18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Factory’:
”It wasn’t till I was about....I was 27 or 28....that I was trying
to think back ....about ....what my father and my mother had done with their
lives....and what I was trying to do with mine.....and the things that they’d
done for me when I was growing up....so this is a song I wrote....for my pop....”
18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Independence Day’:
”I grew up in a house where....there wasn’t a lot of books, there
wasn’t a lot of things that.....that......that make you aware of the possibilities
of, of, that you have in life and....when I was about....I remember I was about
9 years old and I used to go down to the kitchen in the morning and my mother
used to have a radio turned to Top 40 station.....it was WNEW that was in New
York (cheers)....(?) good guys.....that what they were called.....it’s
probably good guys all over, alright (?) in New Jersey (chuckles)....and it
wasn’t till I started hearing some of that music that I thought was....
(?) I just made some connection, I thought that.....that things could be different
, things didn’t have to be the way that they were.....that I could live
a different way....and like there was chances.....you could, you could take
if you were willing to take ‘em......”
18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘I Wanna Marry You’:
”I used to.....I lived in this house that was....it was on this street
called South Street.... it was like one of the main streets in town....every
day....used to be this one girl, used to walk by.....coming in from town.....I
used to sit there and watch her, I was about 18 ....17, 18....and....I was real
shy.....couldn’t get the nerve to go up to her.....you know, introduce
myself or something, she, she’d been married, she had a kid......she was
older than me.....so I used to think of these ways I could attract her attention.....I
worked that summer, I painted this lady’s house.....I went down to Western
Autostore and I bought this guitar.....it was 18.95, it was a Tritone, Tritone
guitar.....and I learned one song , that was ‘Twist and Shout’ (cheers)....so
she’d come by and I’d be sitting on the porch, you know, showing
off....she never even looked, never even looked over....eventually we moved
away and I never.....I never met her (?) get up the nerve to say hello.....and
I used to think, you figure that sometimes as you get older , you’ll forget
about those people, the people that you only see for like.....you know, 10 seconds
or 20 seconds, they just pass by....but for some reason, you just never do.....and
as I got older, I remember I used to fantasize about.....ways that I could’ve
met her and stuff, I used to.....she would come walking down the street.....I
would come over... I would bump into her and I would drop my albums (cheers)....I’d
go ‘Ups, excuse me....my records’.....but that stuff.....that stuff
never works out.....Big Man....
(singing:) Sometimes at night when I lie in bed.....I still see her face.....running
round my head.....sometimes at night......when I lie in bed....I still see her
face....running round my head.....here she comes....walking down the street.....”
18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Hungry Heart’:
‘‘Now, boys....I want you to bring it down.....this is a song about.....sometimes
I think I do.....then again I think I don’t....hey Mikey.....how you doing,
baby ? (chuckles).... this is when you meet somebody.....how you fall in love
with them....and you say ‘This is gonna be forever’...bring it down
a little , band......and then forever sort of goes by... for some reason (?).....”
18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ´The Promised Land´
´´This is for Steve.....(?) I pronounce your name right (chuckles)....and
your sister if she´s out there.....´´
18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ´The River´
"This is uh...we got a new album out there, we spent a real long time on
.....this is called, this song's called 'The River'...."
18.10.80 St.Louis, MO, intro to ´Good Rockin´ Tonight´
´´I got one question (chuckles)....just one now....a-one, two, three,
four, have you heard the news ? there´s a good rocking tonight....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi