Intro to “Independence Day”
“This is called “Independence Day” (crowd cheers) thank you, I need, I need a little, a little quiet for this song, thank you…(intro music starts)…I…I grew up in this small town, was…only about 10,000 people, I guess…and, uh…as I got older, I started to look around me…and…I looked back at my father, at the life that he had led, that he quit high school and he went right into the army, then went to World War II, then he came out, he got married real young and he started working like his father did at this factory, there was this big rug mill in town…and I started to look around and I seen that it didn’t seem like things was gonna be any different for me than it was for them ‘cause it looked like all my friends were falling into the same old traps or just, uh…just trying to run away from it all and…I tried to think what was the one thing in common that I had with my father, that he had with his father and it was that when I thought about it, it was that we didn’t know enough, we didn’t have enough information about the forces and the things that were controlling, controlling our lives…and I looked around at my friends and they were gonna end up, they were gonna end up victims and they didn’t even know it and they didn’t even know victims of what, you know, they’d be, they’d be 35-year-old old men and there were people back at home that had, that when they were young, they had good and strong hearts and, and they had force and power inside of them and I watched them change and I watched that get beat out of them and I watched them just wither and, and disappear until they were just like shadows or ghosts…and …I tried to find out, I started to read, I read this book called “History of the United States” – I did (crowd cheers) and then I found out partly how I got to be where I was, how, how it was that my old man worked in a plastics factory and his old man worked in a rug mill and his…and how it seemed that this, this chain goes, it goes on and on…and…if you don’t find something and I, and I was lucky ‘cause I heard it on the radio, like in those songs there was a, there was like a promise, in the, in the first rock and roll that I ever heard there was a promise and it was a promise of life that, that you have the right, you have the right to live with dignity and decency…and that no one has the right to take that away from you (crowd cheers) but…but it gets taken away, it gets stolen from you and it gets treated like dirt…and when I was young and I looked at my old man and I said that’s, that’s not gonna happen, I won’t let that happen to me…and it ain’t a question of being, being poor or being rich because it’s, there’s a lot of rich people just…they end up just dying in some million dollar mansion full of dope and not…just …it’s, it’s keeping yourself alive inside, you gotta fight to keep it (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “This Land Is Your Land”
“This is, uh…(?)…this is a song that was written…it was written by, by Woody Guthrie (crowd cheers) in the States, in the States now when there’s…when times get hard, there’s always a resurgence of groups saying that…there’s like the Ku Klux Klan or the National Socialists in the States…there’s people fighting against people that got the same common interests, you know, and…this was a song that just said that the land you live in should belong to each and every one of you and (crowd cheers) it’s a dream, you know, it’s not…it’s hard to find but it’s true…and…but it’s a dream I think is in all people’s hearts all over the world so this is for you (crowd cheers)…”
After “Thunder Road”
“We’re gonna take a short break, then we’re gonna be back and we’re gonna do another whole set for you, alright (crowd cheers) we’ll see you in a little while, okay (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Wreck on the Highway”
“This is…this is called “Wreck on the Highway” (crowd cheers) I need, I need a little quiet for this song, thank you…”
Intro to “Point Blank”
“This is…this is a song from, this is from “The River” and, uh…this is called “Point Blank” (crowd cheers) I need a little quiet for this song, thank you…”
Intro to “Backstreets”
“(?) I guess is for Filip…Filip, if you’re out there, this is for you…”
Middle of “Rosalita”
“To the far left of the stage…on the piano…Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) play it, Professor (Roy plays) on the guitar…from Asbury Park, New Jersey…who’s here tonight from Asbury Park? (some cheers) how’d you get here?…took a bus? took a train from Asbury?…on the guitar, Miami Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) on the bass, Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) on the drums, the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) on the organ…Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers) and last but not least (?)(crowd cheers) I mean last but not least (crowd cheers) I mean the last person but not the least man…I mean the last person in the middle over here to my right…how can I say it? let me think the words now…oh…a rose by any other name – no…let me say king of the world (crowd cheers) master of the universe (crowd cheers) emperor of all the big and the little things (crowd cheers) faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a roaring locomotive, able to leap tall women in a single bound, is it a bird? (crowd: “No”) is it a plane? (crowd: “No”) is it the Big Man Clarence Clemons? (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “Detroit Medley”
“Wait a minute…wait a minute…wait a minute…wait a minute…wait a minute…wait a minute…wait a minute…wait a minute…Big Man… I’m running out of gas now, Bubba…running out of gas…I got a gas crisis happening…I got no gas left…can’t go no more…no…I’m having a gas crisis…oh man…(?)…don’t need no gas, don’t need no car, no…(?)…leave the car out by the side of the road…leave the car by the side – what about, what about the stereo?…leave that too? (?)…I don’t need the car…oh…I see…way back…we don’t need the car because…because…because…I see a train coming on ‘round…”
Intro to “Rockin’ All Over the World”
“Thanks for coming down to the show tonight (crowd cheers)… (“Na na naa”-sing-along with the crowd)…Now meet me tonight where the river flows…I’m gonna prove I love you so…now meet me tonight where the river flows…I’m gonna prove I love you so…I’m gonna tell you just how I feel…I’m gonna show you this love is real…now I wanna show you this love is real…(“na na na”-sing-along)…”
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