Intro to “Rockin’ All Over the World”
“Hyvää iltaa (crowd cheers) hauska nähdä (chuckles)(crowd cheers) man, this is our last stop in Europe, let’s do it right, alright? (crowd cheers) come on, Finland…come on, up there in the stands there, a nice sunny day…”
Towards the end of “Prove It All Night”
“Little Steven!…he’s exhausted!…”
Intro to “Wrecking Ball”
“Oh…that’s gonna cost me with Little Steven later…my ass was headed for the (chuckles) I’m gonna owe him big time now…”More guitar solos,” that’s all I’m gonna hear…”
Intro to “My City of Ruins”
“Kiitos (crowd cheers) hyvää iltaa (crowd cheers) I’m quickly running out of my Finnish (chuckles) hauska nähdä (crowd cheers) I’ve got one more I’m saving till later…good evening, good evening, good evening, thank you for being with us (crowd cheers) hello in the stands (crowd cheers) hello in the stands (crowd cheers) this is a song that I…originally wrote about my hometown trying to get back on its feet…and it became about a lot of other things along the way…this has been…an incredible trip through…Europe and Scandinavia and this part of the world for us…we’ve, uh…felt at home here for a long time (crowd cheers) and, uh…we knew we were coming out with a lot of new faces in the E Street Band and old faces (crowd cheers) and we’d be seeing some new faces in the audience, yeah (crowd cheers) some of these little guys, here you go, is this, is this your first show?…no? you saw us before?…four times?…on other tours or this tour?…other tours? oh, you must’ve been like a little…a little bitty when that happened – thank you, mama, alright (chuckles) so there’s new faces (crowd cheers) but the E Street Band is dedicated to the same mission…we come out to bring the power and the glory and the joy and the happiness and the foolishness and the deadly seriousness of rock and roll and shoot it right into your heart (crowd cheers) we want you to go home with your hands aching and your ass hurting and your voice sore and your sexual organs stimulated (crowd cheers) that’s gonna happen later (chuckles) it’s too early for that yet…but, uh…it was also a tour where we knew we had to come out after losing some big things and somehow find a way to make us and you feel alright about it so this is a song about what you lose, what you hold on to, the spirits that remain forever and the things you have to let go…let’s do it, Max…”
Middle of “My City of Ruins”
“That’s Clark Gayton, Barry Danielian, Curt Ramm, Ed Manion and Jake Clemons of the E Street horns! (crowd cheers) yeah!…oh, let that wind blow…yes…come on now…take me higher…take me higher …oh, that’s Everett Bradley, Curtis King, Cindy Mizelle and Michelle Moore of the E Street choir! (crowd cheers) Max!…roll call…this is the part of the night where we find out…who’s with us and who’s not…I wanna know who’s in the house tonight (crowd cheers) I just wanna know who’s in the house tonight (crowd cheers) said I wanna know who’s in the house tonight (crowd cheers) theeeeeen let me know who’s in the house tonight now (crowd cheers) oh, Professor Roy Bittan’s in the house (crowd cheers)(Roy plays) yes, yes…that’s right, Sister Soozie Tyrell! (crowd cheers)(Soozie plays) yes, yes…Brother Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers)(Charlie plays) and Nils Lofgren’s in the house (crowd cheers)(Nils plays) and Miss Patti Scialfa sends her love out tonight (crowd cheers) she’s home so we can be in the house (chuckles) Little Steven Van Zandt’s in the house (crowd cheers)(Steve plays) and the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers)(Max plays) and Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers)(Garry plays) oh yeah…are you ready for a house party? (crowd cheers) are you ready for a house party? (crowd cheers) are you ready for a house party tonight? (crowd cheers) that’s right ‘cause that’s what’s gonna happen (chuckles) we used to get in the summer, man, I used to have all my favorite records back when there were records and we’d put the record player out in the backyard and we’d put the grill up, we’d get the hot dogs, and every summer you’d see who was there and who was missing…and, oh, time keeps ticking, ticking away…yeah, time keeps ticking, taken away, time keeps ticking, ticking, ticking…mmm-hmmm…I’m gonna stand right here where time can’t get me (chuckles) right in this spot, don’t you move either (chuckles)…are we missing anybody? (crowd cheers) are we missing anybody? (crowd cheers) yeah, we missing anybody? (crowd cheers) are we missing anybody? (crowd cheers) oh, it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright – come on (singers start singing along) it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright – oh, that’s right now…it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright…I said it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright…oh, now, it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright…yeah, yeah, now, it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright…oh, yeah, it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright…I said now it’s alright, yeah, yeah, it’s alright…oh, can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) because if you’re here and we’re here, then they’re here – let me hear ‘em in your voices, come on! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?”
