Intro to “We Take Care of Our Own”
“Moi, Turku! (crowd cheers) mitä kuuluu? (crowd cheers) come on, Max! (Max starts drumming) oletteko valmiita?…are you ready? (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Spirit in the Night”
“The mighty E Street Band (crowd cheers) has come thousands of miles (crowd cheers) across many years and decades (crowd cheers) to be here for this one night in Turku (crowd cheers) that’s right…now we’re here tonight…because what we wanna do tonight, we can’t do by ourselves…no matter how good the E Street Band plays tonight (crowd cheers) we can’t create what we wanna create by ourselves (crowd cheers) we need you! (crowd cheers) that’s right…what we’re gonna do tonight, we can only do together…and it starts with the answer to just one question…and what I wanna know is…can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) well, if you can feel the spirit, if you can feel the spirit, if you can feel the spirit, if you can feel the spirit, I want you to answer me, I want you to answer me, I want you to answer me with a mighty “Yeah, yeah” – can you feel the spirit? (crowd and band: “Yeah, yeah”) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd and band: “Yeah, yeah”) can you feel the spirit? (crowd and band: “Yeah, yeah”) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd and band: “Yeah, yeah”)…”
Intro to “This Hard Land”
“Yes, yes…I believe we…do we have a fan club here? (crowd cheers) you’re all in the fan club? (crowd cheers) This Hard Land-fan club? (crowd cheers) This Hard Land, yeah…amazing (chuckles) we’ll never go hungry in Turku, I guess, that’s, but, uh, uh…you guys gave me a very nice book with all the stories of the fans inside in it, yeah (crowd cheers) it was really very lovely, sort of all the stories of how you got into our music and, uh, what it meant to you and, uh, uh, it was really just lovely (?) you know, I recognize you, this guy (?) so, uh, we just wanna say thanks and we’re gonna play this tonight and we’re gonna dedicate it to you guys, alright (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “From Small Things”
“Let’s see what you got out here…alright…mmm, that’s a good one (chuckles) what?…this?…do you work at the supermarket? no?… the only people that request this song work at the supermarket (chuckles) alright, I don’t know, we’ll see…what do we got there?… ah, give me that one, we haven’t done that one in the whole tour, bring that one up here…let me see, oh, there’s a lot of, many, many, many requests…huh? who? yeah…yeah (chuckles) let me see what else you got, oh, we haven’t done that the whole tour, send that one up here…that one, we gotta, we gotta practise if we’re gonna do that one (chuckles) let me see, oh, we haven’t played that one, that’s hard (chuckles) alright, let me take it…ah, “Four shows, four no’s, I’m Goin’ Down” – alright (a fan says something) oh, we did this one, we did this one last time we were here (chuckles) it’s a good one, though, alright, let me see, I got enough here, man (chuckles) alright, let me see (crowd cheers) we haven’t played ‘em yet, don’t clap yet (chuckles)(crowd cheers) alright, what am I, what do we got here? let me take a quick look…okay, uh…this sign looks like it was, uh, worked on very hard (chuckles) okay, boys…let’s test the band (crowd cheers) this is a…relatively obscure song…(chuckles) that I actually, uh, I wrote and that Dave Edmunds recorded, a great, great rocker Dave Edmunds (crowd cheers) but I bet we can do it, let me see…”
Intro to “Pink Cadillac”
“We’re gonna keep our rockabilly, our rockabilly mood going here, alright (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “Pink Cadillac”
“I think I gotta get a little closer…now listen…(chuckles)…”
Intro to “Brilliant Disguise”
“Yeah, yeah (crowd cheers) one more request…ah, we haven’t played this one in a long time, alright…”
Intro to “Pay Me My Money Down”
“Alright…give me some lights…ooh…a lot of people still sitting down (chuckles) ooh, I gotta do my job…I know we can get the Finns to up and dancing, I’m sure we have that in our power…I’m not gonna tell you to get up and dance because 90 seconds from right now your ass is gonna send a message to your mind and it’s gonna say “Get out of that seat!” (chuckles) (crowd cheers) not now…90 seconds from now…who’s got a watch?…are you ready?…start!…”
Intro to “Queen of the Supermarket”
“This is (chuckles) nobody ever requests this song unless they actually work in a supermarket…you don’t work in a supermarket? …no?…alright…let me make, make sure I remember all the chords… (sings and plays to himself) that sounds kind of high (chuckles) (sings and plays to himself) alright, I’m gonna try it…(crowd cheers) if it’s too high, I’ll stop and start again in a lower key (chuckles)…”
After “Queen of the Supermarket”
“A masterpiece! (crowd cheers)(chuckles)…”
After “Dancing in the Dark”
“She tired me out!…”
Intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“On the horns Clark Gayton, Barry Danielian, Curt Ramm, Eddie Manion and Jake Clemons (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano, Soozie Tyrell, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max (crowd cheers) Curtis “Aquavit” King (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle, Michelle Moore, the Reverend Everett Bradley, Garry W. Tallent, Professor Roy Bittan and Little Steven! (crowd cheers) come on, let me hear you now…”
After “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“Thank you, Turku! (crowd cheers) thank you (crowd cheers) the mighty E Street Band (crowd cheers) thanks for a great night (crowd cheers) we’ll be back tomorrow night for another spectacular (crowd cheers)…”
| Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi. |
