Intro to “For You”
“Good evening (crowd cheers) Virginia Beach (crowd cheers) okay, I don’t think this monitor’s on…right up here…one, two…alright, one, two…oh yeah, there it goes, alright…”
Intro to “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?”
“Good evening, good evening! (crowd cheers) alright, band…”
Intro to “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City”
“Alright, alright…let’s have some fun…(intro music starts)…this is the song that got me my record deal…I walked into John Hammond’s office…I had my guitar with a broken neck…and I sat down and this was the first thing I played…here we go!…”
Intro to “Growin’ Up”
“Little more Roy…we got any first-timers out there? (some cheers) alright…oh, you got your sign…”
Middle of “Growin’ Up”
“Well, there I was…stranded in a little town in Jersey (crowd cheers) but I was a freak! (chuckles)…my best friends hated me, my family only liked me…I kept trying to find something I could excel at…besides…there’s too many little kids here (chuckles) (laughs from the crowd) so I tried darts instead (chuckles)…and then one day I passed the music store…it was actually the Western Auto, they sold guitars and car parts…and I saw this beat-up, old acoustic with telephone wire for strings for 18 dollars…so I took a job – damn!…mowing my aunt’s and uncle’s lawn, trimming their hedges, I painted a house and I tarred the roof in mid-summer heat…I got 50 cents an hour…but I took that 50 cents and I brought it back down to the Western Auto…I gotta tell the band something, wait a minute (chuckles)…I took that 50 cents back down to the Western Auto Store and I bought that guitar for 18 dollars (crowd cheers) then I brought that guitar home and I could not play that fucking thing (chuckles)(laughs from the crowd) I just could not play it (chuckles) my cousin came over and said “First, first you have to tune it” – oh! – a light went on in my head…and I practiced …and I practiced…and I practiced…and I practiced…and I practiced
…and I practiced…and I practiced…and I practiced… and practiced… and I practiced…and I practiced…until (goes back into the song)…”
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, answer me with a “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 “The E Street Shuffle”
“Woo! (crowd cheers)(strums his guitar) oh, we could try that, give me that sign…(crowd cheers) alright, let’s try it…you guys play the riff (sings the riff to the band) alright?…we haven’t done this without the horns so we gotta figure it out (sings to the band)…”
Intro to “Thunder Road”
“Where’s the man?…are you ready? (chuckles)…”
[According to Backstreets.com, someone proposed during this song.]
Towards the end of “Thunder Road”
“Alright, she said “Yes” – our two lovers down here (crowd cheers) congratulations (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Pink Cadillac”
“Key of G…woo!…that’s it, alright…we’re so glad to be here tonight in Clarence’s hometown (chuckles) (crowd cheers) that’s right, Virginia is for Big Man (chuckles)…one of the Big Man’s favorites… (guitar intro starts)…alright…way back in the beginning…people think that the Garden of Eden was located in Mesopotamia…but it was actually located in southern New Jersey (crowd cheers) that’s right…and people believe…that Eve picked the apple off the tree and that’s what got everybody in trouble…but it was actually the pink Cadillac (crowd cheers) that brought everybody down (chuckles)…”
Intro to “Save My Love”
“Oh, when I was…in my teens, I used to sleep with…I had a transistor – oh, this is going so far back (chuckles) it’s like I’m speaking a foreign language here, there was a transistor radio (chuckles) who remembers transistor radios? (crowd cheers) that’s impossible (chuckles) a little, tiny radio, a little, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny speaker, I used to stick it under my pillow…and I’d listen to my music all night…and every summer I took pride that I would take one night and I would stay up all night…to hear my favorite song… now, that summer my favorite song was by Lonnie Donegan and it was called “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight?” (chuckles) (laughs from the crowd) it’s just about as good as it sounds (chuckles) but I’d stay up all night to hear that thing four times (chuckles) and then in the middle of the night I’d take a walk downtown because in the middle of the night the streets were mine (chuckles) in the day I had to run but at night (chuckles) oh, at night the streets were mine…I’d have my little radio with me and this is a song about when there were just a few stations and everybody was gathered together listening to the same thing (chuckles) hearing the same whisper in their ears…so… this is called “Save My Love” (chuckles) (crowd cheers) outtake from “Darkness on the Edge of Town” (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Factory”
“Alright…a little something for Labor Day…”
Intro to “Mary’s Place”
“Alright, are you ready for a beach party? (crowd cheers) take me to the beach, I wanna go to the beach (chuckles)…here we go… Max!…listen…”
Middle of “Mary’s Place”
“Max!…now listen…now listen…now listen…ssshhh…stop Brucing me …do not Bruce me (laughs from the crowd) stop the fucking Brucing …”
Middle of “Backstreets”
“Until the end…until the end…forever friends…forever friends…until the end…until the end…”
Intro to “Shout”
“E-flat!…is there anyone alive out there tonight? (crowd cheers) are you still alive out there? (crowd cheers) right there on the lawn, are you still alive? (crowd cheers) show me your hands if you’re alive out there (crowd cheers) show me your hands, show me your hands, show me your hands…oh yeah now…what I want you to do for this next song, what I’d like you to do for this next song is…shake your ass now…if you brought it with you, I want you to shake your ass now…shake that ass…shake it, Steve, shake it… that’s all you gotta do…that’s all you gotta do…because…”
Middle of “Shout”
“Sister Soozie Tyrell on the guitar, fiddle and vocals (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano on the accordion and organ (crowd cheers) the wondrous Mr. Nils Lofgren on the guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) Mr. Jake Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) the mightiest of the mighty, the man that drums all night and never stops, Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan on the piano (crowd cheers) Mr. Garry W. Tallent on the bass (crowd cheers) and last but not least…the king…the king…the king of the Underground, Little Steven Van Zandt (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?…Virginia! (crowd cheers) Virginia! (crowd cheers) Virginia! (crowd cheers) Virginia! (crowd cheers) don’t Bruce me, don’t Bruce me now because you’ve just witnessed the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, Earth-shocking, hard rocking, booty-shaking, Earth-quaking, love-making, thank-God-Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…”
Intro to “Bobby Jean”
“Do you have anything left? (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “This Hard Land”
“Thank you! (crowd cheers) yes, yes…I wanna thank everybody for coming out tonight, thank you so much (crowd cheers) I hope the storm didn’t inconvenience you too much, we’re glad you were able to get back down here, thank you once again, this is for you…”
After “This Hard Land”
“The E Street Band loves you (crowd cheers) we’ll be seeing you, thanks for a great night, thank you (crowd cheers) yeah (crowd cheers) thank you, Virginia, we love you (crowd cheers)…”
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