01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´Two for the Road´´
´´Good evening....how you doing?....welcome, welcome, it´s good to be in Cincinnati....also I ....I guess my only request tonight is I can use as quiet as I can get tonight, outside of that enjoy yourselves....alright....(?)....last night I started with something that was obscure (chuckles) I´ll do it, I´ll start with something else that´s obscure (chuckles)....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´Long Time Comin´´´
´´Yeah, thank you and good evening again....alright....let me see, had the first, uh, first teenage party the other night....that was, uh, girls finally showed up - brought out my drugs, it was great....but uh....we´re travelling quickly through, uh....the three stages of parenthood, first stage being of course you are the benevolent hand of God....second stage: you are a tolerable idiot with the money (chuckles) third stage: you´re a fucking idiot (chuckles) with the money (chuckles) thank God for the money (chuckles) I´d get no respect at all (chuckles) ah, this is ´Long, Long, Long, Long, Long Time Comin´....(?) some of these quiet songs, I appreciate the, uh, uh, hooting and hollering and whistling as a valid form of, uh, self-expression but not in the middle of a fucking song, please (chuckles)....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´Silver Palomino´´
´´Thanks, somebody, uh....asked for this one at the hotel today so, uh....this was, uh....this is for Lou, Lou, I think your name was Lou (chuckles)....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´Janey Don´t You Lose Heart´´
´´Alright, let me see, this was, uh, I´m gonna do this tonight for Barbara....alright (?)...I´ve got the music for the one and uh....I got faith, I´m gonna start without it (chuckles) wo! (chuckles) alright....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´The Promise´´
´´(chuckles)....Yeah, I, uh.....I assume that applause was for ´Hssss, he got through that son of a bitch´....´I didn´t think he was gonna make it, wheew´ (chuckles) he got through it....alright, what do I got here? here we go, this is for, uh....Bobby....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´All I´m Thinkin´ About´´ (following ´´Ain´t Got You´´)
´´Yes, yes, I know - a minor masterpiece (chuckles) woo!....(?).....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´Living Proof´´
´´Thanks....alright....alright, I haven´t played this one before and uh....´´

01.08.05 Cincinnati, OH, intro to ´´Walk Like a Man´´
´´Yeah, I get the crew, yes, this the special piano that can´t be out on stage very long.... gotten from eBay....yeah, it is a steal, a steal, I tell you but uh, I grew up on an L-shaped street and, uh, we had six or seven, six houses on it, my family, there was my, uh, my, there was my house where I lived with my grandmother and, and parents, then there was a field, then there was the nuns´ convent, the priest´s rectory, the Catholic church, across the street was my, uh, my cousin and my aunt, next door to them was my aunt and my uncle and up the street was my great-grandmother and, uh, that was just on my father´s side of the family, then on the other side of the street was my mother´s family and that was my grandmother and, uh, and my other aunt, my mother´s sisters, and, and my cousins, so it was a pretty, we had the neighbourhood pretty sewed and, uh (chuckles) uh, but I saw just about every funeral and every wedding, uh, for the first seven years of my life that occured ´cause the church was about twenty steps up the street so it was, uh....I really grew up in the shadow of the whole thing, uh, I´m permanently scarred of course but it´s alright (chuckles) but uh....I don´t know, I guess, what we used to do we used to collect the rice that fell and, uh, they don´t, you can´t throw rice any more because, uh, it´s, it´s bad for the birds (chuckles) (?) been to a wedding where they throw rice now, but, uh, now they throw, uh, paper or something else, I´m not sure what, but, uh, we used to collect the rice, pick it up and put in a bag and then we would save it and then when the next wedding came, we´d run and throw the rice that we´d saved from the last time....this whole story has next to nothing to do with this song I´m about to sing (chuckles) but uh....I thought I´d kill some time (?)(chuckles) but I´m gonna do this for Walt and his pal (many people cheer) damn, Walt, Walt brought his own fan club, I guess....you all know Walt? (cheers) that you?....alright, brother (chuckles) alright, Walt grew up on an L-shaped block in Cincinnati (chuckles) his aunt, all his cousins, his brothers, it´s all, I knew the story, I knew that story was gonna mean something (chuckles) here we go ....little more, uh, volume....´´

 (the songs played after ´´The Rising´´ haven´t circulated among collectors yet)

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi