29.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ‘Independence Day’:
”I grew up in this town that’s about 40 miles outside of New York City (crowd cheers)...But it’s like when you come from a small town or some place like....I remember all the time I was growing up, it seemed like New York was a million miles away....And I used to watch, as I got older, I used to watch my friends and ....people I went to school with....seemed like they got stopped in one place and we’re lettin’ , we’re lettin’their pass ‘em by for some reason....I guess when you grow up in a small town ...for some reason you get, you get scared of big things ...you’re scared of big cities or...I remember my old man grew up...he was born in that town where the only time he left was when he went to World War Two....He came back, married my Ma....And he took on responsobilities of being a husband and a father when he was still...he was still very young...and I remember all the times that we were....we were living in that house and having our arguments, he wasn’t....he was only a little bit older than I’m right now, he was still a young man......but he’d given up a lot of things and he’d been disappointed a whole lot of times.....And I would watch him every day get up and go to work and he’d come home .....and he’d sit in the kitchen at night .....and he never talked to me unless he’d had a little too much to drink or something.....and then the things he’d say....I remember he’d be yelling at us at night and he’d be sitting in the kitchen and the next day he’d take you out for a ride and he’d take you out and try to make up for it....buy you something....Growin’up like that, you look around and it...it makes you scared and gives you a lot of fear....and some of it’s good because....When I was real young, I got real scared of ending up that way....seemed like people just lose their spirit, lose their belief that...that there’s certain.....that if you get out there, there’s certain possibilities...Nobody can guarantee you nothing and nobody can promise you nothing but you got a chance.....when I was real young, I decided I wasn’t gonna miss out on that chance....So don’t you , don’t you miss out on it either, ok?.....”

29.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ‘Stolen Car’:
”Last year, uh....the guy that , that does these lights for you every night and ...for me for ‘bout ...like...I guess at least eight years now.....he’s about the best that there is actually (chuckles).....He got married and we all went out to his wedding .....in California....we’re sittin’there....during the service, it was in a temple and the rabbi got up and he said....said that till, till you go out and make that connection...with somebody....until you meet a girl or you go out and meet just a friend or a person....that all the things that you dream about when you’re a kid and all the fantasies that you have of making your life as complete as it can be....they just stay dreams and fantasies...and the first step to making those things real is with going out and touchin’ somebody and meetin’somebody.....and it’s like a song.....it’s like I (?) think if I sit in my room and write a song, well, that song don’t mean nothing till somebody hears it (crowd cheers)....But it’s pretty hard to....when you find somebody, you meet somebody that it’s so good (?), the hardest thing is.....is to be ....is to be able to give and take and make a good thing last, you know.....but if you don’t, you end up...if you don’t make that connection, you just...you know, I used to like stay in my room....and write a song, if....if you don’t go out and make that connection, you end up, end up just being like a ghost....like nobody can hear you, nobody can see you.....it’s like ...I think people...people should be....it’s like....anyway, I don’t know....”

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