11.11.80 Baton Rouge, LA, intro to ´Independence Day´
´´I grew up in this little town, was about an hour and a half from New York City....but it was like it was a million miles away, like I don´t think I was....I was never in New York till I was about 16 or 17 years old....and I remember I would go to school every day and I never did good in school, if you don´t do good in school, everybody´d think you´re dumb, think you´re stupid and....and the first time that, that I got....a feeling of a, there was a bigger world out there was when I started listening to the radio back in the early 60´s.... and in school, I remember, they would always, they would always try to bang stuff into your head, try to make you remember things and on the radio, I just, I´d turn on a New York station, it was called WMCA, it was a Top40-station in New York City...and those guys, somehow they used to get, they used to get to your head but they´d get to your head through your heart in a lot of the songs they were singing....and....it was the first time that I got the idea that, that there was a better way of living than the way that my parents lived and the way that I was living and that if I had the guts, I could take a chance and maybe I´d get lucky....that´s....that´s a lot harder today because, because some of that, that, that purity that was, that was coming across the airwaves back then is missing now....but it´s still out there....so if you just left home this year, if you´re out on your own, this song is for you, ok....”

11.11.80 Baton Rouge, LA, intro to ´Factory´
´´My father got married when he was real young, in his early twenties and the only time he ever got to go anyplace, leave town, was when he went to World War Two....and there´s a lot of people that never get to hear those songs on the radio....”

11.11.80 Baton Rouge, LA, intro to ´Stolen Car´
´´The hardest thing when you meet somebody...is always making it last...it´s hard to do...”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi