
13.09.03 Washington D.C, intro to ´Empty Sky´
´´Good evening, Washington.....looks like we picked the right night.....we
beat the rain a little bit (?)....thank you, need a little bit of quiet for
this next song, thanks....´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, intro to ´Waitin´on a Sunny Day´
´´Alright, come on, Steve....is the, uh, Steve Van Zandt Washington
fan club out there ? (cheers) wait a minute, that´s too many (chuckles)(?)....´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, middle of ´Mary´s Place´
´´Are you ready ?….are you ready ?….are you ready….are
you ready….are you ready....are you ready for a house party ? (cheers)
are you ready for a house party ? (cheers)....I don´t know, C....I think
this town needs more than a house party, baby....they need more than a rock
and roll house party....they need more than a rock and roll baptism.....they
need more than a rock and roll bar mitzvah....what this town needs is a rock
and roll exorcism, baby ! ....that´s right, we gotta chase the evil spirits
out of this (?)....I wanna introduce ya to your
exorcisers....on the piano, Professor Roy Bittan….on the violin, Sister
Soozie Tyrell....on the guitar, the coolest little dj in the U.S.A, Little Steven....on
the bass, Mr.Garry W.Tallent…. on the drums, the man that bring the power
hour after hour night after night and star of ´Late Night (crowd : ´Television´)
Mighty Max Weinberg....on the guitar, Brother Nils Lofgren.... on the organ
and accordion, man of mystery, Brother Dan Federici.....on the guitar and vocals,
the First Lady of love, Miss Patti Scialfa.…and last but not least....last
but not least, Minister of soul, Secretary of the brotherhood….you wish
you could be like him but you can´t….I wanna say it´s time,
it´s time, it´s time to impeach the President and get somebody in
there that´ll get us out of this mess, I´m talking about Big Man
Clarence Clemons.... impeach, impeach !....(chuckles)....I want you to put your
hands together....for the heartstopping, pants-dropping, houserocking, earth-shaking,
booty-quaking, Viagra-taking, lovemaking, history-making, death-defying, sexifying,
exorcising, legendary E Street Band.... did I mention history-making, sexifying
?….that´s right….´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, intro to ´Paradise´
´´Gonna do this tonight for, uh, the Dolan family and the memory
of (?) Bob Dolan....´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, intro to ´Pink Cadillac´
´´Oh, we haven´t played this song in about 20 years (chuckles)....(?)
this is a request, we´re gonna give it a try....´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, middle of ´Ramrod´
´´Big Man walking....Big Man on the move....Big Man going to throw
Dick Cheney out of his office....Big Man having a party......
(....) Hey Steve.....(Steve: ´Yeah ?´) I think it´s time to
go, man....I think I´ve got to return to my undisclosed location....(?)....that´s
right.....well, Steve, before I go, all I wanna know is.... all I wanna know
is.....(Steve: ´Yeah ?´)....what time is it, Brother ?....(Steve:
´Is this the nation´s capital ? (cheers) then it must be Boss-time´)....
(....) All I wanna know is what time is it ? (crowd: ´Boss-time´)....´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, intro to ´My City of Ruins´
´´Thank you....thanks, I wanna thank everyone for coming out to
the show tonight, thank you very much....we´ve had, uh, two great shows
here in Washington, you guys´ve been a hell of an audience both times,
this was our second show of the tour and tonight is our 110th (chuckles) we
ain´t done yet (chuckles) but uh, I wanna thank you all for your support
of our music over all these years, we, we appreciate it and we´ll try
to continue serving you well and uh....we´ll do this next song for the
folks in the building from the Capital Area Foodbank, Capital Area Foodbank,
they provide food to other (?) relief organizations here in Washington and suburban
Maryland and in northern Virginia....they have several programs aimed to ending
childhood hunger (?) if you see them out there tonight, please provide some
assistance, your time or your support to the Capital Area Foodbank, this is
for them....they´re good folks doing a good work.....´´
13.09.03 Washington D.C, intro to ´Born in the U.S.A´
´´Thank you, once again I wanna thank everyone for coming out.....I
want to, uh....say that we get people of all different kinds of political beliefs
coming to our show and I like that, we welcome everybody....maybe with the exception
of Dick Cheney, I´m not sure (chuckles) but there´s, uh….there´s
been a lot of questions raised recently about the forthrightness of our government,
I just wanna say that playing with the truth during wartime has been a part
of Democratic and Republican administrations in the past, it´s always
wrong when the lives of our sons and our daughters are on the line and I think
the question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn´t a Liberal
or a Conservative question, it´s an American one, protecting the democracy
we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our sacred trust, as is demanding
accountability from our leaders, that is our job as citizens, it´s time
to be very, very vigilant out there....so, uh….may the truth will out.....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi