Intro to “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
“Warren, if you’re out there, this is for you…”
Intro to “Independence Day”
“This song I originally wrote for the “Darkness on the Edge of Town”-album…for some reason or other it didn’t get on (?)…it’s about, I remember when I was, when I was just, just getting out of grammar school and my mother, I used to get up every morning and go downstairs and in the kitchen she’d always have the radio on and she used to have it tuned to this station called WMCA and it was (crowd cheers) it was a Top 40 station in New York City at the time all through the ‘50s and the ‘60s (crowd cheers) and now it’s just talking, just talking, talking…but at the time that was the first time…at first I remember I was real little and I didn’t listen but as I got older, I started to hear things and find things on the radio that I couldn’t find in school or couldn’t find, it seemed, anyplace else (crowd cheers) and I remember it was just real hard for my folks to understand at the time that those, that those songs could, could, could make you different and fill you with dreams and stuff and take you places (?)…I lived about…we only, we only lived about 40 miles away from New York City (crowd cheers) but it was like it might, might as well been a million miles, like I don’t think I ever got to New York till I was about 16 or 17 years old when I got out of our town (chuckles) but…but what I’m saying is, is through the radio things came down and things, things came into your house (?) that your life would otherwise would never, never have got there…it just gave me an idea that, that, that I didn’t have to live the way I was living, I didn’t have to be what I was…and that I could make it different, things could be better if I took the chance (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Two Hearts”
“I made, uh…an announcement last night about the problems of ticket scalping (?)(crowd cheers) I’d just like to repeat it again that the tickets should be for the fans, not the scalpers (crowd cheers) and you can help…you can help by writing to Mel Levine in Sacramento at the State Assembly, you can get this information (?) thank you (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “The Price You Pay”
“This is a song…this is a song we’ve never done before yet and, uh (crowd cheers)…(?)…that stuff that I was telling you, I was telling you about the tickets, it’s really important, you know, and it’s…we, we’ve come to this town a lot, you guys have been great to us here and (crowd cheers) it just makes, makes me very, very angry when I come into town and I meet kids and they’re telling me how much they had to pay to, to get certain seats or get tickets and…I always think you got a good deal (chuckles) (crowd cheers) but it’s just something that, it’s not like this every place, I mean, there’s, there’s scalping every place but, but there’s laws that, uh, that can curve it a lot, in New York City you’re not allowed to scalp…you can’t sell a ticket for more than a $1.50 that is on your ticket and price up and sell it…(?) there’s gonna be the Sacramento State Assembly and they can do something about it and maybe you guys can do something about it (crowd cheers) thank you…so anyway… here we go…(?)…this is ironic to play this song (chuckles) this (chuckles) this song, this is “The Price You Pay” (chuckles) (crowd cheers) no pun intended (chuckles)…I can’t hear you, Stevie…(?)…I can’t hear that (chuckles) we’re gonna switch guitars and we’ll be right back (chuckles)…”
After “Thunder Road”
“Thanks (crowd cheers) we’re gonna take a little break now, then we’re gonna come back and do another set for you (?) we’ll see you in a little while, alright (crowd cheers) don’t go out, we’ll be back (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Outer Limits”
“Don’t touch your dial…we’re in control of your vertical and your horizontal…you think you just went into the men’s room or the ladies’ room but you’ve stepped into the Outer Limits…”
Intro to “Sherry Darling”
“(someone in the crowd: “Kitty’s Back!”) Oh, I don’t know that one but (chuckles)…”
Intro to “I Wanna Marry You”
“I wrote this song, I was thinking…about…all those strangers that you never get to meet…but that you see somewhere for just a little while, maybe passing you by in a car…(?) walk by you in the street …I wrote this song, I was thinking of this guy standing on the corner…and he builds up this whole big fantasy, this dream about this girl that he doesn’t even know…and…sometimes people, they get…I remember there was this one girl I used to see all the time and I never got a chance to meet her…and later – there you are? (chuckles) no, that’s not you, that’s not you (chuckles)…and later on I was, I was always, I was glad because…I don’t know sometimes…people that you don’t know, people that you don’t get to meet…they always, they hold out some sort of promise for you… that the people that you do meet and that you get to know and you get to love…it all becomes too real to…to be that idealistic, I guess… anyway, (?)(chuckles) Big Man…here she comes walking down the street…here she comes walking down the street…she’s looking so fine, she’s looking sweet…oh, she’s so fine, so fine, fine, she’s looking so sweet…sometimes when I lie in bed…I see her running ‘round my head…sometimes at night when I lie in bed…I see her running ‘round my head…she just keeps running ‘round my head… she just keeps running ‘round my head…someday she’s gonna stop, she ain’t gonna pass me by, she’s gonna stop now, ain’t gonna pass me by, she’s gonna stop, she ain’t gonna pass me by, she’s gonna stop now, she ain’t gonna pass me by…I know someday…I know someday…say I know someday…I know someday…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…(?)…”
Intro to “Stolen Car”
“I guess the hardest thing to do…is to…get into a relationship with somebody and make it last…’cause in the beginning it’s always gonna last forever…and the worst part is when you don’t even know why…why it doesn’t last…”
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