Story 2004-12-02 Heinz Hall For The Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
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Intro to “For You”
´´Alright….´Greetings from Jonestown´´ here, thank you, my friend (waves to the crowd) thank you….I wanna thank everybody for coming out tonight, appreciate your support for Flood Relief…alright, this is for the old fans….´´

Intro to “Talking to the King”
´´Alright….now, I´d like to bring out the most handsome man in the world of Pittsburgh show business, Joe Grushecky….´´

Intro to “From Small Things”
(Joe Grushecky: ´´Bruce is gonna sing one for you´´)….A little slap on this one if you got…. this is a song Dave Edmunds cut, Dave Edmunds, British rocker, cut a while back….´´

Intro to “Homestead”
(Joe Grushecky: ´´We´re gonna do a couple that we wrote together….a decade´s only a couple miles down the road but it´s a long way from there to here, I tell you….who would´ve thought?´´)….´´

Intro to “Johnny 99”
(Joe Grushecky: ´´Yeah!….we´d like to thank everybody for coming down tonight and contributing to this cause, I´d like to thank Clear Channel….(?), all the people that are on staff here at Heinz Hall, (?) Music for providing this great sound system for us tonight, working so hard….I´d like to, uh, like to thank Dan and all the people at the County for putting this all together and especially Larry Kuzmanko, without those two guys this wouldn´t have happened, I´d like to thank my wife LeAnn for putting up with 4,000 calls for Bruce-tickets - don´t call my house any more, I´m changing my phone number….and I´d especially like to thank Bruce Springsteen for coming down….and helping us out this evening, making this all a success, thank you….´´

Intro to “This Hard Land”
´´(?)…oh, wanna thank Joe for inviting me out….it´s always nice to get out of the house…. especially for a good cause, so….´´

Intro to “Lucky Town”
(Joe Grushecky: ´´We´ve got time for a couple more….we don´t want Bruce to miss his plane ….or he´ll be staying at our house tonight´´) Oh my God!….(?)….´´

Middle of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
´´We wanna thank everybody for coming out tonight….thank you, Pittsburgh….wanna thank all the guys in Joe´s band for inviting us up, all these wonderful musicians….Santa´s gonna be very, very good….´´

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