“Yes, yes (crowd cheers) now I told you I don’t have the luxury of (chuckles) alright, some guy had a sign asking…alright, we got this one, this is a, uh, rather accurate interpretation of me, I find (crowd cheers) I like the (crowd cheers) the nose is exactly right (crowd cheers) exactly right (chuckles)…this is a song I wrote on a bus (crowd cheers) yeah, let’s hear it for buses, public transportation, come on! (chuckles) (crowd cheers) they hate it in the States, they don’t know what they’re fucking missing (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Be True”
“Come on, guys, ready?…key of A…”
Intro to “Jack of All Trades”
“Very hard times in the U.S…very hard times over here all over Europe also…this is “Jack of All Trades” (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Light of Day”
“That’s iffy, man, that’s very dangerous…(intro music starts)… alright, brother…are you from here?…yes?…that’s a good sign, let me see that…yeah…this is a very well made request sign, it’s battery-operated, he’s invested some money in this (chuckles) and if that side didn’t work, he had “Blinded by the Light” ready just in case…alright…does anybody know this song is my question (crowd cheers) alright, that’s pretty good, alright, we’ll play it (chuckles) I need a resounding “Maybe,” alright…never played on this tour before, I don’t think, boys, no…only at the finish line, that’s right… wait a minute, I gotta be perfectly clear…here’s how it’s done…look out, Nils…(a long, great guitar solo by Bruce)…(crowd cheers) that’s right…I bought this guitar and I learned how to make it fucking talk…”
After “Light of Day”
“Pretty close, man, pretty close (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Back in Your Arms”
“These batteries are still working, that’s incredible (chuckles) ah, let me see…okay, I’ll do one of these before we do (?)(crowd cheers) (chuckles) oh man, let me see, something we never do, we’ll do something we never do…that’s certainly it, I don’t know if we even know that one…is that?…oh Jesus (crowd cheers) what do you got? …boy, that’s easy, very simple, we challenge ourselves (chuckles) alright…alright, let’s try that one, man, here we go…small challenge for the E Street Band…Jakey, fake this one, man, fake it, baby (chuckles) go ahead…(coughs)…I think it’s in the key of C (sings to himself)…one, two, three, four…(intro music starts)…alright, has anybody here ever blown a good thing? (not much response from the crowd) you know, had a good…a good woman or a good man and fucked it all up…let me see some hands…I ought to be seeing everybody’s hand (chuckles) ‘cause you haven’t lived till you’ve done that once…you think you know what you’re doing…or you think you know yourself…and you think you’re sure of what you would do and what you wouldn’t do…and then it’s too late…you don’t have much left…you could tough it out…you can beg…Max… (chuckles)…if I’m gonna beg, I need to hear the sound of my begging (chuckles)(Max hits the drum) (crowd cheers) that’s also the sound of the door closing in your face…sounds just alike (chuckles) but here’s the story – now, girls, I’m talking…talking to you too…oh yeah…but you can lose a lot of things, not just people… you can lose a part of yourself…you can lose a connection to things that you love…all of these are losses along the way…so…”
After the first chorus of “Back in Your Arms”
“Then when you get there you realize you’re not satisfied anyplace else…that there ain’t no other arms that’s gonna make you feel like they did…and there is no other smile…and there is no one who’ll know you…”
After the bridge and organ solo of “Back in Your Arms”
“Now bring it way down…and horns, I want you to, I want you to get ready to ride me out…everybody’s had those dreams…where terrible things have happened…and it seems so real…and then you wake up…and you go “Oh, my God” and you feel like you’ve been born again a little bit…”
Intro to “We Are Alive”
“Yes, yes, thank you so much (crowd cheers) kiitos (crowd cheers) (says “Rakastamme teitä” but it’s hard to understand from Bruce’s pronounciation)) yeah, am I saying that right?…(tries to say “Rakastamme teitä” again)(chuckles) we love you (chuckles) (crowd cheers) yeah…oh my…a little bit of a strange feeling tonight, heading back to the States, doesn’t seem…you know…uh…you go out on tour if you’re a seeker as we’ve always been to answer questions, you know, the money’s good (chuckles) but the questions, what you’re really in pursuit of is…is answers to things that you don’t have answers to, you know, the things that life throws at you…I think we came out over here with so many unanswered questions…and, uh, the crowds that we’ve had have just, uh…they really have a way of knitting you back whole again, which is a nice thing (crowd cheers) and, uh (crowd cheers) this was a song that I wrote at the end of “Wrecking Ball”-album and… and, uh, I always tell people every night it’s a ghost story…that I couldn’t find the answers I was looking for amongst the living to the things that have happened in the States but there’s also a piece of Clarence in here certainly and Danny (crowd cheers) because, uh, the past is always informing the present, uh…the dead are always speaking to and informing the living…they