30.08.02 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Waitin’on a Sunny Day’
´´Alright….beautiful ladies….handsome gentlemen….guitar
players unite….(?).… (chuckles)…Clarence always really wanted
to play the guitar….what kind of world would that have been, I, I don´t
know (chuckles) we’d all be washing cars (chuckles)….”
30.08.02 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Mary’s Place’
"Alright.....let me check this place out....are you ready for a house party
? (cheers) .... are you ready for a house party ? (cheers) then these people
just got to get off their asses right now.....I´m talking to you, that´s
right, get off ´em !....just, just ´cause you got them seats from
a scalper don´t mean you can sit on your ass all night....(?).…
come on, Max….then let’s have it….
(….) So you’re ready for that house party ? (cheers) Jersey-style
by way of St.Louis ….but if you´re gonna have a house party, the
music has got to be raucous….that´s right, so I wanna introduce
you to the greatest little houseband in all the land…. starting at the
piano, sic-sec-sec-sec-sec-Secretary of intelligence, Professor Roy Bittan on
the piano… on the violin and vocals, out of New York City, Sister Soozie
Tyrell….on the guitar and vocals, we’ve got the greatest little
dj in the U.S.A, up from Little Steven’s Underground, Silvio, Silvio,
wherefore art you, Silvio ? star of ‘The Sopranos’-television show,
Little Steven Van Zandt….bring it to me, Brother, bring it to me, that´s
right….the man that bring the thunder from down under, the Tennesee Terror
himself, Mr.Garry W.Tallent …. and on the drums, the man that brings the
power hour after hour after hour to go through the wall for me night after night
after night, star of Late Night Television, rumble, young man, rumble, Mighty
Max Weinberg on the drums….and on guitar and vocals, singer, songwriter
extraordinaire, one of the greatest guitarists in rock and roll, the great Nils
Lofgren….on the organ, Brother Dan Federici, out of Flemington, New Jersey….and
accordion….then on this side of the stage, we’ve got the First Lady
of love, I like to call her ‘Natural Viagra’, on guitar and vocals,
come on up for the rising, Miss Patti Scialfa ….shake it, baby….I
call this (?) Seducer….I invited this dance right here…. The Seducer,
but you’ve got to be on your knees to do it right, baby (chuckles)….try
this at home, just like this….and last but not least….Minister of
soul….Secretary of the brotherhood, God of thunder….on the saxophone,
the one, the only, you wish you could be like him but you can’t, Clarence
Big Man Clemons….”
30.08.02 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Dancing in the Dark’
´´Alright….are you ready to dance ?….shake your groove
thing….”
30.08.02 St.Louis, MO, middle of ‘Glory Days’
´´Come on, Steve….we gotta keep going, man (Steve : ‘Where
we going ?’) I don’t know ….but we’re going, man….we
can’t quit yet, baby….these people have not yet been rocked to their
complete capacity….and we ain´t quitting until they are….are
you with me, Kid ?….is the band with me ?….are the people ready
? (cheers)…then let’s go !….”
30.08.02 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘My City of Ruins’
´´Thank you, want to, uh….take a moment and thank everybody
for coming out and seeing us tonight, thanks, we really appreciate it….you
have been a great crowd and I wanna also mention we’ve got some friends
in the house, The St.Louis-Area Foodbank is here with us tonight, they´re
out in the lobby and uh….St.Louis-Area Foodbank, they’ve been, uh,
they supply food to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters since
1975, they….they distribute more than eleven million pounds of food each
year with more than 1,200 volunteers, they could use your help and your support,
on your way out if you could just…take a moment and see, see what they´re
doing…so I’ll do this is for them…”
30.08.02 St.Louis, MO, intro to ‘Born in the U.S.A’
´´I wanna thank everybody again for coming out tonight, thank you
so much….we’ve been at it a long time and we appreciate your support….just
a couple of public service announcements before we go: once again, please remember
the St.Louis Area Foodbank on your way out, they’ll be out there in the
lobby….stop by, they could use your help… and also just a heads-up,
uh….we’re kind of, we’re in the midst of a rollback of civil
rights right now, our civil rights are a reaffirmation of our strength as a
nation of laws, as due process….we don´t think about these things
until it´s too late or they come knocking on our door but it’s a
good time to watch what´s going on and be very vigilant in the area of
civil rights right now, and that vigilance and that responsobility comes with
the turf when you´re born in the U.S.A…..”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi