31.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ´This Land Is Your Land´
´´We got New Year coming up pretty soon....everybody, I guess everybody,
tonight´s the night when everybody hopes for the best.....tries to....tries
to see the promise a little bit...I remember when I was growing up....I lived....I
remember (?) day after day I´d watch, watch my dad and he....when he was
a real young man, he got, seemed like the, the things that were best, best about
him and the things that mattered the most to him somehow either he let ´em
slip away or they got beat out of him every day as the world does to you.....and.....there
was a point where this next song he, he forgot....that....this is a song by
Woody Guthrie, it´s called ´This Land Is Your Land´ but....he
forgot that you gotta, you gotta fight for that title, that nobody´s gonna
ever give you that, never....and every day people gonna be trying to take it
away from you and every day you gotta fight for it....so this is a fighting
song for you in the New Year....”
31.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ´Sandy´
´´Alright, I´d just like to....I wanna thank everybody for
coming down to the show and....I´d just like to, to ask you one thing
: if you came tonight, it´s New Year´s Eve, I know, and if you brought
any fireworks or anything, please don´t set ´em off, please keep
´em in your pockets or....bring ´em back home.....because with,
uh, so many people, it´s so easy for somebody to get hurt or you could
hurt yourself so if you brought, if you brought some fireworks, I think you
guys can make enough noise without ´em so....so I´d appreciate it
if you, please, if you brought any, please don´t set ´em off, please,
when, when New Year´s comes, please don´t set off fireworks, thank
you very much....and this is....it´s for Richie, am I right ? (chuckles)
alright....”
31.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ´Two Hearts´
´´Gotta trust somebody sometime ´cause two hearts are better
than one.....”
31.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ´Held Up Without a Gun´
´´Alright....we´re digging them out of the pit now, alright,
this, this is a song that is on the flip side of the single ´Hungry Heart´,
this is called ´Held Up Without a Gun´ (chuckles)....”
31.12.80 Uniondale, NY, intro to ´In the Midnight Hour´
´´How much time we got now ?....huh ? how many minutes ? 3 minutes
?....gotta play 2 minutes....wait a minute, whose clock is right ?....he says
´One minute´....alright, ´Midnight Hour´....”
31.12.80 Uniondale, NY, middle of ´Rosalita´
´´On the piano....for the first time in the New Year....Professor
Roy Bittan....on the guitar.... the magnificent....the magnanimous....the inimitable....the
disgusting, no, the wonderful Miami Steve Van Zandt....on the bass guitar, from
Neptune, New Jersey....weighing in at 145 pounds....a man whose mother was a
Tallent....his father was a Tallent....his great grandfather was a great, great
Tallent....on the bass, Mr.Garry W.Tallent....on the drums from South Orange,
New Jersey....uuuh, the Mighty Max....(?).....on the organ....from Flemington,
New Jersey...Phantom Dan Federici.....oh yes....and now....and now....and now
...from Norfolk, Virginia....via Sayreville, New Jersey....and what a trip it
was (chuckles) ....how can I say it ?....should I say king of the world ? (cheers)....should
I say master of all things ? (cheers)....should I say emperor of the entire
universe ? (cheers)...oh, he´s faster than a speeding bullet...he´s
more powerful and badder than a locomotive....he can leap tall women, oh no,
I mean tall buildings in a single bound....is it a bird ? (crowd : ´No´)....is
it a plane ? (crowd : ´No´) ....then what is it ?.....Clarence Big
Man Clemons on the saxophone ... now I hope you took out your insurance......because
now we got to hurt you.....
(....) Well, this is his last chance and you can tell him, baby, I ain´t
no bum.....´cause me and you, we´re gonna make it....in 1981.....”
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi