1980-10-14 Mecca Arena, Milwaukee, WI

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

Info & Setlist | Venue

Set features the debut of Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour" in the second half of the show. It was a completely unrehearsed performance - later on Steven Van Zandt said, "He turned around and called 'Midnight Hour', and we all just about fainted. Funky (bassist Garry Tallent) didn't even believe we were doing it until about the second chorus." Roy plays the piano intro before "The River". Bruce sings a line from Wilson Pickett's "I Found A Love" as an introduction to "Fire". Clarence sings the opening lines to Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee" as an introduction to "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)". "Detroit Medley" includes "I Hear A Train". "Because The Night" is dropped for the first time on the tour.

**14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´Darkness on the Edge of Town’ **
´´They, they follow me around with that sign all the time (chuckles)….I know that´s the same sign…..Are you loose ? (cheers)…..this is Darkness on the Edge of Town….”

**14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´Independence Day´ **
´´This is a song we did….on our last tour for a while….it’s called Independence Day…. when I grew up, I used to watch my old man go to work every day, work at a job that he hated ….you’re lucky if you got some choices…..this is a song I wrote for him…..”

14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´The Promised Land´
´´Same old, same old bunch (cheers)…next time….we set up down there and everybody can sit back (?) (chuckles)(cheers)…here’s to you guys, alright….”

14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´Two Hearts´
´´Miami Steve on the second voice there……let’s try….let’s try Two Hearts…let’s try Two Hearts (laughs)….see, I’m tricking them up here tonight….this is a song called Two Hearts ….Are Better Than One (chuckles)….”

14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´I Wanna Marry You´
´´Big Man…..Sometimes I see her when I’m lying in bed…..sometimes I see her when I’m lying in bed…..she just keeps running , running, running. running round my head…. .now I remember when I….used to watch her walk on by…oh yes, I remember when I…. used to watch her walk on by….I used to pray some day she’d stop….just for a minute…..I wished some day she’d stop…..just for a minute….I wished some day she’d stop….just for a minute…..here she comes…..”

14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´In the Midnight Hour´
´´In the midnight…..matter of fact….let’s play Midnight Hour….we are gonna play Midnight Hour…”

**14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´You Can Look´ **
´´Come on Steve….You Can Look….what was that ? (chuckles)….I better not be the only one swetting here…..(giggles)…..here we go, boys…..You Can Look But You Better Not…Touch….”

14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, intro to ´Stolen Car´
´´(?)(laughs)….all these songs….the exception of Midnight Hour are new songs (chuckles) …..and they’re gonna kill me (chuckles)….oh (laughs)….this is, this is called The Stolen Car…..”

14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, middle of ´Backstreets´
´´Tell me where…..tell me where…..tell me where did all your pretty long hair go…. oh baby no….oh….tell me where…..where did all your pretty long hair go….oh baby no…. honey is that you ? …..tell me where…..tell me where did all your pretty long hair go…. don’t you know that I used to…..don’t you know that I used to….don’t you know that I used to….and I missed….Hiding on the Backstreets….”

**14.10.80 Milwaukee, WI, middle of ´Rosalita´ **
´´……And last but not least…..you’ve seen him on TV….you’ve heard him on the radio…. you’ve read about him in the newspapers….soon-to-be a major motion picture….from the best- selling novel of the same name….is it a bird ?….is it a plane ?….is it the Big Man ?…. Clarence Clemons on the saxophone…..”

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