08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´Johnny 99´´
´´Hello....oh, it´s nice to be in Sweden, thank you....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´Atlantic City´´
´´Thanks....if any of you guys are getting squeezed in too tight
down here, just raise your hand and somebody will help you get out of there....if
you can, watch the person next to you, make sure they´re alright down
there....take care of each other a little bit....(music starts).... where I
grew up....about 50 miles south down along the beach....they brought in....legalised
gambling....and now they got big golden casinos next to the slums....they got
the gangs down there fighting for control....and this is ´Atlantic City´....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´The River´´
´´Thanks....when I was growing up....my father used to....sit in
the kitchen at night....in the dark....and he used to lock up the frontdoor
of my house so that me and my sister would have to come through the kitchen
so he could tell what time we were coming in....and he´d come home from
work and he´d go and he´d sit down at that same chair and my mother´d
bring him his dinner and then he´d just sit there smoking a cigarette,
drinking beer all night long.... and if you were coming in too late....sometimes
you were better off waiting until the morning ....so I used to keep a sleeping
bag stashed on the outside of these woods....and sometimes I´d sleep on
somebody´s porch or in a friend of mine´s car....wait till he had
a chance to sleep a little bit....but now I go back home and some of those places
I used to sleep seem more like they belong to me than my own house did when
I was young....well, this is a song for, uh, one for my two friends I met yesterday
from Norway (chuckles) and....and for everybody.... ´cause everybody needs
someplace to go on those nights that they can´t go home.....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´Glory Days´´
´´Wait a minute now....have you survived so far out there? (cheers)
good....well, this is a song about growing old, man.....that´s right....it´s
about Father Time....time´s winged chariot ....about what happens when
you get as old as me (chuckles) who´s over 30 years old out there now?
(some cheers) there´s gotta be somebody out there (chuckles) you are?
alright (chuckles) now the Big Man, he´s older than me....but as you can
see he has maintained his youthful beauty....he´s got it (chuckles) but
anyway....this is a song about how you go out on Friday night to a bar, there´s
always somebody coming up to you saying, like, ´Remember me? In high school?
Yeah, I went to high school with you.....yeah, remember the guy that dumped
the pizza pie on your shirt?...Yeah, that´s me, how you doing, how you
doing?´ (?) ....but, anyway, all I remember is that I hated high school....couldn´t
stand high school....in high school I was only interested in two things....one
was the guitar....and the other one was ....was....was....that one, that one!
(chuckles)....anyway, of those things, the guitar is the one that I became good
at....but the other one I´m still practising, practising, practising....but
anyway, Big Man, are you ready to tell the story? (Clarence: ´Oh, yes,
I am´) it´s how it ain´t nothing but glory days....here we
go, man, where´s my hat?....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´The Promised Land´´
´´Oh....this is for any folks out there who....might´ve seen
us when we were here, I guess it was ´81 or ´80 now, the last time
we were out this way....for any, for any of our old time fans (chuckles)....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´My Hometown´´
´´Thanks, woh!....this is, uh, this next song, I remember when I
was a kid I grew up in this real small town....it was kind of real small-minded.....it
was hard to find any breathing room .....and I guess, uh, I guess everybody,
when they´re growing up, has sort of a love-hate relationship with the
place they were raised, I remember I thought that when, when I was finally able
to get out of there that I, I´d never look back, that I wouldn´t
miss any of my old friends, I wouldn´t miss my folks....and, uh, when
I was 19, I got a chance to go out on the road and, uh....I guess in some ways
I´ve been out ever since (chuckles) gotta go home one of these days (chuckles)
but uh (chuckles) but for a long time I didn´t miss it, didn´t miss
my town and then as I got older I started to come home and I´d get in
my car and I´d drive down the old streets and I´d look up some of
my old friends and see what had become of their lives ....and I guess, uh, when
I was a kid I was afraid of belonging to something, you know, ´cause if
you belong to something that means you´ve got some responsobility to it,
that´s pretty scary....but that´s what growing up´s all about
(chuckles) anyway, what I really wanna say is this song is från min stad
till eran stad....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´Hungry Heart´´
´´(after the singalong) Alright, Scandinavia....you got it....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´I´m on Fire´´
´´I remember....my dad....sitting around.....his whole life like
he was waiting for something to happen to him....thinking about all the things
he wasn´t ever gonna have.....I remember....he seemed like he´d
get angry....just, just for me having, having a little fun sometimes....and
he´d get you thinking that way too....till I lay up in my bed at night,
staring at the ceiling.... thinking that....feeling like someday I was just
gonna, if something didn´t happen....someday I was just gonna.....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, middle of ´´Rosalita´´
´´Alright....ladies and gentlemen....children of all ages.....all
you Swedish people out there ....all you people from Norway....from Denmark.....from
Iceland....it´s time to introduce the band now....now, on the piano....the
smartest man in show business....Professor Roy Bittan ....on the vocals, an
alumni of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Miss Patti Scialfa.... on the
drums, the man that put the heat in the beat, the Mighty Max Weinberg....on
the organ, now you see him, now you don´t, Phantom Dan Federici....on
the bass, the guy that brings you the thunder from down under, that puts it
in your face like this, Mr.Garry W. Tallent....and then of course the one, the
only, the man as sweet as life itself....Nils Lofgren on the guitar....a man
with relatives in this very country....that´s right....and now last but
not least....weighing in at 265 pounds....the handsomest man....the biggest
man.....do I have to say his name?....gimme a C-L-A- R- E- N- C- E, what´s
that spell?...what´s that spell?.... what´s that spell?....Clarence
Big Man Clemons on the saxophone....´´
08.06.85 Gothenburg, Sweden, intro to ´´Can´t Help Falling
in Love with You´´
´´Thank you....I would like to just take a moment and thank everyone
for coming down to the show tonight, thank you very much....and, and I know
we don´t, we don´t get here very often and I´d like to thank
you for supporting our band over the years when we haven´t come over as
much as we´d like to, thank you very much....oh, this song, it was back
in 1975, I was on the Born to Run-tour in the United States....and we were in
Memphis and it was late at night and we played at a small auditorium....and
we went out to get something to eat and the taxi driver said he knew someplace
to eat that was out by Elvis´ house (chuckles) and, uh, it was me and
my guitar player Steve, Steve Van Zandt....who sends you all his regards (chuckles)
and uh, we went out to Graceland.....and I remember getting out of the cab and
standing in front of the gates that had the two guitar players on ´em
and I saw a light in the second story window and I figured Elvis must be up
reading or something (chuckles) and....so I jumped over the wall and I started
to run up the driveway towards the frontdoor and as I got to the frontdoor the
two guards came out and they asked me what I wanted and I said ´Is Elvis
home?´ you know (chuckles) and they said ´No, no, he´s in
Lake Tahoe´ (chuckles) so I said ´Well, you see, I´m a guitar
player too and I got my own band and we played in town tonight and, like, you
know, I had my picture on the cover of Time and Newsweek´ and they said
´Yeah, sure, sure, ´ you know (chuckles) and, anyway, they took
me, they took me by the arm and they put me back out onto the street (chuckles)
but uh.....maybe I was better, I don´t know what I would´ve said
to him if I´d met him any way and uh....later on I thought it might´ve
been a stupid thing to do, I always hate it when people come running up to my
house at 3.30 in the morning (chuckles) but uh, anyway, this is, I guess this
is one of my favorite songs and, uh, I´d like to do it for you guys....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi