17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´
´´Got somebody´s tablecloth here (chuckles) your mother´s
gonna be mad at you for chopping this up, I´m telling you (chuckles)....oh.....if
you ever had to....drive through the darkness on the edge of town to get where
you´re going, this is for you.....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Independence Day´
´´(someone yells out a request for ´Santa Claus Is Coming
to Town´) It´s not Christmas yet, we can´t play that yet....it´s
not even close, it´s not even Thanksgiving....this is a, this is a song
that was originally gonna be on Darkness, Darkness on the Edge of Town, uh....it´s
called ´Independence Day´....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Prove It All Night´ (after
´The Promised Land´)
´´Big Man on the saxophone.....Steve Van Zandt on the guitar....you
guys was singing good ....but you can´t just do it once, you gotta do
it all night....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Thunder Road´
´´This is for Matty and the (?) River boys (chuckles)....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Meeting Across the River´
´´Here´s a song, uh, this guy at the backdoor´s been
asking me to do this for three nights so we haven´t do this in a long
time, we´re gonna try....this is for anybody from Jersey (cheers) who´s
from New York ? (cheers) that´s close (chuckles)....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Incident on 57th Street´
´´Here´s a song that, uh....there´s a couple of girls
out back asked me to do ´Backstreets´ for ´em but.....that
you ?...we play ´Backstreets´ a whole lot, we don´t play this
song hardly ever so, uh....for the girl that gave me that big bag with all the
weird kind of candy in it....and uh ....for Debbie Wednesday over there...gonna
do ´Incident on 57th Street´....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, intro to ´Born to Run´
´´I just wanna thank everybody for coming down to the shows....and....how
many of you guys were at the Garden when we were playing there, huh ? (cheers)
I just wanna....you know, thank youse, that was like, uh....it was a big deal
for us guys and you guys made it great for us so I wanna thank you very much.....here´s
to you.....”
17.09.78 New York City, NY, middle of ´Detroit Medley´
´´Hold on that ´E´....Big Man, I´m gonna need
some assistance on this next move....bring it down a little bit....now, the
management has asked me to announce that anybody with a weak heart or a weak
stomach, during the next section of the program, would you please step into
the lobby....are you ready ?....are you ready ? (cheers) upstairs, what about
you ? (cheers)....alright, when I give the cue....I want you to stop, then I
want you to come back in on the ´A´....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi