
02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Spirit in the Night’:
”This is a song for Friday nights.....”
02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Circus Song’:
”This a song about uh....running away to, uh....join the police force....boys
ready ?.... ah, this is Danny, plays accordion.....I found him playing in the
audience of Lawrence Welks’Show.....a (?) protege...(?)....”
02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Bishop Dance’:
”That’s the Mexican rhythm section....ah....gonna do a song now
about a bishop, his wife and a violin player in West Virginia....how they lost
their daughter to mathematics while on a business trip in Detroit....’bout
James Garner.....during his well-known, very popular stint....as a .....TV’s,
uh, very own Maverick.....uh....did have an affair with and married a woman
who, uh....had only one eye....operating at any given time... ‘bout a
little boy, says the indians are still in the woods, only nobody sees ‘em....’bout
the sexual pathos of elderly choirboys in Puke, Montana.....”
02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Does This Bus Stop at the 82nd Street
?’:
”Song about New York City....82nd Street bus....”
02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, middle of ‘Thundercrack’:
”We, uh....now come....to the very, uh.....avantgarde portion of our show
here....( a short and very strange ”musical” break) that’s
pretty much it, uh (chuckles)....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi