08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´The Ties That Bind´ (following
´Spirit in the Night´)
´´(?)....this is for the guy who kept screaming in my ear he´s
got a girlfriend who´s from Jersey....alright, this is a new song.....this
is called ´The Ties That Bind´....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´
´´This is a song I wrote, uh, about six months after I finished
the Born to Run-album.....this is, uh, it´s called ´Darkness on
the Edge of Town´....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Independence Day´
´´Here´s, uh.....I guess we haven´t been back here in
about four years, two years, three years ? who was here the last time we were
here ? (cheers)(chuckles) oh, we´re gonna do some new songs for you tonight,
this is a, this is a song I wrote for the Darkness-album but I threw it out
at the last minute, it´s a song, it´s for anybody who just left
home or if you´re thinking about it....this is called ´Independence
Day´.....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Prove It All Night´
´´It seems you just can´t prove it once, you gotta prove it
all night every night....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Racing in the Street´
´´This is, uh....compliments of...this town called Freehold, it´s
a small town....on the weekend we used to drive down to this Asbury Park....you
ever been to Asbury Park ? (cheers) you still applauding ? (chuckles) anyway,
there´s this oval formed by Kingsley Avenue and Ocean Avenue, it´s
a big ring....that´s what I wrote this song about, it´s called ´Racing
in the Street´......this is for the girl, uh....in the white T-Bird....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Thunder Road´
´´Back in about 1974....I was walking downtown and I passed this,
passed a movie theater that had this, had this great poster of this Robert Mitchum
movie and uh.....I never saw the movie, I took the title and wrote a song and,
and I never thought that there was any place that was really, uh, like this
place and, uh, me and Steve, we were out in the Southwest about a year ago and
along the side of the highway, this indian had built this house out of the stuff
that he´d scavanged off the desert.....and out in front he had a big sign,
a big picture of Geronimo that said ´Landlord´ and he had a big
white sign that said ´This is the land of peace, love, justice and no
mercy´....and it pointed down this dirt road that said ´Thunder
Road´.....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Fire´
´´Here´s, uh.....you guys ready for round two now ? (cheers)
sounds like you are ready for round two (chuckles) here´s the first song
(?) I always thought, I always wanted Elvis Presley to record it....and I tried,
we were down in Memphis and I climbed over the wall to his house and I tried
to get in about 3 o´clock in the morning and, uh, they threw me out (chuckles)
and I said ´But wait ! one time I was on Newsweek´, he said ´Sure,
sure´ (chuckles)(?)(chuckles) what are you gonna do, right ? (chuckles)
anyway....this is called ´Fire´....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Point Blank´
´´This song is, uh....it´s for my father, this is, uh.....(?)
45 years and you wake up to find out ....you´ve been shot in the back
every day, point blank.....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, middle of ´Backstreets´
´´Baby, I remember you....baby, I remember you.....every line in
that pretty face.....every line in that pretty face....you were standing on
the corner....of Richmond Avenue....we used to hitchhike outside of town....way
down to the railroad tracks.....in the middle of a grain field ....was this
stripped-down Cadillac....and baby, we´d go riding in back.....me and
my baby, we´d go riding in back....yeah, my baby´d take me riding
in back.....she´d take me all night long..... she´d take me all
night long.....and I remember I promised.....I promised that for you ....that
for you, I´d drive all night anytime anyplace.....that for you, I´d
drive all night anytime anyplace.....through the wind, through the rain.....through
the snow....´cause, girl, you´ve got my love, girl....oh, you´ve
got my love, girl.....yeah, you´ve got my love, girl....and I remember
you promised.....you promised you´d never go anyplace without me.....I
remember night after night you promised that you´d never go anyplace without
me.....night after night you promised you´d never leave without me, you
promised.....you promised.....and baby, you lied.....baby, you lied.....didn´t
you ?.....baby, you lied.....baby, you lied.....do you know how many nights
?.....do you know how many lonely nights ?.....so now you´re back.....so
now you´ve come back.....well, I wanna know what makes you think.....just
what makes you think .....that I....just what makes you think.....girl.....just
what makes you think.....that I.....do you know I´ve been out too ?....and
I´ve found out some things about me.....and about you.....girl, you gotta
stop....you gotta stop, you gotta, you gotta stop, little girl, you gotta stop....you
got to stop....little girl, it´s gotta stop....little girl, we´ve
got to stop, little girl, you´ve got to stop, stop, stop, oh-oh, stop,
stop, stop, STOP.....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, middle of ´Rosalita´
´´On the piano, Professor Roy Bittan.....on the guitar, Miami Steve
Van Zandt....on the bass guitar, Mr.Garry W.Tallent.....on the drums, the Mighty
Max Weinberg.....on the organ, Mr. Dan Federici....and last but not least....do
I have to say his name ?....do I have to say his name ?....king of the world.....
the master of disaster....is it a bird ?....is it a plane ?....is it the Big
Man ?....Clarence Clemons on the saxophone.....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, middle of ´Detroit Medley´
´´I´ve been informed....by the hall manager....to make this
announcement.....that if you have a weak heart.....or a weak stomach.....during
the next section of this tune.....would you please step into the lobby as it
might be dangerous to your health ?.....´cause it ain´t so bad,
Big Man....it ain´t so bad when we do this....and it ain´t so bad
when we do this.....and it ain´t even too bad.....when we do this.....but.....when
we do this.....´´
08.11.78 Montreal, Canada, intro to ´Quarter to Three´
´´Now you´re making me mad.....now I´m gonna get serious
on you.....you´re making me mad ....alright, gentlemen, please.....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi