31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, intro to ‘Little Latin Lupe Lu’:
”We’re just gonna play, I’m drunk and I’m silly as a fool but….it’s too early to go home (?)…yeah….we’re gonna do a song (?)…gimme some guitar …..hey Roy, are you ready ? (Roy: ”I’m ready !”) …..”
31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, intro to ‘You Can’t Sit Down’:
”Are you ready to get silly (cheers)…..are you ready to get crazy ?…..I’m crazy already, I don’t know what’s going on…..we’re gonna do a song…..let’s do, uh….let’s do ‘You Can’t Sit Down’ so you can’t sit down…..we’re making this stuff as we go….. this is called….song called ‘You Can’t Sit Down’…..are you ready, band ?…..E, key of E….”
31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, after ´You Can't Sit Down´
´´Is tonight the night or what ? (cheers)….´´
31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, intro to ´Backstreets´
´´I don´t know if I´ll remember all the words to this…..it´s been so long since we played it….. (?)….where we could steal away…..steal away….in the backstreets…..in the backstreets….. backstreets….I got a love….I found a love….I found a love…..so sweet and so fine…..I swear I'd drive all night ….just to make….just to make….just to make that pretty thing mine….I swear I'd drive all night….just to buy….just to buy you, baby, some shoes…..I swear I'd drive all night….just to taste, just to taste your tender charms……just to hold you…..just to hold you…..just to hold you close…..just to hold you in my….arms….yes, I would…..I swear, darling….I promise…..I swear I would……I swear I would…..I swear I would…..
(….) I remember…..baby, I remember….baby, I remember….and I remember in the weekends ….hitchhiking….hitchhiking outside of town…..I remember there was this old abandoned…. was this old abandoned car all stripped down…..I remember….(?) in the weekends….we used to hitchhike out there…..and we used to sit in the backseat….yeah, baby, in the backseat…. baby, in the backseat….and I remember….I remember the night those kids set fire to that old abandoned farmhouse and we could see, we could see the flames rushing towards the sky across the fields….we sat on the hood, we could see the flames rushing towards the sky across the fields….and I remember you told me….you telling me….you said 'Baby'….you said 'Billy…I shall always be yours….I will never let you go….I will never let you go, baby…I will never let you go….I will never let you go´….and I remember watching the flames rushing towards the sky…..and I remember us running, running across the fields….running through the fields…..running past that big white house on the hill….running past them iron gates….. running through them iron gates…..running past that big white house that sat on the hill…. running through the fields….I remember and you said 'Baby, I shall never let you go…..I swear I'd never let you go'….and I remember waiting…..I remember waiting….I remember waiting…..I remember you was gonna quit your job and I was gonna quit my job too….. I remember we were gonna go…I remember standing in the rain….I remember waiting, standing in the rain……I remember the rain came…..tumbling down…..I remember waiting…. I remember rain came….stumbling down…..and I remember…..I remember that…..you told me….I remember what you told me…..I remember…..YOU LIED….YOU LIED…..YOU LIED….YOU LIED….´´
31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, intro to ´Born to Run´ (following ´Backstreets´)
´´We messed up all the chords….(long pause)…..we´re gonna try and do all these songs, I ain't done 'em in about nine months….I ain´t played ´em in so long…..but it's too early to go home, you can't go home on New Year's night…….so I hope (?) with us…..we ain´t on radio no more so I can act like a crazy fool…..this is one…..this is my big hit here…..it´s right there on my Top 20 (chuckles)….and I wanna do this for all the people that been waiting so long while I been screwing around in the studio (?)….gimme some echo or reverb on this guitar or something….(?)….we´re gonna give it a shot…..´´
31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, after ´Born to Run´
"Thank you…..I remember no more words……E Street Band…..I´d like to thank Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes…..we love you so crazy…..I'd like to thank you all, Happy New Year!….(Southside Johnny: ´Thank you, goodnight, thank you, Bruce, goodnight´)….´´
31.12.77 Passaic, NJ, intro to ´Quarter to Three´
´´(?)….I don't know what time it is…..(?) little song that (?) what rock and roll is all about….if you ever get a chance, you should check out Gary U.S.Bonds…..he did some great stuff, ´Quarter to Three´, ´School's Out´….he did this song…..I wanna hear it !…..am I alone ? (crowd: ´No´) are you alive ? (cheers) are you alive ? (cheers) are you alive ? (cheers)….´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi