29.06.85 Paris, France, intro to ´´Shut Out the Light´´
´´Hello....when I was 19....I got my....my draft notice, it was 1969....and uh, Vietnam War was going on....at the time I didn´t, I don´t remember having any real....political convictions about it, I just knew that, that I didn´t wanna die....and I didn´t go, but, uh....but I was traveling through Arizona, uh, about ten years after that, in the late 70´s and I bought a book called Born on the Fourth of July....by a Vietnam veteran named Ron Kovic....and, uh, it was his story about going and coming home to find out that his home wasn´t there any more ....we went on to Los Angeles and I was staying in a little motel, there was a fellow sitting by the side of the pool in a wheelchair....and I had the book with me and he said ´´Man, I wrote that book´´...this song is called ´´Shut Out the Lights´´....it´s about leaving home and.....not being able to find your way back.....´´

Bruce in Paris - photo courtesy of Dari.

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi