27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´Thunder Road´
´´(?)…this is for Rich and Frank Mariano from Q Street….do this for the King who´s out there tonight and uh….(?)(chuckles) Professor….if you ever believed in something….this is for you …..”
27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, middle of ´Backstreets´
´´We could steal away….just me and you, baby….we could slip away….we could steal away ….I´ll take, I can take….take all my money out of the bank….and….you can quit your job…. I´ll quit my, quit my job too….(?)….hear the bells….hear the bells….go running down the street….just come outside your house….and we can steal away….(?)…..we could go, we could go, we could go, we could go, we could go, together we could go….together we could go….together we could go….together we could go….together we could go….together we could go….”
27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´Growin’Up´
´´This is a song….this is a song, people, people send stuff backstage all the time….but most of the time they send like, they send like flowers and stuff….yeah, what am I gonna do with flowers ? it´s like….send socks….tubesocks, preferably….(chuckles) what´ve you been doing ?….uh, this is the dude that counted off New Year´s Eve, this guy (chuckles) this cat jumps up onstage New Year´s Eve, right, this dude over here (?) spotlight, spotlight this guy….can you spotlight this guy ? this guy (chuckles)(?)(laughs) this guy jumps up onstage New Year´s Eve, right, and I say ´What time is it ? you know, like, how much time do we have ?´, he goes like ´30 seconds´, right now we´re playing and stuff, you know, like, trying to figure out so I can get to this part on New Year´s so he says ´30 seconds´ and then he goes ´10, 9, 8´ and like (?)…(?) trash in my face, give me a break….this is for, this is for this guy, the crazy guy (chuckles)….Professor, please….
(….) I remember when I was back…..my mother made me go to this Catholic school….right ? ….and the nuns….I remember the nuns used to chase me around…..in the church….to make me go to communion on Fridays, right…..and like, I remember….my first, when I made my first confession, it took me so long….that they sent everybody home and from then on, they used to, the class used to go on one day, they used to send me by myself on this other day…. ´cause I´d be in there….and I remember one time we were sitting in class and this Sister said ….she said ‘OK, boys and girls….now I want you all to line up around the room and I want youse to tell me just what youse wanna be when you grow up’, right…..and Sister says, she says ‘Johnny, what do you wanna be ?’….and Johnny says ‘Sister, I wanna be a….I wanna be a….policeman’….and she says ‘Mary, what do you wanna be ?´, she says ‘I wanna be a nurse’….and she says ‘Ed Sciaky, what do you wanna be when you grow up ?’….and Ed said ‘Sister, I wanna be cheeseburger’…and then she came to me and she said….’Hey Bruce…. what do you wanna be ?’….I said ‘Sister’….I said ‘Sister….Sister…..I wanna be….I wanna be ….a rock and roll star….´´
27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´Tenth Avenue Freeze Out´
´´(?)….we´re gonna bring out….we got a whole list of stars with us tonight….we´re gonna bring out, straight from the Las Vegas of the East Coast, Asbury Park, the Miami Horn Section….Miami Horns, are you ready (someone in the Miami Horns: ´Yeah´) a ten-dollar raise, alright….”
27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´Rosalita´
´´(?)….this is a story, this is a sad song, I cry every time I play this song, this song is about a girl I used to go with….a while ago I shaved off my beard, she won´t go out with me no more ….she says she can finally see my nose….and that was it…..(?)….Rosie, come out !….
(….) I gotta say we have a long list of stars here with us tonight…..and now we´re gonna bring ´em up….straight from (?)….I said, I said we´re gonna bring ´em up….I said, I said we´re gonna bring ´em up….I said (laughs)….introducing first time anyplace, I´ve never seen these guys before in my life….the Miami Horns….(?)….(?) on the piano, Professor, Professor ….the man with all the degrees and all the keys, Roy Bittan….next, composer, artiste, producer, the man with such, brought you such hits as ´Sweeter than Honey´, ´I Don´t Wanna Go Home´….Miami Steve Van Zandt…..on the bass guitar, Mr.Garry W. Tallent….on the drums, the Mighty Max…..on the organ, Phantom Dan Federici…..play it, D (Dan plays)…. and last but not least….the king of the world…..master of the whole motherfucking universe ….Mr.Hollywood….your next President….on the saxophone….the Big Man, Clarence Clemons….”
27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´Sandy´
´´The most ridicilous thing I´ve ever seen (chuckles)(?)….I wanna do something for youse to say, thank everybody for coming down tonight…..(?)….when we had the first few albums out, we always looked forward to coming to Philly because…..we knew that maybe there´d be somebody that´d come and see us or something (chuckles) you know so….I wanna thank you, I wanna thank you for supporting the band the way everybody has over, over the past few years….through the good times and the bad times….here´s to you from Asbury Park with love….”
27.10.76 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´The Promise´
´´(?)….this is a song….this is a song that´ll be on the, uh, on the new album….that I will get out, I will get that thing out….I´ve been doing the best I can to get that out…..you know and uh….I wanna thank the people at, uh, here at the Spectrum that, that they really were fantastic and…..you go to a lot of places where, where, like, you know, they don´t care how the show comes or how things come off or what happens, people that were here working with us really….you know, worked hard for us so, oh man, you´re gonna break my piano, give me a break….this is, uh, this is a song called ´The Promise´….”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi