Intro to “Badlands”
“Goedenavond! (crowd cheers) hello, Netherland! (crowd cheers) hoe gaat het? (crowd cheers)(chuckles)…”
Intro to “Sherry Darling”
“Alright, let me hear some party noises, Netherland! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Spirit in the Night”
“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) if you can feel the spirit, I want you to answer me with a mighty “Yeah, yeah”…can you feel the spirit? (band and crowd: “Yeah, yeah”) can you feel the spirit now? (band and crowd: “Yeah, yeah”) can you feel the spirit? (band and crowd: “Yeah, yeah”) can you feel the spirit now? (band and crowd: “Yeah, yeah”) let me see your hands…bring ‘em up now, bring ‘em up now, bring ‘em up now, bring ‘em up now, bring ‘em up now…”
Intro to “Jersey Girl”
“Yes, yes, alright, alright (crowd cheers) yes, yes (?) give me that one there, what do we got here? alright…(?) “Hearts of Stone,” I see that around, we don’t know that one…”Where the Bands Are” – that’s tough, alright, tough signs, tough signs out here (chuckles) give me the sax, we might be able to pull that one…alright, we might be able to do that one…”Jersey Girl”…”Only one, one dream left”…that’s it, why is that your dream? I don’t understand, bring that this way…you’ve travelled all the way from Jersey, not New Jersey, from Jersey, right?…the original Jersey (chuckles) alright, let’s see what we got there…”One dream” – that’s all…all the way from Jersey…good Lord…let’s give it a try (chuckles)…(crowd cheers at seeing the other side of the sign that says “Jersey Girl”) I don’t know, has this ever been played outside of the continental United States? I’m not sure if it has, I don’t think it has…alright…gotta see if we remember it, hold on (plays and sings to himself) alright, we got it…”
After “Jersey Girl”
“Yes, yes…straight from Jersey to Jersey, that’s right (chuckles) (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Hungry Heart”
“Another summer song…”
Intro to “Racing in the Street”
“Yeah, we haven’t played this one in a while, from “Darkness on the Edge of Town”…go ahead, Roy…”
Intro to “Jungleland”
“Thank you…thank you for coming out and being with us this evening, thank you so much, thank you, everyone (crowd cheers) everybody in the back! (crowd cheers) thank you (crowd cheers) for coming out!…I’ve seen this sign around here, oh yes…I want mine, I want mine too (chuckles) I’ve seen this, a few of these signs out there tonight so we’ll play this one for you…alright, where is it?…where is the lady that said this was the last chance? (chuckles) “Bruce, this is my last concert”…alright, here you go, this is for you, alright…”
Intro to “Shout”
“E flat…all I wanna know is…is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) oh, then show me, I wanna see your hands now…I wanna see, I wanna see, I wanna see a whole sea of hands now…”
Middle of “Shout”
“Sister Soozie Tyrell on the guitar and fiddle and vocals (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano on the organ (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren on the guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) Jake Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) the Mighty One himself, the Mighty Max Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers) Mr. Garry W. Tallent on the bass (crowd cheers) Professor, “88 won’t do” Roy Bittan on the piano (crowd cheers) and last but not least, Little Steven himself on guitar and vocals, Little Steven Van Zandt (crowd cheers) alright… can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?… can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?… can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?… can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?
can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?
can I get a witness?…Nederland! (crowd cheers) Nederland! (crowd cheers) Nederland! (crowd cheers) Nederland! (crowd cheers) Nederland! (crowd cheers) Nederland! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen 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 “This Hard Land”
“One more for Nederland (crowd cheers)…”
After “This Hard Land”
“Dank u wel, Nederland (crowd cheers) the E Street Band loves you (crowd cheers) we’ll be seeing you (crowd cheers)…”
| Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi. |
