Intro to “Rendezvous”
“So everybody survived New Year´s Eve or what ? (cheers) everyone in one piece tonight, alright….this is a song….that, uh….I think was just recorded by Greg Kihn, uh, it´s a song I wrote about two or three years ago, it´s called ´Rendezvous´…this is for Joyce….”
Intro to “Spirit in the Night”
“This is for Southside…..´cause the night was dark, the moon was yellow….and the leaves came tumbling down….”
Intro to “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
“This is for, uh….I don´t know if he´s listening, if he´s out here or not….this is for John, who was, uh….who got me on (?) show that I was in and I….I just wanna let you know that appreciate it and I (?), this is ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´….”
Intro to “Factory”
“Here´s a couple songs for….anybody that ever had a broken heart….”
Intro to “Heartbreak Hotel”
“This is a song written in….1955 by….by a woman called Mae Axton….she was Hoyt Axton´s mother….I wish my mother´d wrote this song (chuckles)….gimme some echo, Bobby ….”
Intro to “Racing in the Street”
“This is, this is the last night of our tour tonight….and…..this is uh….we´ve been out since May 23rd, this is the 122nd show (chuckles)….I´m gonna take you one last time racing in the street….do this one last ride….this is for all the Cleveland nightriders….”
Intro to “Thunder Road”
“This is for Matty and for Eddie and Tony….”
Intro to “Meeting Across the River”
“This is a song, we don´t do this too much and this is for Kid Leo….I wanna thank for all the….just for all the help he´s (?) you know it´s great, we can come into a town and get somebody or a station that, that just supports us the way that Leo and (?)….this is for the Kid….”
Intro to “For You”
“Alright….I….here´s, uh, like I said this is the last night of our tour and like, like, in, uh, there´s people here tonight that I´ve seen like in 10, 15, 20 different cities, you know, all along the way….and I know some of you guys save up your dough and go places where we´re playing and stuff and I wanna say thanks a lot and this is for you and this is for Rod, alright….”
Intro to “It´s Hard to Be a Saint in the City”
“Thanks….and this is for Jimmy and Bob….”
Intro to “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
“I remember it was….it was about 19…65, I think it was….it was the night before Christmas ….and all through the house…not a creature was stirring….´cause I remember that was the night….that my girlfriend threw me out…I mean, Christmas Eve….gotta be pretty hard….so I played the Phil Spector Christmas Album 50 times in a row…. anyway, I go down to the beach….whenever I used to get thrown out of my house….I used to go down to the beach…. this was tough in the wintertime ´cause I remember it was…. it was Christmas Eve, it was snowing….the wind was blowing, it was raining…I go down there….I go down, I went down to this club I used to go to….it was all closed up ….said ´Home for Christmas´….I said ´Oh boy, home for Christmas….some Christmas this is gonna be´….so I went down, I went to get under the jetty to get out of the snow ….and who was sitting there….but Miami Steve….with his guitar….I said ´Hey!´ (Steve: ´Hey!´) What are you doing? (Steve : ´How you been ?´) ´ I don´t know´(Steve: ´What are you doing here?´) ´My girlfriend threw me out´ (Steve: ´Yours too?´) ´Yeah´, his girlfriend threw him out too….so we´re sitting there and we´re like, we´re in this terrible mood and we´re going ´This Christmas stuff, like, this, this is just a bunch of bullshit, I, I don´t go for that Santa Claus stuff, that´s, that´s lies´…´That´s for kids….. that´s, that´s a joke´….´Santa Claus, he´s dead, he fell out of his sleigh over Newark´…. ´He got mugged when he hit the ground´….so we´re sitting there for a while….and all of a sudden, we just about fell sleep….and we heard this noise that woke us up (Max slams the drum)….and we looked way down the boardwalk….way down the boardwalk….way down the boardwalk ….we said ´Wooooh´…..(music starts) Hey Steve!…”
Intro to “I Fought the Law”
“Uh, this is for Mike….this is a request (chuckles) haven´t played this in a while, I hope we remember it, this is a song by the Bobby Fueller Four, ´Well, I Fought the Law´….”
Intro to “Backstreets”
“Come back, baby, come back…..come back, little girl, my arms, they cry for you…..come back, baby, come back…..´cause I think my heart, it dies for you…..and the teardrops fall…. and I hear your footsteps running down, running down, running down my hall….and I promise I will never ever make you blue….(?)….and I would never ever make you blue….. and I would never make you cry, girl…..just come back, baby….(?)….”
Intro to “Detroit Medley”
“I wanna thank everybody for coming down tonight, thank you very much…..thank you, all you guys, I know a lot of you guys stand out in line and stuff waiting for tickets for a long time and I wanna let you know we appreciate it….and I´d like to thank (chuckles) I´d like to thank all the guys that, like I´ve been on the road, on the road for about six months and I´ve been traveling around with about 25 other guys, I´ve got the best guys in the world….and they set up all this stuff for you and they tear it down…..and uh….they´re here early in the morning before I get here and they´re here late after I go home so I wanna thank ´em all very much….this is for you guys….”
| Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi. |
