07.08.02 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Empty Sky´
´´Thank you....thanks....thanks for coming out to our tour opener....and
uh, it´s always great to be opening here in the Garden State....woa....alright,
I hope you have a good time tonight, this is uh....gonna need some real quiet,
real quiet for this next song and the one that follows, please, thank you....I
know you can do it....I mean I´m excited too.....I took that, that nice
last calming piss right before I came out and I feel great.....always brings
the old, puts the thing right in context.....”
07.08.02 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Waitin´on a Sunny Day´
´´(?) and fiddle players....my darling, please.....alright, this
is the only place I get to call the shots so I´m gonna (chuckles) I´m
gonna make the most of it, baby.....wanna send this one out to Brendan O´Brien
tonight....it´s his song, alright....”
07.08.02 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Mary´s Place´
"Are you ready for a house party ?....Jersey beach style.... summer house
party....I was...I was about my oldest son´s age, I was about 12 and....I
had these older cousins, two older cousins, 15 and 16 and they used to win all
the dance contests...along the Shore...they were like these fabulous... fabulous
dancers....and one night my mother took me to the beach, they had a house by
the beach...and I watched and they rolled up the rug and....they put all the
furniture outside....and they had one of those little Vox 45 record players....and
I sat there.... looking at the girls....they were like three or four years older
than you were and you were like 12 and they were like 16 but....they all looked
like ´Oh...my....God!...When will I get there ???´....and uh....I
just.... it was just a great night, it always stuck in my head because it seemed
so mysterious, you know ....those four years seemed so fucking mysterious....and
uh ....house parties, uh....give me a little hit, boys....not so much....don´t
need much more than that to get started....
(....) But now, you can´t have a house party without a house band....and
we´ve got tonight the greatest little house band in the land.....on the
piano....the illegimate son of Jerry Lee Lewis and Liberace, Professor Roy Bittan....on
the violin and vocals, Sister Soozie Tyrell....from New York City...on the guitar,
we´ve got the coolest little deejay in the U.S.A.....Up from the Underground,
Silvio, Silvio, where art thou, Little Steven on the guitar....on the bass we´ve
got the man that bring the thunder from down under, the Tennesee Terror, Mr.Garry
W.Tallent....on the drums, the man that brings the power hour after hour...the
result of a menage a trois between Keith Moon, Buddy Rich and Ed McMahon.....star
of Late Night Television, the Mighty Max Weinberg....on the guitar, we´ve
got the great Nils Lofgren.... Brother man....on the organ, from way out west,
western New Jersey that is, Brother Dan Federici from Flemington....on guitar
and vocals, the First Lady of love, Miss Patti Scialfa.... you´re looking
good, baby....(?) Viagra (?) put it away....natural Viagra, ladies and gentlemen
(chuckles)....and last but not least, Minister of soul....Secretary of the brotherhood
....do I have to say his name ?....you wish you could be like him but you can´t....Clarence
Big Man Clemons....”
07.08.02 East Rutherford, NJ, middle of ´Glory Days´
´´Come on, Steve (Steve : ´Yeah, baby´) we gotta keep
rocking, baby (Steve : ´I´m with you, baby´) we got a long
road in front of us (?) huh ?....no, there´s more shows after this....
alright, we gotta go to Washington, New York City....Detroit....Cleveland....a
whole bunch of other places....(?) come back to New Jersey....”
07.08.02 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´My City of Ruins´
´´Thanks....thank you....oh....one, two....I could use some more
of my voice....testing one.... one, two, three....little bit more than that,
yeah....I think a little more piano too....oh....I wanna thank everybody for
coming out and joining us while we´re.....it´s our opening night
....we´re, uh....we´re shaking the (?) little bit here and uh, I
also wanna thank, send this one out to the folks that were with us down in Asbury
for our rehearsal shows....had a lot of fun there....had us a good time....so,
uh....this is a little prayer from my adopted hometown.... down there, you guys
oughta come down, check the place out, a lot of, lot of stuff going on in Asbury
Park now, a lot of new businesses and....people really struggling get the....the
town back up, it´s uh....and also tonight we´re here with our, our
old friends from the Community Foodbank of New Jersey and uh....Kathleen (?),
she´s been on the frontlines down there for a long time working very hard....New
Jersey, uh, Interfaced Partnership for Disaster Recovery is with us and foodbank
of (?) and Ocean counties, if you see those folks out there, give ´em
a hand.....thank you..... ”
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Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi