Intro to “Jackson Cage”
“Guten Abend, Mönchengladbach! (crowd cheers) wie geht’s? (crowd cheers) hab Spass (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
“Hey, hey! (crowd cheers) aha, someone wants to stump the E Street Band…this is primal, no, no, no, we got this one…find the right key (sings to himself) might be low, try G…get out of that bed, wash your face…too high?…higher? no!…get out of that bed, wash your face and hands…we’re gonna figure it out in one second…get out of that bed, wash your face…that’s G flat, man…we never play in G flat except right fucking now…Max, I wanna get a one, two… one, two, three four, papapapapa, get out!…get out of that bed… oh, hell, let’s go to G…yeah (chuckles)…”
Intro to “One Way Street”
“Yeah, yeah! (crowd cheers) yeah, yeah! (crowd cheers) oh, that’s right…oh, that’s right…oh, that’s right…what am I looking at out here? alright…oh yeah…I saw a sign out there…”One Way Street”… “One Way Street,” alright…Steve’s, Steve’s favorite record is a record called The Promise that came out with the “Darkness on the Edge of Town”-box – who’s gonna remember “One Way Street?”…don’t remember it, I think it’s in the key of G…(sings to himself) yeah, yeah, this is, uh, I think it’s in the key of G…(?) what key was it in that we originally played it?…G? alright…I forget how it starts (chuckles)…they say it was in F? alright…E Street Band likes to come prepared for a show with all these folks here (crowd cheers) If the sun…they probably, they probably got the horn charts…charts are in F?…we’ll play it in F…(sings to himself) it’ll be nice…(intro music starts)…”One Way Street” for Steve Van Zandt…”
Intro to “Mary’s Place”
“Yes, yes (crowd cheers) yes, yes, ok (crowd cheers) we’re gonna play it loose tonight, we’re playing it loose…I don’t know what we’re gonna play next…man, we ain’t played that one in a long time… right there, all the way straight up, see the band get through this one, haven’t played this one in a while…”Mary’s Place,” “Mary’s Place,” alright…get the fiddle, get the fiddle (chuckles) this is how we used to do it in a night club (chuckles) you guys ready?… alright…I got ten Euros on the E Street Band (chuckles)…”
Middle of “Mary’s Place”
“This is the tricky part (band play the instrumental middle section)…Good, good, good, good, good, I didn’t, I wasn’t sure we’d get through that…alright, now listen…(chuckles)…am I missing something? (chuckles)…ssshh…I got a picture of you in my locket…”
After “Mary’s Place”
“Well done, well done!…”
Middle of “Hungry Heart”
“Where’s that German beer?…give me some of that German beer… feels good!…I’m high as a kite!…”
Intro to “Man’s Job”
“Yes, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much…woo!…I’d like to bring down Curtis (?) King to join me on this number…a special request tonight…for some lovely young ladies in the crowd…it’s a man’s, man’s, man’s, man’s job (crowd cheers) but it would be nothing without a woman (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Leap of Faith”
“Gentlemen, follow me!…”
Intro to “Radio Nowhere”
“Ladies and gentlemen, sitting in for his dad, Jay Weinberg!…”
Intro to “Rocky Ground”
“Michelle Moore now to sing one with me…”
Middle of “Rockin’ All Over the World”
“Now just give me the drums…oh, that’s right, Max…right here we got Sister Soozie Tyrell on the guitar and fiddle (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano on the organ (crowd cheers) the great Nils Lofgren on the guitar (crowd cheers) Clark Gayton on the trombone, Barry Danielian, Curt Ramm, Eddie Manion and Jake Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) we got the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) we got Curtis King (crowd cheers) we got Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) we got Michelle Moore (crowd cheers) we got the Reverend Everett Bradley (crowd cheers) we got Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) we got Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) we got Little Steven Van Zandt (crowd cheers) and we got, we got, we got, we got the hard rocking, Earth-shocking, booty-shaking, lovemaking, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…”
| Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi. |
