02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘Lucky Town’:
”Are you lucky out there tonight ?.....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘Growin’Up’:
”How you doing ?.....long time, no see.....I haven’t been anywhere
in a long time (chuckles)....yeah, how you been, ok ? (cheers).....(?)....alright......this
is for the old fogies out there.....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘57 Channels’:
”1992....you see American cities in flames again.....the President doesn’t
even mention....(?) the riots (?) speech......you reap what you sow....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘Living Proof’:
”Yeah, I’m a.....big daddy now, got my little boy and my little
girl (cheers).....real sweet....that’s sweet.....kids are good , they
make you.....rise above yourself, you know....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘If I Should Fall Behind’:
”Thank you....nice and swetty out here (chuckles).....this is a song that
took me a long time to write.....I guess this song for me is about that one
that you just can’t fix......we spend so much of our time holding stuff
back, you know.....you don’t wanna show your cards and....uh.....lot of
times we hold back the best of ourselves, you know, from friends and lovers....this
is a song, I guess it’s about sort of.....giving it up, uh.....and uh.....kinda
letting your love go, letting it go out into the world (?)......and uh....that’s
what we’re doing here (chuckles)(cheers)....anyway.....(?).....I don’t
know....take the boy out Jersey, can’t take Jersey out of the boy......(?)....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘Leap of Faith’:
”Thank you, thank you.....this is uh.....this is the part of the....yeah,
this is the part of the show where like , uh.....I gotta stop because we have
a sponsor tonight, you know....yeah, I gotta have a sponsor now.....(?) sell
records anymore, you gotta pick up the cash somehow......now, wait, wait, wait,
you see like....like I’m not gonna try and sell you any beer or I’m
not gonna try and sell you any like, uh....athletic sneakers or anything like
that....no, our sponsor tonight is.....love, that’s right (chuckles)....love
....now....who in the audience hasn’t one time or another had like.....
their face ground into the dirt and a spike shoved to their heart and (?) through
the mud and like their pride stripped away and they’re completely humiliated
by love one time or another (cheers)...that’s all?....the rest must be
lying (chuckles).....yeah, yeah but you keep coming back, you see, you keep
going back and like that.....’cause where there’s love, there’s
faith.....where there’s faith, there’s hope....and where there’s
hope....there’s sex (cheers)(chuckles).....so....this song’s got
all that stuff in the end : love, faith, hope, sex, adultery of course.....ummm.....what
else ?....(?) it’s a diary of my own personal sexual habits in thinly
disguised imagery if you listen real close and so.....you got fear here and
you got love there and the only thing that gets you between is a leap.....of
faith....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, intro to ‘Born to Run’:
”Alright.....can’t send you home without this one, let’s do
it.....”
02.09.92 Tinley Park, IL, middle of ´Light of Day´
´´I´m driving 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles, still ain´t
where I´m going, I´m going 400 miles, 500 miles, 600 miles, ain´t
got where I´m going, I´m going 700 miles, 800 miles, 900 miles,
1,000 miles, 2,000 miles, 3,000 miles but I still ain´t got to where I´m
going tonight.... that´s because I´m here, I came all the way from
the great state of New Jersey via California, via Stockholm, Sweden, via Paris,
France, via Milan, Italy, via London, England....via Washington D.C, via Cleveland,
via (?) to be here in Chicago tonight....I´m here tonight because I got
a message to bring for the great people of the Windy City tonight....ain´t
got but one thing to say, if you wanna hear it, let me hear you say (cheers)....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi