20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´Factory´´
´´It wasn´t until….it wasn´t until I got to be around 28 or 29 that I started to, think back about what my parents, what my folks had done with their lives ´cause I was, when I was growing up, all I remember is my father used to get up way before me….if you´d come in late, he´d sit in the kitchen at night in the dark, smoking a cigarette, drinking a six-pack of beer….and it wasn´t until I got, I got a little older that I started to think about all the jobs he had, he gave, the stuff he gave up for me and I wrote this song for him…..so if your folks are working every day at a job they can´t stand…..for you, this song´s for you…..´´
20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´Independence Day´´
´´I remember I used to….when I was about nine years old, I used to come down in the morning and my mother used to always have, used to always have the radio on in the kitchen, at the time there was a station in New York, it was a top, top 40-station, it was called WMCA….and I remember it wasn´t until I started listening to the radio….and I heard, heard my first rock´n´roll that I thought that….that life didn´t have to be the way that it was, that there was other things you could do, that there was possibilities, there was chances you could take if you´d go out and take ´em….and I remember my mother and my father, they never got to take those chances and it´s easy to miss ´em (?) so if this is your first year away from home….this is for you….´´
20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´Two Hearts´´
´´Two hearts are better than one….that´s what I say, what do you say?….ready, Steve?…. ladies and gentlemen, Miami Steve…..´´
20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´Sherry Darling´´
´´Everybody here´s been making party noises….that´s the party down there….´´
20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´I Wanna Marry You´´
´´I used to live….in this house that was on….it was on like this main street in town, this street called South Street….I remember when I was 18 or 19, there used to be this one girl who used to walk by every day….she was a lot older than me, she had a couple of kids….I used to sit on the porch….I used to watch her walk by and try to figure ways that I could introduce myself to her….but I never did and it´s funny, sometimes you think that when you get older, you forget about those people that you´ve only seen for like a minute, two minutes sometimes, passing by in a car, walking by on the street, but sometimes (?)….Big Man, remember her?….(sings the ´Here She Comes´-part)….´´
20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´Rosalita´´
´´Big Man….this next song is a sad song….it´s a song of failed hopes…a song of failed dreams….a song about unrequited love….do you know about unrequited love?….I don´t think I can play this next song….I don´t think I can get through this song without crying….Big Man, you´re gonna have to tell ´em….(Clarence sings the ´Stagger Lee´-intro)….
(….) On the piano….Professor Roy Bittan….on the guitar….poet of the soul, master of rock´n´roll, a man who brought you such great hits as ´I Don´t Wanna Go Home,´ ´Sweeter than Honey,´ ´This Time It´s for Real´ and many others, Miami Steve Van Zandt….on the bass guitar….his mother was a Tallent, his father was a Tallent….his great-grandfather was a great, on the bass, Mr.Garry W.Tallent….on the drums….from South Orange, New Jersey ….the Mighty Max Weinberg….on the organ….from Flemington, New Jersey….how many folks from Flemington here tonight? (crowd cheers)(?)….Phantom Dan Federici….and last but not least….king of the world….master of the universe….faster than a speeding bullet… more powerful than a locomotive….able to leap tall buildings in a single bound….is it a bird? (crowd: ´No´) is it a plane? (crowd: ´No´) is it the Big Man Clarence Clemons on the saxophone? (crowd cheers)….´´
20.10.80 Denver, CO, intro to ´´Jungleland´´
´´This is for….this is for any folks from New Jersey here tonight….´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi
