
30.10.80 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´Factory´
´´My father quit high school when he was 16 years old and the war
was on, he went into the army, came out....and he married my Mom and they had
me about a year or two later (?).... he took on the responsobilities of being
a husband and a father when he was a very young man....and I can remember when
I was young, he had a lot of different jobs, driving a taxi or driving a truck,
working at the plastics factory and....when he´d go to apply for something,
they´d tell him the only thing he was qualified for was factory work....he
knew that there was more (?) than that, it wasn´t until I got to be about
28 or 29, I started to think back....´bout what my folks did with their
lives and.....and the dreams that they gave up so that I got (?) ....and....(?)
there´s people sometimes that come down, there´s people that get
a chance....to live the kind of life they wanted, get a chance to change the
world they´re living in and then there´s people....that do what
they have to every day to make sure that the world that they live in doesn´t
fall apart....when I was 16, I couldn´t figure out that what my old man
was doing, laying on the cold ground at six in the morning, trying to get one
of the junk cars to start so he could get to work....that he was doing that
for me....so if your folks worked every day at a job they hated....so you don´t
have to....”
30.10.80 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´Two Hearts´
´´(?) there´s something, there´s something that´s
happening here in Los Angeles that I´d just like to take two seconds to
talk about: the highest price that you were supposed to pay for a seat here
tonight was 12 dollars and 50 cents....we´ve gotten a lot of letters,
I´ve talked to a lot of kids that are telling me they´re paying
100 dollars, 200 dollars, 150 dollars for seats..... (?) what you have here
in Los Angeles is you have a situation where you have ticket agencies where
you have legallised scalping going on, somebody (boos) they can take, they can
buy your ticket in New York City when you buy a ticket (?) ticket agencies are
selling for is a dollar fifty more than (?)....what´s happening here,
what´s happening here is there´s people taking advantage of your
desire to come down and see a show and (?) tickets should go to the fans, they
should not go to scalpers....in 1977 there was a Bill introduced that would
make the process by which these outrageous ticket prices come about illegal
(?) and what, what I would like to see happen in this town would be if we could
get together somehow and put some public pressure (?)...(?) people they are
getting beat and I don´t like to see it, it hurts me when I hear about
it (?) it´s just not right so all I´m saying (?) all I can say to
people that are making all this money is that they don´t deserve it, you
guys deserve it a lot better so.....”
30.10.80 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´I Wanna Marry You´
´´When I was 17 (?)....I lived in this house that was on this, I
guess, main highway that ran through town....and I used to sit out on my porch
every day....and there´s used to be this.... this one girl who used to
walk by every day through town.....I used to watch her all the time, she was,
seemed like she was a little older than me, she had a couple of kids and uh.....I
used to just sit there and think of ways that I could, that I could introduce
myself to her....and.... we used to be like ´What, what´s the big
deal if I go up and she says, you know, ´Drop dead or something ? How
terrible is that ? Right, it´s not that bad´....(?)....but I moved
away and I never got to meet her and I never got to see her again....and I used
to think that I´d forget about her....but every once in a while, especially
when I would drive back home, back through the town where I grew up, I could
always see her just like she was then....like she never got older or she never
changed....(?)....´”
30.10.80 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´Drive All Night´
´´(?)...we recorded the new album, we recorded it in New York City
but we mixed it for....a long time down in Los Angeles....and....I was out here
from about May until September.... and.....there was a lot of people, when I
was here, that would come, go over to the hotel and come down to the studio....and
I´m sorry but I don´t remember this fella´s name but he came
down about ten times.....that you ?....how´d you get such good seats ?...I
know, I know.... anyway I, I´m sure he´s here and (?) a fella that´s
leaving all the notes on my car....and, uh, this is for you if you´re
out there....”
30.10.80 Los Angeles, CA, intro to ´Crush On You´
´´The story you´re about to hear is true....there are ten
million stories in Los Angeles ....this happened in New Jersey...the names have
been changed to protect the innocent ....I was walking down the street, minding
my own business and all of a sudden .... Steve ....there she was...was she sweet
? (crowd : ´Yeah!´)....was she fine ? (crowd : ´Yeah!´)
....was she gonna be mine ? (crowd : ´Yeah!)....I chased her down to Route
34....she rolled up the windows and she locked all the doors....but did that
stop me ? (crowd : ´No!´)....do you think that stopped me ? (crowd
: ´No!´)....well, it did....I knocked on the window, I said ´Darling,
it´s sad but true but, little girl, I´ve got a crush on you....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi