
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Waitin´on a Sunny Day´
´´Are there any Little Steven fans in the audience tonight ? (cheers)....his
people are there..... come on, Steve (chuckles)....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Roll of the Dice´
´´Are you feeling lucky ? (cheers)....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, middle of ´Mary´s Place´
´´Are you ready ?….are you ready ?….are you ready….are
you ready….are you ready for an official E Street Band end-of-the-summer
house party ? (cheers) are you ready for an official E Street Band New Jersey
end-of-the-summer house party ? (cheers)....alright now, oh yeah ....if you´re
gonna have a house party....you´ve got to meet three conditions.....three.....first,
the music has got to be raucous.....second, you´ve got to get your ass
up out of your seat.... come on, get those asses up....that´s right, oh
yeah, you´ve got to shake your booty now....oh yeah, that´s right,
that´s right....and third, you´ve got to have at your service the
greatest little houseband in all the land....I wanna say on the piano, we got
the pathological piano pounder, Professor Roy Bittan…on the violin and
vocals, Sister Soozie Tyrell....on the guitar we got Little Steven Van Zandt....on
the bass guitar, we got Mr.Garry W.Tallent….on the drums, the man that
brings the power hour after hour night after night, star of ´Late Night
(crowd : ´Television´) Mighty Max Weinberg....on the guitar, one
of the greatest guitarists in rock and roll, Brother Nils Lofgren....on the
organ, out of Flemington, New Jersey, Phantom Dan Federici.....to the far side
of the stage, we got the First Lady of love, on guitar and vocals, my sweetie
baby honey child, my personal savior, Miss Patti Scialfa….and last but
not least ....last but not least....ladies and gentlemen, you wish you could
be like him but I´m sorry you can´t, Minister of soul, Secretary
of the brotherhood, Big Man Clarence Clemons....I want you to put your hands
together for the heartstopping, pants-dropping, houserocking, earth-shaking,
booty-quaking, Viagra-taking, lovemaking, death-defying, sexifying, I ain´t
lying, legendary E Street Band.....did I mention ´sexifying´ ?….´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Across the Border´
´´Oh, we got a special guest tonight, honored to have with us, she´s
one of my favorite singers, a great, great lady, Miss Emmylou Harris....(?)....here´s
a song that, uh, Emmylou did a beautiful version of....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Thunder Road´
´´Gonna send this out tonight to the Berger family and the memory
of Jim Berger....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´This Hard Land´
´´Gonna do this for my friend Bobby Muller in the audience tonight....welcome,
Bobby....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Raise Your Hand´
´´(?)....anybody from Philly out there tonight ? (cheers)....I´ve
seen it all now: my wife was just trimming her nails on Steve....
(....) I want everybody to get up out of their seat and gimme some of that old
soul clapping.... and just raise your hand....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´My City of Ruins´
´´Thank you, New Jersey....I wanna thank everyone for coming to
the show tonight, thank you very much....these shows we´ve done here have
been a lot of fun and real exciting and I wanna say we appreciate your longtime
support and thanks for just showing (chuckles).... gonna send this out tonight
for the Community Foodbank of New Jersey, old friends of ours ....Foodbank ships
up to 24 million pounds of food annually....they´re assisting the struggling
citizens in 18 New Jersey counties, 40 percent of the people they help are kids,
people who gotta choose between paying for food or paying their rent.....uh,
they´re out there tonight on the boardwalk, they´ll be collecting
donations and they´re also signing volunteers....if you´ve time,
if you either have time or you can help them in any way, Community Foodbank
of New Jersey are the good folks out there on the frontline fighting a good
fight....this is for them....´´
30.08.03 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to ´Land of Hope and Dreams´
´´Thank you....thanks again, I wanna thank everyone for coming out.....this
is where I make my little public service announcement.....we have people coming
to the shows of all different kinds of political beliefs and that´s something
I really like that and we welcome everybody, there´s been a lot of questions
raised recently about the forthrightness of our government, the way we entered
the war in Iraq, I just wanna say that playing with the truth during the wartime´s
been a part of both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past and
it´s always wrong when the lives of our sons and daughters are on the
line....and I think the question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq´s
not a Liberal or a Conservative question, it´s an American one, protecting
the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our sacred trust,
as is demanding accountability from our leaders.... that´s the American
way....so may the truth will out....that´s my public service announcement
for the evening, there´s a....that same thing but.....that same thing
but a lot funnier is in the Al Franken book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell
Them (chuckles) so check that out....come on, this is ´Land of Hope and
Dreams´ !....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi