Intro to "Lucky Town"
´´Welcome, welcome, welcome….hello everybody out there ´cross the U.S.A….I missed you….this is, uh, welcome to the big broadcast…..coming to you from a mysterious location ….right here in the heart of Sin City (chuckles) Los Angeles, California….alright….welcome contest winners….are you feeling lucky tonight ? that´s what I wanna know, are you feeling lucky ?….”
Intro to "If I Should Fall Behind"
‘‘This is a song…..I guess about, uh…..learning how to, how to live with somebody…. learning how to, uh…..I guess, make the compromises and find the blessings that those compromises bring….and uh…..I guess it can be kind of about you and your partner….or, uh ….or neighbor….we’ve had a real, it’s been a real tough…..tough month here in Los Angeles and uh…..it’s kind of a month when the veil got pulled away and….and you got a chance to see how profoundly estranged from each other we really are…..”
Intro to "57 Channels"
´´Thank you….I´m gonna bring Little Steven up here….came out to visit me….gonna help us out with this song….yeah….he still looks good….”
Intro to "My Hometown"
´´Yeah, thank you…this is uh….this song is a song I wrote….I guess it was around 1983 and uh….I wrote it in Los Angeles and uh….uh….I guess since then kind of….a lot of things have come to pass….and uh….and we´ve all stood by and watched ourselves get split further and further apart….(?)….”
Intro to "Leap of Faith"
´´Thank you….oh….Little Steven ducked off after ´57 Channels´ so how about (claps his hands)….yeah (?)….you know you have….you have those little babies and it changes the way you look at everything, you know (chuckles) and uh….(someone yells: ´Patti´)(chuckles) alright, alright, alright (chuckles) but uh….this is uh….I´m gonna do this for my….for my, I´m sure they´re home listening right now, you know….One´s two, the other one´s five months, they´re wrapped by the radio and listening to, you know, Dad speak, I´m sure (chuckles) they´re like asleep, out, gone, you know (chuckles) but uh, those are, uh….those are little miracles that get you through in the world the way it is today so I guess I´d like to do this for them and for Patti, my….beloved (chuckles)….oh, let me hear the count, Zak….”
Intro to "Man´s Job"
´´Let´s go walking with the King, where is he ?….come on down, man….from our great state of Louisiana….Mr.Bobby King….oh….oh shit….(?) can´t say that on the radio….(tunes his guitar) am I in tune ? (tunes some more) (?) wait a minute, see, two years in Beverly Hills, you can´t tune your guitar any more, that´s what happens….oh, it´s a shame, the man, what happened to him ? (chuckles)….”
Intro to "Human Touch"
´´….oh, hey, Patti, come on up and sing something with me….what can I say ?…her fame precedes her….we´re hiring the National Enquirer as our publicists from here on out….and I´m getting a Calvin Klein underwear endorsement also, that was (chuckles) oh yeah, alright, damn let´s do it….”
Middle of "Glory Days"
´´Alright now….oh yeah, come on down, ladies….alright now….we gotta get going now…. yeah, we gotta get going….go on out…..ah, we gotta get going….we gotta hit that road….we gotta get on that big airplane….and go where men and women have never gone before….are you ready to go now ?….are the men ready to go now ?…(?) I see, I see in the crystal ball, I see, uh, I see romance….I see adventure….I see financial reward….oh yeah….we gotta get going now….Stevie, I can see, uh, I see those albums, man, I see them, I see them going back up the charts….I see ´em, I can see ´em rising now past, uh, past that old Def Leppard….(?) past that Kriss Kross, we´re gonna pass that Kriss Kross, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah….and I can see ´em, uh, all the way, all the way past, uh…..past Weird Al Yankovich even, that´s right….oh yeah, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, Al´s got a hold of me….Weird Al, oh, we´re slipping….we´re slipping….we´re slipping down them charts….oh-oh….we´re going down….down….out of sight….into the darkness…..let´s rock !….. ”
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