got plenty to say even long after they’re gone…so…my mom used to take us to the graveyard and, uh…there was a picture of my aunt, my father’s sister, and she died at a very young age in an automobile accident but she was in our living room every single night till…I was sure I heard her voice many times and my mom used to take us out to the graveyard on Friday evenings right when the sun was setting just like this and she would always put flowers on my aunt Virginia’s grave and my sister and I – my sister’s name was Virginia after my aunt – we’d run around on the grass and climb all over the graves and use it like a playground until it got a little bit darker than this and then we would like run back to the car and my mom and we were sure we could hear things…so this is a song about hearing the dead speak…hearing the dead speak, people who’ve lived through the hard times and more, trying to help you live through yours (crowd cheers) so…so…I’m gonna put you in that little graveyard right now (chuckles) and it’s about this time of night and we’re going grave to grave…and we’re listening…and we’re listening…and we’re listening…and we’re listening…and we’re listening…”
Intro to “Born in the U.S.A”
“Let’s bring it home…”
Intro to “Glory Days”
“Get your dancing shoes on…girls, get your dancing shoes on…come on, boys…”
Middle of “Glory Days”
“Come on down, Steve…come on, buddy…oh yeah, I see you, kid…how we doing up in the stands?…how we doing over there?… oh, let me hear you now…oh, you’re looking good…what do we got there?…take a look, let me take a look at the people here…alright, come on, Steve…Think I’m going down to the well tonight…”
Intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“You’re tired, you’re done…you don’t have anything left…the Finnish, you’re finished…the Finns are finished…finished…”
Towards the end of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“Helsinki! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, curfew-hating, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…”
Intro to “I Don’t Want to Go Home”
“Yes, yes…Miss Evie, I see you, kid…give me that guitar…come here, Stevie…(sings to himself and Steve) G’s good, huh?…we’ll just do it, the two of us…just do it, the two of us…we’re just gonna do, we’re not gonna do it with the band, we’re just gonna do it on the guitar, is that a good key for you?…yeah…alright, this is sort of …yeah, give me that sign…your sign too, man, where is yours? what did it say?…”80 days…After 80 days I don’t wanna go home” …yeah, we did kind of run away with the circus, didn’t we? (chuckles) damn if it ain’t just like that, alright, this lovely lady, she’s been to Frankfurt, Cologne, Pink Pop, Berlin, Milan, Florence, Trieste, Madrid, Zurich, Paris, Paris, London, Dublin, Dublin, Gothenburg, Gothenburg – woah! (crowd cheers) I owe you one, kid, and I owe him too, and a lot of you other folks so…we don’t know it but we can sing it, goddamn it! (chuckles)…”
At the end of “I Don’t Want to Go Home”
“Oh, Steve, I’m not going yet, man, I don’t wanna go yet…I still got a message for these people (crowd cheers) I still got something I want these people to know (crowd cheers) I still got one more message I got to let all these people know…we got one more message now (Steve: “Cause I know they don’t wanna go home”) does anybody wanna go home out there yet? (crowd: “No”) they don’t wanna go home, let’s give ‘em one more message…”
Intro to “Higher and Higher”
“I wanna send this out to everybody here tonight, thank you for coming out and seeing us (crowd cheers) it’s been a pleasure coming here, we’ve had a great night…and I wanna send this out to all our great fans all across Europe…little faster, huh…”
Middle of “Higher and Higher”
“Bring Mr. Landau – Mr. Landau…Mr. Landau – get that man a guitar – come up here, come on up, brother, come up, get up, come on, get a guitar, yeah, yeah, yeah (chuckles) Mr. Landau – give him something to play…come on up, kid…this is my longtime friend…and manager, Mr. Jon Landau (crowd cheers) king of the managerial guitar players (chuckles) where is he?…he’s not ready for primetime but he’s coming up anyway (chuckles) we’re gonna be in C, then we’re gonna go up to D, but first I gotta get these people singing…here we go…are you ready in the stands? here we go…”
Middle of “Twist and Shout”
“Somebody just told me we’re two minutes away from four hours (crowd cheers)…
(…) Somebody, pull the plug…I’m done…somebody, pull the plug…
(…) Ladies and gentlemen, we have hit the mark (crowd cheers) let’s hear it for you, you have hit that mark (crowd cheers) I don’t fucking believe it…I’m too old for that shit…we’re gonna have to celebrate it now… are you ready to celebrate? (crowd cheers) are you ready to celebrate? (crowd cheers) are you ready to celebrate? (crowd cheers) are you ready to celebrate? (crowd cheers)…”
After “Twist and Shout”
“Did we have a house party? (crowd cheers)(Steve: “And the World Champ…the Boss! (crowd cheers) that ain’t a way of talking to Boss”) (crowd cheers) thank you (crowd cheers) thank you, Helsinki, thank you, Finland, thank you, Europe (crowd cheers) the legendary E Street Band, thank you very much (crowd cheers)…”
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