks from Jersey….´´
14.11.78 Uttica, NY, intro to ´High School Confidential´
´´(?) just before I came down here tonight, I went over my girlfriend´s house, knocked on the door…..knocked on the door and said ´Open up, sugar, it´s your lover boy me that´s knocking….´´
14.11.78 Uttica, NY, intro to ´Fire´ (following ´High School Confidential´)
´´Little High School Confidential (chuckles) we´ll continue in this vein….this is a song recorded by Robert Gordon on his second album…..I originally wrote this song when we first started the ´Darkness´-album and I always wanted, I always wanted Elvis Presley to record it ….I jumped over (?) the wall at his house one night…..they wouldn´t let me in…..so….´´
14.11.78 Uttica, NY, middle of ´Backstreets´
´´Just me and you, baby….well, girl, I remember you…..yeah, I remember you…..(?) the corner down on…..down on Richmond Avenue….we used to hitchhike outside of town….way out….way out….way out…..down….down by the railroad tracks…..in the middle of this field ….there was this stripped down Cadillac….and you´d take me riding in back…..yeah, we´d go riding in back…..didn´t we go riding in back ?….baby´d take me riding in back…..way down and down and down and down we´d go….yeah, down and down and down and down we´d go….(?) round and round and round and we´d go down and down and down….and outside in the night….(?) they´d call us all night long….(?) they´d call us all night long….they´d call us all night long….they´d call us all night long…..inside, down and down and down we´d go…. outside (?) standing on the corner, inside down and down and down we´d go, outside (?)….
and I swore that I´d drive all night….anytime anyplace just to buy you some shoes…..and you swore that you´d never go anyplace without me…..you promised you´d never go anyplace without me, you promised that you´d never leave without me, you promised you´d never leave without me, you promised…..you promised….and like everything else….baby, you lied ….baby, you lied…..little girl lied….little girl lied….and now you´re back…..so now you´ve come back…..so now you´ve come back…..what I wanna know….just what makes you think ….just what makes you think…..´cause I´ve been out too and I found out some things…..about me and about you and I found out…..it´s gotta stop….´cause we gotta stop…..and I gotta stop ….and we gotta stop….(?) stop…..(?) stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, STOP….´´
14.11.78 Uttica, NY, middle of ´Rosalita´
´´Are we ready for a flight ? (cheers)….on the piano and navigation, Professor Roy Bittan…. on the guitar and radar, Miami Steve Van Zandt….on the drums and (?) crew, the Mighty Max….on the bass guitar, Mr.Garry W.Tallent…..on the organ, Mr.Dan Federici…..and in the control tower….the king of the world…..the master of disaster….is it a bird ?….is it a plane ? ….is it the Big Man ?….Clarence Clemons on the saxophone…..´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi
