Bobtalk

June 13, 1986
Berkeley, California
Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
Concert

Thank you, all right. This is a song that I did a while back. It's called Masters Of War. It's from my protest period. I'm still in it. Anyway there was a man I once admired he told me, "Bob" he said, "Don't fight no battles for me unless I'm right there fighting with you." So I think about him some kind of way when I came up with this song. (before Masters Of War)

Last time I was here in Berkeley I played this here song. Someone asked me if I'm going to play it again, I'm gonna try. (sings The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll) All right. All right, I almost did it.

Thank you, all right. Ricky Nelson did a lot of my songs, and I wanna do one of his. It's called Lonesome Town. (plays Lonesome Town) Thank you. Thank you Ricky.

I also think I should thank Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for backing me up tonight. On the keyboards of course, Benmont Tench. Playing lead guitar, Michael Campbell. On the drums, Stan Lynch. You can clap harder than that. On the bass guitar, Howie Epstein. I especially wanna thank Mr. Tom Petty himself. He's a real gentleman. All right, over there on the left some girls who's been singing with me since 1978. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

All right, before we go any further I wanna say hello to an old friend of mine that are here tonight, Wavy Gravy! Ha-ha, I knew Wavy Gravy before he was Wavy Gravy. Ha-ha. All right, everybody must get stoned. That can be taken a couple of ways of course. Here's a song I wrote that can’t be taken but one way. (before Seeing The Real You At Last)

All right. We got a lot of Ray Charles fans here tonight so we're gonna do this thing. (before Unchain My Heart)

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