Intro to “Wrecking Ball”
“We got anybody from Jersey out there tonight? (crowd cheers) Pennsylvania, let me hear you! (crowd cheers)
Intro to “The E Street Shuffle”
“This is for Pete…by request…horns!…”
Intro to “For You”
“A double header for the first record (crowd cheers) I see somebody with a huge sign for this out there!…”
Intro to “Mary’s Place”
“Alright…that feels good (crowd cheers) mmm, a little rain is good for you (crowd cheers) Max!…let it rain…let it rain…let it rain…let it rain (crowd: “Let it rain”) let it rain (crowd: “Let it rain”) let it rain (crowd: “Let it rain”) let it rain (crowd: “Let it rain”) let it rain (crowd: “Let it rain”)…”
Intro to “Surprise, Surprise”
“Yes, yes, alright…thank you…got a beautiful night here in Hershey (crowd cheers) a special request here, alright…this is for Richard (?) …”
Intro to “The Wall”
“I see a request for this one out here, uh…take that big, bright light out of my eyes…yeah…(?) there he is, alright…this was a, uh…I had …I was lucky enough when I was young, there were two brothers who were a little bit older than me, they were in a band called Motifs, they were called the Cichon brothers and when I started playing, before there were, there weren’t that many musicians in town and, uh…I’ve been telling the folks that when I signed my record deal, I’d never met or known anybody who’d ever signed a record deal before and no one in the E Street Band had never been on an airplane (chuckles) been telling everybody we were like the lost tribes of New Guinea – we would see them overhead, we knew they were there…but, uh, I was lucky enough when I was young to have two, two great mentors, they were the Cichon brothers, one was Ray Cichon, who played the guitar and he took his time to come over at the end of his workday, he worked in a shoe store, he’d come by and show me the latest leads and different moves on the guitar a few times a week, and he had a brother named Walter and Walter was the first guy I ever encountered that had the charisma of a real, real rock star, he had long hair, curly, long hair down to here, he had boots and he just was a little scary to talk to and he was a tremendous front man and, uh, he joined the army and went missing in action in Vietnam and also the drummer in my band Bart Haynes, Bart Haynes joined the marines and was killed in action and so I’m gonna send this song out tonight to all the Veterans in the house, all those who served for us (crowd cheers) (?)…this is called “The Wall,” it was written after a visit to the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington D.C…”
Intro to “Shout”
“Do you feel alright? (crowd cheers) do you feel alright? (crowd cheers) Hershey, PA, do you feel all right now? (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “Shout”
“Alright, Miss Soozie Tyrell on the guitar and fiddle (crowd cheers) Eddie “Kingfish” Manion (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Tom Morello (crowd cheers) Curt Ramm on the trumpet (crowd cheers) the incredible Jake Clemons (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Miss Michelle Moore, Curtis King, Cindy Mizelle, Garry W. Tallent, Barry Danielian, Clark Gayton, Professor Bittan, the Reverend Everett Bradley and the incredible Nils Lofgren on the guitar (crowd cheers) yeah…yeah… Hershey! (crowd cheers) Hershey! (crowd cheers) Hershey! (crowd cheers) Hershey! (crowd cheers) I want to go home tonight and I want you to wake up your family and I want you to wake up your friends and I want you to go next-door and wake up your neighbors and pull them out of their beds in their pyjammies and tomorrow I want you to walk up to complete strangers on the street and I want you to tell them that you, Hershey, PA, have just witnessed the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, Earth-shocking, hard rocking, booty-shaking, earth-quaking, Viagra-taking, history-making, testifying, death-defying, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…
(…) I’m just a prisoner…of the almighty, everlasting, ass-kicking power of rock and roll! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Thunder Road”
“Thank you! (crowd cheers) one more for Hershey, PA! (crowd cheers) first we got some friends in the house tonight from the Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Harrisburg Area, more and more Veterans in this country are becoming homeless and the Harrisburg Habitat is making critical home repairs for low and moderate income Vets which are keeping them in their homes, if you see them on the way out, please help Habitat for Humanity, thank you (crowd cheers)…”
After “Thunder Road”
“Thank you, Hershey, for a great night, thank you (crowd cheers) the E Street Band loves you (crowd cheers)…”
| Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi. |
