Intro to “Cadillac Ranch”
“Good evening, Wisconsin! (chuckles)…”
Middle of “Working on a Dream”
“Good evening! (crowd cheers) Ohio – no! (chuckles) I mean Wisconsin, I’m just fucking with you…I’m back on my meds tonight (chuckles) yes, yes, yes…good evening…the mighty E Street Band has come thousands of miles to be here tonight to fulfill our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) that’s right…but as usual we didn’t come all this way just to rock the house…we came all the way to Wisconsin tonight to build a house right here! (crowd cheers) out of music and out of joy and out of soul and out of spirit and out of noise…now the mighty E Street Band is here tonight and we’re gonna do our best to bring down the power of the music on you… but Milwaukee, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”
Intro to “Thunder Road”
“Good evening, Milwaukee (crowd cheers) I wanna thank everybody for coming out to the show tonight, it’s good to see you …we, uh, had a great time, we came towards the closing of our tour last time up in these parts, for all you Harley riders out there (crowd cheers) so this is, uh, four left to go but as we’ve, uh, we’ve had a great, uh, couple of years since we started the “Magic”-tour, we appreciate, we wanna thank everybody for supporting our, our shows and our records, our new and old music and as we got towards the end of the tour we tried to think what we could do that’d be fun for the fans and for us and we’ve playing our, our albums as we’ve gone along (crowd cheers) we played, uh, “Born in the U.S.A” and, uh, “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Wild and the Innocent” and, uh, this is a record, was a big, big record, it was the record that really kind of started the conversation that, uh (crowd cheers) we’ve been having together all these years (chuckles) and, uh…so, uh…tonight for Milwaukee…”
Middle of “Backstreets”
“Till the end…until the end…just me and you, darling…just me and you, darling…(sings wordlessly)…come a little bit closer…(sings wordlessly)…come a little bit closer…”
After “Jungleland”
“Thank you (crowd cheers) these are the guys that made the record (crowd cheers) and Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
“It’s too early, too early! (crowd cheers) too early! (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
“Oh, that’s right (chuckles) lights out so we can see this tree…lights out…out go the lights, lights…lights…turn out that spotlight, we’ll see how it looks…(crowd cheers)
[According to Backstreets.com, the song was requested with a Santa hat thrown on stage and then later Bruce pulled up “a five-foot-tall paper Christmas tree replete with battery-powered lights and a message that read: "I need some Bruce Juice because the Big Man is Coming to Town. Merry Christmas Baby!"]
Intro to “Loose Ends”
“Yeah! (crowd cheers) that’s what I call a sign right there… fabulous, fabulous…we got some creative motherfuckers out here in Wisconsin! (chuckles) (crowd cheers) you got the damn lights too! …mmm, good batteries, alright…alright, let’s try this one, boys…oh yeah, alright…(chuckles) oh, I got it, “Are you Loose, Loose Ends”… got it, got it…alright…are you boys ready?…”
[According to Backstreets.com, this “sign request came in the form of a T-shirt-shaped item, also trimmed with lights.”]
Intro to “Jole Blon”
“Key of F…is it F?…(?)…wait a minute, gotta make sure we got this right…(sings to himself) B-flat…”
Intro to “Living Proof”
“(Laughs and chattering among the band)…The band is panicking (chuckles) I’m not sure we know this one any more…Garry (Steve: “A solo song”) I could (Steve: “Good acoustic song”) alright, give me a, uh, I could do it by myself…sissies! (chuckles)(someone in the band: “(?) sing a verse”)(Bruce sings off mike)…(strums his guitar) oh, we are not in tune (tunes his guitar) alright, the only hard part is the bridge and I don’t remember how it goes (chuckles) (strums his guitar and sings to himself) goes in a minor (sings to himself)…I think there’s a solo there (chuckles) they’re gonna get it, they’re gonna get it (sings to himself) alright, we’re gonna try it, alright…what, you just become a dad? yeah, two weeks ago? alright, we have right here “a new future Boss fan” (crowd cheers) yes…and I hope by the time he gets to the show, I’m not dead, alright (chuckles) (crowd cheers) I’m sure it’ll be alright…(?) Max, I know you start it out…if we screw it up in the middle, we’ll stop, good…(Max starts the intro all wrong) No, no, no, it’s just the foot (Max tries the beat) oh, man, they don’t know, alright (chuckles) no, it’s just like on the four (Max does the intro drumming right) yeah!…”
[According to Backstreets.com, “the sign had a pic of the two-week-old baby wearing a onesie that read "Future Boss Fan.”]
Intro to “Kitty’s Back”
“(Guitar sound) Oops! (chuckles) I’ve seen a few requests for this one …”
Intro to “American Land”
“Thank you for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “American Land”
“Little Steven (crowd cheers) Curt Ramm (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) saxophonist…libertine… man of letters…he’s bigger than Shakespeare (crowd cheers) the biggest author you’ve ever seen, Clarence “Big Man” Clemons! (crowd cheers) Milwaukee! (crowd cheers) Wisconsin! (crowd cheers) Wisconsin! (crowd cheers) Wisconsin! (crowd cheers)
you’ve just seen the last of for a little while the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, Earth-shocking, hard rocking, booty-shaking, Earth-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…”
Intro to “Rosalita”
“Thank you (crowd cheers) thanks for coming out tonight…we got some friends in the hall tonight…folks from the Hunger Task Force… Hunger Task Force’s been feeding Wisconsin’s struggling citizens since 1974 and last year alone they distributed a record 9.5 million pounds of food and all you gotta do is of course pick up the newspapers and look around you and you see how many Americans are having such a hard time, you see the unemployment rate, people losing their homes, organizations like the Hunger Task Force are very often all that stands between…some kids going to bed hungry or their stomachs full, demand for these kinds of grass roots organizations has gone up, up, up over the past several years as the economy has struck so hard and so many Americans, please support your neighbors, support your fellow citizens, support the Hunger Task Force on the way out tonight (crowd cheers) oh…okay, Stevie!…Stevie worked very hard the past two nights – he sang lead last night and he had to dance tonight…it’s hard being the Boss, right (chuckles) it’s not (chuckles) it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, Brother, no! (chuckles)(?) help me out, Steve…”
[During “Dancing in the Dark,” a girl was brought up from the audience to dance with Steve who wasn’t excited about dancing.]
Intro to “Higher and Higher”
“Thank you, Milwaukee (crowd cheers) before we go…can we take this thing a little higher? (crowd cheers) can we take this thing a little higher? (crowd cheers) can we take this thing a little higher? (crowd cheers) is the band ready?…then let’s see what we can do …”
After “Higher and Higher”
“The mighty E Street Band! (crowd cheers) thank you, Milwaukee, thank you, Wisconsin, we love you, we’ll be seeing you (crowd cheers)…”
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