17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Badlands”
“Alright, give me some lights…you ready for the last time? (crowd cheers)…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, middle of “Spirit in the Night”
“Hey Big Man!…how you doing?…come on up…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
“Is it alright? (crowd cheers)…got somebody’s tablecloth here (chuckles) your mother’s gonna be mad at you for chopping this up, I’m telling you (chuckles)…oh…if you ever had to…drive through the darkness on the edge of town to get where you’re going, this is for you…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Independence Day”
“(Someone yells out a request for “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”) It’s not Christmas yet, we can’t play that yet*…it’s not even close, it’s not even Thanksgiving…this is, uh, this is a song that was originally gonna be on Darkness, Darkness on the Edge of Town, uh…it’s called “Independence Day”…”
[* They played it three nights later in Passaic, NJ.]
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Prove It All Night” (following “The Promised Land”)
“Big Man on the saxophone (crowd cheers) Steve Van Zandt on the guitar (crowd cheers) you guys were singing good (crowd cheers) …but you can’t just do it once, you gotta do it all night…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Racing in the Street”
“Here’s for Dominic, wherever you are…”
[Bruce also dedicated a song for this mysterious Dominic two nights later in Passaic, NJ.]
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Thunder Road”
“This is for Matty and the (?) River boys (chuckles)…”
[* Bruce’s friend Matt DiLea.]
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Meeting Across the River”
“Here’s a song, uh, this guy at the back door’s been asking me to do this for three nights so we haven’t done this in a long time, we’re gonna try…this is for anybody from Jersey (crowd cheers) who’s from New York? (crowd cheers) that’s close, it’s close (chuckles)…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, after “Jungleland”
“Roy Bittan on the piano, let’s hear it for him, huh (crowd cheers) Steve Van Zandt on the guitar, Clarence Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) and the E Street Band (crowd cheers)(the rest is missing from the source tape)…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Kitty’s Back”
“Kitty’s back…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Fire”
“When we kiss…fire (chuckles)…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Incident on 57th Street”
“Here’s a song that, uh…there’s a couple of girls out back asked me to do “Backstreets” for ‘em but (chuckles) that you?…we play “Backstreets” a whole lot, we don’t play this song hardly ever so, uh…for the girl that gave me that big bag with all the weird kind of candy in it (chuckles) and, uh…Debbie Wednesday over there (chuckles) gonna do “Incident on 57th Street” (crowd cheers)…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, middle of “Rosalita”
“On the piano, Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) play a little bit tonight, Roy…(Roy plays)…on the guitar, Miami Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) on the bass guitar, Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) on the drums, the Mighty Max (crowd cheers) on the organ, Dan Federici (crowd cheers) and who-who-who-who…on the saxophone, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons himself (crowd cheers) …”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Born to Run”
“Oh…oh, I just wanna thank everybody for coming down to the shows (crowd cheers) and how many of you guys were at the Garden when we were playing there, huh? (crowd cheers) I just wanna…you know, thank youse, that was like, uh, it was a big deal for us guys and you guys made it great for us so I wanna thank you very much…here’s to you…”
17.09.78 New York, NY, intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“Are you ready for the “Tenth?” (crowd cheers) are you ready for the “Tenth?” (crowd cheers) you can do better than that – are you ready for the “Tenth?” (crowd cheers) let’s go…”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to “Detroit Medley”
“I don’t think you’re ready for this (crowd cheers) no, I don’t know think you are (crowd cheers) no, I, I don’t think you are (crowd cheers) I, I don’t know now, I don’t think you are (crowd cheers) well, shall we see or what? (chuckles)(crowd cheers)…
(…) Hold that “E”…Big Man, I’m gonna need some assistance on this next move…bring it down a little bit…now, the management has asked me to announce that anybody with a weak heart or a weak stomach, during the next section of the program, would you please step into the lobby…are you ready?…are you ready? (crowd cheers) upstairs, what about you? (crowd cheers) alright, when I give the cue…I want you to stop, then I want you to come back in on the “A”…(band stops playing)…let’s go (band continues playing) …”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, at the end of “Detroit Medley”
“Gentlemen…a little travelling music (source tape ends)…”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi