Intro to “Radio Nowhere”
“Good evening, Ottawa (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Magic”
“Good evening, good evening (crowd cheers) thank you, thanks for coming out (crowd cheers) here’s the title song from my new record…it is a song (?) we’ve been living…in Orwellian times when… what’s true can be made to seem like a lie and what’s a lie can be made to seem true…and it’s hard to believe your eyes or your ears so, uh, this ain’t really about magic, it’s, uh, really about tricks…I’ll send this one out to George Orwell tonight, I think…”
Intro to “Livin’ in the Future”
“Good evening (crowd cheers) I’m so glad to be here in Ottawa tonight (crowd cheers) I’m so glad to be here in your beautiful town (crowd cheers) I don’t know what you guys got going on around here but back home we got trouble in River City!…that starts when “pee” rhymes with “poo” and it’s called “fools”…oh man…along with all the things we love about the place we come from, we’ve had to add over the past six years things like rendition, illegal wiretapping, no right to Habeas Corpus, an attack on our Constitution, a rollback of our civil liberties so tonight we wanna do something about it (crowd cheers) we’re gonna sing about it (crowd cheers) it’s a start…and maybe if we sing loud enough, they’ll be able to hear us on the other side of the border (crowd cheers) come on, Max…oh, right here (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Tougher Than the Rest”
“Thank you…thank you so much…woo! (crowd cheers) alright…what you got back there? (chuckles)…alright, I’m gonna send this one out for all you lovers out there (some cheers) it’s cold up in Canada, I thought there’d be more lovers in here, come on (chuckles)(some cheers) where’s the love? where’s love? (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Backstreets”
“Miss Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) oh yeah…thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you…that’s right, Miss Patti Scialfa – she has a new album out, may I mention…on sale at the concession stand along with some fine t-shirts and sexual items (crowd cheers) yes, yes, alright, we’re gonna do (?) sin of playing three songs in the key of “G” in a row, alright (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Darlington County”
“All these songs in the key of “G”…(starts the guitar intro)…how long can we keep it up?…”
Intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”
“Thank you (crowd cheers) thank you very much…woo! alright, Ottawa (crowd cheers) that’s good…oh…just wanna mention some friends of ours, the Ottawa Foodbank (crowd cheers) they’re here with us tonight, they provide emergency food assistance to forty thousand people each month, forty percent of whom are kids, children, distribute twelve tons of food each day, they’re good folks out there on the frontline doing God’s work, if you see them on the way out, help out the Ottawa Foodbank (crowd cheers) wanna also welcome all you young faces out here tonight (crowd cheers) what you wanna know, you’re at your first E Street Band concert (?) (crowd cheers)(?)…”
Intro to “State Trooper”
“Thank you, thank you (crowd cheers) oh, we have a special guest tonight…Win and Régine from Arcade Fire (crowd cheers) alright, this was, this was a request so we’ll see how we’ll do…”
Intro to “Born to Run”
“Win and Régine, Arcade Fire! (crowd cheers) thank you! (crowd cheers) what could we play after “Keep the Car Running”? Why not – one, two…”
Intro to “American Land”
“Patti Scialfa (crowd cheers) Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Dan Federici (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Ottawa, you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”) that’s right…”
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