
01.02.74 Cleveland, OH, intro to ‘Zero and Blind Terry’:
”This is the legend of Zero and Blind Terry.....”
01.02.74 Cleveland, OH, middle of ‘Thundercrack’:
”To the far right of the stage, we got a little maestro himself, the prince
of Passaic, New Jersey....when the man plays the keys, the little teenyboppers
fall right.....they fall right....they fall left....they fall right....they
fall down to their knees....from Flemington, New Jersey, Mr. Danny Federici
on the organ.....to my immediate left, we got a conservative member of the band,
master of locals....man whose mother was a talent, whose father was a talent,
whose sister was a talent, whose brother was a talent, whose great grandfather
was a great great talent....on the bass guitar, from Long Branch, New Jersey....Mr.
Garry W.Tallent....to the far left from mister lightman..... whose notes (?)
, whose groove has hung loose.....twenty years old, digits of solid gold....from
Belmar, New Jersey, Mr.Davey Sancious on the piano....oh yeah..... now back
behind me, we got a man who we can’t talk too loud about ‘cause
he’s so sensitive.....got a very soft heart.....we’ve gotta keep
him back there for a reason, we can´t set him up where the piano is, we
can’t set up over here, we can’t set him up out front because.....I’ll
tell you why.....wanna know why ?....because he’s so vicious..... he was
diagnosed on the national syndicated daytime television (?) as homicidal, schitzopherenic
Roman Catholic and the only man who snorts beer through his left ear.....back
on the drums, we’ve got the Mad Dog, we’ve got the madman.....from
Asbury Park, New Jersey, 165 pounds of stone ugliness ..... Vincent Lopez on
the drums.....and to my right, last but certainly not least, we’ve got
a man who might laugh, who might joke and eat (?), smoke snowflakes but he don’t
mess around..... the Duke of Paducah, the Kahuna of surf and soul (?)....on
the tenor saxophone, Mr.Clarence Clemons.....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi