1981-05-16 Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time ??:?? / End Time ??:??

Info & Setlist | Venue

Show was rescheduled from March 30. Bruce's first ever appearance in Scotland. Roy plays "Once Upon A Time In The West" as a prelude to "Badlands". "Detroit Medley" includes " High School Confidential" and "I Hear A Train".

Intro to “Independence Day”
“Now listen…it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be a real long show tonight so you guys ought to sit down (crowd cheers) yes…this is, uh…this is called “Independence Day” (crowd cheers) and I need, I need a little quiet for this song, thank you…(intro music starts)…I grew up in this, this small town, it was only about 10,000 people and…and as I got older, I started looking around and…and I noticed that all the kids that I grew up with were all settling into, into the same old jobs that their, that their father held or that his father held…if they could get any jobs at all…and I tried to think what was the one thing that we had in common…what was it that, that put in a position where I was gonna live the same life that my old man lived and that he was living the same life that his father lived…and the main thing was that, was that I didn’t know enough…I didn’t know enough about the things and the forces that were in control of my life…’cause my old man worked in a plastics factory and his old man worked in a rug mill…and I could see there wasn’t gonna be any… things weren’t gonna change, it was gonna be the same…and I read this book…”The History of the United States”…and you find out, I found out how I ended up where I was and what happened to my old man and why, why his whole life he never, he never seemed to be able to get a hold of anything that made him feel like a human inside…and I was lucky because I heard, when I was fifteen I started hearing on the radio…and all it was was a promise…that promise is made to every person…on the planet, it’s just…in those old records you could hear, you could hear the promise of life…and it’s something that gets broken (?) every day…and it never came true for my old man and it never came true for his old man…and…I decided I was gonna have to…you have to fight as hard as you can to make it true for you…”

Intro to “This Land Is Your Land”
“This is…this is a song by Woody Guthrie…I need a little quiet for this song, thank you…”

After “Thunder Road”
“We’re gonna, we’re gonna take a short break, then we’re gonna be back and do another whole set for you (crowd cheers) so we’ll see you in a little while, okay…”

Intro to “Racing in the Street”
“(?) “Racing in the Street” (crowd cheers) I need a little quiet for this song, thank you…”

Middle of “Rosalita”
“Now comes the most important part of the show…band introductions…beginning over on the far left…man with the piano, that’s Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) then on the guitar…the guy over here in the blue shirt, that’s Miami Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) then on the bass guitar, the man standing over here by him, that’s Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) then in the back, (?) man on the drums, that’s Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) over here on the organ, moving to the right side of the stage, that’s Phantom Dan, Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers) then we got last but not least (crowd cheers) we got most but not first…I don’t gotta tell you who I’m gonna introduce next…(?)…how can I say it? the man’s known all over the world, he’s known all over the universe…they wanted him to go up in a space shuttle but (?)…I’m talking to you now about the king of the world…the master of the universe…(?) of outer space (crowd cheers) he’s faster than a speeding bullet (crowd cheers) more powerful than a roaring locomotive, able to leap tall women, I mean tall buildings in a single bound, is it a bird? (crowd: “No”) is it a plane? (crowd: “No”) now what the hell is it? (crowd: “Clarence”) Clarence “Big Man” Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) and if you didn’t notice, bigger than life and twice as natural…me! (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Rockin’ All Over the World”
“I wanna thank everybody for coming down to the show tonight, thank you (crowd cheers) here’s a song by John Fogerty…”

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

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