2002-08-12 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time 20:26 / End Time 22:51

Info & Setlist | Venue

Setlist is identical to the previous show in Washington, D.C. "Mary's Place" includes "Baby, I've Been Missing You". The first appearance of Danny Clinch's black and white 8mm film of the acoustic "Countin' On A Miracle" after the lights come up at the end of the show.

Intro to “The Rising”
“Good evening, New York (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Empty Sky”
“Welcome, everybody (crowd cheers) welcome, welcome…it’s good to be in New York City (crowd cheers) I’ve been thinking about you …these next couple of tunes are gonna need a little bit of quiet if we can get some, appreciate that…shut up, you bastards (laughs from the crowd) alright…let’s see how we can do…(?)…”

Intro to “Mary’s Place”
“Are you ready for a house party? (crowd cheers) man, we need a house party (crowd cheers)…”

Middle of “Mary’s Place”
“Are you ready for a house party? (crowd cheers) you can’t have a house party without a house band (crowd cheers) we got over here on the piano, the illegitimate son of Jerry Lee Lewis and Liberace, Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) on the fiddle and vocal, from New York City, Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) we got the coolest little deejay in the U.S.A, Silvio, Silvio, wherefore art thou Silvio, on the guitar, Little Steven Van Zandt (crowd cheers) on the bass the man bringing the thunder from down under, the Tennessee terror, Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) we got the man in the back that bring the power hour after hour (?) the result of a ménage à trois between Keith Moon, Buddy Rich and Ed McMahon…the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) star of Late Night television…on the guitar we got the great, great Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) great, great, great, as a matter of fact…on the organ, from way out west, west Jersey that is, from Flemington, Brother Dan Federici on the organ and accordion (crowd cheers) we got soul singing, the First Lady of love on this side of the stage, I like to call her “Natural Viagra,” Miss Patti Scialfa on guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) thank you, baby…thank you, baby…and last but not least (crowd cheers) Secretary of the brotherhood…the Minister of soul! (crowd cheers) Big Man Clarence Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) he’s lost a lot of weight…”

Intro to “My City of Ruins”
“Thank you, New York (crowd cheers) thank you…thank you, it’s a pleasure being here with you tonight, I wanna thank everybody for coming out (crowd cheers) and, uh…I wanna remind you we got, uh, out in the hall tonight we got some folks from World Hunger Year, World Hunger Year was founded in ’75 by the late singer Harry Chapin and they offer, uh, they’re convinced that solutions to hunger and poverty can be found at the grassroots level, they offer job training, education, after-school programs, assist small farmers, they work with 6,500 groups across the United States, they’re worth checking out, they could use your support…we also have some folks from the Community Food Resource Center – that’s a direct service organization here in the city trying to make sure that all New Yorkers can feed, clothe and house themselves and their families (crowd cheers) so please stop by and, uh…give those folks a hand, Community Food Resource Center, World Hunger Year (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Born in the U.S.A”
“Thank you…once again a couple of public service announcements here, World Hunger Year’s out there on your way out, please stop to check them out, Community Food Resource Center, and also a heads-up: tonight I think we are, we’re in the midst of a rollback on Civil Rights here in this country right now, our Civil Rights are a reaffirmation of our strength as a nation of laws, we don’t usually think about these things till it’s too late or till it comes knocking at your door, it’s a time right now to be very vigilant and, uh, that vigilance comes with the turf when you’re born in the U.S.A (crowd cheers)…”

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}

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