03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, intro to ‘Independence Day’:
”This uh....this is a song about fathers and sons and....this is called ‘Independence Day’....I need a little, I need a little bit of quiet for this song, ok.....(music starts)....I haven’t....been back home.....(?) quite a while.....and.....it’s funny that every time..... I remember when I was growing up ....I was about 16 or 17 years old.....I couldn’t....I could never wait to leave, I could never wait to get away.....and....now every time I come back, for some reason....I always wait till it’s late at night, I get in my car....and I always drive back....back down through the town I grew up in (cheers)....and....I always ride....I always ride past, ride past my old house, you know, the old house I used to live in when I was a kid....and I always look up....the window that was my room, I always wonder who’s....who sleeps there now, who....what they do....and....I never thought when I was.....when I was younger, I never thought that I’d....I would feel that way, feel like ever going back.....to that place....where I grew up again....and....I remember I was so glad when I finally got out of the house.....got away from my old man (?)....but....everybody, everybody’s gotta leave home someday....but it seems.....that....after, after a certain amount of years you always wanna go back..... and you wanna see....just to see if it’s still there....or you think about the things that happened to you when you were there.....and for a long time I used to try and sort out what it was about me and my old man, why we never got along and why....why when I needed him.....he wasn’t there and why....I couldn’t understand the way he needed me....but.....this is , this is a song about.....about leaving home....and...but you always gotta go back and see (?) just the, just the....see if it’s still there or figure it out....‘cause your family don’t ever go away, you’re gonna have to make a , make some peace with them someday (cheers).....”

03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, intro to ‘Johnny Bye Bye’:
”I remember when I was.....I was just up in my room at night and I had this.....I had this little Japanese transistor radio that used to fit underneath my pillow....and....and it was about 1965....there was a lot of great stuff on the radio....I remember I used to wish I could....go downstairs sometimes and.....’cause my old man used to sit in the kitchen right, right beneath me...and to say ‘Hey, dad, listen to this song, listen to this song by...the Drifters or...Sam Cooke’.....because I was getting something from it that I knew that he needed.....and....as you get older....it’s harder to hold on to the thing....to the thing that, that, that keeps you alive....when you’re , when you’re young....and you get trampled on so much.....that a lotta people turn away...they turn hard or they get....they end up getting drunk or stoned all the time, anyway....this is uh.....this is a song about holding on to the things that make you.....yourself....”

03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, after ‘Two Hearts’:
”It’s gonna take the two of us....”

03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, middle of ‘You Can Look’:
”Same old thing every day....and always gonna be that way....hey Steve.....I’m going downtown, gonna buy a gun.....going downtown, buy a gun....going downtown....”

03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, intro to ‘I Don’t Wanna Go Home’:
”Thanks...this is uh...this is for anybody from the Shore (cheers)...this is a song that uh....that Steve wrote....he’s gonna sing it with me.....”

03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, intro to ‘Born to Run’:
”I wanna say it’s nice to be back home and (cheers)....nobody’s treated us better than you guys....”

03.07.81 Meadowlands, NJ, ´Rosalita’
´´….And last but not least.....I’m talking ‘bout the king of the world.....the prince of the city...the Duke of Paducah....he’s faster than a speeding bullet....more powerful than a rolling locomotive....able to leap tall women, I mean tall buildings in a single bound.... is it a bird ?....is it a plane ?....his mama called him Clarence but we like to call him.... Spotlight on the Big Man !....”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi