Bobtalk

February 20, 1986
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kooyong Stadium
Concert

Thank you. This is a song I wrote about twenty, twenty or thirty years ago, at least. It was in my so called protest period. Still kind of in that period really. Oh yes, I am. Yes, I am. And ..., there's still plenty to protest about I guess. Anyway this one I wrote, like I said, twenty or thirty years ago and it still holds out so I wanna play it for you now, called Masters Of War.

Thank you. I wanna introduce you now to one of the finest Rock and Roll bands in the United States and certainly one of my favorites. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. (after Masters Of War)

Thank you. We're in Lonesome Town, learning to forget. Sometimes you got to do that. God knows, there's enough to remember. You got to find someplace to forget about it all. All right now, here's another song I wrote quite a while back. May be forty-five years ago. Anyway, this one still holds up too. I'm almost surprised myself. Anyway, you know famous people they have to do press conferences. I'm sure you've heard about them. And you sit there and you kind of face ... shut up, please! ... so you sit there and you’re faced by oh maybe a hundred, two hundred people and they're all asking .... Did someone get hurt? <comment regarding ambulance sirens>. So they ask you all different questions about your personal life, you know. Your politics, your religion,  your love life, your sex life, just about everything. And, you know, it don't make no sense to answer these kind of questions, to me or anybody else really. I just don’t think it’s a good idea to be answering personal questions. I figure a person’s life speaks for itself. So, every once in a while somebody got to put somebody in their place, so I wrote a song about that. Puttin’ somebody in their place. You got to do that once in a while. It just so happens that way. I know sometimes once in a while I got to be put in my place, and I rather appreciate it actually. <girl shouting in the audience> Why, you got such a loud mouth! So, you wanna come up on stage and sing a song? I been doing this for forty years longer than you have. What do you wanna say that's so important? <inaudible response> Well, just get up! Climb over there I'm not gonna stop ya. You think some bullies gonna hit you on the head? No, you be a good girl. (plays Ballad Of A Thin Man) Thanks a lot! I wanna thank that beautiful girl for her perfectly Nashville sweater. Once more Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Name of that song was Everybody Must Get Stoned. You can take that a couple of ways. Can be taken a couple of ways, that song, Everybody Must Get Stoned. Everybody must get their guitar tuned up. So, anyway. here's a song that can’t be taken one way. Just one meaning to that. Here it is now. (before Seeing The Real You At Last)

Thank you, thank you for coming. I wanna thank Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for backing me up tonight. On the keyboards, Benmont Tench. On the drums, Stan Lynch. Bass guitar, Howie Epstein. Michael Campbell on lead guitar. I especially wanna thank Mr. Tom Petty. And of course my singing partners, the Queens of Rhythm. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

Still feels the same. Never change. All right now, we gonna close up here. <inaudible>. I'll sing you a song about my hero. Everybody has got a hero. I don't know who your particular hero is. Where I come from my hero wears a brown wig and he's a big hero too. Michael Jackson, he's a big hero. Of course Mr. Woody Woodpecker. Ha-ha-ha. Bruce Springsteen. Oh who? John Williams? I guess so he’s a hero. Yeah. Anyway none of those people mean nothing to me. They ain't my hero. I'm gonna sing a song about my hero. (at the start of In The Garden).

Anybody here who hasn't heard of Tennessee Williams. Ah, I guess not. Anyway he was a great playwright. He's written some great stuff. From New Orleans, Louisiana. He wrote stuff like "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Sweet Bird Of Youth" and “Fugitive Kind”, all that kind of stuff. Anyway, he died a few years back in New York City. Nobody even found him till the next day. In his last days he really couldn't get a job. And there’s another artist like that. He couldn't get a job either really, but he was way before his time. A lot of people picked up on what he did, and they took it around. They stole it from him after he was dead. And they're making plenty of money now, and they've all got big names. So I thought maybe just for his sake somebody had to say something about it, so I took it upon myself to write a song about him one time. And I'd like to play that song for you now. (before Lenny Bruce)

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