Intro to “New York City Serenade”
“Good evening, New Jersey (crowd cheers) yes, yes, good to be home (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Wrecking Ball”
“Let’s hear it for the strings (crowd cheers) Sam Bardfeld (chuckles) (crowd cheers) yeah…good evening, good evening (crowd cheers) alright…”
Intro to “Something in the Night”
“(Piano intro starts)…Alright, back in, uh…when I was in my twenties…the bars along the Shore used to stay open till 3 a.m. (crowd cheers) 3 a.m.! (chuckles) and you used to go out and…you’d go to the diner and get something to eat…around 4, 4.30 you’d come stumbling out of the diner into a night like, like we were having last week where the air is…so thick…it feels like nothing can move…and everything becomes so quiet…and it feels like…the apocalypse is just around the corner (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Sherry Darling”
“Let’s hear some party noises, Jersey! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Spirit in the Night”
“More summertime music (crowd cheers) 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? (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 “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
“The perfect summer song (chuckles) (crowd cheers) who’s the man that had that sign? (chuckles) where’s your Santa Claus suit and hat? (chuckles) huh? where is the Santa Claus suit? (chuckles) yeah…alright, come on, come on up, come on (chuckles)…can you sing? (chuckles) (crowd cheers) we hope you can (chuckles)…
Middle of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
“Why the selfie? Why always the selfie?…”
After “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
“Happy summer! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Independence Day”
“Thank you, thank you, alright…(intro music starts)…yes…I come from a small town (crowd cheers) it’s kind of your classic little American town not far from here…and, uh…you know, Victorian houses down Main Street, tall shade trees…and, uh…it could feel pretty welcoming – I love it now…I felt different about it at the time …it just felt very, very small…and particularly if you didn’t…if you didn’t fit so well…so of course all you can think about is…I wanna get away, wanna run (chuckles) so, uh…this was a song that…one of the first songs I wrote about my father…and…he was non-communicative (chuckles) so I figured when I started songwriting, the way I could have a conversation with him was through my music…so I’d make my records, I’d bring them over to house and I’d know that my mother was forcing him to listen to them all so I knew he was hearing them…but…years went by…I’d write another song and another song – nothing, no response…nothing at all… about…40 years went by (chuckles) and my father was close, close to his death and…finally I said “Dad,” I said “What…you know, what are you favorite songs that, that I’ve written?” he said “Oh…the ones about me” (chuckles)(laughs from the crowd) “Okay” (chuckles) so…you gotta take your satisfactions where you can get ‘em (chuckles) (crowd cheers) but anyway, this was the first one I wrote, I set the song just around late night, round the kitchen table in the summertime…two people sitting there…trying to understand one another…but with a failure to communicate (chuckles) this is “Independence Day” (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Growin’ Up”
“(Piano intro starts)…Turn the piano up…I’m 13…I remember 13… I’m not gonna tell you why right now (chuckles)(laughs from the crowd) but…I stood stone-like at midnight…”
Intro to “Mansion on the Hill”
“Thank you, thank you, thank you (crowd cheers) this was a song, uh…when I was five, six, seven or eight, I lived with grandparents… and our big entertainment would be, uh, taking a drive on a summer night…we’d stop at the, uh, Jersey Freeze (crowd cheers) (chuckles) who’s been to the Jersey Freeze? (crowd cheers) (chuckles) that’s a lot of youse (chuckles) anyway, we’d stop there, was much smaller, they didn’t sell any hot dogs or hamburgers, they only sold ice-cream and they sold two kinds: one was chocolate, one was vanilla and it was just soft ice-cream, that was all you could get…when I was a kid, I didn’t like chocolate or vanilla ice-cream, I just liked the cone (chuckles) so the guy used to save all the broken cones for me and…give ‘em to me when we came up at night so we’d stop there and then we’d stop out, uh, along the back road where there was a big radio tower and it had all the red buttons on it, you know? and my mother used to tell me those buttons, those are the buttons on a giant’s coat and that giant is dark but he’s standing right there and you can only see the buttons from here…so, uh…and then we would stop at the foot, at the foot of a hill where there was this, what I thought at the time was this huge, beautiful mansion and, uh, my father would always stop us there and we would sit for a minute, the house was lit, lit from the outside, never seen anything like that before so, uh…it was a memory, it was a memory…”
Intro to “Jack of All Trades”
“Alright, we’re gonna bring our string section back on for a while (crowd cheers)…(strums his guitar)…mmm, tell me when everybody’s ready (strums his guitar) wrote this song five or six years ago…oh…when you just got angry about a handful of people pulling down so much…people losing all their life savings and losing their houses…you guys good?…this is called “Jack of All Trades”… are we good?…”
Intro to “Jungleland”
“Thank you (crowd cheers) alright, here’s one for New Jersey…”
Intro to “Shout”
“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive in the fucking state of New Jersey? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive now? (crowd cheers) then what I want you to do, what I want you to do is, what I want you to do is…shake your ass now…come on and shake your ass now…”
Middle of “Shout”
“Sister Soozie Tyrell on the guitar and fiddle (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano on the accordion and organ (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren on the guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) Mr. Jake Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) the mightiest of the mighty, Mighty Max Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers) Mr. Garry W. Tallent on the bass (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan on the piano (crowd cheers) the Queen of E Street, Miss Patti Scialfa on guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) and last but not least…last but not least…last but not least…the king of the Underground, Little Steven Van Zandt on guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) 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?…Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (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 “Jersey Girl”
“Alright, happy birthday…15…you’re just beginning (chuckles) it’s just the start (chuckles) the apocalypse comes later (chuckles) we got some friends with us tonight, I wanted to mention, from the Community Foodbank of New Jersey (crowd cheers) for over 30 years the Community Foodbank’s been helping hungry families by providing food and hope, they provide food, help and hope to struggling people throughout the great state, if you see them on your way out, they’re the Community Foodbank of New Jersey, we’ve been working with them a long time, give them a hand, thank you (crowd cheers)…”
After “Jersey Girl”
“Thanks, Jersey, for a great night (crowd cheers) we love you (crowd cheers) the E Street Band loves you (crowd cheers) we’ll be back on Thursday (crowd cheers)…”
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