13.10.80 St.Paul, MN, intro to ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’:
”Thanks.....Are you sure this is Monday night ? (chuckles).....ah....don’t seem like Monday night (chuckles)....thanks.....we’re gonna be playing for....for a long time tonight so....you guys oughta ....just get to your seats so the people behind you can see and everything ....get drunk, alright?.....don’t get too comfortable , though (chukles)....and if you, if you got one of those green things that I see once in a while , I’d appreciate it if you didn’t throw ‘em , ok ?....because if you’re not looking and it hits somebody in the eye or the back of their head, it really hurts, I’ve been hit in the head a few times....so if you got something, please don’t throw it, wave it around your head or whatever but please don’t throw ‘em , ok ? .....this is called ‘Darkness on the edge of town’....”

13.10.80 St.Paul, MN, intro to ‘Independence Day’:
”Thank you.....it’s too early (chuckles), you gotta wait a while....it’s only, only the beginning of October.....this is uh, one , two.....this is a song we were doing, it’s on the new album which.....I think it’s out today, I’m not sure.....I think it come out, yeah ? (cheers) .....it´s in the stores ? ....what it look like ? (chuckles)....and....this was a song we did on the last tour, it´s called Independence Day.....wrote it about....’bout not leaving home , so I remember when I was 18 or 19 years old, I used to, you know, I had my house and I had....there was the kitchen and the bathroom and there was my folks and they were sorta like the livingroom sofa, always in the house......anyway, this is, if you left home this year.....for the first time....this song is for you, ok .....it’s for your folks too (chukles).....”

13.10.80 St.Paul, MN, intro to ‘Racing in the Street’:
”We’re havin’ some fun now.......I met a bunch of guys at the airport yesterday coming into the town.....any of you guys there (chuckles)(?)......one of ‘em told me he had a friend that was sick so if that fellow that I met is here, can you come to the side of the stage....at .... during the breaktime , I got something for your pal backstage so.....(cheers).... this is for him and this is for you......”

13.10.80 St.Paul, MN, intro to ‘I Wanna Marry You’:
”All these new songs, we gotta figure ‘em out up here (chuckles)......I used to live on this, in this house that was on.....like the main street .....in town was a street called South Street .....and every day I used to watch this , this one girl walk by......and I think....she’d been married, she’d been divorced and she had a couple of kids.....every day I used to sit on my porch.....and I was.....I was about 18 or 19, I guess.....I used to try and figure ways I was gonna go up and introduce myself to her.....well, I never did and I moved away (chuckles) ....and you usually think that sometime.....usually figure that you’re gonna forget about these things , you know, these people you only see for like ten minutes.....or you only see walking by or something.....as you get older , but for some reason you never do....and everytime, I remember.....I used to imagine....that I was back in that house and she was walking by......and I was gonna stumble across the street and drop some of my albums on the sidewalk (cheers).....ups, excuse me, my albums (chuckles).....but you only get those chances once......and if you ain’t got no albums, what you gonna do ? (chuckles)....this is a new song, this is called I Wanna Marry You .....this is ladies’choice (chuckles).....Big Man.....Here she comes......”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi